Weis Markets adds Instacart AI-powered shopping carts to stores
Weis Markets is adding Instacart’s AI-powered shopping carts, Caper Carts, to select stores in Pennsylvania, bringing digital coupons, loyalty features,…
June 2026
Afroman Is Back—and He’s Bitcoin’s Latest Freedom Fighter
Joseph Edgar Foreman is still getting high. In a makeshift greenroom made from curtains at the Venetian Hotel in Las…
Axiom Reveals Its Prada-Designed Spacesuit Inner Layer For NASA
The Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment will keep astronauts cool on the lunar surface. Axiom With NASA set to go…
How to set a smart social media budget (and get it approved)
It’s a bit of a head-scratcher: Overall marketing budgets are shrinking in 2026, but social spending is climbing. Social media…
Two New Studies Ask: Did the iPhone Cause Birthrates to Decline?
The enduring mystery of the fertility decline has a new culprit: the smartphone. Experts have long wondered if phones played…
Apple Expected to Detail Its A.I. Plans at Conference
Two years ago, Apple promised to deliver artificial intelligence to more than one billion iPhone users around the world. The…
B.F.I. Preserves ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ and More Videos in Archive of Viral Moments
Archivists at the British Film Institute have preserved hundreds of online videos for their cultural significance, hoping to preserve a…
How to Level-up From SEO Tactician to Search Visibility Leader
For years, SEO sat low on the org chart. It’s been chronically underfunded and perpetually one step away from being…
Microsoft AI Introduces MAI-Transcribe-1.5: 2.4% WER on Artificial Analysis, Best-in-Class FLEURS Accuracy, and Up to 5x Faster Long-Audio Transcription
Last week Microsoft AI has announced MAI-Transcribe-1.5. It is the second iteration of the company’s in-house speech-to-text family. The model…
Google Research Adds Agentic RAG to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with a Sufficient Context Agent for multi-hop queries
Google Research team has introduced a new agentic RAG framework. It is built into the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. It…