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Investors Renew Funding for Core AI Capabilities
artificial intelligence // December 01, 2025

A new wave of funding rounds across the artificial intelligence (AI) startup ecosystem is signaling that investors are continuing to place big bets on companies building the next layer of enterprise intelligence. The pattern signals a growing appetite for AI tools that can deliver reliability,...

This Time Last Year: How 2025 Reshaped the AP/AR Innovation Cycle
B2B Payments // December 01, 2025

The innovation curve in B2B payments used to be measured in decades. Not years. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS...

CFOs Speed Time to Cash™ and Redefine Business Resilience
Accounts Receivable // December 01, 2025

The role of the finance function is being re-written as companies increasingly are no longer satisfied with observing cash flow in the rearview mirror. Instead, they are beginning to redesign it. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

Big Firms Test AI Agents as Internal Teams Race to Build Guardrails
Insurance // December 01, 2025

The last few Prompt Economy Weekly features have focused on trust and technical security for agentic AI. Seeing as how security is a prerequisite for its consistent usage, that focus was spot-on and will continue to be an issue. But this week was something of...

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CFOs Speed Time to Cash™ and Redefine Business Resilience

December 01, 2025
The role of the finance function is being re-written as companies increasingly are no longer satisfied with observing cash flow in the rearview mirror. Instead, they are beginning to redesign it. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins […]

Big Firms Test AI Agents as Internal Teams Race to Build Guardrails

December 01, 2025
The last few Prompt Economy Weekly features have focused on trust and technical security for agentic AI. Seeing as how security is a prerequisite for its consistent usage, that focus...

Agentic AI Adoption Creates a ‘Two-Speed’ Enterprise Landscape

November 27, 2025
Over the summer of 2025, a quiet but decisive split began to emerge inside the upper ranks of American enterprise. It wasn’t about budgets, markets or strategy cycles. It was...

Microsoft Sparks Security Fight Over AI Agents

November 24, 2025
The Prompt Economy was visited by some controversy this past week. Microsoft introduced new agentic AI features to Windows 11, which is usually a cause for sustained applause from the...

Quick Reads
CoPlane Raises $14 Million to Build AI-Native Software That Adds Automation to ERPs

November 25, 2025
CoPlane raised $14 million in a seed round to build artificial intelligence-native software that integrates with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and automates core finance and operations processes. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to […]

Numeric Launches New Cash Tool After $51 Million Series B

November 20, 2025
Numeric launched a new cash-management product as it closed a $51 million Series B round, expanding its finance automation platform at a moment when companies are trying to get clearer,...

Zone & Co Enables Global B2B Payments Within ERP Systems

November 20, 2025
Zone & Co now enables finance teams to approve, pay and reconcile any invoice within their enterprise resources planning (ERP) system. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

Stuut Raises $29.5 Million for AI-Powered AR Automation Platform

November 20, 2025
Stuut Technologies raised $29.5 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate the product development of its artificial intelligence platform that automates accounts receivable (AR) work. Get the Full...