AI software development company, Boom Interactive, announced it has partnered with the Basha family, former owners of Bashas' Supermarkets, to bring its 3D design technology to the grocery and retail industries. "Boom Interactive's technology is changing the way commercial developers construct and design their spaces and how brands display their goods" After selling Bashas' to Raley's in 2021, brothers Preston, Dalton and Brandon Basha created a family office along with their other two siblings, Tortuga Trading Co., to invest in companies like Boom Interactive, to breathe new life into the grocery industry. Tortuga has committed to building out the retail version of Boom Interactive's flagship product, Bubbles, called R3D, and will be offering the software to their portfolio of retail partners. "Boom Interactive's technology is changing the way commercial developers construct and design their spaces and how brands display their goods," said Brandon Basha. "We are honored to get our hands dirty to help this revolutionary platform blossom."

Alibaba's chip subsidiary Pingtouge (平头哥) has become the first Chinese company to open-source its Microcontroller (MCU) design platform. Alibaba made the announcement at the Wuzhen Internet Conference on October 21. An MCU (Micro Controller Unit, aka microcontroller) is a chip-scale computer that integrates a CPU, RAM, ROM, timer, counter, and various I/O interfaces into a single chip. As a core component of embedded devices, MCUs are widely used in communications, consumer electronics, automotive electronics, and industrial control, and are the most in-demand chip type on the market. Most IoT (Internet of things) devices need to be equipped with next-generation MCU chips to perform complex tasks such as sensing, communication, information processing, calculation, and release of control commands.

Artificial Intelligence or AI, is having a huge say in how digital marketing is being done these days. It is the latest go-to technology for every successful and aspiring digital marketing agency. Its addition to digital marketing seems to have opened up a new dimension with business owners delivering the customer experiences of a lifetime and buyers too revelling in it. Never before has marketing interaction been so fruitful, data been so easy to analyse and product promotion been so enjoyable. With consumers getting to see their virtual selves in front of them, the consumer-seller relationship is being redefined, all thanks to the use of artificial intelligence.