Amazon will show AI product images when you search for some reason
In what may be one of the more questionable uses of AI to date, Amazon announced on Wednesday that it will display AI-generated images of products within its shopping app…
Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO
Just two months after listing its first venture fund on the stock market, Robinhood is preparing to launch a second. The company has filed a confidential registration for RVII, a…
Robinhood’s venture fund IPO attracted 150,000+ retail investors, CEO says
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is touting the success of the fintech’s new Ventures Fund I, which allows retail investors to invest in private tech companies like Stripe, Oura, Databricks, OpenAI,…
Some retail traders are training AI agents to buy and sell assets on their behalf, as exchanges like Polymarket and Bybit roll out agent-friendly interfaces (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
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Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique run by an AI agent; the Andon Labs experiment uses a Claude Sonnet 4.6-based agent to run the boutique (Heather Knight/New York Times)
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UP.Labs-Porsche’s newest startup wants to be the Plaid of automotive retail
As serial entrepreneur Joel Milne founded, scaled, and then successfully sold mobile auto repair service startup RepairSmith to AutoNation, he was plagued by a persistent problem. The automotive retail industry…
Marks & Spencer confirms customers’ personal data was stolen in hack
U.K. retail giant Marks & Spencer has confirmed hackers stole its customers’ personal information during a cyberattack last month. In a brief statement with London’s stock exchange on Tuesday, the…
UK retail giant Co-op warns of disruption as it battles cyberattack
U.K. retail conglomerate The Co-operative Group said it has shut down some of its IT systems, citing an attempted cyberattack. Co-op spokesperson Mark Carrington said the company “recently experienced attempts”…
Noah Gragson’s team makes major announcement on multi-race deal with specialty retail company
Ahead of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway, Front Row Motorsports (FRM) revealed the new primary sponsor for Noah Gragson. On Wednesday (April 9), Gragson’s team announced…
Amazon rolls out tool that buys items from other retail stores for you
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The Amazon Shopping app is rolling out a new feature in beta. The Buy for Me tool will let you buy items from other…