📈 How are companies using AI?

➜ Puma Sprints Ahead with AI-Powered Product Marketing. Puma's teaming up with Google Cloud to launch new campaigns based on personalized product images that are boosting click-through rates. Puma's not just saving time – CEO Arne Freundt sees this as a game-changer for brand building in the U.S. and China.
Consumer Goods

➜ Walmart Creates a Unique Homepage for Each Customer. Walmart’s latest AI shopping assistant has search features that understand your tone of voice. Shoppers spend 6 hours per week browsing online, their goal is to cut that time with smarter tech. But it's not just for customers – Walmart's AI has processed data on 850 million products, helping store staff work faster.
Retail Dive 

➜ Backbase Uses AI Agents to Upgrade Their Banking Platform.
Backbase is launching its Intelligence Fabric, an AI-powered upgrade to its Engagement Banking Platform. The new tech lets banks create AI agents that can handle everything from simple account searches to complex customer onboarding. Backbase is betting on Agentic AI with features like AI-driven product recommendations and predictive insights.
Fintech Global

➜ Microsoft Introduces AI Tools for Healthcare. Microsoft’s service lets companies build their own AI agents for tasks like appointment scheduling and patient triage. But that's not all – they're also serving up foundation models for medical imaging and a healthcare data analysis platform. Cleveland Clinic's already on board, using AI to help patients navigate their services.

Healthcare Dive

➜ Zoom’s AI Assistant Will Replace You During a Meeting. Zoom has launched AI Companion 2.0, a digital assistant which can schedule across time zones, summarize chats, and generate tasks from meeting notes. But it's not just about efficiency - Cache Merrill of Zibtek suggests these AI avatars could revolutionize remote work, allowing attendance even when you're not there.
PYMNTS

💡 What are the nerds up to?

➜ How AI Could Transform the World for the Better. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic drafts a wildly optimistic future for AI. His prediction? Within 7-12 years, AI could cure most diseases, double lifespans to 150 years, and skyrocket sub-Saharan Africa's GDP. However some critics do not agree. Right now AI can't think like humans, and even in healthcare it has shown biases and implementation challenges. Good food for thought. 

Dario Amodei

➜ Harvard Students Expose Privacy Risks with Meta’s Smart Glasses. Two Harvard students, AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, have demonstrated a startling use of AI-enhanced wearables. Using Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses and facial recognition software, they created I-XRAY - a program that identifies strangers and retrieves their personal information within minutes.
Morning Brew

➜ What if Everyone is Wrong About What AI Does? Noah Smith asks a question: both critics and supporters seem to think AI is a ‘human remover’ - what if they're both wrong? While most debates focus on AI replacing humans, Smith suggests we're missing the point. Historically new tech has complemented human labor rather than replaced it entirely, and each innovation created new roles for humans.
Noahpinion.blog

➜ LLM Platform for High-quality Datasets. FinetuneDB aims to fight the LLM fine-tuning bottleneck; letting teams create high-quality datasets. The platform is built with an end-to-end workflow in mind. The centerpiece is a version-controlled, no-code manager where you can upload existing datasets in JSON Lines, use production data, or collaborate with domain experts to create high-quality files for custom use cases.
Hacker News

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