Last week’s ruling in Australia makes the use of facial recognition to fight fraud almost impossible and is the latest example of global regulators’ growing opposition to biometric technology in retail environments. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) ​​has determined that Kmart Australia Limited breached the Privacy Act 1988 when it used facial … Read more
E-commerce marketers know the challenge of delivering relevant promotions to potential customers without violating privacy rules and standards. However, many providers now offer solutions that enable both – customizing offers and respecting privacy – for much higher performance. Two of these providers are my guests on this week’s episode. Sean Larkin is the CEO of … Read more
Today we add Qwen models from Alibaba in Amazon Bedrock. With this launch Amazon Bedrock continues to expand the model options by adding access to Qwen3 Open Weight Foundation (FMS) in a fully managed manner without a server. This edition contains four models: Qwen3-Coder-480b-A35b-Instruct, Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct, Qwen3-235b-A22B-Invstruct-2507and Qwen3-32b (dense). Together, these models have both MOE (MOE) … Read more
In March, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) became the first cloud service provider to deliver Deepseek-R1 without a server launched as a fully managed, generally available model in Amazon Bedrock. Since then, customers have used Deepseek-R1 capabilities via Amazon Bedrock to create generative AI applications using the robust backing railing and comprehensive tools for safe … Read more
Visa’s new fraud monitoring framework begins on October 1, 2025, when acquiring merchant banks are subject to a new chargeback and fraud standard and a new fee structure. The Visa Holder Monitoring Program replaced two visa fraud and chargeback programs in April 2025 and introduced a combined measure called the VAMP ratio. Visa has given … Read more
AI has changed the way we create websites: you no longer have to spend weeks learning a complex code or hiring expensive developers. The best AI website creators can now create professional websites in minutes, not months. These platforms use AI to understand your business needs, automatically generate layouts and even write a copy of … Read more
The Azure AI Foundry merges with safety, safety and administration in layered processes that can follow companies to build confidence in their agents. This blog post is the sixth of the six -part series of blog called Agent Factory, which shares proven procedures, design patterns and tools that will help you lead and build AII. … Read more
Every week we handpick and publish a list of new products and services from retailers to e-commerce merchants. This installment includes updates to agent store, product customization, built-in checkout, e-commerce search, reverse logistics, fulfillment, warehouse automation and AI merchandising. Do you have an e-commerce product release? Email releases@practicalecommerce.com. New tools for traders Miva adds merchandising … Read more
A month ago, I shared that Amazon Web Services (AWS) was recognized as a leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (SCPS), with Gartner naming AWS a leader for the fifteenth year in a row. In 2024, AWS was named a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistant, … Read more
Last week, Strands Agents, the AWS open source agent AI SDK, just hit 1 million downloads and earned over 3,000 GitHub Stars less than 4 months after launching as a preview in May 2025. With Strands Agents, you can build production multi-agent AI systems in just a few lines of code. We have continuously improved … Read more