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AI Breaks the Traditional Relationship Between Business Growth and Hiring

Artificial intelligence is creating a new competitive question for small businesses. What happens when revenue can grow without payroll growing alongside it? The PYMNTS Intelligence report “New Data Shows Small Businesses Use AI to Grow Wit

Backbase Helps Banks Deploy Agentic AI With Delivery Factory

Backbase has introduced a tool that pairs banking teams with specialized artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The banking operating system provider’s Delivery Factory lets a bank’s delivery team work with AI agents “from the first agreed re

Yoast AI Generate for image alt text: from flagged to fixed

Yoast already shows you which product images are missing alt text. Now you can fix them. Yoast AI Generate for image alt text is new in Yoast WooCommerce SEO 17.0, out today alongside Yoast SEO and Yoast SEO Premium 28.8. You generate alt t

OpenAI expands partnership with Oracle to bring its apps to ChatGPT

OpenAI and Oracle are expanding their partnership to bring business applications and AI agents into ChatGPT and power new Oracle offerings.

Thailand Selects 44 Medical AI Startups for Commercial Push

More than 80 firms applied to join the state-backed initiative aimed at moving clinical prototypes into hospitals and global markets.

The 6 best AI image generators in 2026

AI image generators have been brewing (generating?) up a storm for the last few years. If you've been on social media, watched prime time news shows, or ordered from GrubHub, AI-generated images have been impossible to miss. These kinds of

Nimbly AI Raises $4.6 Million to Track Retail Counter Audio

Hardware deployed in Indonesia and Thailand monitors up to 9,000 monthly checkout conversations per store.

OpenAI models: Every model (including GPT-6.1) and what it's best for

Keeping track of all the new AI models getting released at the moment is practically a full-time job. The GPT-6 models were first released about two months after the GPT-5.6 series, which itself was released less than three months after GPT

SurveyMonkey vs. Google Forms: Which should you use? [2026]

Google Forms and SurveyMonkey are leaders in their category for different reasons: one is a simple form tool that nearly everyone already has free access to, and the other has been the poster child for survey creation for over two decades.

Gmail vs. Apple Mail: Which should you use? [2026]

Gmail and Apple Mail are two of the most-used email apps, but there's a key distinction between them. While the former is a full-fledged email provider, the latter is more popular as a client app, where you can toggle between multiple accou

What is Figma?

There's a chance that I may have once stretched the truth about my Figma proficiency only to have my skills tested in real time—in front of a team of designers. (How you're imagining that went is exactly how it went.) Not a shining career m

Retailers are still figuring out how to tie AI goals to executive compensation

AI is starting to show up more in conversations around executive incentive plans. But those conversations are still largely relegated to the tech industry. Here's why it's still an anomaly in retail.

[2026 Canva AI Applications] 8 Major Canva AI Features That Let Even a One-Person E-commerce Business Easily Generate Professional Graphics and Text

Canva recently announced its acquisition of AI image generation company Leonardo.ai, leaving users eagerly anticipating how Canva will upgrade its existing AI tool, Magic Studio. This issue of the SHOPLINE E-commerce Classroom consolidates 7 major Canvas AI features in one article to make running your online store easi

Behind 60,000 SKUs and 12 billion in volume: How Aosom E-commerce uses AI to prepare for Black Friday

One month before Black Friday, the three things Aosom actually did with AI: product selection, creative assets, real-time calibration

Fanatics partners with OpenAI to launch AI recommendation feature, product page views up 10%

How Check Point accelerates vulnerability research with Daybreak

With OpenAI Daybreak, Check Point speeds up the research behind new security protections, enabling its analysts to turn vulnerability intelligence into customer defenses faster.

RB Global grows revenue 7% in Q4 as AI expands across auctions

RB Global reported higher revenue, net income and gross transaction value in 2025, ending on growth in Q4. It cited disciplined execution and expanded use of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve pricing, routing and productivity across i

OpenAI Unveils Half-Price AI Model to Target Enterprise Automation

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6.1 Terra, a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that costs half as much as two of its other models and is practical for automating high-volume work such as reading invoices and entering their information into a

First Internet Bank Bets AI Means More Loans, Not Fewer People

First Internet Bank of Indiana has cut compliance review times for Small Business Administration (SBA) loan applicants by 87% using AI agents, according to a case study from artificial intelligence compliance company Bretton AI. Reviews tha

Analysts Stand by Meta’s AI Push Despite $95 Billion Equity Plan Scrutiny

Three analysts remain bullish on Meta after the company announced plans to raise $95 billion through equity financing, though they raised questions about the company’s growing investments in artificial intelligence (AI), Seeking Alpha repor

Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model, and our remediation with SGLang

First-party website, automation, AI or security update. Review the original deployment requirements.

Greptile takes bug detection beyond code review with GPT-6 Astra

How Greptile uses GPT-6 Astra to test user workflows, Daybreak to strengthen security, and Codex to reduce rework.

Introducing GPT-6.1 Terra

Bringing fast and capable computer use to everyone

Fleet-wide computer vision lifecycle at the edge with SageMaker SDK v3

Fleet-wide computer vision needs a model per camera, not one model for the whole fleet. This post presents a working Amazon SageMaker SDK v3 reference architecture that trains, quality-gates, compiles per-camera models with SageMaker Neo, a