Retailers must prepare for a paradigm shift in commerce, where autonomous agents act as customers rather than mere tools, according to a top official of a major full-line retailer across the Gulf ...

A new store in San Francisco has human employees, but they're not the ones making the decisions. An artificial intelligence bot named Luna is the boss. Andon Market, a boutique store, opened on April ...

Retailers have spent the better part of 2016 becoming intimately familiar with bots — the good kind, at least, i.e. chatbots that potentially can help them sell more products via social media and ...

In early 2022, a top 10 footwear brand dropped an exclusive line of sneakers. Traffic to the site soared. The sneakers sold out. On the surface, everything went as planned. But behind the scenes, ...

Picture this: It’s Black Friday 2027, and retail’s biggest “customer” isn’t a soccer mom hunting for deals or a Gen-Z trendsetter. It’s an AI agent representing 50,000 households, armed with ...

Speed is the invisible tax on retail investing. While institutional algorithms execute in milliseconds, individual investors click buttons, refresh charts, and watch prices move against them. New ...

Retail crypto traders are struggling with high 'inference tax' costs when running AI-powered trading bots, causing many to abandon them within weeks. At the same time, advanced AI trading terminals ...