Thinking AI is a dawn, not an update, wastes money. This piece argues AI is the latest layer on decades of tech, rewarding infrastructure and compute owners while hiding recurring costs—GPUs, monitoring, retraining, and vendor lock-in. Read pragmatic procurement rules for leaders who want productivity, not expensive demos and survival.
Virtual try-ons are evolving from cosmetic demos into retail infrastructure—modular Fashion APIs (like Perfect Corp’s January 15, 2026 expansion) let brands stitch photorealistic, head-to-toe overlays into checkout, boosting conversions, cutting returns, and reshaping inventory decisions. Learn how to pilot, measure ROI, and avoid privacy or bias pitfalls before you commit.
Canadian Tire’s MOSaiC turns 12 million loyalty signals and local store data into a cloud‑scale AI engine. Launched Feb 18, 2026 with Microsoft, it detects micro‑occasions, fixes stockouts, and shifts value to retailers as AI infrastructure. Read how a century‑old chain could redraw data, competition, and profit in retail now.
DeepMind asks a sharp question: are chatbots morally sincere or merely performative? Inside, engineers worry polite AI can alienate users, hide errors, and mask product failures behind optics. Learn how tone became a business tax, which experiments reveal honesty gaps, and why auditors and buyers now demand measurable ethics urgently.
Transform panicked client calls into calm, convincing outcomes with one simple AI rehearsal prompt. Learn how persona-driven roleplays sharpen tone, reduce escalations, and save revenue—plus the compliance and measurement pitfalls buyers must avoid. Start small, instrument results, and discover the exact prompt that teams are using to win renewals today.
Arthur Hayes warns AI driven white collar layoffs could spark a credit shock, force central banks to print, and propel Bitcoin to record highs. This analysis exposes hidden feedback loops: funding reroutes, stretched startups, delayed procurement and banking stress. Read how scenario could reshape AI funding, hiring and crypto markets.
AI image tools have driven prices so low amateurs can buy hundreds of images for less than coffee, forcing designers and agencies to reinvent value. This investigation exposes pricing strategies, hidden curation costs, and how subscriptions are reshaping budgets, careers, and brand risk—essential reading for anyone buying or selling design.
AI’s recent selloff split markets: hyperscaler chip buyers rally while enterprise software faces substitution risk. Large orders from buyers like Meta may stabilize infrastructure stocks, but software multiples remain fragile. Read how capex shifts, inference economics, supply signals and geopolitical risk will determine which AI businesses rebound or fade soon.
Generative AI promises creative democracy but funnels wealth to platforms, collectors, and a few named artists while scraping livelihoods from the many. Lawsuits, protests, and collapsing novelty expose an extractive economy. Read how businesses, creators, and policymakers can avoid commoditization—and why the next art market will reward provenance, not prompts.
Merck’s new partnership with Mayo Clinic wires hospital-grade clinical data into drug-discovery AI, promising faster target validation and efficiency gains — while concentrating power, driving up costs, and raising privacy and reproducibility questions. Read how platformized data plus institutional compute could reshape pharma, winners, losers, and the invoice for innovation.
