Instacart announced Cart Assistant, a white-label AI shopping assistant retailers can embed on their own websites and apps, alongside Clementine, a separate AI grocery assistant for Instacart marketpl…
Businesses adopting AI tools are hitting a 'context problem' rather than an AI capability problem, as fragmented institutional knowledge scattered across inboxes, drives, and employee memories prevent…
Shipt, the same-day delivery platform owned by Target, launched 'Ask Shipt,' an AI shopping assistant available now in the Shipt app and on Shipt.com, joining Instacart, Uber Eats, and DoorDash in add…
Instacart launched Clementine, an AI shopping assistant integrated into its Marketplace app across the U.S. and Canada on September 9, 2026, that builds ready-to-buy carts from text, recipes, or photo…
Instacart has launched Clementine, a conversational AI grocery shopping assistant, to millions of U.S. customers, embedded in its app and website to help with meal planning and shopping lists. The ass…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on the 'Sources' podcast that he uses Meta's new personal AI agent, Muse, to plan weekend baking projects with his 3-year-old daughter, reporting that the agent's first s…
Instacart launched Clementine, an AI-powered grocery shopping assistant available in the U.S. and Canada, that converts conversations, lists, or recipe photos into ready-to-buy carts. The assistant pe…
Instacart (Maplebear Inc.) is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Caper AI division, offering a salary of $230k–255k/yr for a remote position based in the continental U.S. The role involves deve…
Instacart is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II for its AI Labs & Foundations team, offering a salary of $230k–243k/yr for a remote position in the United States. The role involves building producti…
A developer has created a Digital Twin Health Agent using LangGraph and the Oura Ring API to automate wellness decisions. The system reads recovery scores, reschedules workouts on Google Calendar, and…
Morrisons has launched AI-powered Caper smart trolleys at its Ashton-on-Ribble store in Lancashire, making it the first UK supermarket to trial the technology. The trolleys, developed by San Francisco…
OpenAI acquired NextSlide, a startup that turned prompts, notes, and documents into editable presentations, with founder Ahmed Beshry joining OpenAI in March 2026 and announcing the deal on August 7, …
On December 9, 2025, Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative released an investigation finding that Instacart customers ordering the same items from the same store location were offered differen…
Instacart is deploying AI-powered Caper Carts, edge computing, and computer vision to bridge online grocery intelligence with in-store shopping, aiming to reinvent the grocery store experience. The te…
Instacart is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for its Digital Twin Platform team, offering a salary of $206k–218k/yr for remote work in Canada (ON, AB, BC, or NS). The role involves developin…
A developer in Dhaka built an AI agent infrastructure using a single Postgres database for job queuing, caching, and full-text search instead of adopting Redis, RabbitMQ, and Elasticsearch. The approa…
Kroger and Target made AI hires, Walmart added a tool for advertisers, and Academy Sports + Outdoors launched Academy Retail Media, a new advertising business with Instacart that gives marketers acces…
OpenAI is building a ChatGPT Wallet that would let users save payment cards for ChatGPT to use during tasks, according to unreleased interface code found in the Windows ChatGPT/Codex desktop applicati…
Shoppers using AI-equipped smart shopping carts spent 32% more on average than those using regular carts, according to a new study from Bayes Business School at City St. George's, University of London…
A new study from Circana and Ibotta Inc. shows that promotions can deliver measurable incremental business outcomes, with Ibotta's Chief Revenue Officer Chris Riedy emphasizing that promotions should …