Walmart is using AI to negotiate prices with suppliers, report says — and the suppliers are loving it

• Walmart is using technology from Pactum AI to negotiate with suppliers, per a Bloomberg report.
• The retailer tells the AI chatbot its budget, and the chatbot communicates with a human vendor.
• The Bentonville, Arkansas-based retail giant has embraced artificial intelligence a lot recently.

If you're a Walmart supplier, you may not be hammering out deals with a human employee of the retail giant.