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OpenAI Helps Albertsons Expand Its AI-Powered Grocery Offerings

OpenAI Helps Albertsons Expand Its AI-Powered Grocery Offerings
OpenAI Helps Albertsons Expand Its AI-Powered Grocery Offerings
October 05, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Grocery giant Albertsons has teamed with OpenAI to enhance its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings for shoppers and employees. “Digital shopping, store operations, fulfillment, merchandising and customer experience all depend...

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Constructor Teams With Stripe to Debut Agentic Checkout Tool
Constructor Teams With Stripe to Debut Agentic Checkout Tool
October 05, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Product discovery platform Constructor has introduced a new Stripe-integrated agentic commerce offering. Agentic Checkout, announced in a Monday (Oct. 5) news release, is designed to allow both human shoppers...

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Valon Hits $2.3 Billion Valuation as Mortgage Servicers Swap Mainframes for AI
Valon Hits $2.3 Billion Valuation as Mortgage Servicers Swap Mainframes for AI
October 05, 2026  |  Investments

Valon Technologies raised $150 million in a Series D funding round to accelerate the deployment of its artificial intelligence (AI) platform for mortgage servicing, the...

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Physical AI Builder RobCo Doubles Valuation to $1 Billion
Physical AI Builder RobCo Doubles Valuation to $1 Billion
October 05, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

RobCo, a builder of autonomous industrial robotics, topped a $1 billion valuation in an employee secondary share sale, the company said in a Monday (Oct....

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Businesses Finding It Harder to Predict AI Spending
Businesses Finding It Harder to Predict AI Spending
October 05, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Companies are reportedly finding it increasingly difficult to forecast their AI spending. That’s according to a report Monday (Oct. 5) by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which...

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OpenAI CEO Says AI’s Benefits Are Worth ‘Bad Things Happening’
OpenAI CEO Says AI’s Benefits Are Worth ‘Bad Things Happening’
October 05, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI’s CEO says the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) are worth some of its risks. Sam Altman made that argument Sunday (Oct. 4) in an interview with Politico’s...

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Basware Acquires Trustpair for Fraud Prevention
Basware Acquires Trustpair for Fraud Prevention
October 05, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

Invoice lifecycle management Basware has completed its acquisition of payment fraud prevention platform Trustpair. “The acquisition extends Basware’s invoice lifecycle management capabilities all the way to the payment...

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Apple IDs iPhone Bug That Requires Device Replacements
Apple IDs iPhone Bug That Requires Device Replacements
October 04, 2026  |  Mobile Commerce

Apple has reportedly identified a glitch affecting some new iPhone models. The bug applies to a “small number” of AT&T customers who recently upgraded to...

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