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PharmaOpinionTremont AI’s research collaboration with AstraZeneca will develop and evaluate foundation models for preclinical toxicologic pathology, where rare tissue changes can be difficult to distinguish from normal variation.
BankingOpinion"Customers are solely responsible for supervising their authorized representatives and delegates, along with those parties' AI agents."
ManufacturingOpinionAI agents are helping engineers resolve robot-related problems in 7.9 days, down from 21.5 days. The company is now targeting a programming-cost reduction of more than 50%.
RetailOpinion"Right now, our view is that AI is largely reshaping travel discovery."
BankingOpinion"The platform gives our fraud specialists the information they need in one place."
ManufacturingOpinionAn early procurement-requisition agent was built in an afternoon by a functional consultant who had never used the tool before.
PharmaOpinionMeasurable AI results in pharma manufacturing nearly doubled to 53%.
RetailOpinionChoice reported Q3 2026 adjusted EBITDA of about $193 million, up 1% year over year.
PharmaOpinionAlexion, AstraZeneca's rare disease unit, is hiring a Head of AI in Boston to set enterprise AI strategy across research, regulatory, operations and commercial. AstraZeneca already runs a central Enterprise AI unit under a chief digital, data and AI officer that covers the same functions. The question is whether rare disease needs its own AI leader, or whether the parent risks building two AI agendas.
ManufacturingPool-equipment maker Hayward Holdings is hiring a VP of Enterprise Architecture & AI Innovation in Charlotte who will own architecture standards, the AI strategy, governance and the innovation roadmap in one job. Most manufacturers give AI to a data team or a business-led office. Hayward is betting that a mid-cap with plants on four continents and a connected-product line needs AI built into its architecture from the start.
RetailOpinionWalmart has published what nearly 1.7 million associates told it about AI, the largest employer-run study of AI at work so far. Office staff are excited and frontline workers are confident with digital tools, but the two groups were measured on different questions, so the comparison that matters most for retail's biggest workforce is not in the report.
ManufacturingOpinionMax Verstappen, who won the race ahead of Lewis Hamilton, had begun his own journey in a go-kart at four.
BankingOpinion"While agentic AI has the potential to be a compelling consumer tool, this survey shows that Americans are not ready to hand over their financial decisions to AI agents."
BankingOpinion"The technology provides our claims operations the bandwidth to keep growing profitably."
BankingOpinion"Agentic transactions are ramping up at impressive weekly growth rates."
RetailOpinionHyatt is building an end-to-end AI platform that covers a hotel deal from the time it is pitched through to the hotel's opening.
PharmaOpinionRo has launched Robin, an AI health agent that reads the prescriptions, labs, side-effect logs and provider notes the telehealth company already holds. Zachariah Reitano pitches it as the end of patients relaying their own records to a chatbot. It also puts the company that sells the treatment in charge of the AI that talks patients through it, and the line between help and advice is still being drawn.
ManufacturingOpinion"In 2027, we expect to add over $1 billion of DDN revenue with the vast majority of that from AI applications."
ManufacturingOpinion"Data centers require large electricity loads, driving the increasing need for more efficient high-voltage equipment."
BankingOpinionVisa reported fiscal Q4 2026 net revenue of $12.1 billion, up 13% year over year, and EPS of $3.48, up 17%.
