Albertsons Media Collective retail media arm is partnering with shopper engagement solution provider Stratacache to deploy a fleet of digital screens that will support in-store advertising in its stores. The in-store digital display network pilot will launch during summer 2025 in select Albertsons Companies stores in two key regions, featuring large-format premium displays in high traffic areas at selected touchpoints throughout the store, such as store entry and the produce department. Albertsons expects this initiative will enhance the shopping experience for customers while also providing insights through advanced measurement capabilities for brand partners, allowing for proof of play, direct sales attribution and sales lift. In-store digital ads are designed to reach customers throughout their shopping journey, encouraging them to add items to their cart with engaging content on digital screens, including meal or snack inspiration, product usage and lifestyle and health benefits. For a full store immersion, brands can enhance this experience with in-store audio and promotional offers. Albertsons Media Collective participating advertisers can also deploy offsite display and social video campaigns to bring their brand message to life in the store.
Adobe’s new app can detect gaps in brand visibility and suggest improvements across both owned and external channels based on attributes prioritized by LLMs, to optimize content for enhanced discoverability
Adobe announced Adobe LLM Optimizer, a new enterprise application that enables businesses to gain new relevance in an environment where consumers are embracing generative AI-powered interfaces to engage their favorite brands. Now with Adobe LLM Optimizer, teams can stay ahead of shifting consumer behaviors and remain top-of-mind in the AI era. A suite of features will enable businesses to monitor AI-driven traffic and benchmark brand visibility, while receiving recommendations that can be quickly deployed on their digital properties to improve discoverability, engagement and conversion. Adobe LLM Optimizer enables brands to: Monitor and increase AI-driven traffic: LLM Optimizer will be able to identify owned content (details on a website for instance) that is being leveraged by AI-powered interfaces to deliver responses to user queries. Optimize content to improve discoverability: A recommendation engine will detect gaps in brand visibility and suggest improvements across both owned and external channels—based on attributes prioritized by LLMs including high-quality, informative content from authoritative sources. An attribution capability also connects AI visibility to user behavior and business performance, enabling teams to demonstrate the effect on engagement, conversion and downstream traffic metrics.
Nurix Labs AI voice agents offer exceptional interruption handling for complex calls, immediate resolution and 99% accuracy to allow meaningful human-like voice interactions that reflect brand tone
Nurix Labs, the developer of custom AI agents for enterprise customers, launched an interactive voice platform NuPlay that will allow meaningful automated human-like voice interactions using AI agents. NuPlay will bridge the gap between dry business operations and customers by providing meaningful interactions and allowing businesses to scale up automated customer service. According to the company, its voice-enabled AI agents offer exceptional interruption handling for complex calls, immediate resolution, 99% accuracy, personality-driven agents that reflect brand tone, and multiple integrated enterprise software systems such as CRM, booking and support platforms. NuPlay is enabling people to interact with AI agents in the same way they would with a sales rep or customer support team, fostering genuine engagement, gathering information and accelerating decision-making seamlessly within enterprise operations.
Chick-fil-A tops the QSR ACSI customer satisfaction for the 11th year in a row, despite experiencing slow growth amid increased competition
Chick-fil-A is continuing its dominance in the quick-serve sector when it comes to customer satisfaction, topping the American Customer Satisfaction Index’s (ACSI) Restaurant and Food Delivery Study for the 11th year in a row, with a steady score of 83 out of 100. However, the list-topping performance comes as Chick-fil-A is experiencing slow growth amid increased competition. U.S. sales only grew 5.4% in 2024, providing openings for popular chicken brands like Raising Cane’s and Wingstop. KFC dropped 5% to 77 as it faces competitors who are adapting to shifting preferences more quickly. Popeyes was up 4% to 75. Other notable score changes include Panda Express (up 4% to 80), which jumps into a second-place tie with Starbucks (unchanged). Little Caesars, up 3% to 77, improved its ratings for food and service quality. Five Guys and Sonic both fell 4% to scores of 75 and 73, respectively, in the most recent ACSI report. Last-place McDonald’s dropped 1% to an ACSI score of 70. As a whole, the customer experience for quick-service restaurants is similar to last year’s report, with every aspect receiving a score of 81 or higher. Accuracy of food order and quality of mobile app lead the way at 85, both down 1% year over year. Mobile app reliability is 1% lower at 84, matching beverage quality, staff courtesy and helpfulness, food quality and website satisfaction (the only metric to increase in 2025).
Meta testing new auto-generated video ads- lets marketers use artificial intelligence to turn product pictures into multi-scene video ads
Meta is pushing deeper into AI-generated advertisements in a bid to make it cheaper and simpler for marketers to craft their messages. Meta announced an updated image-to-video ad tool, which lets marketers use artificial intelligence to turn product pictures into multi-scene video ads. Advertisers can upload as many as 20 images to create the videos, which come complete with music and overlaid text. Meta has made AI a key focus of its advertising business, which accounts for roughly 98% of annual revenue. Most of Meta’s advertisers are small businesses, and the cheaper it is for them to produce marketing material, the more money they have to spend promoting those messages on Facebook or Instagram. Generative AI is becoming a larger part of that business. Meta also lets advertisers use text prompts to create ad images, and announced in October that marketers could turn images into AI-generated GIFs for ads. The company is also building a text-to-video tool for general consumers, called Movie Gen, that it debuted for the first time last fall. The new ad features were announced in conjunction with the Cannes Lions advertising festival, which is happening this week in the south of France. TikTok also introduced new AI-powered tools for advertisers, including video generation for ads.
1Password’s secrets syncing integration with AWS allows organizations to consolidate secrets management and embed secure credential handling directly into AI development workflows and CI pipelines
1Password announced a strategic collaboration agreement with AWS that puts the firm in position to capitalize on surging enterprise demand for security tools designed for AI and cloud-native environments. Monica Jain, 1Password’s head of go-to-market partnerships, told that the AWS collaboration has delivered explosive growth over the past 18 months. Contracts sold through AWS average four times larger than typical deals, with win rates exceeding 50 percent across all customer segments from small businesses to large enterprises. As part of the expanded partnership, 1Password introduced a new secrets syncing integration with AWS Secrets Manager. The integration allows organizations to consolidate secrets management, enforce role-based access controls, and embed secure credential handling directly into development workflows including command-line interfaces, continuous integration pipelines, and AI-powered automation. The technical integration addresses a critical pain point for developers who traditionally have struggled to manage secrets securely without slowing down development velocity. By embedding secure access directly into existing workflows, the platform eliminates the trade-off between security and productivity that has plagued many organizations. 1Password now secures more than 165,000 businesses and millions of consumers, with 75 percent of revenue coming from business customers compared to just 25 percent from consumers — a dramatic shift from the company’s consumer origins. The AWS partnership accelerates 1Password’s evolution from a password manager into what the company calls an Extended Access Management platform. This new category addresses security gaps that traditional identity and access management, identity governance and administration, and mobile device management tools cannot reach.
Coralogix’s AI agent simplifies access to deep observability data by translating natural language queries into detailed, system-level answers via a conversational platform
Data analytics platform Coralogix nearly doubled its valuation to over $1 billion in its latest funding round, co-founder and CEO Ariel Assaraf told as AI-driven enterprise offerings continue to pique investor delight. Coralogix raised $115 million in a round led by California-based venture growth firm NewView Capital. The fundraise comes three years after Coralogix’s previous external funding in 2022, where it raised $142 million. Valuations have faced downward pressure since then, as investors continue to sit on dry powder amid elevated interest rates and geopolitical tensions. Coralogix’s revenue increased seven times since 2022, Assaraf told. Coralogix also unveiled its new AI agent “olly,” aiming to simplify data monitoring via a conversational platform. “Olly makes deep observability data accessible to every team. Whether you ask, ‘What is wrong with the payment flow?’ or ‘Which service is frustrating our users the most?’ Olly translates those questions into detailed, system-level answers,” the company wrote on its blog.
Kusari’s AI-based pull request tool provides security risk analysis early during the pull request process, adds real-time inspection and clear “safe to merge” guidance and remediates vulnerabilities before code integration
Software supply chain security company Kusari unveiled Kusari Inspector, an AI-based pull request security tool that provides security risk analysis early during the pull request process and address them before code integration. In addition to core supply chain analysis, Kusari Inspector adds real-time pull-request inspection and clear “safe to merge” guidance. Using the tool, developers receive instant, annotated reports with inline explanations, plus step-by-step remediation instructions that flag exposed secrets, misconfigurations, risky licenses and typo-squatted dependencies. Kusari Inspector prioritizes risk by ranking vulnerable or low-trust dependencies, both direct and transitive against trusted sources such as Common Vulnerability Scoring System, Exploit Prediction Scoring System and the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The idea is that by filtering out non-exploitable issues, the tool cuts alert noise and keeps teams focused on the threats that matter most. The AI model used by Kusari Inspector continuously learns from each codebase to refine its recommendations. Engineers can chat with the assistant to clarify findings, customize security standards and receive precise coding fixes that accelerate approvals. Additionally, it generates Software Bill of Materials data to support compliance and bolster software supply chain resilience from development through deployment.
Kyndryl to integrate Commvault’s immutable data vault based on zero-trust principles that secures backup data from unauthorized access and forensic analysis module into its cyber resiliency services
Data protection provider Commvault Systems announced a new partnership with information technology consultancy Kyndryl Holdings to help customers recover faster, advance cyber resilience and navigate the evolving regulatory landscape. The partnership between the two companies will see Commvault augment Kyndryl’s portfolio of cyber resiliency services, encompassing Incident Recovery Services, including Cyber Incident Recovery, Managed Backup Services and Hybrid Platform Recovery. The services from Commvault and Pure Storage provide a modular, four-layer architecture designed to assist with compliance and accelerate recovery across hybrid cloud environments. Commvault and Pure Storage bring to the table the Cyber Resilient Vault, an isolated and immutable data vault based on zero-trust principles that protects backup data from unauthorized access and corruption, as well as the Clean Recovery Zone, a secure space for forensic analysis, backup validation and staged recovery. The architecture also features Production Rapid Restore for fast and reliable restoration of large datasets using Pure Storage FlashBlade, enhanced with immutability via S3 Object Lock and SafeMode. Additionally, Immutable Snapshot Recovery offers application-consistent snapshot replication through Commvault IntelliSnap and Pure Storage FlashArray, enabling rapid restoration of Tier-1 workloads.
Financial ops platform Ramp powers over $80 billion in annualized purchase volume across card transactions and bill payments and serves >40,000 companies with half of them using two or more products across its platform
Ramp announced its Series E financing, bringing its valuation to $16 billion. For the fifth time, a Ramp funding round was led by Founders Fund – the company’s first and largest investor. Construction One reduced their AP team’s time spent on monthly close by 75%, saving them 360 hours in the last year. Poshmark hit their free cash flow goals 5 months ahead of schedule by redirecting their team’s energy toward strategic projects, not administrative burden. An industrial company (we can’t name) processed $47 million through Ramp cards, using our built-in controls to prevent 9% of spend that was out-of-policy and saving $4 million. In 2025 alone, we’ve shipped 270 features including Card & Expense, Procurement, Treasury. To date, Ramp has saved customers $10 billion and 27.5 million hours. Ramp currently powers over $80 billion in annualized purchase volume across card transactions and bill payments. Ramp’s product line includes corporate cards and expense management, bill payments, procurement, travel booking, and treasury. Half of Ramp customers use two or more products across its platform. With this round, Ramp has raised $1.4 billion in total equity financing.