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January 09, 2024
Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service Boosts Walmart’s AI-Powered Tools

Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service contributes to many of the new generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools that Walmart has rolled out for its shoppers and associates. As the retailer builds generative AI into the search...


January 08, 2024
Battle Lines Being Drawn Between Open- and Closed-Source Goals for...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have added a new layer to the ongoing and increasingly philosophical debate about whether open-source or proprietary systems are better for society, the marketplace and even...


January 08, 2024
The Eight Pivotal Strategies for Payments and the Digital Economy...

One: Companies monetize certainty as businesses and consumers prize predictability. Two: Shopping shifts from buying to editing as replenishment models change retail dynamics. Three: GenAI becomes a feature, and everything...


December 29, 2023
Year in Review: The Milestones That Transformed AI in 2023

2023 was the year of the generative artificial intelligence (AI) boom. What was perhaps the innovation’s greatest trick to date was fitting a decade’s worth of technical and marketplace advances...


December 26, 2023
Infrastructure Vendors Were the Market Winners in AI’s First Year

The first year of the generative artificial intelligence (AI) era is winding down. And what a year it has been. As difficult as it is to grasp the revolutionary impact...


December 22, 2023
War Slows Funding for Tech Startups in Israel

U.S. investors are showing support for Israeli technology firms during the war between Israel and Hamas. The high-tech sector in Israel, which is the world’s second-largest after Silicon Valley, has...


December 21, 2023
Cart.com Raises $30 Million to Scale Commerce Platform

Commerce and logistics solutions provider Cart.com has received $30 million in financing from Trinity Capital. The growth capital will let Cart.com scale its operations and bolster its balance sheet, Trinity said in a news...


December 20, 2023
E-Scooter Startup Bird Declares Bankruptcy Following Delisting

Bird, the once high-flying electric scooter startup, has filed for bankruptcy. The Miami-based company announced its Chapter 11 filing two years after going public, one year after warning bankruptcy could...


December 19, 2023
Affirm Brings Installment Payments to Walmart Self-Checkout

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) provider Affirm has expanded its long-standing partnership with Walmart. With this expansion, Affirm pay-over-time options will be added to self-checkout kiosks at more than 4,500 Walmart stores in the U.S.,...