Andy Jassy dismissed third-party AI shopping agents like Meta's Muse as no more convenient than shopping directly on a retailer's site, pointing instead to Amazon's own Alexa for shopping, which saw customer interactions grow 570% over the past year even as Muse briefly topped Apple's App Store.
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon argues that cutting-edge frontier AI models matter mainly for cybersecurity, defense, and drug discovery, not most small businesses, as the bank commits $500 million to expand AI training for its 10,000 Small Businesses program.
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AI-enabled attacks are up 56% in the past year, but Tony Kirtley, who runs incident response for IBM X-Force, says the bigger danger is what machine-speed threats are doing to the humans defending against them. 68% of responders are now fighting two or more attacks at once.
Bill Anderson took Bayer's manager headcount from 16,000 to 4,500 and replaced the hierarchy with 5,000 small teams running on 90-day cycles. Three years in, he says the structure was the easy part. Getting people to actually use their new authority is the part that's still a work in progress.
Mikel Arteta had his entire genome sequenced through a partnership with Bupa, turning up a coeliac disease risk and lactose intolerance along the way. For the manager who ended Arsenal's 22-year title drought, it's less about wellness than about what he thinks leadership actually runs on.
China is just 3% of Walmart's business, but it's growing more than triple the company's overall rate, driven almost entirely by Sam's Club, even as the country's broader retail sales growth has slowed to a crawl.
Divina connects customers with tarot readers, astrologers, and other practitioners for a 10% commission. It's a small, month-old startup chasing a market Gen Z data suggests is real: a third of the generation practices astrology or tarot, and most say it's about control, not mysticism.
A Night of Opera in Berlin: René Barbera, Florian Sempey and Alisa Medvedeva Join the Filharmonie Brno. Europe rarely fits on one stage. On Monday, 2 November 2026, it comes close: the Operngala at t…
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Tobi Lutke pushed Shopify staff to make AI a baseline part of the job. Now he's calling out what happens when they use it carelessly: polished-looking work nobody actually read before hitting send, what he calls a 'slop grenade.'
Rising energy costs across Europe are squeezing food, drink, and pharma manufacturers. GEA Group's answer isn't sympathy, it's equipment: engineering built to cut a customer's energy bill in half, and a CEO who thinks that's the whole pitch.
Fox Tungsten (TSXV: FOXT - OTC: FOXTF) is fully cashed up for their ongoing drilling program, is in possession of a standout asset, and has considerable long-term value in a critical market. And make…
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OpenAI's blog post for its new Astra model was pulled and republished with different scores than the version that first went out, and some of the numbers kept moving from there. Researchers want to know what changed, and why.
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The financing, split between a term loan and secured notes carrying a 9 percent rate, will fund Iren's purchase of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra chips for a Canadian data center campus, the latest large AI infrastructure deal from Blue Owl.
Corporate bond issuance, driven largely by AI hyperscalers funding data centers, is on pace to top 2 trillion dollars this year. Economists say that borrowing is now competing with the US Treasury for capital, a reversal some are calling a reverse crowding out effect.
Richard Dickson took over Gap Inc. in 2023 after the company burned through five CEOs in five years. Celebrity collaborations and a return to storytelling have driven a sales rebound, but Wall Street is still waiting for proof it will last.
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Companies on Fortune's latest list of top small and medium sized workplaces, including e.l.f. Beauty, are growing revenue several times faster than their peers. Great Place To Work data suggests the difference comes down to how seriously they invest in employees.
Nvidia beat second quarter revenue estimates and forecast 70 percent growth for the year ahead. On the earnings call, CEO Jensen Huang addressed the now familiar pattern of stocks rallying after companies' leaders are seen dining with him.
A proposed Department of Homeland Security surcharge would add over 100,000 dollars to each H-1B petition. Big tech companies can hire around it. Startups, which studies show rely more heavily on the visa program to grow, mostly cannot.
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