Stephan's Monday Picks

• Pete Wells reviewed restaurants for 12 years. They've changed, and not for the better (NYT)
• Williams Sonoma's CEO defied the retail apocalpyse. Now a gloomy economy is forcing even her well-off customers to spend less (Fortune)
• Shopify douses investor skepticism with solid quarter, shares jump 18 per cent (Globe and Mail)
• Meet AdVon, the AI-powered content monster infecting the media industry (Futurism)
• LLM to ROI: How to generate scale Gen AI in retail (McKinsey)