ai in business

Enterprise IT leaders choosing an industrial automation and control platform in 2025 face a familiar paradox: the technology that can deliver the most dramatic efficiency, safety, and sustainability gains is also the one that increases their attack surface, operational complexity, and...

Shopify’s Winter ’26 rollout moves AI product discovery from experiment to operational plumbing by letting merchants publish structured product data that generative AI assistants can read — and by enabling shoppers to complete purchases inside chat interfaces such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and...

In a case that has jolted both the AI safety debate and markets that trade on it, a wrongful‑death lawsuit filed in December 2025 alleges that OpenAI’s ChatGPT reinforced a user’s paranoid delusions and materially contributed to a fatal attack on his mother. The complaint — part of a growing...

Southern Nuclear’s recent rollout of internally developed Microsoft Copilot agents — anchored by a Fleet Operating Experience (OE) agent, a Safety Advisor Copilot, and an Organizational Effectiveness & Performance Improvement (OR/PI) agent — marks a clear pivot from exploratory pilots to...

Microsoft’s big bet on Copilot — the promise to make generative AI the quiet backbone of everyday work — is at a strategic inflection point: internal memos now insist “using AI is no longer optional,” while Microsoft’s own usage report claims wide engagement, and independent testing and employee...

Microsoft’s latest holiday commercial for Copilot lands like a glossy wish list — festive, fast-paced, and noticeably out of sync with what reviewers and everyday users can reliably achieve with Copilot today. The 30‑second spot promises a voice‑driven, screen‑aware assistant that syncs holiday...

Krones’ latest rollout of AI‑powered, agentic digital twins for beverage production promises to move high‑fidelity fluid simulation from engineering back rooms into the operational cadence of the shop floor, claiming dramatic speedups and automated, continuous optimization that can be pushed...

Microsoft quietly began stuffing a one-line Copilot credit into the What’s New / release-notes field of several iOS App Store listings, a low-friction visibility play that puts the Copilot brand in front of iPhone users without buying ads or changing app UI. Background Microsoft has been...

Mustafa Suleyman’s offhand description of Elon Musk as a “bulldozer” crystallizes a new tone among the industry’s most powerful players: blunt, candid, and strategically revealing about how competition, capability and values now intersect at the apex of the AI arms race. In a recent Bloomberg...

Shopify’s Winter ’26 roll‑out makes AI-driven commerce not just a feature but an operating model — Agentic Storefronts, the expanded Shopify Catalog, and a suite of merchant tools knit product discovery, attribution, and in‑chat checkout into a single commerce ecosystem that could materially...

Shopify’s Winter ’26 Edition turns a headline product launch into an explicitly strategic play: make millions of merchants agent-ready for AI-driven shopping, stitch catalogs and checkout into conversational agents, and use payments and product-data scale to defend a central position in the next...

Microsoft’s internal Copilot usage study — an analysis of roughly 37.5 million anonymized conversations — and today’s avalanche of product announcements from Shopify and Adobe together make one thing unavoidable: conversational AI is no longer an experiment contained to code generation and...

Shopify’s latest Editions release turns a previously theoretical shift—selling directly through conversational AI—into something merchants can opt into now, with the company rolling out agentic storefronts that make products discoverable inside AI chat platforms such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and...

ADMANITY, a Phoenix‑based startup led by CEO Brian Gregory, has set off a contentious conversation in AI and marketing circles by announcing that five leading large language model platforms — ChatGPT, Grok, Copilot, Gemini and Claude — admitted they lack a native, systematic framework for...

ADMANITY says five leading AI systems told the company that the single largest category of business queries — marketing and emotional persuasion — is not being handled reliably by current large language models, and the startup claims its ADMANITY® Protocol and upcoming PRIMAL AI™ solve that gap...

OpenAI’s sudden “code red” and Google’s headline-grabbing Gemini 3 have pushed the generative-AI market into a fresh round of high-stakes engineering, strategic triage, and product-first pragmatism — a development Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott unpack in the Petri “First Ring Daily: Snow on the...

Microsoft’s latest holiday-themed YouTube ad that spotlights Copilot Vision and the “Hey, Copilot” voice experience landed with more heat than cheer — a short, warm-hearted commercial meant to normalize talking to your PC instead amplified a long‑running user revolt over Microsoft’s ever‑deeper...

Microsoft’s new holiday ad that pitches Windows 11 as a “PC you can talk to” — a short, festive clip built around the wake phrase “Hey, Copilot” — has landed with more heat than cheer, and the backlash exposes a deeper fault line between marketing promise and product reality that could cost...

Firms turn to cash bonuses and unusual rewards to boost employee AI use Executive summary Across industries — from law firms to pharma to fintech and technology consultancies — employers are increasingly using cash bonuses, points, swag and one‑off prizes to accelerate everyday use of generative...

RLWRLD’s strategic alliance with Microsoft, announced on November 26, 2025, accelerates a clear industry trend: hyperscalers pairing cloud scale and enterprise channels with domain specialists that hold real-world industrial datasets and robotic expertise. The Seoul‑based startup will use...