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A look at Walmart's use of automation to grow sales without adding staff, as analysts say its efforts raise questions about the future of US retail labor (Gregory Meyer/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5be70b28-018d-42d7-af8d-ea5a4bed4d44

Walmart is supercharging revenue — but with fewer workers
Growth in ecommerce and automation sparks questions about future of retail sector’s labour force

Join Dennis Berger, Marco Petris, and Volker Carlguth to explore 'Intent-Based Clustering.' An approach to overcome some limitations of modern hybrid search systems. Discover how upfront LLM-supported in-depth query understanding can be applied in various steps, including retrieval, clustering, validation, and presentation. Learn about the process of moving from prototype to production for large-scale, high-volume e-commerce searches.

What you see is what you mean; intent based ecommerce search
In today's e-commerce landscape, hybrid search systems represent the market standard, yet they often struggle with highly inspirational queries, lack of precision in semantic recall, and presentation of diversity. Ambiguity in search terms can lead to disorganized results or overshadowed relevant products. This session will demonstrate how an upfront LLM-supported in depth query understanding can increase recall meaningfully without sacrificing precision. We show how LLM-driven query understand…

Ad Spend Secrets: eCommerce Marketing Strategies
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/ad-spend-secrets-ecommerce-marketing-strategies/

Forbes reshuffles its leadership team and forms an AI & Strategic Platforms Group to identify future revenue streams and grow its brand across social platforms (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/forbes-shuffles-le…

Forbes shuffles leadership, aiming for more growth - Talking Biz News
Forbes announced changes to its leadership on Monday, looking to boost its future growth and artificial intelligence opportunities. Nina Gould was promoted to chief innovation officer, overseeing Forbes’ technology and product businesses. She will oversee Forbes’ technology, product and product design, data and business intelligence, audience growth and development, accolades and eCommerce businesses and brand […]

Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the attempted extradition by the US of an alleged Chinese hacker of vaccine secrets who was arrested in Italy last week, and fast-fashion ecommerce company Shein’s plans to go public
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Accused Chinese hacker claims mistaken identity - Asian Tech Roundup
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the attempted extradition by the US of an alleged Chinese ...