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3M closes 16 factories, plans changes at 10 more in network revamp

The industrial conglomerate is aiming for $1 billion in annual productivity gains by the end of 2027 through an operational overhaul, Chairman and CEO William Brown said.

StateBench: Testing how language models track state changes over long documents

Benchmark diesel price is down; so is futures market in a big way

The benchmark price used for most fuel surcharges rose/fell slightly this week, but the focus in oil markets is on the huge decline in futures market prices recorded Monday. The Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration average

Virtualstock joins BHETA as Business Support Provider

Europe’s leading range extension platform, Virtualstock has joined BHETA (British Home Enhancement Trade Association) as its latest Business Support Provider. The partnership will give BHETA members access to Virtualstock’s ecommerce expert

Every OpenAI Publisher Partnership, and How Often ChatGPT Cites Them

Each deal works roughly the same way: the publisher licenses its content to OpenAI, and ChatGPT shows summaries of that content with attribution and a link back to the source. That makes these publishers some of the most visible sites… Read

Levi’s claymation holiday campaign celebrates handmade craft amid AI bloat

The nostalgic campaign arrives following a back-to-school campaign that CEO Michelle Gass said failed to generate the expected demand and traffic.

FedEx uses dedicated logistics teams to win aerospace, automotive business

FedEx says its new strategy to provide premium logistics services for industrial companies has resulted in new contracts to move aircraft engines and auto parts. The post FedEx uses dedicated logistics teams to win aerospace, automotive bus

Court Ruling Adds Constitutional Wrinkle to Algorithmic Pricing Debate

A federal court ruling blocking part of New York’s algorithmic rent-setting law has introduced a constitutional complication into efforts to police automated pricing. In a Sept. 29 decision in RealPage Inc. v. James, U.S. District Judge Val

Bring structured and unstructured data together with Amazon Quick

Amazon Quick brings structured and unstructured data together in one experience. In this post, you connect Amazon S3 as a knowledge base, enrich a dataset, build a Space, and create a custom chat agent that answers business questions across

ServiceNow on-behalf-of token exchange with Bedrock AgentCore Gateway

Learn how to configure Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway for an on-behalf-of (OBO) token exchange with Microsoft Entra ID, so an AI agent can call the ServiceNow REST API while preserving the calling user's identity. AgentCore Gateway perfor

How Gen Digital built Norton Revamp’s AI-curated News Engine with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Web Search

Gen Digital built Norton Revamp, a generative AI-powered professional reputation management platform, with an AI-curated News Engine grounded by Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. See how the Gen team delivers real-time, cited content

Build a semantic layer for agentic AI with EDB Postgres AI and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how to build a governed semantic layer for agentic AI inside EDB Postgres AI and query it from a Strands Agents agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Business meaning, join paths, and access control all live in Postgres, with GRANT and r

Building ultra-low-latency voice AI applications on AWS

Learn how Cartesia, an AWS Partner, uses purpose-built State Space Models and AWS infrastructure to deliver sub-100ms text-to-speech and speech-to-text at global scale, and how to deploy its Sonic model on Amazon SageMaker AI or self-manage

OpenAI Turns to Ex-Army Secretary for Cybersecurity Counsel

OpenAI has hired former Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to help its cybersecurity efforts. Driscoll is joining the artificial intelligence (AI) startup as its “Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization,” OpenAI announced Tuesday (Nov

Expeditors sees air cargo volumes and revenues rise in Q3

Expeditors International has reported a continued surge in air cargo volumes and revenues as a result of hyperscaler demand and rising freight rates. The US forwarder said that air cargo volumes were up 13% year on year in the third quarter

Trump sparked growth but widened trade deficit, slowed hiring

President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs and efforts to boost foreign direct investment have fallen short of their objectives, per the German Economic Institute.

At Home taps former CFO as new chief executive

Judd Nystrom returns to the company's C-suite several years after supporting its move into the public trading market.

US targets alleged labor violations at 2 Mexican factories

U.S. trade officials announced a new labor rights investigation into a Mexican packaging manufacturer and an agreement addressing labor violations at an ammunition factory. The post US targets alleged labor violations at 2 Mexican factories

Palette: teaching a small model to build decks in your design language

Introducing India-based inference for Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock now offers in-country inference in India for Kimi K3, keeping processing within the Mumbai and Hyderabad Regions. This post explains the global and geographic cross-Region inference options and shares example code for reading

Payment Networks Earnings: Five Takeaways on Spending and Technology

Consumers kept their cards busy last quarter, and the latest quarterly earnings results from payment networks indicated a widening pursuit of transactions that begin with an unpaid invoice, a stablecoin balance or instructions to an artific

With new ownership, Lee eyes activewear and workwear

The denim label is officially part of the Authentic Brands Group stable and will expand into adjacent “lifestyle offerings.”

Paul Smith unveils limited-edition darts collection with Harrow Darts

Paul Smith has collaborated with manufacturer Harrows Darts to design a limited-edition collection of darts and dartboards. The line will be available in Paul Smith stores in the UK, Europe and the US. According to the pair, the collection

Lefties rolls out second UK store at Lakeside shopping centre

Lefties has opened its second UK store at Lakeside shopping centre in West Thurrock, Essex.