When many enterprises weren’t even thinking about agentic behaviors or infrastructures, Booking.com had already “stumbled” into them with its homegrown conversational recommendation system. This early experimentation has allowed the company to take a step back and avoid getting swept up in the frantic AI agent hype. Instead, it is taking a disciplined, layered, modular approach …
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Instacart pilots agentic commerce by embedding in ChatGPT
Instacart has deployed an embedded checkout experience within ChatGPT through the emerging Agentic Commerce Protocol. With the deployment, the company is the first partner to launch an app on ChatGPT that offers a complete shopping cycle – from query to payment – without requiring the user to leave the conversation interface. Operationalising agentic commerce The …
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Design in the age of AI: How small businesses are building big brands faster
Presented by Design.com For most of history, design was the last step in starting a business — something entrepreneurs invested in once the idea was proven. Today, it’s one of the first. The rise of generative AI has shifted how small businesses imagine, launch, and grow — turning what used to be a months-long creative …
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Enterprise users swap AI pilots for deep integrations
According to OpenAI, enterprise AI has graduated from the sandbox and is now being used for daily operations with deep workflow integrations. New data from the company shows that firms are now assigning complex and multi-step workflows to models rather than simply asking for text summaries. The figures illustrate a hard change in how organisations …
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Platform corrects AI algorithmic bias for eKYC
Digital payments and fintech company Ant International, has won the NeurIPS Competition of Fairness in AI Face Detection. The company says it’s committed to developing secure and inclusive financial services, particularly as deepfake technologies are becoming more common. The growing use of facial recognition in many sectors has highlighted the issue of algorithmic bias in …
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Google, Sony, and Okta back Resemble AI deepfake detection plan
Resemble AI has raised US$13 million in a new strategic investment round for AI deepfake detection. The funding brings its total venture investment to US$25 million, with participation from Berkeley CalFund, Berkeley Frontier Fund, Comcast Ventures, Craft Ventures, Gentree, Google’s AI Futures Fund, IAG Capital Partners, and others. The funding comes as organisations are under …
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