After a half-dozen years on Commercial Drive and five decades of serving Vancouver, long-running independent music store Rufus Guitar & Drum Shop will close on January 31.

Most striking: nearly all incremental holiday growth on Amazon came from AI-assisted shopping. Rufus sessions rose approximately 90% from October 1 through Black Friday week, while non-Rufus sessions ...

Last month, Amazon announced that it'd launch a new AI-powered chatbot, Rufus, inside the Amazon Shopping app for Android and iOS. After a few days' delay, the company began to roll out Rufus to early ...

Rufus, Amazon’s recently launched, shopping-focused chatbot, is getting ads soon. That’s according to a changelog published by Amazon this week (first spotted by AdWeek), which states that sponsored ...

Amazon has been using AI for quite a while, deploying it for tasks such as detecting fake reviews and finding defective products. In February this year, Amazon stepped up and announced a ...