October 23, 2025
- General Motors is promising a unique “eyes-off” technology which will allow drivers to watch movies, catch up on emails, and other tasks while their vehicle pilots itself. “When we launch this, we’ll see what happens. We may be the first to have a personally owned self-driving vehicle that works, that’s safe and that’s important. I don’t view it as catchup. I view it as leapfrog,” said Sterling Anderson, Chief Product Officer at GM (via CNN Business).
- Amazon has rolled out four different back-end tech solutions to enhance its operations: smart glasses for delivery drivers, the Blue Jay robotics system, agentic AI model Project Eluna, and Integrated Last Mile Driver Academies (iLMDA) (via Chain Store Age).
- Unilever claimed it was beating competitors “by a mile” after delivering double-digit sales growth from its brands, including Dove, K18, and Nutrafol. The company managed to beat Q3 projected sales growth in a narrow fashion as it moves into higher-margin areas (via Reuters).
- Dick’s Sporting Goods is bucking the smaller store trend, instead expanding its physical footprint by building more “House of Sport” stores which usually come in at about 120,000 to 150,000 square feet — more than doubling its traditional locations. “We need to build the concept that if somebody else built this store across the street from us, we’re out of business, and that’s exactly what we did,” Edward Stack, executive chairman, said (via CNBC).
- Walmart is reportedly pausing the hiring of job applicants who require H1-B visas to work, sources claim. President Donald Trump has raised the fees for those visas to a substantial sum of $100,000 (via CNBC).
- Alibaba has launched its own AI chatbot assistant, integrating the functionality into its Quark app. Quark began as a browser, but has since improved its capabilities to become Alibaba’s flagship app (via Reuters).