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Microsoft Sees Enterprise AI Adoption Accelerate as Copilot Usage Grows

Microsoft is seeing enterprises move beyond artificial intelligence experiments toward systems that handle business processes. The company is also expanding how it charges for AI through subscriptions and usage-based billing. CEO Satya Nade

Google Pushes AI Agents Into Commerce as Spending Pressures Cash Flow

Alphabet’s third-quarter results put a familiar fear back in focus: Big Tech’s artificial intelligence spending could outrun the earnings and cash needed to justify it. Google’s parent spent $51.4 billion on capital investments and reported

Credit Saison achieves 954% ROI in a ChatGPT Enterprise pilot

Credit Saison’s ChatGPT Enterprise pilot delivered 954% ROI. See how leaders and employees helped turn the results into companywide adoption.

AI cost management at Zapier

Does $5,000 in AI spend equal $5,000 in value? If it does, that's a bad investment. A 1x return wouldn't get approved anywhere else in our budget, and AI doesn't get an exception. As the Chief Operating Officer at Zapier, the question I rea

Announcing Project ProtoStar: Making Publicly Funded Science AI-Ready

Welcome Le Chonk: Mistral Large 4 on Hugging Face

Introducing AnySpeechRecognizer and AnyDecisionModel: Open Models for Speech and Decisions on Apple Platforms

Google Search Growth Slows Again, AI Mode Is Partly Why via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google Search revenue growth slowed for a second straight quarter, and lower AI Mode monetization was one reason given. The post Google Search Growth Slows Again, AI Mode Is Partly Why appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

AI-Cited Pages More Often Got Straight To The Answer via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Pages cited by AI often answered a question in their first lines, though the gap was smaller against pages AI pulled up but didn’t cite. The post AI-Cited Pages More Often Got Straight To The Answer appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Amazon Expands Shop Direct Catalog to Keep Shoppers Off AI Shopping Agents

Amazon is expanding its Shop Direct initiative, which lists products from brands that don’t sell on its site, in an effort to keep shoppers coming to its site rather than using outside personal artificial intelligence agents, The Informatio

Microsoft earnings press release available on Investor Relations website

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US Foods Counts AI Gains in Seller Hours and Cases per Mile

A US Foods seller used to spend up to four hours preparing a proposal for a prospective restaurant, reading menus, spreadsheets and handwritten notes. A generative artificial intelligence tool now does that work, Amazon Web Services said in

RBC Blocks Third-Party Personal AI Agents Over Fraud Risks

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has decided to block third-party personal AI agents from direct access to online banking and other RBC digital properties due to concerns about fraud and consumer harm, the bank told its customers in an article po

AI at work: Employees, employers may not be on the same page

A study from Dayforce highlights workers’ fears about how AI use might make their work life worse.

Etsy Aims to Balance Human Creations With AI Innovations

Etsy’s CEO says the company is facing an artificial intelligence (AI)-related paradox. “For Etsy, the opportunity is to use this technology to help buyers discover items that feel uniquely right for them, and to help our sellers reach more

Building an Agentic AI Platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Stand up a governed, multi-account Agentic AI Platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This post walks through the architecture and an open-source reference blueprint: the operating model, control plane, per-Workstream cells, separate inferenc

Distributed training with Ray Train DLCs and EFA on EKS

The Ray Train Deep Learning Container ships the full CUDA-through-EFA stack, so you build no image. This post walks through a reproducible sample that fine-tunes Qwen2.5-1.5B with PyTorch FSDP across eight GPUs on two EFA-enabled g6.12xlarg

Accelerating software delivery with agentic QA automation using Amazon Nova Act – Part 3

As QA test automation spreads across an organization, organizing tests and controlling who owns them becomes the real work. Part 3 of the QA Studio series on Amazon Nova Act adds applications that organize tests and report health metrics, p

Goldman Exec Says Investors Growing More Judicious on AI

A senior Goldman Sachs executive says weaknesses are developing in the AI market as the cost of capital climbs. Speaking at The Information’s WTF Summit on Tuesday (Oct. 28) Goldman co-head of investment banking Kim Posnett argued that whil

California Puts a 15-Minute Clock on AI Customer Service Handoffs

It’s fairly common in the age of artificial intelligence and agents for AI to handle routine customer service faster and cheaper than a call center, but the customer on the other end can get stuck in a loop of menus and canned answers with

Shopify Flow: manage automations through AI Toolkit

You can now use an external agent to manage your Shopify Flow workflows through AI Toolkit. This release is for managing your own store's workflows via AI toolkit; third-party apps are prevented from using the underlying APIs directly. What

Get AI tested storefront suggestions from Sidekick

Sidekick can identify storefront improvements, build a draft version of the change, and compare it with your current storefront using AI-simulated shoppers. Sidekick chooses changes for simulation when they can be tested as storefront theme

Profound vs. Peec AI: Which is right for your team?

Profound and Peec AI are two of the most frequently compared tools in the AEO category right now, and the decision isn’t so straightforward. The two platforms take different approaches to data collection, pricing, and what happens after you

Malaysia Seizes 30 AI Chip Servers Worth $12 Million at Kuala Lumpur Airport

Authorities intercepted shipment at Kuala Lumpur International Airport’s free trade zone following export control violations linked to an illicit trade syndicate.