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Anthropic and Hg Form Company to Embed AI Engineers in European Enterprises

Anthropic and London-based private equity firm Hg have agreed to create an independent company that will embed consultants and engineers into European businesses and help those firms deploy artificial intelligence (AI), The Financial Times

How Much Do Rejected Loads REALLY Cost Shippers?

Discover how new Sonar indices are revolutionizing freight cost transparency. Shippers can now accurately track the real premiums paid for rejected loads and understand escalating contract rates. This essential data helps you optimize routi

LSEG Pays $3.5 Billion to Feed Wall Street’s AI

Artificial intelligence is reducing the time and cost of financial research, but the data behind that research is becoming more valuable. Two investments announced Thursday (Oct. 22) illustrate the shift. London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)

States Move to Centralize Digital IDs as More Services Go Online

Your phone can already hold your credit cards, your boarding pass and your insurance card. In a growing number of states, it can hold your driver’s license, too. Now, state leaders are asking a bigger question. Should residents have one dig

Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)

Learn how OpenAI scaled Habitat with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12× faster reads for ChatGPT.

Orchestrating SageMaker AI endpoint auto scaling with AWS CDK

Updating a SageMaker AI endpoint that has Application Auto Scaling registered makes AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK deployments fail. This post shows how to build a reusable AWS CDK construct with CloudFormation custom resources that deregis

Cost pressures sink Marten Transport’s Q3

Shares of refrigerated carrier Marten Transport dropped 7% in midday trading on Friday after a disappointing third-quarter report, which noted that rising fuel and health insurance costs dragged down performance despite improving supply-dem

Visualize points and routes with GeoJSON in Amazon Quick Sight layer maps

Amazon Quick Sight layer maps now support Point and LineString geometry from the same GeoJSON workflow, so you can plot store locations and the routes between them. This post covers the dataset and GeoJSON structure layer maps require, when

Amex Plans Job Cuts, Sets AI Rules as Gen Z Spending Jumps 35%

American Express is cutting management layers and expanding artificial intelligence across customer service and commerce, with rules governing how outside agents reach customers’ accounts and benefits. According to a Friday (Oct. 23) third-

How Bayer Crop Science built an agentic decision engine on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with AWS Unified Operations

Bayer Crop Science built the Agentic Decision Engine (ADE), a multi-agent platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that lets breeders, analysts, and researchers ask natural language questions about their analytics platform. This post covers the

Lululemon adds former product chief to board

Tara Poseley, who led product at the athletics retailer from 2013 to 2015, is joining the board as part of the company’s agreement with founder Chip Wilson.

LitPivot: Developing research ideas through dynamic contextualization within the literature landscape

Profound vs. Bluefish AI for AEO: Which tool wins for marketers?

Profound and Bluefish AI both help marketing teams measure how brands appear in AI-generated answers, including visibility, citations, and competitive presence. Profound and Bluefish AI differ in their approach to engine coverage, prompt co

Etsy updates AI use policies to emphasize craftsmanship

While it’s implementing more AI, the online marketplace now requires at least one authentic, non-AI generated image in most seller listings.

Macy’s revamps Santaland, brings back Holiday Square

The department store is leaning into the festive season at its Herald Square flagship in New York with a variety of activations.

5 US manufacturing projects bring more than $1.6B in investments

Five shippers are investing more than $1.6 billion in new or expanded U.S. facilities, adding production capacity for commercial trailers, school buses, cooling systems and bottled beverages. The post 5 US manufacturing projects bring more

Bath & Body Works introduces new store concept

The Feel Good concept is now open in Charlotte, North Carolina, and features easy navigation and enhanced testing experiences.

New Tools for the Admins Who Build Communities on Forum

First-party business or community-tool update. Check the original product scope and availability.

Analytics queryable capability is configurable in shopify.app.toml for metaobject definitions

Apps can now set capabilities.analytics_queryable on metaobject definitions in shopify.app.toml. This makes compatible fields on those definitions queryable in Shopify analytics and ShopifyQL. It applies to apps that declare metaobject defi

Schedule and test catalog changes with Rollouts

Rollouts now supports catalog changes, so you can schedule product availability and pricing per market. Prepare your catalogs ahead of a promotion or seasonal launch, then choose when they go live. Schedule catalog changes: Activate, deacti

More accurate UK VAT based on fulfillment location

VAT on orders shipping to customers in Great Britain is now calculated using the fulfillment location that your order routing settings select for each order, the same way tax is calculated for orders shipping to the United States. If an ord

The Weekly Closeout: Torrid CFO exits and Belk secures financing

Paula Dempsey will leave the apparel retailer next month. The department store, meanwhile, will use some of its new funds for seasonal inventory.

How to identify content gaps for AI visibility

Learning how to identify content gaps for AI visibility starts with a question that traditional content gap analysis doesn’t always answer: where could a brand contribute something useful to an AI-generated answer, but isn’t being mentioned

Amex to shrink workforce

The card company plans to cut 4.5% of its employees to become more “agile and efficient” as it adjusts to more use of artificial intelligence, CEO Stephen Squeri said.