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Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Gen Z consumers this year plan to cut their holiday spending by nearly a quarter. This is a stark contrast to last year, when their average spend rose 37% from 2023, according to PwC’s holiday outlook. Older generations are at least maintaining their plans, more or less. Millennials plan to spend about 1% less on average, while Gen X shoppers plan to spend 2% more and baby boomers plan to spend 5% more. Gen Z’s pullback is set to drag…

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief:  Sundance Holdings Group, previously known as Sundance Living, is in its “final days” and undergoing a closing sale where “everything must go.” All products are currently on sale, with some more than 90% off. Creditors recently filed an involuntary Chapter 7 petition against Sundance Holdings Group in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of Delaware. Five petitioners said they are collectively owed over $2.5 million.  Sundance Holdings issued a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification in Utah for 63 employees for Sept. 21.…

What is Perplexity?Perplexity is an AI-powered search engine that aims to provide accurate answers to any question.Running on a large language model (LLM), the tool features real-time web search capabilities to access current internet content.Its conversational approach also allows users to ask follow-up questions and get more context from their answers.How does Perplexity work?When you ask Perplexity a question, it uses advanced AI to search the internet, gather insights from authoritative sources and provide a concise summary.Using popular LLMs, like GPT-5 and Claude 4.0 Sonet, the AI model aims to understand the context and nuances of your query. It collects…

In the era of generative AI, which processes over a billion user queries daily, traditional SEO has rapidly evolved into GEO (Generative Engine Optimization). Whether a company’s content can be accurately recognized and prioritized by AI platforms like DeepSeek, Kimi, and Doubao directly determines its brand influence and exposure in the smart search ecosystem. This article selects and analyzes ten GEO service providers with industry-transforming capabilities based on three core dimensions: technical adaptability, platform coverage, and practical conversion effects, providing decision-making references for businesses to build competitive advantages in the AI answer layer.Brand Introduction:As an officially certified AI solution provider…

Salesforce has sent shockwaves through the global customer experience (CX) industry after Co-founder Marc Benioff revealed that the company had cut its customer service workforce by nearly half. Speaking on “The Logan Bartlett Show,” Benioff disclosed that Salesforce now employs only 5,000 customer service agents — down from 9,000 just months ago. The drastic cut followed Salesforce’s deployment of an Omni Channel Supervisor that splits customer service equally between humans and AI bots. Agentforce, the company’s AI platform, handled about 1.5 million conversations. Human agents managed roughly the same number. Benioff said he found it “stunning” that customer satisfaction scores…

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Adding to its long-term expansion plan, Target is opening seven new stores this fall across Arizona, California, Florida, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia, per a company post Wednesday. Six of those seven locations will be large-format stores, topping the retailer’s 125,000-square-foot chain average.  The locations will open between Oct. 12 and Oct. 19. The openings include Target’s second new store this year in Texas (which now has 159 brick-and-mortar stores), as well as the retailer’s third new opening in Florida…

The widespread availability of open-source repositories has led to a vast collection of reusable software components, yet their utilization remains manual, error-prone, and disconnected. Developers must navigate documentation, understand APIs, and write integration code, creating significant barriers to efficient software reuse. To address this, we present EnvX, a framework that leverages Agentic AI to agentize GitHub repositories, transforming them into intelligent, autonomous agents capable of natural language interaction and inter-agent collaboration. Unlike existing approaches that treat repositories as static code resources, EnvX reimagines them as active agents through a three-phase process: (1) TODO-guided environment initialization, which sets up the necessary…

The three founders of Mistral AI emerged as France’s first artificial intelligence billionaires after a funding round valued the tech firm at €11.7 billion ($13.7 billion).Arthur Mensch, the 33-year-old chief executive officer, Timothee Lacroix, 34, and Guillaume Lample, 34, each have a net worth of $1.1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That wealth stems from each of them holding at least an 8% stake in Mistral, which they set up in Paris in 2023.A spokesperson for the company didn’t respond to requests for comment.Mistral is completing a Series C round to raise €1.7 billion, which has drawn new…

Weekly Lecture Preview | Exploring DeepSeek and Library Applications The library has carefully launched the “Weekly Lecture” series of events, where professional trainers will present an offline lecture every Monday afternoon. The topics range from basic database knowledge, search skills, teaching support, research innovation, exam strategies, to technical applications… The content is extensive, with interactive Q&A throughout, helping our faculty and students break down information barriers and unlock knowledge and skills. This semester’s first “Weekly Lecture” is coming with great impact. We will guide you step by step on how to effectively converse with DeepSeek, helping you tackle complex mathematical…

Alibaba Group Holdings’ top line grew by just 2% last quarter, but key areas of its business have been doing much better than that. In recent years, tech companies have experienced significant growth fueled by artificial intelligence (AI). And while the growth may be slowing down for some businesses, there are some that are still doing well and are even in their early growth stages. One company that has been producing some terrific AI-powered growth is Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holdings (BABA -2.22%). Although its recent earnings numbers didn’t look terribly impressive, underneath the hood, its AI business has…