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What LG and NVIDIA’s talks reveal about the future of physical AI

LG is currently engaged in exploratory discussions with NVIDIA concerning physical AI, data centres, and mobility. Following a meeting in Seoul between LG CEO Ryu Jae-cheol and Madison Huang, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Omniverse and Robotics at NVIDIA, the core operational dependencies required to run complex automated systems are becoming apparent. While the […]

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KPMG: Inside the AI agent playbook driving enterprise margin gains

Global AI investment is accelerating, yet KPMG data shows the gap between enterprise AI spend and measurable business value is widening fast. The headline figure from KPMG’s first quarterly Global AI Pulse survey is blunt: despite global organisations planning to spend a weighted average of $186 million on AI over the next 12 months, only

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Hershey applies AI across its supply chain operations

Artificial intelligence is moving beyond software and further into the physical side of business. Companies in food production and logistics are starting to use data systems to support day-to-day decisions, not long-term planning. That change is visible in The Hershey Company’s latest strategy update. At its Investor Day, the company said it plans to use

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SAP and ANYbotics drive industrial adoption of physical AI

Heavy industry relies on people to inspect hazardous, dirty facilities. It’s expensive, and putting humans in these zones carries obvious safety risks. Swiss robot maker ANYbotics and software company SAP are trying to change that. ANYbotics’ four-legged autonomous robots will be connected straight into SAP’s backend enterprise resource planning software. Instead of treating a robot

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Trustpilot partners with AI companies as traditional search declines

Trustpilot is reported to be pursuing partnerships with large eCommerce companies as AI-driven shopping gains traction. In an interview with Bloomberg News [paywall], chief executive Adrian Blair said that AI agents acting on behalf of consumers require lots of information about the businesses they’re willing to interact with. He said the most effective systems will

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AI agents prefer Bitcoin shaping new finance architecture

AI agents prefer Bitcoin for digital wealth storage, forcing finance chiefs to adapt their architecture for machine autonomy. When AI systems gain economic autonomy, their internal logic dictates how corporate capital flows. Non-partisan research by the Bitcoin Policy Institute evaluated how these frontier models would transact if operating as independent economic actors. The study tested

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Physical AI adoption boosts customer service ROI

The adoption of physical AI drives ROI in frontline customer service by merging digital intelligence with human-like physical interaction. As businesses navigate shrinking labour pools, they are finding that simply automating routine workflows is no longer enough. A new partnership between KDDI and AVITA demonstrates how companies can address complex operational gaps through humanoid deployment.

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Exploring AI in the APAC retail sector

AI in the APAC retail sector is transitioning from analytics and pilots into workflows and daily operations. Dense urban stores, high labour churn, and competitive quick-commerce ecosystems are driving the uptake. A Q4 2025 survey by GlobalData found that 45 percent of consumers in Asia and Australasia are very or quite likely to purchase a

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DBS pilots system that lets AI agents make payments for customers

Artificial intelligence is moving closer to the point where it can act, not advise. A new pilot by DBS Bank shows how that change may soon affect everyday payments, as financial institutions begin testing systems that allow AI agents to complete purchases on behalf of customers. DBS is working with Visa to trial Visa Intelligent

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Debenhams pilots agentic AI commerce via PayPal integration

Debenhams is piloting agentic AI commerce via PayPal integration to reduce mobile friction and help solve a familiar problem for retailers. Mobile checkout abandonment remains a persistent revenue leak for digital retailers. Debenhams Group is attempting to close this gap by deploying an agentic AI interface within the PayPal app. The pilot makes Debenhams the

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