Microsoft Turns Retail Into an AI Agent Test Bed
With CES wrapping last week and the National Retail Federation event kicking off Monday (Jan. 12) there’s been a renewed focus on The Prompt Economy’s intersection with retail. If there’s a them...
House Passes Bill to Limit China’s Remote Access to U.S. Chips
The House of Representatives on Monday passed a bipartisan bill that expands U.S. export controls to restrict Chinese companies’ ability to remotely access advanced American AI chips at data centers...
Wayfair Participates in Google’s New Standard for Agentic Commerce
Wayfair said Monday (Jan. 12) that it participated in the development of Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for agentic commerce and will soon enable shoppers to check out directly from Wayf...
Citigroup to Cut 1,000 Jobs in Ongoing Restructuring Effort
Citigroup plans to cut 1,000 jobs this week as part of a restructuring plan announced two years ago, Bloomberg reported Monday (Jan. 12), citing unnamed sources.
The bank said when annou...
Kroger, Papa Johns Test Gemini AI Agents for Retail
Google Cloud introduced Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience, a platform designed to help retailers deploy artificial intelligence (AI) agents that can support shopping, ordering and customer ser...
The best robot vacuums we’ve tested for 2026
Robot vacuums are impressive devices that will clean your floors well and — thanks to bigger batteries and better robot brains — rarely get tired of doing their job. Over the last few years...
