A logistics company designed an AI tool inspired by its supply-chain veteran COO. Meet Uncle Phil.

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Lazer Logistics Trucks
Lazer Logistics works with retailers and manufacturers to move their goods from docks to highways and warehouses.

Lazer Logistics

Your returns could be headed to a landfill. An AI-native software aims to reroute them to nonprofits.

Tech Insider : Economy, Business, Environment
Luxome Fabric Wall
At Luxome, returns of bedding and other textiles go to nonprofits in need through the AI-native software LiquiDonate.

Luxome

How solo founders use AI to reduce the operational and mental load of inventory management

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Steffy Lee; Jen Podany
Steffy Lee Simms and Jen Podany use AI to help run their solo ventures.

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Civil engineering researchers are teaching AI how to sort your recycling

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Researchers from the Waste Data & Analysis Center wear GoPro cameras as they sort and characterize municipal solid waste.
Researchers from the Waste Data and Analysis Center wear GoPro cameras as they sort and characterize municipal solid waste.

Ruwen Qin/Stony Brook University

How Heathrow partnered with Salesforce to build a customer-service AI agent

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Departures hall at London Heathrow Airport Terminal.
Heathrow is the UK's busiest airport.

Heathrow

One entrepreneur nearly ran out of cash building a fancy popcorn maker. Then, Oprah saved his business.

Tech Insider : Business, Style
Tal Moore, Founder of Popsmith, eating popcorn in his kitchen.
Tal Moore is the co-founder of Popsmith.

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Lyft says its latest AI push is all about helping drivers make more money

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A white-and-pink Lyft sticker sits on the inside of a car's rear windshield.
Lyft has rolled out its AI-based Earnings Assistant tool over the past year.

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A logistics company uses AI to reduce its delivery routes by half and save time on package sorting

Tech Insider : Economy, Business, Environment
Net Zero Logistics uses the AI-powered tool Finmile to optimize its delivery operations

Net Zero Logistics; BI

2 solo business owners share the AI workflows they use to write better emails and save hours of manual work

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Jennifer O'Brien and Liane Agbi
Solo business owners Jennifer O'Brien and Liane Agbi shared the ways they implement generative AI for time savings.

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The $42 billion auto giant you've never heard of is building AI into its factories

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
Several Jaguar E-Pace exoskeletons sit on a Magna factory line ahead of their subchassis and motor manufacturing.
Magna says it has expanded its AI use across its automotive supply chain.

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