{"id":647458,"date":"2026-05-04T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/647458\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:56:08","slug":"loblaw-partners-with-canadian-ai-firm-shakudo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/647458\/","title":{"rendered":"Loblaw partners with Canadian AI firm Shakudo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/K537D7IBNJGG5CP46AFVGNSPAE.jpg?auth=ee5544ef2e284ec74ed46d78fa2b77e25f68df69b7870b54f758ced86ee92f24&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">Loblaw owns and operates Loblaws grocery stores and Shoppers Drug Mart.Nathan Denette\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Loblaw Cos. Ltd. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/markets\/stocks\/L-T\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/markets\/stocks\/L-T\/\">L-T<\/a> has signed a partnership deal with Canadian artificial intelligence company Shakudo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Under the agreement, Loblaw will use the platform to build and run AI applications, creating a centralized and consistent environment for its teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">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-article-body__text mv-16 l-inset text-pb-8\" data-sophi-feature=\"interstitial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/article-as-ai-upends-shopping-retailers-tailor-their-pitches-for-chatbots\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As AI upends shopping, retailers tailor their pitches for chatbots<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Charu Pujari, senior vice-president of engineering and AI at Loblaw, says the partnership with Shakudo gives its teams a common platform to build on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Pujari says that will allow them to focus on solving real problems instead of reinventing core plumbing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Loblaw is the parent company to the Loblaws grocery stores and Shoppers Drug Mart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Loblaw owns and operates Loblaws grocery stores and Shoppers Drug Mart.Nathan Denette\/The Canadian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,901,276,277,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-647458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alberta","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647458","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=647458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}