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Amazon Fills the Prescription ChatGPT Can’t

Amazon is turning the app people open to reorder paper towels into the place they handle a sore throat, a refill and a weight loss prescription. When releasing its third-quarter earnings results Thursday (Oct. 29), Amazon said the number of

Configure the ChatGPT desktop app with Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)

The ChatGPT desktop app is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). This post walks through a controlled local deployment that routes model inference to Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West) using API-mode sign-in, a managed

Florida Takes Unlikely Lead Role in State Push to Regulate AI

Florida is emerging as an aggressive regulator of artificial intelligence (AI) and major technology platforms, using litigation, child protection requirements and proposed safeguards to challenge the federal government’s preference for ligh

Deutsche Bank Warns AI Stock Selloff Threatens Dollar Safe-Haven Status

The current artificial intelligence (AI)-driven market correction could impact the dollar’s status as a haven asset, Deutsche Bank’s global head of FX strategy, George Saravelos, said in a Friday (Oct. 30) note to clients, Bloomberg reporte

Throttling vs. Rate Limiting: Backoff Strategies for Workflows

Throttling versus rate limiting changes how you respond to API limits. See how Retry-After, exponential backoff, and jitter make retries more reliable.

Unilever and Nestlé Put AI to Work Between Orders and Payments

Artificial intelligence agents are processing purchase orders and preparing collections work as businesses automate more of the steps between a B2B sale and payment. PYMNTS Intelligence research with JPMorgan finds surveyed companies automa

Shopify Now Lets Stores Pay The Company Behind Your AI Shopping Agent via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic

Shopify’s catalog returns a commission next to each promoted product’s price and reviews. What an AI agent does with that number depends on its developer. The post Shopify Now Lets Stores Pay The Company Behind Your AI Shopping Agent appear

Easol Secures $30 Million to Scale AI Tools for Experience Businesses

Easol raised $30 million in a Series A extension funding round to continue scaling its experience commerce platform designed for festivals, wellness retreats, sports, adventure and location-based entertainment venues, the company said in a

Things That Go Beep in the Night: Agentic AI Joins the Search for Extraterrestrial Signals

While science fiction lore tells us that humans will meet extraterrestrial life in the form of little green men, the detail that should raise hairs this Halloween is this: the search for extraterrestrial intelligence took a major leap forwa

The best free project management software in 2026

Everyone has a different way of managing projects. Some people like to use their inbox to keep track of tasks. Others prefer to visualize work on a Kanban board or in a calendar view, while some even prefer the old pen and paper system. Tha

AI Startups Claw Back Traveler Refunds When Airline Fares Drop

Three startups are helping travelers save on airfare when there is a price drop after they’ve already purchased a ticket, Reuters reported Friday (Oct. 30). JetBack, Junova and Refare use artificial intelligence to monitor fares and seek re

AI agents won’t pay the way you do

Plaid’s payments head explains how payment methods might shift as artificial intelligence begins choosing how to pay.

Amazon Wins 59% of AI-Assisted Purchases as Checkout Becomes the Prize

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is doing something that years of retail competition struggled to accomplish. It is teaching consumers to start shopping somewhere other than Amazon. The catch? AI just isn’t teaching them to stop buyi

Sanku Maots’Ai Invests RMB 200 Million in Smart Factory

The 22,000-square-meter automated facility generates an annual capacity exceeding 40,000 tons.

Making it easier for websites to express AI training preferences

OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal to help website operators communicate their AI training preferences to participating providers.

Community safety report and new protections for teens

OpenAI is strengthening violence prevention in ChatGPT with expanded safeguards, earlier interventions, and a new commitment to public safety reporting.

Amazon's Q3 revenue growth slows, AWS grows nearly 40%, increased AI investment pressures cash flow

E-commerce product design workflow: use AI to generate an interactive, disassemblable 3D product demo with one click

Singapore Rolls Out over 200 Workplace AI Courses as Worker Demand Surges

Vertical Institute saw enrollments double over the past year as mid-career professionals use automation to shrink hours of labor into minutes.

1688 Wang Qiang: AI is changing the way factories acquire orders

What is AI transformation in 2027? How to build a strategy for your business

It can feel impossible to escape the pressure to "do something" with AI. Maybe your CEO just asked about your AI strategy in an all-hands, or your competitors are shipping faster thanks to automation. Or maybe you're just tired of watching

Grok automation: How to use the Zapier Grok integration (Grok 4.7, Grok Bot, and more)

Grok has a very specific edge over other AI models: live access to X, so your agents can keep their finger on the pulse a little more easily. But outside of that, Grok models and agents are still solid alternatives to what OpenAI, Anthropic

The best AI agent builder software in 2026

AI agents have matured fast, and I've been in the weeds the whole time. These days, AI agents are running a lot of my processes in the background. And it's not just me or the Zapier team: 84% of enterprises plan to boost AI agent investment

What is Grok Bot?

Working with AI is getting weird. Two years ago, I used to do most tasks by myself and then jump into a chatbot task to solve a problem four or five times per hour. These days, I end up staring at my screen while my agents do my research, t