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30 articles about clean technology in AI news
Coresight Research Report: Technology and Resilience as Path to Stronger Retail Margins
Coresight Research has published a report titled 'Supply Chain Insights for Food, Drug and Mass Retail: Technology, Resilience and the Path to Stronger Margins.' The research focuses on how strategic tech adoption can fortify operations and profitability in key retail segments.
Quaise Energy Raises $134M for Superhot Geothermal Drilling
Quaise Energy raised $134M for superhot geothermal drilling, targeting 24/7 clean power for AI data centers by 2030.
Logile to Showcase AI-Powered Connected Store Operations at Retail
Logile, a provider of AI-powered workforce solutions, announced its participation in Retail Technology Show 2026. The company will showcase its Connected Store Operations platform, emphasizing the industry trend toward integrating labor planning, task management, and store execution.
JBM-Diff: A New Graph Diffusion Model for Denoising Multimodal Recommendations
A new arXiv paper introduces JBM-Diff, a conditional graph diffusion model designed to clean 'noise' from multimodal item features (like images/text) and user behavior data (like accidental clicks) in recommendation systems. It aims to improve ranking accuracy by ensuring only preference-relevant signals are used.
Google Launches AI Edge Eloquent: Free, Offline-First Dictation App on iOS
Google has quietly launched AI Edge Eloquent, a free, subscription-less dictation app for iOS. It uses a Gemma-based speech recognition model to process audio locally, removing filler words and self-corrections to produce cleaner text.
A Practical Guide to Fine-Tuning Open-Source LLMs for AI Agents
This Portuguese-language Medium article is Part 2 of a series on LLM engineering for AI agents. It provides a hands-on guide to fine-tuning an open-source model, building on a foundation of clean data and established baselines from Part 1.
OpenAI in Advanced Talks to Buy Electricity from Sam Altman-Backed Helion Energy
OpenAI is negotiating to purchase electricity from fusion startup Helion Energy, with a potential deal securing 12.5% of Helion's initial power output. This move signals a strategic push by the AI giant to lock in massive, clean energy for future compute needs.
The Self-Improving AI Era Begins: GPT-5.4 and Autonomous Research Breakthroughs
OpenAI's GPT-5.4 release and Andrej Karpathy's autonomous AI research experiment signal a paradigm shift where AI systems can now improve their own underlying technology. This marks the beginning of closed-loop AI self-improvement.
China's Nuclear Revolution: How Particle Accelerators Could Power Civilization for a Millennium
Chinese scientists are developing an accelerator-driven subcritical reactor that burns nuclear waste as fuel, potentially providing clean energy for 1,000 years while solving radioactive waste problems. The megawatt-scale prototype aims for 2027 operation.
The Cinematic AI Revolution: How Sora 2 Pro, Veo 3.1, and Kling 2.6 Are Democratizing Hollywood-Quality Video Production
OpenAI's Sora 2 Pro, Google's Veo 3.1, and Kling 2.6 represent a quantum leap in AI video generation, transforming text and images into cinematic-quality videos in minutes. These models offer Hollywood-level production values with smooth motion and clean lip sync, available through subscription models without per-video fees.
VMLOps Curates 500+ AI Agent Project Ideas with Code Examples
A developer resource has compiled over 500 practical AI agent project ideas across industries like healthcare and finance, complete with starter code. It aims to solve the common hurdle of knowing the technology but lacking a concrete application to build.
Zegna Outperforms Moncler in Q2 as Luxury Recovery Diverges
Zegna’s 11% Q2 organic growth beat consensus by 4 points, driven by DTC and U.S. high-spend clients, while Moncler’s core brand grew just 3% amid tourism headwinds and delayed winter purchases. The divergence highlights uneven luxury recovery.
AI now at top of agenda for more luxury houses: Bain report
Bain & Company reports that AI is now a top priority for an increasing number of luxury houses, signaling a major strategic shift. This matters as luxury brands move to integrate AI for personalization, operations, and customer experience.
Dassault Systèmes expands AI PLM to LVMH, Carrefour and Walmart
Dassault Systèmes is expanding its AI-powered PLM to LVMH, Carrefour, and Walmart. This marks a major enterprise AI deployment in retail and luxury, embedding intelligence into product design, supply chain, and personalization.
Shopify reinstated at Bank of America with ‘Buy’ rating on agentic
Bank of America reinstated Shopify with a 'Buy' rating, highlighting agentic commerce as a growth driver. This AI-powered automation trend could transform e-commerce operations for luxury and retail brands.
Stitch Fix Expands AI Image Generation to Improve Personalization
Stitch Fix expands AI image generation to personalize outfit visualizations for 4 million clients. The move deepens its algorithmic styling approach, using generative AI to show tailored clothing combinations in photorealistic detail.
Ahold Delhaize USA Scales Personalization Across Banners
Ahold Delhaize USA is scaling AI-driven personalization across banners like Stop & Shop and Giant Food, using data and ML to tailor shopping experiences. This matters for retail as it demonstrates a major grocer's commitment to AI for customer loyalty and revenue growth.
Critical Energy raises $22M for modular geothermal data center power
Critical Energy raised $22M Series A for modular geothermal plants targeting data center power. Breakthrough Energy Ventures led the round.
74% of Consumers Ready to Delegate Shopping to AI Agents, Study Finds
A study reports 74% of consumers are willing to let an AI agent shop for them. This signals a paradigm shift in retail, with growing trust in autonomous AI for purchasing decisions.
PRS 2026: Netflix Workshop Reveals Industry Shift to LLM-Powered
Netflix's 2026 PRS workshop featured DoorDash, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google DeepMind, and Stanford, showcasing how LLMs are transforming personalization, recommendation, and search. The event underscored the industry's shift toward integrating large language models into core recommendation pipelines.
Anthropic Acquires Stainless for ~$300M, Owns MCP Toolchain
Anthropic acquired Stainless for ~$300M, gaining the dominant MCP server generator and key SDK tooling, signaling a bet on integration-layer moats over model differentiation.
Grocery Dive Asks: Is Agentic AI the Next Frontier for Grocers?
The article examines agentic AI's potential for grocers in inventory, personalization, and store operations, weighing benefits against implementation challenges like data integration and safety.
X-energy raises $1B+ in IPO for Amazon-backed SMRs
X-energy, an Amazon-backed small modular reactor firm, raised over $1 billion in its IPO by selling 44.3 million shares. The funding targets SMRs to power AI data centers, addressing soaring energy demands from AI infrastructure.
Horizon Launches Full-Stack AI Platform for Autonomous Driving
Horizon Robotics launched a trio of products—a new chip, an open-source OS, and a smart driving system—aiming to push cars closer to becoming autonomous AI agents. The platform integrates hardware and software for enhanced perception and decision-making.
Shopify Engineering details 'Flow generation through natural language'
Shopify Engineering describes a 2026 approach to generating complex workflows (flows) from natural language prompts using an agentic modeling framework, enabling non-technical users to create automation.
Building a Semantic Recommendation System from Scratch
An engineer documents the process of building a semantic recommender using embeddings and vector search, focusing on the practical challenges and failures encountered. This is a crucial reality check for teams moving beyond collaborative filtering.
AI Datacenter Spend Hits 5-7 Manhattan Projects Yearly at $250-300B
Inflation-adjusted global datacenter CapEx reaches $250-300B annually, equivalent to 5-7 Manhattan Projects per year. This quantifies the unprecedented infrastructure investment driving the AI boom.
Chow Tai Fook Partners with Microsoft to Develop 'Hyper-Intelligence' for
The world's largest jeweler, Chow Tai Fook, has entered a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to co-develop an AI and data platform termed 'Hyper-Intelligence.' The initiative aims to redefine customer experience and operational efficiency across the global luxury retail sector.
Daydream Launches Generative AI Platform Targeting Fashion Personalization
Daydream has announced a generative AI platform specifically positioned to tackle the 'personalization gap' in fashion. This represents another entry in the competitive landscape of AI-powered retail personalization tools.
MCP vs CLI: The Hidden War for AI Agent Tool Integration
A fundamental architectural debate pits Anthropic's standardized Model Context Protocol (MCP) against traditional CLI execution for AI agent tool use. The choice between safety/standardization (MCP) and flexibility/speed (CLI) will shape enterprise AI deployment.