Walmart experiments with generative AI tools that can help you plan a party or decorate
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 4, 2023
After launching a generative AI tool for corporate employees in August, Walmart is bringing the technology to its customers.
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3 ways Generative AI is transforming the retail industry
CIO
MAY 2, 2023
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as Azure OpenAI have been drawing attention in recent months, and there is widespread consensus that these technologies can significantly transform the retail industry. How can Generative AI speed innovation in retail?
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Unlocking the full potential of enterprise AI
CIO
JANUARY 5, 2025
Despite the huge promise surrounding AI, many organizations are finding their implementations are not delivering as hoped. 1] The limits of siloed AI implementations According to SS&C Blue Prism , an expert on AI and automation, the chief issue is that enterprises often implement AI in siloes.
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AI Startup Writer Authors $200M Round At $1.9B Valuation
Crunchbase News
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
San Francisco-based Writer locked up a $200 million Series C that values the enterprise-focused generative AI platform at $1.9 Writer’s platform is designed to help businesses use large language models to improve workflows and offers AI solutions that can execute complex enterprise operations across systems and teams.
Ethics of generative AI: To be innovative, you must first be trustworthy
CIO
JUNE 13, 2024
Over the past year, generative AI – artificial intelligence that creates text, audio, and images – has moved from the “interesting concept” stage to the deployment stage for retail, healthcare, finance, and other industries. On today’s most significant ethical challenges with generative AI deployments….
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AI in action: Stories of how enterprises are transforming and modernizing
CIO
MARCH 20, 2025
Generative and agentic artificial intelligence (AI) are paving the way for this evolution. AI practitioners and industry leaders discussed these trends, shared best practices, and provided real-world use cases during EXLs recent virtual event, AI in Action: Driving the Shift to Scalable AI.
Deep tech disruption: How advanced technologies are transforming businesses
CIO
MARCH 4, 2025
For example, generative AI went from research milestone to widespread business adoption in barely a year. An IDC study found that usage of generative AI jumped from 55% of surveyed companies in 2023 to 75% in 2024. According to a recent IDC study, companies using AI are reporting an average of $3.70
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Amazon is testing shopping, health assistants as it pushes deeper into generative AI
Ooda Loop
MARCH 26, 2025
Amazon, in an effort to infuse generative artificial intelligence across a wider swath of its e-commerce universe, recently began testing a shopping assistant and a health-focused chatbot with a subset of users.
The 10 Biggest Rounds Of November: xAI And Anthropic Raise Billions Again
Crunchbase News
DECEMBER 5, 2024
While some things tend to slow as the year winds down, artificial intelligence fundraising apparently isn’t one of them. Last month, xAI and Anthropic raised a combined $9 billion as AI funding remained red-hot. Other sectors, including IT management and robotics, also saw big rounds. Let’s take a look. came from Europe.
Uber branches out into AI data labeling
CIO
NOVEMBER 28, 2024
Scaled Solutions grew out of the company’s own needs for data annotation, testing, and localization, and is now ready to offer those services to enterprises in retail, automotive and autonomous vehicles, social media, consumer apps, generative AI, manufacturing, and customer support.
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Rocket Mortgage lays foundation for generative AI success
CIO
MARCH 29, 2024
That’s why Rocket Mortgage has been a vigorous implementor of machine learning and AI technologies — and why CIO Brian Woodring emphasizes a “human in the loop” AI strategy that will not be pinned down to any one generative AI model. Artificial Intelligence, Data Management, Digital Transformation, Generative AI
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SAP to add generative AI, industry smarts to CX tools
CIO
MAY 16, 2023
Every software developer is looking at how to incorporate generative AI in its products, even SAP. The ERP vendor, which turned 50 last year , is developing a companion app for its software, to be called SAP Digital Assistant, which will use generative AI to help SAP users provide a better experience to their customers.
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5 Things To Look For When Evaluating AI Startups
Crunchbase News
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
By Bob Ma According to a report by McKinsey , generative AI could have an economic impact of $2.6 Bob Ma of Copec Wind Ventures AI’s eye-popping potential has given rise to numerous enterprise generative AI startups focused on applying large language model technology to the enterprise context. trillion to $4.4
Generative AI usage gains traction among enterprises: McKinsey
CIO
AUGUST 1, 2023
The usage of generative AI across enterprises is already widespread, although it is still early days for the new technology, according to a report from McKinsey’s AI consulting service, Quantum Black. Nearly 22% of the respondents said they are using generative AI for their work.
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Software vendors offer AI sales boost for retail at NRF show
CIO
JANUARY 15, 2024
As they take stock after the year-end frenzy of shopping the holiday season always brings, retail CIOs attending the National Retail Federation’s annual show, NRF 2024, may be wondering how they can improve their IT systems’ performance over the next 12 months. year on year in the first 11 months of 2023, AI or no AI.
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What does an AI consultant actually do?
CIO
APRIL 2, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) has long since arrived in companies. Whether in process automation, data analysis or the development of new services AI holds enormous potential. But how does a company find out which AI applications really fit its own goals? This is where AI consultants come into play.
Enterprises enthusiastic about generative AI, Foundry survey shows
CIO
AUGUST 2, 2023
Generative AI is already making deep inroads into the enterprise, but not always under IT department control, according to a recent survey of business and IT leaders by Foundry, publisher of CIO.com. That leaves just 1% that has either checked out generative AI and dismissed it, or have no plans to use it at all.
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AI at the retail edge: What’s new, and what’s coming soon
CIO
APRIL 11, 2024
There’s been an absolute explosion of interest in AI, especially generative AI (GenAI), in the last year. Simultaneously, increases in compute power have made it easier to implement AI use cases at the retail edge. That’s a perfect opportunity for some long-awaited retail use cases to turn prime time.
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Enterprise IT moves forward — cautiously — with generative AI
CIO
MARCH 7, 2023
Vince Kellen understands the well-documented limitations of ChatGPT, DALL-E and other generative AI technologies — that answers may not be truthful, generated images may lack compositional integrity, and outputs may be biased — but he’s moving ahead anyway. Generative AI can facilitate that.
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Generative AI is pushing unstructured data to center stage
CIO
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Advances in AI, particularly generative AI, have made deriving value from unstructured data easier. Yet IDC says that “master data and transactional data remain the highest percentages of data types processed for AI/ML solutions across geographies.” What’s different now? What’s hiding in your unstructured data?
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Shop Till Your AI Bot Drops
Crunchbase News
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Online retailers get this, which is why they offer both addictively scrollable listings and very fast checkout. With the rise of generative AI, both types of shoppers look poised to see new tools that make the experience more enjoyable or efficient. When shopping becomes work, why not outsource it to an AI bot?
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Top tech trends powering the Middle East’s digital evolution by 2025
CIO
JANUARY 6, 2025
AI and Machine Learning will drive innovation across the government, healthcare, and banking/financial services sectors, strongly focusing on generative AI and ethical regulation. The shift to personalized customer experiences will fuel investments in AI, logistics, and payment solutions in the retail sector.
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5 methods to adopt responsible generative AI practice at work
CIO
APRIL 5, 2023
Midjourney, ChatGPT, Bing AI Chat, and other AI tools that make generative AI accessible have unleashed a flood of ideas, experimentation and creativity. Here are five key areas where it’s worth considering generative AI, plus guidance on finding other appropriate scenarios.
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Technology Trends for 2025
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
JANUARY 14, 2025
Its been an exciting year, dominated by a constant stream of breakthroughs and announcements in AI, and complicated by industry-wide layoffs. Generative AI gets better and betterbut that trend may be at an end. This year, one thread that we see across all of our platform is the importance of artificial intelligence.
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AI will evolve the role of the CIO
CIO
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
He urges CIOs to use all available visualization tools to educate the board on AI and explain how generative AI processes data, much of which comes from the often inaccurate or unreliable public internet. Secondly, the software is getting better, and thirdly, there is a lot of data available.
Should you build or buy generative AI?
CIO
JULY 14, 2023
Whether it’s text, images, video or, more likely, a combination of multiple models and services, taking advantage of generative AI is a ‘when, not if’ question for organizations. Since the release of ChatGPT last November, interest in generative AI has skyrocketed.
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Building Generative AI prompt chaining workflows with human in the loop
AWS Machine Learning - AI
MAY 17, 2024
Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that can be used to create new content, including conversations, stories, images, videos, and music. Like all AI, generative AI works by using machine learning models—very large models that are pretrained on vast amounts of data called foundation models (FMs).
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Role of AI In Hiring Software Engineers
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
AUGUST 2, 2022
Artificial intelligence has generated a lot of buzz lately. Popular AI techniques like computer vision and object recognition have revolutionized the scope of working across healthcare, science, retail, and education to improve the accuracy of success. AI is a cue card to a tech-optimized future of recruitment.
Insurtech bolttech gets $196M at $1.6B valuation from investors like MetLife
TechCrunch
MAY 17, 2023
Overall, we can help any kind of business—whether they are insurers, brokers, agents or non-insurance businesses like telcos, e-commerce, retailers, fintech—to embed insurance at the point of need for their customers,” Schimek said.
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Your guide to generative AI and ML at AWS re:Invent 2023
AWS Machine Learning - AI
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Now all you need is some guidance on generative AI and machine learning (ML) sessions to attend at this twelfth edition of re:Invent. And although generative AI has appeared in previous events, this year we’re taking it to the next level. Use the “Generative AI” tag as you are browsing the session catalog to find them.
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Chief AI officers in demand as IT leaders expect gen AI productivity boost, survey finds
CIO
OCTOBER 11, 2023
For its AI Priorities Study 2023 , Foundry surveyed IT decision-makers who have either implemented AI and generative AI technologies in their organizations, have plans to, or are actively researching them. Top of those AI priorities for now is generative AI, with 56% of respondents eager to learn more about it.
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Daily Crunch: Remote workspace platform Gable raises $12M Series A
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Devin reports that the FTC, fresh off announcing a whole new division taking on “snake oil” in tech, has sent another shot across the bows of the overeager industry with a sassy warning to “ keep your AI claims in check. ” DTCtR : Christine asks, Want to go from direct-to-consumer to retail? million, writes Kyle.
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Achieve operational excellence with well-architected generative AI solutions using Amazon Bedrock
AWS Machine Learning - AI
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Large enterprises are building strategies to harness the power of generative AI across their organizations. Managing bias, intellectual property, prompt safety, and data integrity are critical considerations when deploying generative AI solutions at scale.
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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?
CIO
APRIL 17, 2024
The retail industry has no shortage of cases on display where generative AI has shown tangible benefits. They had ChatGPT write the script, and other gen AI tools to create a digital person who reads the script, a scalable process with at least one measurable benefit: speed. And software code is a language.”
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Tractor Supply enlists AI to deliver ‘legendary’ customer service
CIO
APRIL 12, 2024
prides itself in delivering “legendary” customer service, and it has turned to artificial intelligence to assist with that goal. The rural lifestyle retailer, with more than 2,200 stores across the US, caters to the needs of rural residents with a wide variety of products on its shelves. Tractor Supply Co.
From vision to reality: Your guide to using generative AI to improve operational resilience
CIO
JULY 28, 2023
Generative AI (GAI) is at the forefront of nearly everyone’s minds. Say you’re a retailer and your site’s shopping cart stops working. Artificial Intelligence More importantly, the more data you feed it, the more it will learn about the ideal baseline process.
How generative AI will benefit physical industries
InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
In recent years, artificial intelligence has undeniably revolutionized various sectors in the digital economy such as retail, customer service, and even art. However, there is a critical segment of our economy that has yet to fully embrace AI’s potential—the physical economy.
More Early-Stage Startups Are Getting Minted As Unicorns
Crunchbase News
AUGUST 15, 2024
Not too shocking, it is mainly AI leading the way. Nearly a dozen early-stage unicorns are generative AI or heavily AI-related startups. In February, China’s artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI raised more than $1 billion in a Series B led by the Alibaba Group Holding and HongShan, formerly Sequoia Capital China.
AI touches everything, everywhere all at once at Disrupt
TechCrunch
MAY 17, 2023
It all starts at ground zero: the AI Stage — one of six new industry-specific stages this year. Come and explore the rapidly expanding capabilities and potential of artificial intelligence, and dig into the science behind the deep tech, the products it powers and the ethical, social and legal challenges that come with it.
Google Cloud launches new generative AI tools for retailers
Ooda Loop
JANUARY 12, 2024
Google launched several new tools for retailers using generative artificial intelligence to improve online shopping experiences and other retail operations, its cloud business announced in a release Thursday. The virtual agents can […]
CarMax drives business value with GPT-3.5
CIO
MAY 5, 2023
Generative AI such as ChatGPT has of late captured the imagination of business leaders across industries. As the use of generative AI becomes more widespread, it is causing significant disruption in many industries and sectors,” says Ritu Jyoti, group vice president of AI and automation research at IDC.
Camunda simplifies process automation with new AI-powered natural language features
CIO
MAY 16, 2024
Process orchestration company Camunda has announced new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities it plans to add to its business orchestration platform later this year. There are decisions where we need a human, but we can augment this with AI. more generally over the next six months.
SAP to infuse IBM’s Watson AI engine into its entire portfolio
CIO
MAY 2, 2023
ERP software provider SAP on Tuesday said it is partnering with IBM to infuse the latter’s Watson artificial intelligence (AI) engine across its entire solutions portfolio, including SAP S/4 HANA, S/4 HANA Cloud, SAP Business One, and SAP Business ByDesign. Artificial Intelligence, IBM, SAP
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