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Employee burnout in retail contact centers isn't just a personnel issue—it's a notable business challenge threatening to eat away at productivity, morale, and profits. Retailers are increasingly turning to AI, specifically conversational AI, to help reverse this damaging trend. Organizations implementing AI signifies a profound shift in how retailers can cultivate sustainable, empowered workforces capable […]

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Stéphan Donzé is the founder and CEO of AODocs, a cloud-native document management platform that transforms enterprise content into actionable intelligence. Unlike legacy systems limited to basic storage, AODocs combines robust document control with workflow automation, enabling businesses to streamline complex processes across industries. From sales proposals and claims management to engineering and manufacturing, AODocs […]

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Since the online advertising sector is estimated to have spent $740.3 billion USD in 2023, it's easy to understand why advertising companies invest considerable resources into this particular strand of computer vision research. Though insular and protective, the industry occasionally publishes studies that hint at more advanced proprietary work in facial and eye-gaze recognition – […]

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People in Japan treat cooperative artificial agents with the same level of respect as they do humans, while Americans are significantly more likely to exploit AI for personal gain, according to a new study published in Scientific Reports by researchers from LMU Munich and Waseda University Tokyo. As self-driving vehicles and other AI autonomous robots […]

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Canada has a remarkable claim to fame in the realm of artificial intelligence. While the United States and China dominate the global stage with massive venture capital flows and booming tech giants, Canadians can point to many of AI’s pioneering minds—from Geoffrey Hinton, often hailed as the “Godfather of Deep Learning,” to Ilya Sutskever, co-founder […]

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing rapidly, with its applications spreading across industries such as healthcare, finance, education, and entertainment. Among the most exciting areas for AI is scientific research. AI's ability to process vast data, recognize complex patterns, and make predictions is accelerating the pace at which scientific discoveries are made. This raises an intriguing […]

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In the past few years, the AI world has shifted from a culture of open collaboration to one dominated by closely guarded proprietary systems. OpenAI – a company literally founded with “open” in its name – pivoted to keeping its most powerful models secret after 2019. Competitors like Anthropic and Google similarly built cutting-edge AI […]

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Cloud usage continues to soar, as do its associated costs — particularly, of late, those driven by AI. Gartner analysts predict worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services will swell to $723.4 billion in 2025, up from just under $600 billion in 2024. And 70% of executives surveyed in an IBM report cited generative AI as […]

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In a major leap forward for the future of artificial intelligence infrastructure, Lumai, the Oxford-born startup pioneering 3D optical computing, has raised more than $10 million in a fresh funding round. The investment — led by deep tech-focused Constructor Capital and backed by notable names such as IP Group, PhotonVentures, Journey Ventures, LIFTT, Qubits Ventures, State Farm […]

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