Live Shopping, MCP Intelligence, AI Sustainability And Lending Risks, And Mum Fragrances In Fortnite
This week on The Edit: five fresh headline stories from across fashion and technology receive the quickfire analysis treatment.
Is Fashion Missing The Post-Interface Market Opportunity?
Platforms providing access to raw data, or to a cut-down set of capabilities, through AI apps like ChatGPT are approaching MCP connectors as a way to add value for existing users. But the industry could be taking a very limited lens on a much larger addressable market.
Shopping, Sizing, Social, AI Strategy, And Domestic Shoe Manufacturing
This week on The Edit: five fresh headline stories from across fashion and technology receive the quickfire analysis treatment.
New Permissions And Growth Statistics Support A Vision For Agentic Shopping
A legal fight over agentic browsers reached a new phase this week, but that case is likely to be a red herring in a much deeper push towards AI-influenced commerce.
AI Meets 3D Printing, Composable eCommerce, SHEIN’s Valuation, And AI Shopping As A Service
This week on The Edit: five fresh headline stories from across fashion and technology receive the quickfire analysis treatment.
Fair Use Is Making Online Content Fair Game. Does Fashion Care?
Content creators across publishing, music, photography and more have been waiting for determinations on AI training as fair use. Current indications are not in their favour. What should fashion’s calculus look like?
Callimacus, the Platform Reinventing Digital Experiences for the AI Era, Enters into an Agreement for an Investment from Salesforce
After three years of development backed by Brunello Cucinelli’s holding company, Callimacuswill expand its engineering and AI research capabilities and accelerate commercial growthacross Europe and North America.
Clothing Destruction, Cybersecurity and AI, Affordability, And UK-EU Politics
This week on The Edit: five fresh headline stories from across fashion and technology receive the quickfire analysis treatment.
Frontier Cybersecurity, Advanced Persistence, And The Market For Fear
Last year’s wave of data breaches and ransom demands are fresh in fashion’s memory. Will a new turn in AI model capability, persistence, and inter-governmental posturing change the calculus again, or can the industry’s already-shored-up infosec practices sustain it?
Studio Private Announces Retoucher Mikaela Westerholm as Head of Image
The appointment reflects the Evolving Creative Role of Post-Production in Fashion Media.
An AI Likeness Free-For-All, Social Impact, Cataloguing, Sorting, And Persuasion
This week on The Edit: five fresh headline stories from across fashion and technology receive the quickfire analysis treatment.
YKK Develops Concept EXCELLA® Zipper Tape Using Nonwoven Fabric Partially Derived from Used Clothing
Adopted for the Latest Paris Couture Collection by YUIMA NAKAZATO.
AI Plays With Permission, Forgiveness, And Persuasion
Alongside model advancements across different modalities, this week demonstrates that AI will continue to test social boundaries - leaving fashion to decide whether it’s truly along for a bumpy cultural ride.
Substack, Politics, Surveillance, Scaling Recycling, And Labelling AI
This week on The Edit: five fresh headline stories from across fashion and technology receive the quickfire analysis treatment.