A Walmart software engineer published InfiniteDiffusion, an independent paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2026, introducing a new approach to infinite generation with diffusion models and the world's first l…
Marketing and media leaders gathered at Cannes Lions to discuss trends in AI, experiential marketing, and brand partnerships. Disney's Rita Ferro and Target's Michelle Mesenburg highlighted the value …
Uber exhausted its 2026 AI coding budget by April, prompting a $1,500 monthly cap per engineer on tools like Claude Code and Cursor, as token consumption from agentic workflows surged. The FinOps Foun…
Multiple tech companies including Walmart, Uber, Lucid, Lumileds, and Keywords Studios have disclosed plans to cut about 700 jobs in the Bay Area, according to WARN notices filed with California's Emp…
A federal class action lawsuit filed Monday accuses gas station operators including Marathon and Circle K of using AI-powered software from Kalibrate to illegally collude and raise fuel prices in Cali…
A federal lawsuit filed in California accuses major gas retailers including 7-Eleven, Circle K, BP, Marathon Petroleum, Walmart, and Albertsons of using AI software from Kalibrate to coordinate and in…
Walmart signed its first-ever long-term contract to buy nuclear power from Constellation Energy's Illinois plant, purchasing 176 megawatts over 15 years to power its operations in the region. The deal…
A proposed class action lawsuit filed in California accuses major gas station operators including BP, Walmart, and 7-Eleven of using AI-driven pricing software from Kalibrate Fuel Systems to artificia…
Walmart regional load manager Leo Garcia built an AI-powered tool using Google AI certification and Code Puppy to match returning truckloads, reducing empty miles and getting drivers home sooner. Garc…
Walmart regional load manager Leo Garcia used AI to build a tool that helps truck drivers get home on time by finding optimal backhaul loads. The tool, created with Walmart's in-house coding agent Cod…
Fintech company Slash reported that an employee accidentally burned $80,000 in AI tokens building a 'brainrot shooter game' called Brainrot Shooter. The employee, Nicolas Brilliante, Slash's head of s…
Five U.S. firms—Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle—are projected to invest $800 billion in AI in 2026, up from $400 billion in 2025, according to a Washington Times opinion column. The colu…
BP, 7-Eleven, Walmart, and Albertsons were sued in a class action lawsuit alleging they used Kalibrate's AI fuel-pricing tool to artificially raise gas prices in California, violating state antitrust …
Defensive stocks rose in the US on Tuesday as markets retreated from tech and AI, with the Nasdaq recovering from a 2.4% low to a 1.4% decline, while the Dow Jones turned positive. Conagra Brands, Gen…
Amazon moved Prime Day 2026 to June 23-26, breaking from its July tradition, as it rolls out Alexa for Shopping to replace Rufus and shift product discovery from search to AI-powered conversations. Th…
At Open Source Summit North America 2026, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) proposed an open infrastructure for agentic commerce, citing a Bain forecast that agentic shopping coul…
Major corporations including Uber, Amazon, and Walmart are rationing AI tool usage after inference costs consumed annual budgets months ahead of schedule. Uber exhausted its entire 2026 AI budget by A…
The 2026 Fortune 500 companies generated record revenue of $21 trillion and profits of $2.1 trillion, but total headcount fell for the second straight year to 30.5 million, down 1%. The decline was dr…
Uber, Meta, and Amazon have imposed caps on employee AI tool usage after costs skyrocketed, with Uber burning through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. The restrictions follow widespread overu…
Major fashion retailers are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence across shopping, design, and customer engagement, with Walmart developing an agentic shopping assistant called 'Sparky' and pa…