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

Artificial intelligence has moved from curiosity to practical tool. In 2025 its adoption grew at an extraordinary pace. Reports says that global spending on generative AI will reach 644 billion dollars this year, a clear sign that companies now see these systems as a direct path to better results.  This shift is especially clear in

New global survey reveals 64.5% of enterprises have AI in production, yet only 38.1% rate their document data as “excellent,” exposing a critical gap in AI readiness. Apryse, the document-to-data foundation powering intelligent automation, today released findings from its global survey on AI adoption and document infrastructure. The results reveal a striking paradox: while AI

Highest search volumes were for Pet Products, Apparel & Fashion and Health & Wellness, with increases of 81%, 51% and 41% respectively year-over-year, according to AI Search market leader Algolia’s retail data Algolia, the AI Retrieval Platform orchestrating over 1.75 trillion queries each year, trusted by more than 18,000 businesses, and used by millions of

Digital experience delivers clear, personalized guidance to simplify care navigation and improve engagement Elevance Health announced today that it expanded access of its Virtual Assistant, a digital experience designed to help members easily access information, understand their benefits, and find care with confidence. Available through the Sydney Health app and Elevance Health–affiliated health plan websites,

New quick-start option gives business data teams an easy way to use agents to generate, visually refine, and deploy data pipelines Prophecy, the leader in AI data prep and analysis, today announced the launch of Enterprise Express, a new rapid deployment option for Prophecy’s agentic data platform. Enterprise Express delivers the full power of Prophecy’s

UMA (Universal Mechanical Assistant), a new robotics intelligence company founded by former leaders from Tesla, Google DeepMind, Nvidia and Hugging Face, launches today with a clear goal: to bring advanced AI into the physical world and build humanoid robots ready for real work, in real environments, at scale. UMA’s founders were instrumental in shaping the

The pace at which large language models (LLMs) evolve is making it virtually impossible to keep up. Allie Miller, for example, recently ranked her go-to LLMs for a variety of tasks but noted, “I’m sure it’ll change next week.” Why? Because one will get faster or come up with enhanced training in a particular area.

Today’s AI coding agents are impressive. They can generate complex multi-line blocks of code, refactor according to internal style, explain their reasoning in plain English, and more. However, AI agents will take you only so far unless they also can interface with modern devops tools. This is where the Model Context Protocol (MCP) comes in.

Popular genetics tests can’t tell you much about your dog’s personality, according to a recent study. A team of geneticists recently found no connection between simple genetic variants and behavioral traits in more than 3,200 dogs, even though previous studies suggested that hundreds of genes might predict aspects of a dog’s behavior and personality. That’s