This year’s Dreamforce in San Francisco and EnvisionB2B in Chicago

Brian Warmoth at Dreamforce 2024

Work went mobile over the past month, and you were as likely to find me in the field as online, so I’m here to drop a few links and updates. One of the big stops in September was Salesforce’s 2024 Dreamforce conference at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. As always, Salesforce maximized their use of the … Read moreThis year’s Dreamforce in San Francisco and EnvisionB2B in Chicago

Recent retail and ecommerce coverage

The past month has been packed, launching the latest annual Omnichannel Report for Digital Commerce 360 and covering some significant personnel moves. Here are a few of my latest bylines that have appeared alongside the rest of the great work the team there has been doing: In addition, a few new videos went live across … Read moreRecent retail and ecommerce coverage

Most recent retail and ecommerce coverage

My team at Digital Commerce 360 has been hard at work the past two months putting out some big reports on the state of American ecommerce and the most-used ecommerce platforms among the top names in online retail. We also began rolling out new video shorts to complement the reporting and research. Here’s one about … Read moreMost recent retail and ecommerce coverage

What Satya Nadella gained for Microsoft after Sam Altman’s return to OpenAI

Satya Nadella

After recording the fifth episode of “The AI Artifacts Podcast” on Tuesday, my co-host Sarah Luger and I knew that the fluid situation surrounding Sam Altman’s firing and subsequent pressure to reinstate him as CEO at OpenAI was likely to remain in flux the following day. What we didn’t know was that a deal to … Read moreWhat Satya Nadella gained for Microsoft after Sam Altman’s return to OpenAI

What Sam Altman’s firing at OpenAI means for its (and AI’s) future

My “AI Artifacts Podcast” co-host and I were wrapping up our news discussion for this week’s episode when we saw breaking news that OpenAI’s board had just fired Sam Altman as CEO, naming Mira Murati (its CTO and a former podcast guest of ours) as the company’s new interim CEO. All of the news arrived … Read moreWhat Sam Altman’s firing at OpenAI means for its (and AI’s) future

This week’s podcast episode: AI to assist ALS patients

When Sarah and I first started “The AI Artifacts Podcast,” we wanted explore areas where AI has the potential to transcend novelty and provide real-world utility in worthwhile places. This week, our third episode of the show features a great example of this in an interview with the founder/CEO and CBO of a startup called … Read moreThis week’s podcast episode: AI to assist ALS patients

What was in this week’s podcast episode: The Beatles and AI resource needs

If you didn’t get an alert on your podcast platform of choice on Friday, just know that the second episode of “The AI Artifacts Podcast” is now live. You can hear it on AIArtifacts.net, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or most other fine listening destinations. It was a fun episode. If you caught us the week before, … Read moreWhat was in this week’s podcast episode: The Beatles and AI resource needs