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

Tech Insider : Business, Environment, Technology
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

Tech Insider : Business, Sports
Steffy Lee; Jen Podany
Steffy Lee Simms and Jen Podany use AI to help run their solo ventures.

Lila Lee, Matt Martian Williams for BI

Civil engineering researchers are teaching AI how to sort your recycling

Tech Insider : Business, Climate Crisis, Environment
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

Tech Insider : Business, Style, Technology
Departures hall at London Heathrow Airport Terminal.
Heathrow is the UK's busiest airport.

Heathrow

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

Tech Insider : Business
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.

Gabby Jones for BI

I used free AI tools to build my solo business in 60 days. Here's every way I put them to work.

Tech Insider : Business
Kristin Ginn
Kristin Ginn founded her solo business, an AI adoption consulting company called trnsfrmAItn, after using generative AI to workshop her initial idea.

Cayce Clifford for BI

A Michelin-starred restaurant uses agentic AI to source the freshest ingredients possible

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy, Business
Matthias Restaurant Interier (left), and Owner Silvio Pfeufer (right)
Silvio Pfeufer is the head chef and co-owner of Matthias, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Berlin.

Luís Bompastor

I was frustrated by every baby carrier on the market. So I built my own — and grew 2,200% in the last three years.

Tech Insider : Business
Skye, Hope&Plum's CEO and cofounder, posing with a buckle carrier in her home.
Skye Amundsen is the cofounder and CEO of hope&plum.

Jared Soares for BI

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