1+ hour, 7+ min ago   (165+ words) Rakuten Group Inc said Tuesday it will develop "artificial intelligence store managers" for its e-commerce platform that will explain products and help shoppers around the clock. The avatar store managers will use AI that learns from data held by individual…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (569+ words) Payments giant Visa said Wednesday that it has embedded its payment network inside of ChatGPT, empowering the chatbot to independently shop and complete transactions on behalf of its user. It means AI agents can not only recommend products but complete…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1208+ words) Walmart and Amazon are racing to speed up online order deliveries in rural areas of the U.S., a rich source of untapped sales that major retailers long wrote off as too sparsely inhabited, too remote or too impoverished to serve profitably....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1136+ words) More than 20 years after it redefined fast shipping, Amazon is preparing to raise the bar on consumer expectations again by offering to fulfill customers' most urgent product needs in a half-hour or less for an extra fee. The company, which…...