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Holiday shoppers only want a dash of AI for the gift hunt

Price comparisons and narrowing down gift ideas are some of the ways consumers are using AI this season. But maintaining autonomy in the buying process remains important to shoppers.

Delivery AI should earn its authority one segment at a time

Burq CEO Salman Habib says retailers balk when AI vendors ask for full control on day one. His company's doctrine has the AI start by watching and earn its way to fully autonomous, one part of the operation at a time, only on evidence. The

Which Types of Mentions Correlate the Strongest With AI Visibility? (260M AI Prompts Analyzed)

But which kind of mention? In our previous research, we analyzed different brand factors alongside AI visibility—including web mentions, anchors, search volume, number of referring domains and so on. This time, we zeroed in on brand mention

Persistent AI Agents: How to Get Started (and What to Watch Out For)

Wondering how persistent AI agents differ from ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI chat tools? Want an always-on AI agent that manages your email, calendar, and tasks without putting your business data at risk? ​In this article, you’ll discover h

Emirates SkyCargo launches specialised AI tech shipment service

Emirates SkyCargo has launched a dedicated product designed to help customers move critical and sensitive AI infrastructure safely and on time. AI Tech is tailored for AI server racks, semiconductors, GPUs, capital equipment and other criti

SHOPLINE Annual Conference Reveals Retail AI Trends: AI Becomes the Next Traffic Gateway, Brands Strive to Be AI Ready

AI is rapidly changing how consumers discover products and engage with brands, and it is also bringing new growth opportunities to the retail industry. However, as AI gradually moves from a personal-use tool toward enterprise operations, the pace of transformation in Taiwan's retail industry still lags behind. Accordin

AI Agents Could Control 5% of Cross-Border Payments. Who Controls Them?

Watch more: Need to Know With Mural’s Sinclair Toffa As stablecoins, real-time payment networks and artificial intelligence converge, financial infrastructure providers are confronting the fact that competitive questions are now becoming ar

MIT Researchers Say Privacy Rules Will Shape AI Competition

Watch more: TechReg With Catherine Tucker and Rozhina Ghanavi of MIT Sloan An artificial intelligence agent researching a medical condition can learn something about an entire family from a conversation with just one member. Catherine Tucke

Connecting AI Visits to Sales Could Sharpen Retail Investment

A retailer’s next artificial intelligence investment could depend on what happens after a shopper arrives. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “The Agent Advantage: How Merchants Plan to Win AI Shopping” found in October that among surveyed merc

Boost CEO Says AI Lets Payments Firms Build More In-House

AI has expanded what teams can develop internally without a third party, Boost Payment Solutions Founder and CEO Dean M. Leavitt writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Payments Leaders Rethink What Works in 2026.” What I changed my mind about in 20

Very unveils AI-assisted Christmas advert starring new flamingo family

Very has unveiled its Christmas advert for 2026, introducing a family of animated flamingos in its first campaign to combine CGI with AI-assisted animation. The festive campaign, titled ‘That’s the Very Thing‘, follows a young flamingo on a

Heimstaden is changing residential real estate management with AI

Discover how Heimstaden uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to transform property management, cut costs, and empower employees across Europe.

One in five of Britain’s best known brands is invisible when shoppers ask AI what to buy

Human Forward tested 75 well known UK retailers and brands across six AI assistants. No assistant recommended 15 of the 75. And of the 50 sites it could check, seven in ten could not be bought from by an AI agent. AI assistants are becoming

Zalando beats sales expectations with profit rise and AI shopping push

Zalando has beaten third-quarter sales expectations, citing strong growth in its business-to-business division. It reported a 5.1 per cent rise in revenue to £2.8bn for the three months to September, ahead of the £2.63bn forecast by analyst

Cities Worldwide Build and Scale AI Services With NVIDIA Physical and Agentic AI

Cities generate enormous amounts of data from cameras, sensors and operational systems, but turning it into useful action — for planning, maintenance and public services — remains a challenge. Physical and agentic AI offer new ways to close

ChatGPT Shopping: What It Means for Amazon & DTC Sellers

ChatGPT shopping is OpenAI’s product discovery experience inside ChatGPT, where shoppers describe what they want, compare products side by side, and finish the purchase on the merchant’s own site or app. It runs on product data that merchan

Apple Forecasts Slower Services Growth as AI Costs Rise

Apple expects slower services growth during the holiday quarter, at the same time that it absorbs the cloud-computing costs of Siri AI and prepares to charge customers for expanded access to certain artificial intelligence features. Speakin

Walmart commits $6 billion to Symbotic for its AI and robotics solutions

Walmart Inc.’s strategic investment, which accompanied Symbotic Inc.’s acquisition of Walmart’s robotics business, will grow by $6 billion, the companies announced on Oct. 29. The new expansion of their commercial agreement will mean that n

Anthropic Buys One-Person Biotech to Prove Claude Can Make Drugs

Anthropic said Oct. 27 it acquired Mithril Medicine, a startup developing treatments for two rare forms of muscular dystrophy. Founder Cody Tranbarger, Mithril’s only full-time employee, used Claude to organize contracts, logistics and expe

Upwork Embeds Freelance Marketplace Inside Top AI Tools

Upwork has been rolling out new tools as artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes work and the ways clients and talent use the company’s work marketplace, President and CEO Hayden Brown said Monday (Nov. 2) during the company’s third quarter e

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AI Agents Take the Grunt Work Out of Pamarco’s Close

Pamarco, a manufacturer of precision components for the printing and packaging industries, has put artificial intelligence agents on the accounting work that once ran only through its finance staff. “We’ve been able to automate roughly 40%

Kentucky college grants religious accommodation excusing humanist from AI use

The news demonstrates an emerging compliance issue facing employers as they move to adopt the technology.

AI Shopping: Get Your Products Found In Google & ChatGPT via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell

Chris Sachs & Aris Vrakas outlined 4 moves for AI shopping: make product pages retrievable, use shopper language, connect feeds with pages, test the results. The post AI Shopping: Get Your Products Found In Google & ChatGPT appeared first o