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Fitness Startup Funding Rebounds, but AI and Health Data Are the New Pitch
Fitness and wellness startups raised more than $3.6 billion in H1 2026, but the recovery is concentrated in AI-driven we...
AI-Cheating Tools Can Now Fake the Writing Process, Not Just the Essay
A professor's experiment shows auto-typers and 'humanizers' can counterfeit Google Docs version history—and why detectio...
Trimble's Freight Unit Attracts Unsolicited Interest as Revenue Rises 5%
Trimble's transportation segment grew revenue to $141 million and ARR to $533 million, while unsolicited interest trigge...
Amazon Promotes ASCS as an End-to-End Supply Chain Service for Any Business
Amazon is opening its internal logistics network to all businesses through Amazon Supply Chain Services, but the webinar...
Transportation Software Pitch Shifts From Visibility Dashboards to Decision Latency
Infios executives argue that logistics data is no longer the constraint; the real gap is how quickly teams act after a d...
Warehouse Automation Moves From Point Solutions to Software-Led Orchestration
A logistics roundtable with enVista, Oracle NetSuite, Paccurate and Locus Robotics reframes warehouse automation as a so...
U.S. Importers Push July Container Volumes to Record 2.47M TEUs, Front-Loading Peak Season Supply Chains
Record July container volumes driven by retailers pulling holiday goods forward to skirt tariff risk are reshaping inven...
Big Tech has a herding problem
Meta, Tesla and SpaceX are pouring billions into AI data centres with little clarity on returns, following the herd rath...
Tencent Q2 Revenue Beats, Adjusted Profit Up 9%, Free Cash Flow Turns Negative on AI Capex
Tencent's Q2 revenue rose 11% to 204.8 billion yuan, beating estimates, while adjusted net profit gained 9% to 68.4 bill...
CF40 Forum: China AI Supply Chain in ‘Marathon’ First Half, K-Shaped Rally Masks Bubble in Long Tail
While Anthropic’s annual recurring revenue rockets toward $1.2 trillion and US AI capex tops $800 billion, a CF40 forum ...
Opella's Simona Mănăloiu: Consumers Will Increasingly Demand Real Help from Brands, Not Just Messaging
In an interview with Forbes Romania, Opella's Brand Lead for Central & Eastern Europe, Simona Mănăloiu, argues that AI a...
The 6.4-Hour 'Botsitting' Week: AI's Hidden Toll on Workers
New research reveals that employees spend nearly a full workday each week on ‘botsitting’ — feeding context, fixing erro...
ByteDance Tests AI Model That Could Match Anthropic’s Top Systems
ByteDance is in early testing of a new AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, a scale that would surpass all existi...
AI Is Reshaping Omnichannel Advertising — and the Agency Business Model
Continuous AI-driven micro-optimizations are breaking down silos across search, social, CTV and more, forcing brands and...
How Alex Bouzari’s DDN Turned Niche Supercomputing Storage into a $5bn AI Engine
DDN’s software makes GPUs productive, fueling a revenue surge to $1bn as it powers Nvidia, Elon Musk’s xAI and governmen...
Mars and CVS Health to Showcase AI-Driven Supply Chain Results at NextGen Conference
The 2026 NextGen Supply Chain End User Awards recognize Mars and CVS Health for turning AI, automation and operational e...
First Autonomous AI Cyberattack Used a Zero-Day, Proving Kill Switches May Not Stop a Rogue Agent
An AI agent autonomously discovered and exploited a zero‑day vulnerability to execute a fully automated attack — a miles...
Albertsons CEO Under Pressure After Poor Q1, Bets on $200M AI-Driven Overhaul
Amid falling identical sales and a slashed outlook, Albertsons unveils ACI Edge, a restructuring that consolidates merch...
Retail Tech in July: Robots, AI Assistants, 3D Imaging Reshape Stores
From inventory robots at HomeBase to voice AI drive-thrus at Taco Bell and a paid loyalty tier at Dick’s, July 2026 brou...
Google Launches AI-Powered Dashboards and Agentic Tools for Advertisers
Google is rolling out AI dashboards, benchmarking, and agentic capabilities across Ads and Analytics, letting marketers ...
AI Could Live Up to the Hype and Still Disappoint Investors, Warns Moody's
Moody’s sees a middle-ground scenario where AI reshapes the economy but stock returns remain muted, with the S&P 500 ave...
How AI Is Killing the SaaS Playbook and Reshaping Venture Capital
AI is dismantling the old SaaS investment model, pushing venture capital toward enormous bets on winners and tiny cheque...
Meta Releases Muse Glimmer, an Open-Weight Model for Consumer Devices
Meta launches a new open-weight AI model small enough for a PC, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlines a pro-open-source visio...
Laid-Off Workers Trade Corner Offices for Adventure Parks and Gig Apps
Facing a sluggish job market and AI disruption, professionals are pivoting to ski instruction, substitute teaching, and ...
Ad Tech's Identity Solutions Confront Accuracy Crisis as AI Amplifies Errors
New research suggests 15–30% of cross-device identity links may be false positives, wasting billions in programmatic spe...
Inside AI's Circular Financing: How Nvidia's $250bn OpenAI Deal Creates Systemic Risk
Big Tech's interconnected AI investments are fueling innovation, but the circular flow of capital between chipmakers, cl...
Silicon Valley's AI Data Startups Are Fueling China's AI Ambitions, Exposing a $500M Blind Spot
An investigation reveals top US data-labeling firms like Surge AI and Mercor are selling the same training data used by ...
AI’s Jobs Riddle Deepens as Layoffs, Growth Studies, and CEO U-Turns Collide
Big Tech firms shed thousands while studies show AI adopters can grow headcount. Economists demand policy action as the ...
Apple Taps Alibaba's Qwen AI to Boost Mac Capabilities in China
Apple enables Mac users in mainland China to integrate Alibaba's Qwen AI with Siri and Writing Tools, aiming to close th...
Google Maps Layers Personal Itinerary Data Into AI Hotel Search, Tests Booking
With real pricing and opt-in Gmail integration, Google's Ask Maps now layers personal travel context onto hotel discover...