{"id":647363,"date":"2026-05-04T14:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/647363\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:56:08","slug":"loblaw-cos-ltd-signs-partnership-deal-with-canadian-ai-firm-shakudo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/647363\/","title":{"rendered":"Loblaw Cos. Ltd. signs partnership deal with Canadian AI firm Shakudo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0May 04, 2026 at 8:23AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0May 04, 2026 at 8:12AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/stock\/L:CT\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/stock\/L:CT\/\">Loblaw Cos. Ltd.<\/a> has signed a partnership deal with Canadian artificial intelligence company Shakudo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Under the agreement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/press-releases\/2026\/05\/04\/loblaw-partners-with-canadian-ai-company-shakudo-to-accelerate-its-ai-adoption-and-deployment\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/press-releases\/2026\/05\/04\/loblaw-partners-with-canadian-ai-company-shakudo-to-accelerate-its-ai-adoption-and-deployment\/\">Loblaw will use the platform to build and run AI applications, creating a centralized and consistent environment<\/a> for its teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As part of its AI strategy, the retailer says it\u2019s establishing internal protocols that allow AI applications to securely interact with enterprise systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Charu Pujari, senior vice-president, Engineering and AI at Loblaw, says the partnership with Shakudo gives its teams a common platform to build on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pujari says that will allow them to focus on solving real problems instead of reinventing core plumbing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Loblaw is the parent company to the Loblaws grocery stores and Shoppers Drug Mart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 4, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Read more:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0May 04, 2026 at 8:23AM EDT Published:\u00a0May 04, 2026 at 8:12AM EDT TORONTO \u2014 Loblaw Cos. Ltd. has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,60322,45,49,48,15913,6578,66,2940,61],"class_list":["post-647363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-beverage","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-hardware","tag-retail","tag-science","tag-software","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}