Key Highlights Target is launching a conversational shopping app inside ChatGPT that allows users to plan, browse, and buy without leaving the chat. Users can build multi-item baskets, shop for fresh food, and choose fulfillment via Drive Up, Order Pickup, or shipping. Internally, Target is already using ChatGPT Enterprise across 18,000 employees to boost productivity, streamline operations, and improve guest experiences. Target Corporation is taking a bold step into the world of conversational commerce. Starting next week in beta, the retail giant is launching a Target app embedded directly within ChatGPT. This app lets shoppers browse, build baskets, and check…
Author: Corporate Leaders Magazine
Key Highlights Charter Communications selects AWS as its GenAI provider, integrating Amazon Q Developer across its engineering ecosystem. GitLab Duo with Amazon Q Developer to streamline software development, boosting speed, automation, and code quality. Companies to co-deploy agentic AI solutions across Charter’s operations, enhancing customer experience and service reliability. Charter Communications has announced a major partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that makes AWS one of Charter’s strategic generative-AI (GenAI) providers. Under this strategic agreement, the partnership is expected to significantly elevate Charter’s software development capabilities, operational efficiency, and customer experience, which are key priorities for the company as it…
Key Highlights Danone introduces Silk Protein, a high-protein plant-based milk aimed at reviving interest in the declining plant-based dairy category. Silk Protein contains 13 grams of complete plant protein, 50% more protein and half the sugar of traditional dairy milk. Danone targets rising consumer demand for protein-rich, functional beverages as the plant-based milk market faces stagnation. Danone is introducing a new high-protein version of its Silk brand as the company attempts to “reignite interest” in the plant-based dairy sector. With protein now one of the most in-demand functional ingredients in the U.S., Danone sees a major opportunity to bring innovation…
Key Highlights $30 million investment to build a new AI factory (MC-2) in Melbourne, opening January 2026. Cutting-edge infrastructure powered by AMD Instinct MI355 GPUs, EPYC 9575F CPUs and ROCm software to design task-specific AI models. Strategic shift from general-purpose large language models (LLMs) to precision-engineered applied AI built from scratch. In a landmark move for Australia’s artificial intelligence industry, Maincode has announced a $30 million investment to construct what it calls the country’s most advanced AI factory, located in Melbourne. It is scheduled to open in January 2026. Known internally as “MC-2,” the facility will aim to advance Maincode’s…
Key Highlights The U.S. could have saved $1.3 billion-$1.5 billion in the first year post-approval if launch prices for drugs matched value-based benchmarks, says the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER). Median annual net launch prices for new drugs jumped 51% from 2022 to 2024, while list prices rose 24%, underscoring rapid cost escalation across the healthcare industry. ICER’s analysis shows that Americans continue to pay substantially more for medicines than patients in other high-income nations. A new report from the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) estimates that the United States could have saved up to $1.5…