India’s retail landscape is undergoing a profound transformation. After a period of cautious consolidation and post-pandemic recalibration, the nation’s largest retail conglomerates are orchestrating an aggressive, nationwide expansion of their physical store footprints. This push, reaching a four-year high in intensity, is being fueled by a massive influx of capital raised through both debt and […]
SIGGRAPH 2026: NVIDIA Unveils the Future of Physical AI and Neural Rendering
At this year’s SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles, running through Thursday, July 23, the boundaries between digital simulation and physical reality are dissolving. NVIDIA, a perennial leader in computer graphics, has utilized the industry’s premier stage to demonstrate how the convergence of neural rendering, world models, and generative AI is fundamentally transforming how both humans […]
UNC3753 Escalates: From Vishing Calls to Physical Office Intrusions at US Legal and Financial Firms
UNC3753 phones staff posing as IT, hijacks screen sessions, steals sensitive legal files, and now sends operatives physically into offices to plug in USB drives. Google Mandiant and the Google Threat Intelligence Group published a detailed report documenting an active extortion campaign carried out by the cybercrime group UNC3753 (aka Luna Moth, Chatty Spider, and […]
Ulta Beauty shares early AI assistant results as ecommerce growth outpaces sales in physical stores
Ulta Beauty Inc. reported double-digit ecommerce sales growth in its fiscal Q1 — far outpacing physical stores with comparable sales — as customers spent more and made more purchases. For its first quarter ended May 2, Ulta said its net sales increased 11.1% year over year, reaching $3.16 billion. Overall comparable sales grew 5.3% year […]