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Weis Markets adds Instacart AI-powered shopping carts to stores

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Weis Markets is adding Instacart’s AI-powered shopping carts, Caper Carts, to select stores in Pennsylvania, bringing digital coupons, loyalty features, and repeat-purchase recommendations into the grocery aisle. The Pennsylvania-based grocery chain is working with Instacart to deploy the smart carts, which include cameras, certified scales, location systems, and a touchscreen. According to Instacart, Caper Carts […]

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How C3 AI agents will automate predictive maintenance for Shell

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Shell will use agents from C3 AI to shift from basic anomaly detection towards fully-automated predictive maintenance. The global energy giant is building on their current use of the C3 AI Reliability Suite, which already keeps tabs on more than 30,000 crucial pieces of equipment across upstream and downstream operations. Shell now intends to lean

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Meta Business Agent drives AI-powered conversational commerce

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Meta has launched Business Agent to automate conversational commerce workflows directly inside its messaging applications. The software allows global retail brands to execute transactions and field support tickets without human intervention. Deploying this architecture places agentic AI directly at the core of social commerce. Meta integrated these workflows natively into Instagram, Messenger, and soon WhatsApp.

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How E.ON uses SAP S/4HANA to modernise the grid with AI

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Standardising grid data through SAP S/4HANA allows E.ON to modernise infrastructure and execute AI deployments. The utility giant manages infrastructure across three distinct domains: energy grids, customer solutions, and energy infrastructure solutions. Maintaining operations across this scope requires continuous capital expenditure on IT hardware and software maintenance. Leadership initially questioned the business case supporting large-scale

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Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum chip is also a case study for agentic AI in R&D

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Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum chip arrived this week with numbers that are genuinely difficult to contextualise: qubits 1,000 times more reliable than the first generation, a mean qubit lifetime of 20 seconds against an industry norm measured in microseconds, and a revised roadmap targeting a commercially scalable quantum computer by 2029. Behind those numbers is Microsoft Discovery

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Google Pay preps for AI agents with Universal Commerce Protocol

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Google Pay is overhauling its payment infrastructure for an impending wave of transactions from AI agents. The latest updates introduce the Universal Commerce Protocol and a new server architecture, positioning Google Pay as a central clearinghouse for purchases executed by autonomous agents rather than human users. AI agents – designed to perform tasks like booking

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NBA plans AI system for automatic out-of-bounds calls

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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the league plans to introduce an automated system for certain officiating decisions, including out-of-bounds calls. The system would use AI and cameras placed around the court to determine possession. Silver compared the approach to Hawk-Eye, the tracking technology used for line calls in tennis. Disputed call preceded Silver’s comments Silver’s

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Google folds Display Ads into AI-first Demand Gen platform

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Google is folding Display Ads into its AI-powered Demand Gen platform, marking the end of a long-standing digital advertising model. The Google Display Network (GDN) has been a staple of the open internet for almost twenty years. Marketers previously relied on its predictable framework to target placements, bid on audiences, and A/B test static creative

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Autonomous AI systems test governance in physical environments

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Autonomous AI systems are beginning to move beyond software environments and into warehouses, delivery networks, and public spaces. The development is drawing attention to whether current AI rules cover systems that operate in physical environments. Most existing AI governance frameworks have focused on online harms and model outputs, including bias, misinformation, and harmful content. Embodied

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Nvidia’s Vera chip is the US$200 billion bet Jensen Huang doesn’t want you to overlook

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The Nvidia Vera chip is rarely the headline when earnings beat estimates, but it should be. When Nvidia reported Q1 revenue of US$81.62 billion on Wednesday, beating analyst estimates of US$78.86 billion, and guided Q2 at US$91 billion–well above Wall Street’s US$86.84 billion forecast–the numbers did what Nvidia numbers always do: dominate the room. But

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