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New Smart Shopping Platform, developed in collaboration with 66degrees, brings digitally enhanced personalization and navigation to the brick-and-mortar retail environment with Google’s AI.NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Honeywell (Nasdaq: HON) today announced the launch of an AI-enabled retail solution developed in collaboration with Google Cloud and 66degrees that leverages Google’s Gemini and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform to transform the in-store shopping experience for retailers worldwide. The Smart Shopping Platform helps shoppers easily locate desired products, compare similar items and quickly find relevant substitutions when products are unavailable, making in-store shopping more efficient and enjoyable. “There is nothing more frustrating than roaming through a…

HAMBURG, Germany / NEWYORK — January 9, 2026 — The Otto Group announced a collaboration with NVIDIA, the world leader in accelerated computing, to improve supply chain operations through intelligent robotics. This initiative will scale the network-wide deployment of a “Robotic Coordination Layer”, powered by NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, and Isaac Sim, across a multitude of Otto Group’s 120 logistics locations. Otto Group & NVIDIA Drive Future of Logistics Robot “Spot” in Otto Group Logistic Center Loehne, Germany(c) Otto Group It represents a comprehensive approach to train robots in a simulation environment for intelligent robotic automation, setting a new industry benchmark…

Kroger will use Google Cloud new agentic platform, Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience, to simplify and transform how customers shop and eat CINCINNATI and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) today announced an expanded relationship with Google Cloud. The leading grocery chain will use the Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience (CX) solution to support its customer experience transformation, combining cutting-edge technology with the care, food knowledge and understanding customers expect from Kroger – all into a new personal shopping assistant. Under the expansion Kroger will roll out Gemini Enterprise for CX nationwide to help make grocery planning easier through…

As I covered in my year-end cyber review last month, there were numerous headline-grabbing cybersecurity stories in 2025 — many focused on AI. So as we look back 12 months, what were the most popular “Lohrmann on Cybersecurity” blogs in the past year? Of course, I hope you’ll read all of the posts, but the list of top blogs below tells a wider story of what readers like and want to see more of.Some of these first appeared in 2025, while others posted in previous years are still getting a lot of global attention. In case you missed these, please…

Summit Art Creations/Shutterstock The rapid advancement of AI has been remarkable to behold. While you’d need a crystal ball to determine exactly what is in store for the future, those best positioned to comment on the potential impact of AI are those deeply entrenched in its world. There are few more fitting candidates on that front than the so-called “Godfather of AI” himself: Geoffrey Hinton. In 2024, Hinton was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics for “foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” A British-born scientist working…

The Web3 boom promised to decentralize the internet, empower users with digital ownership, and fundamentally reshape how businesses and consumers interact online. That vision died somewhere between 2023 and 2025, not with dramatic headlines announcing its demise, but through a steady exodus of developers, investors, and genuine use cases toward artificial intelligence.A Reddit discussion thread on r/webdev from January 2025 captured the sentiment plainly. “Yup, all the Web3 shills have moved on to AI,” wrote one developer. Another commented: “Web3 was never a thing. It required masses of people to transfer real money into arbitrary tokens backed by shady millennials with no…

Authentic Brands Group, a global sports, media, entertainment and lifestyle platform, adopts Google’s Gemini and Google Cloud infrastructure to power Authentic Intelligence NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Today at NRF 2026: Retail’s Big Show, Google Cloud and Authentic Brands Group (Authentic), a global brand development and licensing platform, announced a strategic partnership leveraging Google’s Gemini and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform to supercharge collaboration and creativity across the organization. As the owner of more than 50 global brands generating over $32 billion in retail sales across 150 countries, Authentic is uniquely positioned to leverage AI to be faster,…

Currently, a lot of business leaders think they’re already orchestrating customer journeys, particularly when it comes to marketing. What they usually mean is this: a welcome email, a nurture sequence, a reminder text, maybe a chatbot if budgets allow. They’re not actually thinking about how decisions are made from one step to the next.That’s the gap behind the journey orchestration vs marketing automation debate. Automation is great at following a specific path. It’s bad at understanding what else is happening around the customer at the same time. That’s how brands end up talking over themselves.The pressure is higher now because…

Bloom Energy power storage equipment, San Ramon, California.Smith Collection | Gado | Archive Photos | Getty ImagesA million bubbles were swirling inside each glass of Champagne poured on New Year’s Eve — which seems about like the number of times artificial intelligence bubbles have been mentioned by tech investors, economists and media pundits in recent months. Bubble fears surrounds stocks within the Magnificent 7 — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla — as well as Oracle and Softbank and other tech companies’ multi-billion-dollar investments in the unrelenting buildout of humungous data centers to power their AI systems. Data…

BTech AI vs. BTech Machine Learning Artificial intelligence is no longer a future idea. It is already part of daily life. Students use it when they search online, watch videos, shop on apps, or talk to chatbots. Because of this growing use, many Class 12 students now want to study AI-related engineering courses. Two popular choices are BTech in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and BTech in Machine Learning (ML).At first, both courses may seem almost the same. Both are related to computers, programming, data, and intelligent technology. Both offer potentials for well, paying jobs and rapid career development. However, these two…