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The Trend Report: How AI Is Changing Social Commerce

Explore how BigCommerce Catalog Enrichment helps merchants create richer product content, faster, to support sales during BFCM and throughout the year.

What is Slack? And what is it used for?

When I first used Slack back in 2015, I could not for the life of me wrap my head around the concept of threads. Now, after a decade or so of Slacking, I'm the person passive aggressively reminding people to please respond in threads for th

Obsidian vs. Notion: Which is best? [2026]

Modern note-taking platforms go beyond documenting your thoughts. They offer powerful workplaces to manage your knowledge, no matter where it comes from. Whether that's turning a bunch of data into a live website or visualizing relationship

How AI agents carried out hacks across 100 companies

A cybersecurity researcher traced attacks on more than 1,200 websites to hackers using largely unsupervised AI tools. The post How AI agents carried out hacks across 100 companies appeared first on Inside Retail Asia.

Kazakhstan Expands Compute for Its AI Future

Kazakhstan’s AI ecosystem is moving from infrastructure plans to deployment. The shift is visible across the full AI stack — from infrastructure to models to applications. Together, the ecosystem announcements below point to the nation’s in

Anima helps clinics cut call waits by 75% with GPT-6 and GPT-Live

Anima expands what care teams can do with OpenAI models, giving them more capacity to respond to patients.

Does Your Model Run on AWS Trainium? Look It Up

OpenAI and Poland’s NASK partner to advance AI safety and security

OpenAI and Poland’s NASK are partnering on AI safety, security, and technical research to strengthen safeguards and support a more resilient digital ecosystem.

How to build an AI agent: from goal to live deployment

Building an AI agent is a multi-step process. Marketers need to define the agent’s task, connect approved data and tools, and set limits on its actions. Once they master the basics, anyone — marketers, sales reps, or customer teams — can bu

Banks Add AI Agents, Keep Their 40-Year-Old Cores

Banks keep their core systems because replacing them is costly and disruptive. Keeping them carries its own price. Employees work across fragmented applications, repeat manual steps and rely on expensive integrations. Fifty-two percent of f

David’s Bridal plans to spin off its AI-powered Pearl platform

In 2025, David’s Bridal’s Shopify transition paved the way for an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) reimagining of its Pearl wedding planner — and now, the company has plans to spin off Pearl as its own entity. K&F Growth Acquisition Cor

Wyndham Deploys AI Agents to Boost Hotel Bookings and Cut Franchisee Costs

Hotel franchising company Wyndham Hotels & Resorts offers artificial intelligence (AI) tools across the guest experience and has found that they improve franchisees’ top lines, reduce operating costs and enhance the guest experience, the co

Turning Database Grading into RL Rewards: Post-Training Agents with ThinkingBox

Build more responsive apps with the Decisions API

Fast, focused, low-cost decisions for any application.

CEOs say they’re not yet seeing transformational change from AI

But more than 6 in 10 U.S. leaders said they were confident their firms were moving at the right pace or ahead of the curve in terms of AI development, per a KPMG report.

AI is splitting HR into 2 archetypes, study shows

Every role — from HR specialist to CHRO — now requires knowledge of data analytics, while traditional administrative skills are declining, Draup explained.

Amazon Polly delivers a major upgrade to its Generative engine

The Amazon Polly Generative engine gets a major upgrade: more expressive, more accurate speech with low latency, plus 14 new voices across 9 locales and general availability of Hindi and Finnish. This drop-in upgrade requires no code change

58% Of Shoppers Will Let AI Buy Groceries to Save 30 Minutes, EY Finds

A survey reveals 61 per cent of consumers will share personal data if automated tools reliably reduce the time and mental burden of weekly supermarket runs.

How IskayPet unified corporate knowledge with Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Bases

Learn how IskayPet, a leading pet care company in Iberia, built a multilingual corporate knowledge assistant on Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Bases. The assistant answers employee questions across retail, veterinary, onboarding, and proc

Announcing new ways to customize models with SageMaker AI, without managing GPUs

Amazon SageMaker AI serverless model customization now includes training sessions, generally available today. You write and coordinate your own post-training loop (custom loss functions, reward signals, or multi-turn reinforcement learning)

Write your own training loop — without managing GPUs — with Amazon SageMaker training session APIs

Amazon SageMaker AI training session APIs let you write your own LLM training loop (SFT, RL, or custom objectives) in a Python script while the service runs the GPUs. This post introduces the programming model and three SDK clients, then wa

AI Finds Flaws Hiding in the Code Behind 70% of Websites

Security flaws discovered with the help of artificial intelligence have triggered an urgent, OpenAI-led effort to protect websites worldwide, PYMNTS reported. The scramble exposes how quickly AI can uncover weaknesses in the software that s

Deploy AI in a HIPAA-eligible environment with Amazon Quick

Amazon Quick is a HIPAA-eligible service, but eligibility is not the same as compliance. This post explains who HIPAA applies to, how PHI flows through Amazon Quick, what the platform provides for regulated environments, and a step-by-step

Stream low-latency speech from AI agents using Kokoro TTS on Amazon SageMaker AI

Voice agents often wait for an agent's full response before starting speech synthesis, adding latency users feel directly. This post shows how to stream each sentence to a Kokoro-82M text-to-speech model on Amazon SageMaker AI as the agent