Multinational retail giant Walmart has created dozens of AI agents in the past months. Now the company is overhauling how the agents are organized in hopes of making them easier to use. The AI assistants will be sorted into four categories of “super agents” designed to interact with customers, vendors, retail employees and software engineers. The vendor category will serve both Walmart’s suppliers and third-party merchants who have digital storefronts at Walmart.com. According to the retailer, each group of super agents will draw on the capabilities of multiple behind-the-scenes agents and present them to users via a unified interface. Continue reading Walmart AI Super Agents Organized to Improve Ease-of-Use

The new underwater cable between North America and Europe, built through a partnership between Facebook, Microsoft and Telxius (a subsidiary of Telefónica), is now complete. Dubbed Marea (Spanish for “tide”), the new 4,000-mile subsea cable runs at a depth of 17,000 feet under the Atlantic from Virginia Beach, Virginia to Bilbao, Spain and has been under construction since August 2016. Marea will offer a capacity of 160 terabits per second, and will help meet the demand for high-speed Internet and cloud services. Continue reading Facebook, Microsoft, Telxius Transatlantic Cable Is Complete