Software value is bifurcating into two extremes, according to a framework called the Barbell of Software Value: horizontal platforms and private internal tools, with vertical SaaS surviving only in na…
Google has officially welcomed Walmart's Onn Outdoor Camera Plug-In and Onn Outdoor Floodlight Camera Hardwired to the Google Home and Gemini ecosystem. The Outdoor Camera Plug-In offers 1080p HDR, IP…
Wonder founder and CEO Marc Lore is betting on AI-created sauces and drone BBQ delivery, with the company planning an IPO within the next year. Wonder recently closed a $650 million Series D round at …
A developer built a price monitoring agent using ZenRows and Pydantic AI that achieves a 99.93% success rate against protected e-commerce sites like Amazon and Walmart. The system addresses two common…
Jake Mannix, a member of the Fellows community at Walmart, told a conference audience that building LLM-based agents today resembles programming in 1975-era BASIC, with monolithic code and non-determi…
A new report from Lanai finds that 78% of enterprise leaders view AI as both software and a labor force, yet 87% admit AI output is sometimes or always credited entirely to the human employee, creatin…
Forrester estimates 60% to 73% of enterprise data goes unused for analytics, and Databricks argues that AI deployed as a system, not a collection of pilots, is the first technology to attack the trust…
LinkedIn senior director of AI platform and infrastructure Animesh Singh said the professional network has shifted roughly 80% of one agent workflow into scripted, deterministic code after finding tha…
TikTok is testing a managed services program in the US that will give it direct control over merchant operations including marketing, ads, and AI-generated content, charging a $10,000 flat fee plus 10…
Walmart is heavily investing in AI while emphasizing the irreplaceable role of its 2.1 million employees, with Chief People Officer Donna Morris stating the company will always have many jobs as a ser…
State Affairs announced $70 million in total funding on July 14 to expand its AI-powered policy and regulatory intelligence platform, backed by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Tru Arrow Partners and A…
Walmart's chief people officer Donna Morris said the retailer remains heavily reliant on people despite its AI investments, highlighting 10 career pathways that are in high demand and often lead to si…
Citi technology chief Tim Ryan said the bank will not track employees' every AI move, arguing that over-measurement stifles innovation and uninspires workers. Ryan, who oversees Citi's nearly $12 bill…
A developer built rejectdecoder.com, a free tool that parses EDI rejection messages (997, 999, 824, TA1) locally in the browser and cross-audits them against the original document. The tool uses deter…
Meta is drawing advertiser ire for pushing AI ad tools that produce blunders such as a bike with two handlebars or a man in a women's networking campaign, with a spokesperson pointing to terms of serv…
Open-weight models have closed the quality gap with frontier systems, making the model itself the least defensible part of an AI business. Founders now build moats through workflows, context, and inte…
Google is replacing Google Assistant with its Gemini AI in Android Auto, embedding an always-listening algorithm into vehicles under the guise of convenience, while the tech press focuses on trivial m…
Google's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) enables AI agents to discover, compare, and purchase products on behalf of users, shifting ecommerce from click-throughs to AI-driven transactions. The open-…
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh appointed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and former Walmart CEO Doug McMillon to lead task forces reviewing monetary policy, including AI's impact on jobs and dat…
Spidra launched an AI-powered web scraping tool that extracts structured data from e-commerce and real estate sites without requiring manual selectors, using JSON schemas or plain-text prompts to defi…