Walmart’s AI workflows meet the realities of the balance sheet

Microsoft has announced the wider testing of its new Autopilot feature at the Microsoft Build event this week, backed by a post on the company’s’ website. Autopilots are described as a new category of agents that can work autonomously on a user’s behalf. Microsoft says each Autopilot has its own identity, and so multiple agents […] The post Scout from M’Soft is the agentic Autopilot that works across M365 appeared first on AI News.

Since its announcement in April this year, the proposed changes to billing methods on GitHub Copilot were a source of much speculation: how much more or less would a pay-a-you-use AI cost an organisation or individual compared to a flat-rate, monthly subscription? Just a day into the changeover to token-based billing for the LLM-based service, […] The post GitHub Copilot users see token-based price hikes appeared first on AI News.

JetBrains releases Mellum2 under Apache 2.0 — a 12B MoE model trained on 10.6 trillion tokens for AI workflows. The post JetBrains Releases Mellum2: A 12B MoE Model for Fast, Specialized Tasks in Multi-Model AI Pipelines appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Automation is becoming a bigger part of how financial markets are approached, and forex trading is one area where this is becoming easier to notice. As the tech world improves, more traders are looking for ways to stay involved in the market without the need to sit in front of charts for hours at a […] The post The future of automated trading with the best forex robot reviews appeared first on AI News.

Sales teams spend hours every day on tasks that should never see a human. Research a prospect, score them against their fit, and put it all into a CRM. These are repeatable, rule based processes AI workflows driven by multi-agent systems can do all three, with speed and consistency that no human team can match.  […] The post AI Workflows for Sales Teams: Prospect Research, Lead Qualification, and CRM Updates on Autopilot Using LangGraph   appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

Google Pay is overhauling its payment infrastructure for an impending wave of transactions from AI agents. The latest updates introduce the Universal Commerce Protocol and a new server architecture, positioning Google Pay as a central clearinghouse for purchases executed by autonomous agents rather than human users. AI agents – designed to perform tasks like booking […] The post Google Pay preps for AI agents with Universal Commerce Protocol appeared first on AI News.

The post Walmart executives depart under CEO John Furner appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. A Walmart store in Austin, Texas, Feb. 3, 2026. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Two top Walmart executives are departing the company, nearly four months after CEO John Furner took over, according to internal memos viewed by CNBC on Friday. Tom Ward, the chief operating officer of Walmart’s warehouse chain Sam’s Club, is retiring, and Cedric Clark, Walmart’s executive vice president of U.S. store operations, is leaving the business, the memos show.  A replacement for Clark is expected to be announced in the “coming weeks,” the memo said. It’s unclear when the company expects to fill Ward’s position.  The leadership shuffle comes after Furner took over as Walmart’s CEO in February. Alongside Furner’s promotion, the company elevated four new top executives to work alongside him earlier this year. Seth Dallaire was promoted to chief growth officer, overseeing the company’s marketplace and advertising

Every major economy is staring at the same problem right now. Artificial intelligence is consuming electricity at a pace that grids were never designed to handle. In the US, capacity market prices in PJM, the country’s largest grid operator, have risen more than tenfold in two years, with data-centre growth identified as a primary driver. […] The post China’s AI just mapped its entire renewable energy grid. Here’s why the rest of the world should pay attention appeared first on AI News.