Pivot Retail — AI News Daily

Pivot Retail AI Briefing — Apr 29, 2026


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Hosts: Carlos Mendez & Suki Nakamura
In this episode:
• Today we're covering OpenAI's breakup with Microsoft, the massive retail revolt against card fees, and why your AI shopping assistant might need a cha...
• Carlos, this OpenAI-AWS partnership is absolutely seismic. After years of Microsoft having exclusive cloud rights to OpenAI's models, enterprises can ...
• Let's examine the data here. Microsoft paid billions for that exclusivity, and it drove Azure's AI revenue up 40% year-over-year. Now AWS, which alrea...
• Think about what this means for retailers specifically. Many were locked out of OpenAI's best models because they weren't Azure customers. Now they ca...
• The numbers reveal something interesting though. AWS is pricing these models 15% below Azure's rates, which suggests they're willing to take a margin ...
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