Zhou Yu, co-founder of Arklex AI and a professor at Columbia University, stated that 95% of AI agents remain in demos and fail to create real value, during a presentation on simulation-driven agent te…
Apple has unveiled new Mac mini models powered by M6 and M5 Pro chips, available for pre-order starting Aug. 25, with shipping beginning Sept. 22. The M6 Mac mini starts at $899 and can reach $2,399 w…
Walmart has discounted the MSI Codex R2 AI gaming desktop with an NVIDIA RTX 5070 12GB graphics card and Intel Core Ultra 7 265F processor to $1,499, a $501 reduction from its usual $2,000 price. The …
Goldman Sachs is testing buyer interest in YipitData, a New York data provider backed by Carlyle, which is exploring a sale that could value it at $2.5 billion to $3 billion, Reuters reported on Augus…
CNBC's Morning Squawk reports that the U.S. Treasury announced a debt buyback program, Walmart released its quarterly earnings, and Boise, Idaho, is experiencing an AI boom, among other key investor u…
Wall Street's main indexes closed lower on Tuesday, Aug 18, with the S&P 500 losing 0.69% to 7,691.76 and the Nasdaq Composite shedding 1.33% to 26,289.71, as rising bond yields and Middle East uncert…
Robotics and lidar stocks fell sharply Tuesday as the AI trade cooled, with Ouster down 10% to $43, Aeva Technologies down 12% to $21, and Symbotic down 4% to $41. The sell-off followed reports that A…
Retail DDR5 prices in the U.S. have surged, with a 128GB DDR5-6400 kit listed at $3,399.99 on Newegg and a 64GB DDR5-6000 Corsair kit at $849.99 at Walmart, while Tom's Hardware's PCPartPicker-based a…
Tesla capped employee AI spending at $200 per week after six months of ranking engineers on internal AI leaderboards by token usage, joining Uber, Meta, Amazon, and Walmart in reversing course on unli…
Walmart's rollout of AI agents to its 1.6 million US store workers has created a new responsibility: correcting AI errors and training the software, as employees report that AI-generated task assignme…
Alvys, a transportation management system provider founded by Nick Darman, launched Alvys Foundry on August 17th, a platform that lets carriers and brokers build custom AI agents in plain English, dep…
Uber has partnered with drone startup Zipline to bring drone delivery to Uber Eats customers, with a goal of reaching one million daily deliveries by the end of 2029. Starting later this year, custome…
LLM Pulse analyzed 391,073 citations from AI answers to generic shopping questions in the U.S. between April 12 and July 11, 2026, and found that major retailer and marketplace domains account for jus…
The top 1% of US companies now spend a median of $7,400 (roughly Rs 7 lakh) per employee on AI, up from $2,590 (roughly Rs 2.47 lakh) in January, according to Ramp's AI Index. Anthropic leads the US A…
The S&P 500 rose 0.4% and the Nasdaq gained 0.6% last week, while the Dow fell 0.6%, as investors look ahead to earnings from Walmart, Alibaba, Ross Stores, Deere & Company, and BJ's Wholesale Club, a…
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…
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 …
HallPass, the lower-calorie candy brand co-founded by David Protein and RxBar cofounder Peter Rahal and Stuffed Puffs founder Michael Tierney, launched on Monday with product images full of AI-generat…
In an Adspeak by ADWEEK podcast episode, Kevin Blazaitis, president at Omnicom Media Group influencer marketing agency Creo, and Chrissie Hanson, CEO of North America media practice at Dentsu, discuss…
Teleperformance, the world's largest call centre company, is using real-time AI software from Sanas to neutralize Indian accents for Western customers, aiming to increase human empathy and reduce misc…