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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

Muse Wonder and Muse Spark: A guide to Meta's AI models

Meta has shifted to a new family of flagship AI models called Muse and sent the Llama "herd" of models to the farm upstate. It's a dramatic but understandable shift in AI strategy from the company that was once pioneering open models. The n

Out-of-stock rate drops by 30%, net profit increases by 5%! Top sellers are using AI to build super individuals

Explore cross-border AI organizational strategy, human-machine division of labor, digital employee building, and full-chain ROI solutions

Fair use benefits everyone

OpenAI shares excerpts from court briefs by creators, academics, accessibility advocates, and legal experts, among others, on how fair use supports AI training and innovation.

Supporting a shared AI training control for websites

Today, we're announcing our plans to support a shared AI training control in robots.txt. This will help websites express their AI training preferences across multiple AI providers in a single step and is based on work from the AIPREF workin

Alphabet Loses $500 Billion in Market Value as AI Threatens Google Search

Google parent company Alphabet saw its stock price drop 13%, and its market value lose $500 billion Thursday (Oct. 29), marking the stock’s worst day ever, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The drop followed Alphabet’s release of i

Amazon Puts a Million Robots Behind Its AI Ambitions

Amazon’s third-quarter earnings brought the same concern that shadowed Alphabet’s results a day earlier: whether enormous artificial intelligence investments will deliver enough profit and cash to dispel fears of a spending bubble. Thursday

Google Tops AI Smarts Ranking as OpenAI Slashes Prices

Google may have finally caught up with its archrivals. Its new Gemini 4 Carbon model ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, an independent scorecard that had OpenAI and Anthropic ahead for most of the year. OpenAI answer

Mistral Touts Cyber Capabilities of Its ‘Chonk’ AI Model

Mistral released an updated version of its Large 4 artificial intelligence model, saying in a Thursday (Oct. 29) announcement that it comes with improved coding and cybersecurity capabilities. The model builds on a version released in publi

Cohere Raises $5 Billion for Alternative AI Vision

Canadian artificial intelligence company Cohere said in a Thursday (Oct. 29) company blog post that it rejects what it called “frontier fatalism.” That’s its term for the belief that AI will be monopolized by a handful of United States and

How transportation leaders are turning AI and connected data into a competitive edge

AI is gaining ground in transportation, but are companies actually turning that potential into results? As supply chains face constant disruption, rising expectations and growing pressure to make faster decisions, the gap between adopting n

Agentic Commerce in Practice: AI:Deep Dive Berlin at Stripe

Who is liable when an AI agent does the shopping? How does payment work, and what is left of the customer relationship? On 10 November 2026, Stripe, Zalando, flaconi and Deloitte take these questions on at AI:Deep Dive Berlin event, with pr

Amazon Adds 100-Plus Capabilities to AI Shopping Assistant

Amazon has introduced several new capabilities for its Alexa for Shopping artificial intelligence assistant. “Our vision for Alexa for Shopping is to make every part of shopping as convenient as possible,” Rajiv Mehta, Amazon’s vice preside

How the UK Amazon Quick User Group grew in 2026

The UK Amazon Quick User Group's 2026 roundup: three quarterly meetups, 150+ attendees, and customer stories from Arriva, Carsa, and Propulse Lab on using agentic AI and Amazon Quick to turn data into faster decisions, higher satisfaction,

Wabi Raises $55 Million For AI Assistant to Coordinate Groups

Artificial intelligence (AI) assistant startup Wabi has reportedly raised $55 million in new funding. The new financing values the company at $1.25 billion and will help it work on its software that lets groups of people interact with AI to

Unilever Cuts Order Processing to 90 Seconds With AI Agents

About 2 million of Unilever’s roughly 20 million annual orders still arrive as emails, PDFs, spreadsheets and photos of paper forms, and each one used to take a person 15 to 20 minutes to key in. A system of five AI agents called NOVA now h

Google’s AI Exposure Exceeds the $1 Trillion It Reported

Google parent Alphabet has said demand for cloud services is rapidly increasing, citing growth in unfulfilled contracts. However, a Bloomberg News report Thursday (Oct. 29) points to a quarterly filing from the tech giant saying that upward

Accurate Facts Can Still Produce A False AI Answer, And Courts Are Starting To Hold The Platform Responsible via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester

AI search merges businesses with their lookalikes, and courts are holding platforms liable. Here’s how conflation happens and how to make your entity unmistakable. The post Accurate Facts Can Still Produce A False AI Answer, And Courts Are

Fiverr Pivots to AI Agents as Traditional Search Erodes

Fiverr is restructuring its digital architecture to adapt to what its CEO calls a fundamental upheaval in internet search. With search engine optimization losing ground to artificial intelligence assistants, the freelance marketplace is shi

WEX Earns Record Quarterly Revenue While Deploying AI Across Products

Intelligent payment solutions provider WEX saw growth across its business in the third quarter as it secured new business wins and drove innovation across its segments, CEO and President Melissa Smith said in a Wednesday (Oct. 2)8 press rel