Weis Markets adds Instacart AI-powered shopping carts to stores
Weis Markets is adding Instacart’s AI-powered shopping carts, Caper Carts, to select stores in Pennsylvania, bringing digital coupons, loyalty features, and repeat-purchase recommendations into the grocery aisle. The Pennsylvania-based grocery chain is working with Instacart to deploy the smart carts, which include cameras, certified scales, location systems, and a touchscreen. According to Instacart, Caper Carts […]
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Meta’s own AI chatbot to blame for Instagram accounts being stolen in seconds
Amazon brings AI shopping assistant to retailers with Kate Spade
Amazon is offering its AI shopping technology to other retailers through a new Agentic Shopping Assistant built on AWS, with Kate Spade among the first brands to use it. The service allows retailers to build AI shopping assistants for their own websites and apps. Amazon said each deployment can be customised to a retailer’s catalogue, […]
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Smashing Security podcast #470: This AI security flaw might be impossible to fix
Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum chip is also a case study for agentic AI in R&D
Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum chip arrived this week with numbers that are genuinely difficult to contextualise: qubits 1,000 times more reliable than the first generation, a mean qubit lifetime of 20 seconds against an industry norm measured in microseconds, and a revised roadmap targeting a commercially scalable quantum computer by 2029. Behind those numbers is Microsoft Discovery […]
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What’s in the container? Analyzing vulnerabilities, risks and protection with Kaspersky Container Security and the KIRA AI assistant
NBA plans AI system for automatic out-of-bounds calls
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the league plans to introduce an automated system for certain officiating decisions, including out-of-bounds calls. The system would use AI and cameras placed around the court to determine possession. Silver compared the approach to Hawk-Eye, the tracking technology used for line calls in tennis. Disputed call preceded Silver’s comments Silver’s […]
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Autonomous AI systems test governance in physical environments
Autonomous AI systems are beginning to move beyond software environments and into warehouses, delivery networks, and public spaces. The development is drawing attention to whether current AI rules cover systems that operate in physical environments. Most existing AI governance frameworks have focused on online harms and model outputs, including bias, misinformation, and harmful content. Embodied […]
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China’s AI just mapped its entire renewable energy grid. Here’s why the rest of the world should pay attention
Every major economy is staring at the same problem right now. Artificial intelligence is consuming electricity at a pace that grids were never designed to handle. In the US, capacity market prices in PJM, the country’s largest grid operator, have risen more than tenfold in two years, with data-centre growth identified as a primary driver. […]
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Musk and Zuckerberg convinced Trump to scrap AI executive order
The ceremony was scheduled. The CEOs were on the guest list. And then it wasn’t happening. On Thursday, US President Donald Trump scrapped a planned AI executive order, which had already been delayed multiple times, citing concerns that it might erode America’s competitive edge over China. “We’re leading China, we’re leading everybody, and I don’t […]
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