AI Revolutionizes Retail: A Glimpse into the Future at the 2026 NRF Conference
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“Stores of all kinds are using artificial intelligence to sell everything from luxury handbags to hay for horses.”
“Stores of all kinds are using artificial intelligence to sell everything from luxury handbags to hay for horses.”
“Zhipu's CEO, Zhang Peng, stated the company started 'with technology, team, customers, and market' from day one.”
“Defence, government and agribusiness customers use the Luxembourg startup's data to track the movement a critical resource: water”
“According to Apple's website, brands like Huawei, OPPO, vivo, and Xiaomi are now included in the iPhone Tradein program.”
“"Mike" is a hologram, powered by ChatGPT and created by a company called Hypervsn.”
“Regarding the Xibei closure, 'All employees who have to leave will receive their salary without any deduction. All customer stored-value cards can be used at other stores at any time, and those who want a refund can get it immediately.'”
“President Donald Trump signed a presidential proclamation this Wednesday, imposing a 25% tariff on advanced AI chips produced outside the US, transported through the US, and then exported to third-country customers.”
“Retailers are starting to confront a problem that sits behind much of the hype around AI shopping: as customers turn to chatbots and automated assistants to decide what to buy, retailers risk losing control over how their products are shown, sold, and bundled.”
“Nvidia is now requiring its customers in China to pay upfront in full for its H200 AI chips even as approval stateside and from Beijing remains uncertain.”
“full MI400-series family fulfills a broad range of infrastructure and customer requirements”
“Customers can deploy them together in a rack called the Vera Rubin NVL72 that Nvidia says ships with 220 trillion transistors, more […]”
“"AI glasses must first solve the problem of whether users can wear them stably for a whole day. If this problem is not solved, no matter how cheap it is, it is useless."”
“Brookfield Asset Management Ltd., one of the world’s largest alternative investment management firms, could become an unlikely rival to cloud infrastructure giants such as Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp.”
“The new model can generate high-quality images with 'zero AI flavor,' with clear details like individual strands of hair, comparable to real photos taken by professional photographers.”
“The article also cites reports that one laptop manufacturer "plans to raise the prices of high-end models by as much as 30%."”
“"But on my main account, the AI suddenly started blocking almost all my prompts, saying 'try another topic,' and disabled image/video generation."”
“NVIDIA was unlikely to use Intel's process for its GPUs anyway.”
“A traffic accident is always an exceptional situation. In addition to the shock and possible damage to the vehicle, those affected are often faced with many open questions: Who bears the costs? How high is the damage really? And how do you ensure that your own rights are fully protected?”
“This "multiple calculation" mechanism directly binds the sales revenue of channel partners with Alibaba Cloud's AI strategic focus, in order to stimulate the enthusiasm of channel sales of AI computing power and services.”
“"We are fortunate to have persisted in what we initially believed in."”
“"行驶更丝滑,停车更精准。"”
“Custom PC builder Maingear's BYO RAM program is the first in what we expect will be a variety of ways PC manufacturers cope with the memory shortage.”
“reinforce its role as an industry innovator, and set new benchmarks for operational excellence”
“One tech retailer is betting big that it still does.”
“More than one million customers around the world now use OpenAI to empower their teams and unlock new opportunities.”
“OpenAI now on Snowflake Cortex AI, enabling secure access to OpenAI’s latest models via LLM functions and REST APIs.”
“Discover how Podium used OpenAI’s GPT-5 to build “Jerry,” an AI teammate driving 300% growth and transforming how Main Street businesses serve customers.”
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“More than 1 million business customers around the world now use OpenAI. Across healthcare, life sciences, financial services, and more, ChatGPT and our APIs are driving a new era of intelligent, AI-powered work.”
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“Build and deploy AI with peace of mind—Together AI is now SOC 2 Type 2 certified, proving our encryption, access controls, and 24/7 monitoring meet the highest security standards.”
“Data residency builds on OpenAI’s enterprise-grade data privacy, security, and compliance programs supporting customers worldwide.”
“Lowe’s partnered with OpenAI to build Mylow and Mylow Companion, AI-powered tools that bring expert help to both customers and store associates—making complex home improvement projects easier to plan, navigate, and complete.”
“Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is now generally available in the Gemini API for production use in Google AI Studio and for enterprise customers on Vertex AI”
“Data residency builds on OpenAI’s enterprise-grade data privacy, security, and compliance programs supporting customers worldwide.”
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“Utility companies are using AI to ensure secure systems, interact with customers, navigate internal knowledge bases, and design electrical transmission systems.”
“Explore enterprise use cases heavily used by our customers adopting generative AI features, search capabilities, and RAG with Weaviate vector database.”
“The core value proposition is the automation of data mapping, promising to reduce the time required for data integration from days/weeks to seconds.”
“Prem shares his overall approach to tackling AI research in the context of a banking enterprise, including prioritizing mission-inspired research aiming to deliver tangible benefits to customers and the broader community, investing in diverse talent and the best infrastructure, and forging strategic partnerships with a variety of academic labs.”
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“OpenAI’s customers can leverage Scale’s AI expertise to customize our most advanced models.”
“We don’t think this is a panacea that can replace data analysts, but we think this will make data analysis faster and more accessible to more people.”
“On March 23rd, we will discontinue support for the Codex API... Given the advancements of our newest GPT-3.5 models for coding tasks, we will no longer be supporting Codex and encourage all customers to transition to GPT-3.5-Turbo.”
“AWS will offer HF’s products to its customers and run its next LLM tool.”
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“Jordan explains how Standard AI uses machine learning to track products and customers in challenging retail environments”
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