Author name: Chris Alas

As product returns surge during peak shopping seasons, retailers face growing losses from fraud and abuse. This article explores how a UPS subsidiary is deploying AI-driven reverse logistics to detect irregular return behavior in real time, balance automation with human review, and protect margins without disrupting the customer experience.

Rising demand for artificial intelligence is accelerating investment in semiconductor manufacturing equipment, from EUV lithography and metrology to advanced packaging and memory. This article explores why tool sales are projected to reach 126 billion dollars by 2026, how geopolitical and operational pressures are reshaping fabs worldwide, and why disciplined execution and specialized talent are critical to turning capital investment into sustainable production.

Walmart’s AI strategy is built on execution rather than experimentation, combining edge computing, cloud infrastructure, and retail-specific models to optimize inventory, logistics, and customer experience. This article explores the infrastructure behind Walmart’s AI flywheel and explains how Square Codex helps organizations replicate this level of operational AI by embedding nearshore engineering and data talent directly into execution-focused teams.

This article explains how Thales is launching AI Security Fabric to monitor AI applications in real time, protect RAG flows, and address emerging threats such as jailbreak attempts and data leaks.

Explore how major U.S. banks are using artificial intelligence to boost productivity, automate repetitive work, and reshape operational structures. It also explains how Square Codex supports financial institutions by providing nearshore engineering talent that strengthens AI integration, compliance, and production level reliability.

This article explains how IBM’s acquisition of Confluent reshapes the foundations of AI in production by strengthening real time data streaming, governance, and multi cloud connectivity. It also highlights why nearshore teams like Square Codex help companies turn complex streaming pipelines into reliable systems that support AI at scale.

Amazon’s second generation of Nova AI models introduces Nova Forge, a tool that allows companies to customize systems during pretraining. This shift aims to improve accuracy, reduce late-stage fixes, and embed domain rules from the beginning. The article explains how Nova Lite, Pro, Sonic, and Omni fit different workloads and how early customization compares with approaches from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. It also highlights how Square Codex supports projects built on Nova Forge with Costa Rican nearshore teams specializing in data pipelines, MLOps, and secure AI deployment.

Once again we are talking about Nvidia, a company that keeps surprising the computing world and one we at Square Codex follow closely. The message Jensen Huang sent this week from Washington was twofold and direct. On the one hand, the Nvidia chief executive confirmed he has spoken with Donald Trump about chip export restrictions and how that framework shapes the industry’s roadmap. On the other, he strongly criticized the idea of regulating artificial intelligence with different rules in every U.S. state, because in his view a fragmented regulatory patchwork would slow progress and raise costs for those building systems and services on that common foundation. These were not stray remarks in a hallway; they came in a public agenda that included a forum in Washington and interviews with the press, and they arrive at a time when the sector reads every political nuance as a signal of investment or risk.

Amazon and Google have introduced a joint multicloud connectivity service that cuts weeks of engineering work and enables fast, private links between AWS and Google Cloud. This article reviews what the announcement means for reliability, latency, continuity planning, and enterprise architecture. It also explains how Square Codex supports companies with Costa Rican nearshore DevOps and platform teams that design, secure, and monitor private cross cloud networks with traceable processes and clear operational guarantees.

Everyone is already gearing up with rituals that are part of re:Invent’s culture. The week opens with Midday Madness at Caesars Forum, a warm-up that stretches to two days this year and even turns the Los Angeles to Las Vegas trip into a hackathon streamed live. For those arriving on the weekend, it is a chance to get acclimated, pick up swag, and start building connections without burning the technical agenda too early. The organizers have published schedules, locations, and activities for this extended opening, a sign that the event wants to be both an engineer’s festival and a professional conference.