Uber Eats has debuted a series of artificial intelligence (AI) features for restaurants.
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The new offerings, introduced last week, allow restaurants to use AI to analyze customer reviews, auto-fill menu descriptions and enhance food photos.
“We’re using AI to detect and enhance low-quality food images — improving lighting, resolution, framing, and plating — to help...
There’s a prevailing sense of caution, a consumer mood that can even be called gloomy.
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But thus far into earnings season, a bit less than a month old, there are indications that, overall, U.S. households are proving to be resilient. There are categories, particularly essentials and packaged goods, which are drawing their fair share of the monthly budget.
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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform Wix has debuted a suite of financial services offering for businesses.
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Wix Checking and Wix Capital, announced Monday (Aug. 4), are designed to help businesses manage cash flow and fund growth.
“With Wix Checking and Wix Capital, we’re giving users a complete financial solution built into the platform they already use,” Amit Sagiv...
Delta Air Lines said it is not using artificial intelligence (AI) to set airfares based on an individual passenger’s data, as it seeks to quell growing concerns about how it institutes “personalized pricing.”
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Delta Chief External Affairs Officer Peter Carter said that at any given time, it is selling “tens of millions of fares” for “hundreds of thousands of routes.” AI...
Home furnishings giant Wayfair is leaning into artificial intelligence (AI) amid an uptick in revenues.
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The company on Monday (Aug. 4) reported earnings showing revenue of $3.3 billion for the quarter, a 5% increase and Wayfair’s strongest metrics in four years.
CEO Niraj Shah attributed the company’s gains in part to a recommitment to technology-driven innovation,...
Anthropic reportedly blocked OpenAI’s access to its models due to a terms-of-service violation.
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The incident involving the rival artificial intelligence startups happened Tuesday (July 29), Wired reported Friday (Aug. 1), citing unnamed sources.
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Tariffs and a decline in tourism in Japan and Europe are reportedly hurting the luxury sector.
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That’s according to a report late Sunday (Aug. 3) by the Financial Times (FT), which notes that LVMH, Prada and Moncler were all dealing with a decline in spending from American travelers in Europe and by Chinese visitors to Japan.
Those tourists had helped drive sales in both...
From Wall Street boardrooms to Silicon Valley’s open-plan war rooms, companies as diverse as SoFi, Coinbase, Visa, PayPal and Robinhood all sounded the same note during their financial earnings calls for the second quarter of 2025: Stablecoins are reshaping cross-border payments.
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For much of the past decade, cryptocurrency and traditional finance operated in parallel....
Apple reportedly held a rare companywide meeting last week to cover its investment in artificial intelligence (AI).
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At the meeting Friday (Aug. 1), CEO Tim Cook expressed a positive outlook about Apple’s AI future, The Information reported. Sources familiar with the meeting said Cook told workers that Apple has “exciting” plans for AI that he wasn’t able to discuss.
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Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly turning to telehealth platforms for direct-to-consumer drug sales.
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That’s according to a report Monday (Aug. 4) from Axios, which notes that this effort is happening as President Donald Trump is urging more companies to adopt the practice.
Trump wrote last week to the chief executives of 17 pharmacy companies, giving them 60...