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Walmart Partners With OpenAI to Bring ChatGPT-Powered Shopping to Customers
by Quincy Preston | Oct 14, 2025
Walmart has expanded its AI-first shopping strategy with ChatGPT-powered Instant Checkout. After rolling out “Ask Sparky” this summer, the retail giant is pushing deeper into agentic commerce. Industry leaders in North Texas and beyond are watching closely.
by Quincy Preston |
Jun 26, 2025
While TIME put Maximum Effort and Waymo on its 2025 worldwide covers, Dallas future-shaping companies are in the mix. Two are Dallas-based. Another Texas company—now a $2B brand—got its start here, too.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jun 10, 2025
The Richardson-based company announced a collaboration with OpenAI as it unveils the "multifamily sector’s first agentic AI platform" at NAA's Apartmentalize 2025 in Las Vegas.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 28, 2024
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, the former CEO of Nextdoor, was the inaugural guest at last week's launch of the Pegasus Park Speaker Series at the biotech hub in Dallas. The fireside chat before 200 "tenants and friends" of Pegasus Park featured interviewer Nicole Small, CEO of Lyda Hill Philanthropies and LH Capital, and was followed by a Ladies Who Launch event.
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L to R: Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft; HH Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of G42; Peng Xiao, Group Chief Executive Officer of G42 [Photo: G42]
Abu Dhabi’s G42, Which Is Building an ‘AI Supercomputer’ in Dallas, Gets $1.5B from Microsoft
by David Seeley | Apr 16, 2024
As UAE-based G42 nears the launch of a game-changing AI supercomputer in Dallas, it's been doubling down on its long-standing collaboration with Microsoft. Now Microsoft is going in big with a 10-figure strategic investment in the Abu Dhabi technology holding group.
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 9, 2023
With the addition of multiple generative AI platforms to its solution, Allen-based Inbenta said it intends to cut a company's content development timeline by more than half, "supercharging" their ability to quickly develop customer service responses, chatbot scripts, helpful content pieces, and more.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 27, 2023
The forum aims to ensure safe and responsible development of frontier AI models that could "exceed the capabilities currently present in the most advanced existing models." A core objective: Collaborating with policymakers, academics, civil society, and companies to share knowledge about trust and safety risks. "We're all going to need to work together to make sure AI benefits everyone," said Google and Alphabet's president of global affairs.
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by David Seeley |
Jun 22, 2023
AT&T says it's "super excited" about the potential of generative AI systems, and points out that it's far from late to the party. In fact, AT&T researchers actually played a role in giving birth to the term "artificial intelligence"—way back in 1955. See what AT&T is using ChatGPT for, and how it's guarding against both misinformation and outside hackers.
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TIAA Expands to Frisco—and the Metaverse
by Nicole Ward, DRC Data Journalist | May 17, 2023
With Andrew Carnegie serving as its avatar, TIAA is harnessing advanced language models like Chat GPT to create an immersive TIAA-verse where financial knowledge meets innovation. As TIAA pioneers a new era of customer service, it's an endeavor that might earn a nod of approval from Carnegie himself.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Dec 16, 2022
Carmack—the former CTO of VR giant Oculus—has taken goggle-gazing to the next level, programmed Doom and Quake, and founded a Mesquite-based space tourism startup. Now he's on a mission he says "could change the course of human history": artificial general intelligence. Keen's focus on AGI could lead to "something that behaves like a human being or like a living creature, and that can then be educated in whatever ways that we need to," he says.
Carmack believes AGI will hit the market in less than a decade. enabling AIs to interact socially with each other—or with actual people.
Carmack believes AGI will hit the market in less than a decade. enabling AIs to interact socially with each other—or with actual people.
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