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.

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

Luxome

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

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Net Zero Logistics uses the AI-powered tool Finmile to optimize its delivery operations

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

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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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Target built a trend-spotting tool that's speeding up the time it takes to get new fashions to store shelves

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A display of Target apparel with a Western theme.
Target's Western-themed collection was inspired by the company's new AI trend-spotter.

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

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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

How AI is helping businesses save time and money amid tariff chaos

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A cargo ship loaded with shipping containers is seen at the Port of Oakland, California.
Supply-chain leaders are using generative AI to assist with tariff-related planning, which can be time-consuming.

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The Iran war could haunt grocery bills long after the fighting stops

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A pistachio farm in Georgia.
Crops including wheat, rice, and pistachios (pictured) will be affected by the fertilizer shortage that is being worsened by the Iran war.

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Tons of goods are stuck around the Middle East amid shipping and air chaos

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A cargo ship is pictured off coast city of Fujairah, in the Strait of Hormuz.
Major shipping lines are rerouting vessels amid escalating security risks in the region.

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Google Deepmind CEO says the memory shortage is creating an AI 'choke point'

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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is pictured.
Google's AI boss Demis Hassabis said the memory market came down to "a few suppliers of a few key components."

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