Author: Advanced AI Editor
Dive Brief: Macy’s wants to lower costs and unlock efficiencies, turning to AI and automation in its pursuit of momentum, executives said during a Goldman Sachs conference earlier this month. The company has set its sights on simplifying and automating processes, CEO and Chair Tony Spring said at the event. “That has to do with embracing the power of AI as well as generative AI, that had to do with making sure that we were taking cost out of the network,” said Spring. “In some cases, also speeding up the delivery of product to the customers where we were behind…
Financial Association News, September 13 (Reporter Lu Tingting)The development momentum of the embodied intelligent robot industry is strong, and the investment enthusiasm in the humanoid robot sector, as an important branch, continues to rise. Companies in the ecological chain are closely monitoring high-potential opportunities in vertical fields to accelerate their product launches.On September 12, “Guangdong’s first listed robot company” Tuosda (300607.SZ) held a global open day event in Dongguan, showcasing the company’s testing of key robot components, product matrix, and the latest achievements in embodied intelligence development for industrial scenarios. At the event, the humanoid robot “Xiao Tuo,” which features…
Are you a senior technology leader for a law firm? Do you lead on innovation? Then join us at our ‘Legal Tech Speakeasy’ event on Wednesday, 1 October, at 18:30 BST at The Ivy, City Garden, London. We will be joined by Richard Tromans, Founder of Artificial Lawyer, for a lively and informal ‘Speakeasy’ event on the challenges and issues facing senior legal tech and innovation leaders in the legal industry. Come for a drink, a bite to eat and the opportunity to meet and chat with likeminded legal tech and innovation leaders from across the sector. This is an…
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Although conversational artificial intelligence can cut wait times and reduce service costs for banks, the real prize could be won elsewhere. Trust, long considered fragile in digital banking, can be built through the use of intelligent assistants, according to the PYMNTS Intelligence report “Beyond the Bot: Why Embedded Conversational AI Is Banking’s Next Strategic Advantage.” Embedding AI into customer interactions is more than a technology upgrade. The findings signal a shift in the business model of banking itself. Early adopters are discovering that when digital assistants act less like search boxes and more like financial advisers, the payoff is not…
Almost three years into the ChatGPT frenzy, and we’ve heard it all about AI. Ever since ChatGPT was released, and kids started writing essays with AI, the hype and horrors of chatbots have taken over conversations about teaching and learning. The purpose of this project is to share resources with teachers and to add their nuanced perspectives to the very loud conversations about AI in teaching and learning.Will teaching students AI skills really help them in the future, or is it just an arresting tool right now? Are there other skills that would better prepare them for the future workforce?…
Falun Gong requests get broken software while everyone else gets the good stuff A new report claims China’s flagship AI outfit DeepSeek is sabotaging users if they happen to identify with groups Beijing doesn’t like. According to the Washington Post, security firm CrowdStrike ran a test that showed DeepSeek produced weaker or even insecure code when requests mentioned Falun Gong, Tibet, or Taiwan. The same tool, when asked for help in more neutral contexts, spat out cleaner and more reliable software. CrowdStrike said the biggest risks came from industrial control system code, where about 22.8 per cent of DeepSeek’s answers…
FILE PHOTO: OpenAI and Google announced that their reasoning AI models won gold medals at the International Collegiate Programming Contest or ICPC. | Photo Credit: Reuters OpenAI and Google announced that their reasoning AI models won gold medals at the International Collegiate Programming Contest or ICPC, a prestigious coding competition held in Baku, Azerbaijan on September 4. While OpenAI said GPT-5 achieved a perfect score, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Deep Think solved 10 of the 12 problems in the contest. Google DeepMind hailed the victory in a blog saying, “Together, these breakthroughs in competitive programming and mathematical reasoning demonstrate Gemini’s profound leap…
The founders who previously sold their livestreaming video startup Periscope to Twitter are back with a new startup — and no surprise, it’s an AI-focused company this time around. On Wednesday, former Twitter head of product Kayvon Beykpour announced the launch of Macroscope, an AI system aimed at developers and product leaders that summarizes updates to a codebase and catches bugs, among other things. The startup was co-founded by Beykpour, now Macroscope CEO, in July 2023, along with childhood friend Joe Bernstein, also previously of Periscope and their prior enterprise startup, Terriblyclever, which was sold to Blackboard in 2009. They’re…
We hosted our second business summit in India where we showcased tools and features that will empower businesses of all sizes in establishing their presence, building better and delightful customer experiences, and growing their businesses. Payments on WhatsApp Business App Building on our existing capabilities, we are introducing the ability for small businesses to offer a secure and convenient payment option directly within the WhatsApp Business app. Available on the app, small businesses can now quickly share QR codes in one tap for fast and efficient sales closures, enabling customers to pay directly within WhatsApp using their preferred payment method.…