AI Goes from Lab Rats to Cash Cows: Why Walmart's Bots Are Smoking Your Spreadsheets Right Now
Published: January 10, 2026
Duration: 3:32
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Applied artificial intelligence is shifting from experiment to execution, and the businesses winning now are the ones treating machine learning as core infrastructure rather than a side project. McKinsey’s 2025 State of Artificial Intelligence survey reports that almost all high performers embed artificial intelligence in multiple functions and track it with hard business metrics like revenue uplift, cost savings, and cycle time reduction, not just model accuracy. According to National University’s 2026 artificial intelligence trends report, 77 percent of companies are now using or exploring artificial intelligence, yet cost...
Applied artificial intelligence is shifting from experiment to execution, and the businesses winning now are the ones treating machine learning as core infrastructure rather than a side project. McKinsey’s 2025 State of Artificial Intelligence survey reports that almost all high performers embed artificial intelligence in multiple functions and track it with hard business metrics like revenue uplift, cost savings, and cycle time reduction, not just model accuracy. According to National University’s 2026 artificial intelligence trends report, 77 percent of companies are now using or exploring artificial intelligence, yet cost...