Walmart, one of the world's largest retailers, discontinued its ChatGPT-powered online checkout assistant after the system converted customers at roughly one-third the rate of purchases completed thro…
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh has appointed a data task force, including Harvard economics professor Raj Chetty, former Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, and University of Chicago economics professor eme…
Walmart CEO John Furner said customers using its AI assistant Sparky have an average order value 35% higher than non-users, and Sensor Tower data shows 44% of Amazon app sessions using Alexa for Shopp…
Kroger launched its AI shopping assistant with advertising features on day one, developed with Cooklist, making it available across most of its grocery banners except Harris Teeter. The assistant, whi…
Hark, a startup that raised $700 million in Series A funding in May, launched Hark Handoff, a browser-use agent that can complete tasks such as ordering food, booking travel, and shopping on websites …
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, during SpaceX's first earnings call on Tuesday, projected the company could reach $1 trillion in revenue by 2030, up from its previous forecast of 2031, and said th…
Michael Pfaffenberger, a distinguished engineer in Walmart's Global Tech group and creator of the company's internal vibe-coding tool Code Puppy, is leaving Walmart to join AI startup Pydantic, accord…
Google has identified a firmware bug in Walmart's Onn smart cameras that disables familiar face detection for Google Home Premium subscribers, and a fix is being validated for release in the coming we…
Columbia Law School's Center for Law and the Economy reported on July 30, 2026, that Amazon's Alexa for Shopping and Walmart's Sparky can detect contradictions in some 'Made in USA' listings but do no…
Amazon and Walmart possess AI shopping assistants capable of detecting false 'Made in USA' claims on product listings but do not act on the technology, according to a new study from Columbia Law Schoo…
Amazon and Walmart AI shopping assistants can detect false 'Made in USA' product labels but are not using that capability to remove the listings, according to a study from Columbia Law School's Center…
Apache Pinot, a distributed OLAP database originally developed at LinkedIn and now used by Stripe, Uber, and Walmart, serves analytical queries at hundreds of thousands of requests per second with P99…
A US Government Accountability Office report commissioned by Senator Bernie Sanders found that the number of Amazon workers enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programme nearly tripled s…
A developer built an open-source MCP server called sorftime-seller-agent that lets Claude automate weekly product research for marketplace sellers. By connecting Claude to live data from Amazon, Walma…
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…