At NewTide, we see autonomous retail not as an endpoint, but as a market expanding opportunity, but it also exposes the need for AI-native operations that can run without constant human intervention, yet remain transparent, auditable, and controllable.
How Gavin Baker’s insights point directly to the future we’re building at NewTide AI A Conversation Worth Your Time Every so often, a discussion surfaces that does more than explain technology—it provides a framework that helps leaders see where the world is actually...
The wave of AI mania that has been spawned by OpenAI's launch of ChatGPT in 2022 often seems to pivot around one tantalizing question: when will artificial general intelligence (AGI) arrive? In Silicon Valley, the narrative has focused on whether large language models...
The real question is: Will any of it help us do our work better? Or is it just political theater with little practical relevance to the builders in the trenches?
I was searching for a way to explain our AI agents to folks while also communicating that those agents are only one part of the puzzle, I found a recent research paper from Cornell University titled AI Agents vs. Agentic AI: A Conceptual Taxonomy, Applications...
In today’s dynamic fuels and convenience industry, enterprises manage complex ecosystems of applications, data, and processes. With many organizations relying on dozens of different systems, coordinating workflows, ensuring data accuracy, and maintaining operational...
But It Can and Should Reinforce the Ones You Already Have An article in the MIT Sloan Management Review, “Why AI Will Not Provide Sustainable Competitive Advantage” opens with, "AI will transform economies and lift markets as a whole, but lasting differentiation will...
📌 “Today’s CEOs are the final generation of executives leading exclusively human workforces.” - Marc Benioff We’re entering a new phase of AI—less about the size of models, more about how autonomous agents are being integrated into daily operations. This was the...
As AI adoption accelerates across the energy and convenience retail sectors, leaders face a growing challenge: When should we lean on generative AI, and when is predictive AI the better fit? In a recent MIT Sloan article, Rama Ramakrishnan offers a practical framework...
Authored in collaboration with NewTide AI. As we navigate through the complexities of the modern workplace, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how we approach our daily tasks. The future of work is not just about remote collaboration or...
Training the models behind the latest AI powered app, chat or co-pilot we are using with increasing frequency takes an incredible amount of data. Just where does all that data come from? An effort from the Data Provenance Initiative a volunteer effort audited over...
A recent study from Bain and Company indicates that utilities will need to increase generation by 26% by 2028. After a couple of decades of flat load demand, we are seeing a significant shift and there seems to be even faster demand growth behind it. AI is the biggest...
Many of us now use AI in our personal lives. We are experiencing how useful it can be. The question of how to use it at work comes to mind pretty quickly. It is now looking like the answer to that question is what are being called Vertical Agents. What are they? Lets...
A short video that showcases using Generative AI with organizational knowledge. We put together this prototype to show how employees can chat with healthcare benefits info, but really, the same applies to any corporate data and knowledge....
Hollywood has been predicting the rise of the machines for a long time. You may have seen movies like The Matrix or the The Terminator where machines get intelligent, somehow decide to wage war on humans and we all become nearly extinct. While this doomsday scenario...
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