AI

By Darko Pavic
July 22, 2026

LLMs Without the Hype: A Plain-English Guide to Models, Tokens, GPUs and the AI Race

Artificial intelligence has become remarkably easy to use and surprisingly difficult to explain. A person can open ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Kimi and begin working within seconds. Behind that simple interface, however, sits an...

AI, Leadership & Innovation

By Darko Pavic
July 9, 2026

Will AI Take Your Job — And Should You Still Go to University?

For students and young professionals, the real lesson from the latest labour-market reports is not to fear artificial intelligence, but to learn faster, build judgment, and use the technology to become more valuable than...

By Darko Pavic
June 6, 2026

Google’s New Retail Play: Own the Search, Then Sell the Visibility

Why Google’s AI retail features are not just another tool update, but a strategic move to protect the search business, reshape product discovery and create the next layer of visibility infrastructure for retailers. Every...

By Darko Pavic
May 25, 2026

How To Be Found By AI Search

What Google’s new guidance means for websites that want to remain visible when search becomes generative, conversational and increasingly agentic. The next phase of search will not reward websites that simply repeat what is...

AI, Leadership & Innovation

By Darko Pavic
April 25, 2026

Here Is Why AI Will Not Kill Software — But It Will Kill Weak Software

Imagine a software company that does everything right. It sees a real market gap, designs a compelling new product, and uses a mix of human engineering and AI-assisted coding to get to market fast....

AI, Future of Retail, Retail Technology

By Darko Pavic
April 18, 2026

Retail’s New Front Door Is AI

For years, retailers treated AI as a tool for efficiency. Adobe’s latest traffic analysis suggests that this is now too small a view. The bigger change is happening at the very start of the...

AI, Fiscalization, POS Compliance

By Darko Pavic
April 9, 2026

AI-First Is the Right Direction. But Global Compliance Demands More Than Architecture

I was inspired today by Shiji’s press release on its transition to an AI-first hospitality platform. What impressed me was not only the ambition of the message, but the discipline behind it. Shiji is...

AI, Retail Technology

By Darko Pavic
January 24, 2026

Your AI Assistant Is Lying to You — Unless Your Retail Data Looks Like This (1,803 EuroShop Exhibitors, Proof Inside)

I wanted to learn what “AI-ready data” really means in practice, so I built an enrichment pipeline from scratch and stress‑tested it on the EuroShop 2026 exhibitor list. Here’s what broke, what I changed,...

AI, Future of Retail, Retail Technology

By Darko Pavic
January 24, 2026

From Raw Retail Data to Agentic AI

Why this matters (and why it’s suddenly urgent) Retail leaders don’t need more AI demos. They need AI that survives contact with reality: promotions that stack, returns without receipts, offline stores, marketplace taxes, and...

By Darko Pavic
October 12, 2025

Apps in ChatGPT: The Next Revolution, and What It Means for Retail

On October 6, 2025, OpenAI introduced apps inside ChatGPT, tools you can literally chat with. It sounds simple, but the idea is profound. This is a credible path to a super-app: one conversational interface...