Walmart's Sparky AI agent is delivering outcomes customers that use it have a 35% order value over consumers that don't.

Ford Pro launched Ford Pro AI, an embedded AI assistant in the Ford Pro Telematics platform that monitors the health of fleets for proactive maintenance and the actions needed to keep vehicles on the road.

Agentic commerce is in its infancy and enterprises need to think through ownership of the customer experience, architecture and playing the co-opetition game with AI giants. For hotels, agentic commerce has the promise of demand and distribution and efficiency. The key for hotel operators will be preserving their first-party data flywheels.

Large language models (LLMs) have taken over Wall Street and most companies have to answer questions about AI opportunities and disruptions. Here's a look at some of the answers.

Caterpillar has plans for AI in its construction equipment; autonomy at scale and machine learning with computer vision, sensors, and edge computing; and Cat AI Assistant, which enables customers to engage with the company’s machines. The bigger story, however, may be the years of transformation, data preparation, and technology infrastructure leading up to Caterpillar’s big CES 2026 splash.