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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: Walmart has partnered with OpenAI to develop a customized AI certification program for U.S. frontline and office-based employees, according to a note from Walmart’s Chief People Officer Donna Morris on Thursday. The executive said the certification course will be available in 2026, though employees currently have access to some AI-related training through the retailer’s Live Better U education benefit. Walmart says this is part of its effort to commit nearly $1 billion to skills training through 2026. Dive Insight: The pairing…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Nike is reframing its iconic tagline, “Just Do It,” in a new campaign, “Why Do It?,” per a press release. The campaign was created by longtime agency partners Wieden+Kennedy Portland. The campaign centers on a 60-second hero spot that features slow-motion footage of high-performing athletes at key moments, with voice-over by artist Tyler, the Creator. The effort will roll out globally across live sports, social, streaming, cinema and out-of-home channels. “Why Do It?” is intended to engage with and encourage young…
Computer-Aided Design (CAD) generative modeling is driving significant innovations across industrial applications. Recent works have shown remarkable progress in creating solid models from various inputs such as point clouds, meshes, and text descriptions. However, these methods fundamentally diverge from traditional industrial workflows that begin with 2D engineering drawings. The automatic generation of parametric CAD models from these 2D vector drawings remains underexplored despite being a critical step in engineering design. To address this gap, our key insight is to reframe CAD generation as a sequence-to-sequence learning problem where vector drawing primitives directly inform the generation of parametric CAD operations, preserving…
Two of the smartest people I follow in the AI world recently sat down to check in on how the field is going.One was François Chollet, creator of the widely used Keras library and author of the ARC-AGI benchmark, which tests if AI has reached “general” or broadly human-level intelligence. Chollet has a reputation as a bit of an AI bear, eager to deflate the most boosterish and over-optimistic predictions of where the technology is going. But in the discussion, Chollet said his timelines have gotten shorter recently. Researchers had made big progress on what he saw as the major…
What happens when technology becomes so powerful that it disrupts the very systems it was designed to support? In the world of academia, this question is no longer hypothetical. The rise of AI tools capable of drafting entire research papers, conducting systematic reviews, and even generating meta-analyses has sparked a wave of both excitement and alarm. While these tools promise to transform academic workflows, they also raise unsettling questions about the future of originality, intellectual rigor, and ethical practices. Some universities, fearing the erosion of academic integrity, have taken the drastic step of banning these tools outright, a move that…
China is making progress in artificial intelligence “agentic frameworks”, the tools required to make AI agents, as the country’s tech giants begin to take on US players such as AutoGen and OpenAI Swarm.Tencent Holdings was the latest to join the fray after the Shenzhen-based company open-sourced its new Youtu-Agent agentic framework on Tuesday. Developed by Youtu Labs, Tencent’s AI research department, the framework was released on Microsoft’s open-source code-hosting platform GitHub last week.The company said that a Youtu-Agent agent built on the open-source DeepSeek-V3.1 model achieved a score of 71.47% on WebWalkerQA, a web traversal benchmark.The move followed ByteDance, the…
Don’t miss out on our latest stories. Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google.OpenAI has announced it is working on an AI-powered hiring platform. The OpenAI Jobs Platform will use AI to help “find the perfect matches between what companies need and what workers can offer,” Fidji Simo, company CEO for applications, said in a blog post. The upcoming platform will serve a broad range of organizations. Alongside helping large companies hire talent at every level, the platform will feature a dedicated section for local businesses and government offices. The Jobs Platform will roll out by mid-2026, a spokesperson tells TechCrunch. Alongside that, OpenAI…
Updated on: Sept 05, 2025 04:05 pm IST Google introduces Android updates that include AI writing features in Gboard, emoji creativity, shared audio sessions and redesigned Quick Share. Google is updating Android with new features that focus on communication, entertainment, and secure sharing. These updates are part of the company’s effort to provide an operating system that is more practical and enjoyable for everyday use. Google enhances Android with smarter typing, Emoji Kitchen creativity and seamless file sharing(Android) AI-powered typing and enhanced emojisGboard, the built-in keyboard, is at the heart of these updates. It now comes with AI-powered writing tools…
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. It’s been another week with far more retail news than there is time in the day. Below, we break down some things you may have missed during the week and what we’re still thinking about. From Gibson’s new chief commercial officer to mayonnaise-inspired jeans, here’s our closeout for the week. What you may have missed Skechers, 3G Capital deal clears regulatory hurdles Skechers and 3G Capital have received all the necessary regulatory approvals to close out their deal, the companies said in…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Though beauty is typically considered a discretionary category, consumers keep spending on it despite macroeconomic uncertainty. Ulta Beauty’s second quarter earnings report in August seems to demonstrate resilience in the category. In her own words, CEO Kecia Steelman told analysts on a call that “beauty enthusiasts tell us that they’re prioritizing their beauty regimens and remain strongly engaged” in a category often considered nonessential. The beauty retailer reported Q2 net sales increased 9.3% year over year to $2.8 billion and raised its full-year…