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Lotlinx wins “LLM Innovation Award” in 2025 Artificial Intelligence Breakthrough Awards Program

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July 9, 2025

DETROIT, July 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lotlinx, the auto industry’s leading VIN-specific data company for dealership inventory management, today announced that its advanced generative AI inventory and pricing management solution has been selected as winner of the “LLM Innovation Award” in the 8^th annual AI Breakthrough Awards program conducted by AI Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global Artificial Intelligence (AI) market today.

As the auto retail industry faces increasing challenges in inventory management, pricing optimization, and market adaptability—particularly in light of automotive tariffs that directly impact vehicle costs and dealership profitability—dealers are seeking new ways to navigate complex pricing environments. Tariffs and economic pressures are driving up the price of imported vehicles and parts, squeezing profit margins, shifting consumer demand, and requiring real-time recalibration of inventory strategies.

While many dealerships strive to enhance profitability through data-driven decision-making, traditional inventory and pricing management solutions often rely on static reports and historical data, leaving dealers reactive rather than proactive. These outdated tools fail to capture and analyze the dynamic factors affecting vehicle pricing, such as tariffs, economic conditions, competitor activity, and regional demand fluctuations. As a result, dealers risk overpricing or underpricing vehicles, leading to lost revenue opportunities, inventory stagnation, and eroded margins.

Lotlinx’s advanced Vertical AI solution addresses these challenges by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and Agentic AI to analyze millions of data points per vehicle in real time, delivering region-specific, data-backed recommendations tailored to the dealer’s unique market conditions.

At its core is the Agentic AI-powered virtual assistant, designed as a Virtual Internet Sales Manager that understands complex inventory and pricing scenarios and provides intelligent, automated guidance. After analyzing vehicle performance within the local market, the assistant suggests proactive actions, including strategic pricing adjustments, competitive positioning, follow-up reminders, and demand-based inventory alerts. The intelligent system continuously monitors sales velocity, market conditions, and pricing trends down to the zip code level.

By seamlessly integrating into dealership workflows, the solution ensures that data-backed insights are immediately actionable, eliminating guesswork and enabling dealers to proactively optimize inventory and pricing strategies. In addition, the solution also delivers real-time interpretation and automated recommendations for active, strategic decision-making.

“We’re thrilled to accept this award from AI Breakthrough. The strength of our AI technology is that it gives control back to dealers through an automated, proactive approach that helps them maintain profitability in an era where external economic forces add layers of complexity to pricing and inventory strategies,” said Len Short, Executive Chairman of Lotlinx. “By equipping dealers with a powerful, AI-driven inventory and pricing management system, we are modernizing the auto retail industry with predictive decision-making capabilities that drive efficiency, profitability, and strategic agility in an increasingly volatile market.”

The AI Breakthrough Awards shine a spotlight on the boldest innovators and most impactful technologies leading the charge in AI across a comprehensive set of categories, including Generative AI, Computer Vision, AIOps, Agentic AI, Robotics, Natural Language Processing, industry-specific AI applications and many more. This year’s program attracted more than 5,000 nominations from over 20 different countries throughout the world, underscoring the explosive growth and global importance of AI as a defining technology of the 21st century.

“Lotlinx’s solution provides forward-looking, AI-driven insights that help dealers adapt to the always changing economic and regulatory landscape. Traditional inventory and pricing solutions don’t capture and analyze dynamic factors like tariffs, economic conditions, competitor activity, and fluctuating regional demand, leaving dealers to struggle with pricing vehicles competitively, inventory strategy, and adjusting to rapid market changes,” said Steve Johansson, managing director, AI Breakthrough. “This technology ensures that dealerships are no longer constrained by outdated, reactive management strategies but instead gain access to an intelligent, automated partner that enhances decision-making, boosts profitability, and streamlines operations. We’re pleased to recognize Lotlinx with the ‘LLM Innovation Award!’”

About Lotlinx

Founded in 2012 and based out of Peterborough, New Hampshire, Lotlinx is the automotive industry leader in VIN-specific data solutions for inventory risk management. The Lotlinx platform provides automobile dealers and manufacturers with enhanced operational control over their retail business. Leveraging state-of-the-art real-time data and machine learning technology, Lotlinx provides a precision retailing solution that enables dealers to automatically adapt to market dynamics, mitigating inventory risk through VIN-specific strategies. To learn more about Lotlinx, please visit www.lotlinx.com.

About AI Breakthrough

Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the AI Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in Artificial Intelligence technologies, services, companies, and products. The AI Breakthrough Awards provide public recognition for the achievements of AI companies and products in categories including Generative AI, Machine Learning, AI Platforms, Robotics, Business Intelligence, AI Hardware, Computer Vision and more. For more information visit AIBreakthroughAwards.com.

Tech Breakthrough LLC does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in our recognition programs, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with award designations. Tech Breakthrough LLC recognition consists of the opinions of the Tech Breakthrough LLC organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Tech Breakthrough LLC disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this recognition program, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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Govt. AI Assessment Ranks States’ Readiness, Adoption Levels

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July 9, 2025

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An AI readiness assessment released Wednesday by Code for America explores how U.S. state governments are preparing for the AI-powered public-sector transformation and identifies emerging trends within that shift.

Trends highlighted in the analysis include the rise of chief AI officers, investment in training programs, an evolving cybersecurity threat landscape, state-level policymaking, and secure sandbox environments for experimentation.

The Government AI Landscape Assessment explores AI readiness in three areas: leadership and governance, capacity building, and technical infrastructure and capabilities. The resource classifies states’ readiness levels in each of these areas under one of four categories: early, developing, established or advanced. The early classification includes states that have taken the initial steps in AI adoption, while the advanced classification recognizes states with sophisticated capabilities, frameworks and approaches.

States leading in readiness, according to this assessment, are Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Utah, each of which received two “advanced” classifications and one “established” classification.

Each of these states has prioritized AI readiness. Pennsylvania has been testing and measuring AI for impact, and New Jersey is taking an economy-focused approach to AI and has been an early implementer of AI training. Utah has been an early AI adopter and even recently created an AI policy office that aims to answer societal AI questions.

Overall, in the category of leadership and governance, only three states were classified as advanced. Half, or 25, were classified as established; 16 as developing; and seven as early. Washington, D.C., was included as a state in this assessment. Utah and North Carolina were highlighted for their work in this area.In AI capacity building, four states were classified as advanced, 10 as established, 23 as developing, and 14 as early. New Jersey and Pennsylvania were highlighted for their work here.

In technical infrastructure and capabilities, three states were classified as advanced, 16 as established, 23 as developing, and nine as early. Colorado and Minnesota were highlighted for their work in this.

“This analysis demonstrates what many of us know to be true: states are leading the way when it comes to adopting AI to make government more efficient and effective,” Jenn Thom, Code for America’s senior director of data science, said in a statement.

The assessment was created by reviewing public materials, AI-focused legislation and policy, guidance and reports, news coverage, and direct input.

Debate has arisen recently about whether AI policymaking should occur at the state or federal level, with the consensus largely being that both should have a role in regulation. With the removal of a provision to enact a moratorium on state-level AI regulation from the federal budget bill, states retain the authority to enact policy to guide responsible AI use.

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Microsoft launches $4B artificial intelligence reskilling institute

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July 9, 2025

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Microsoft unveiled a new initiative Wednesday that’s intended to bring artificial intelligence skills to millions of people around the world.

Microsoft Elevate will spend $4 billion in cash and technology donations to philanthropic, educational, and labor organizations over the next four years, as it seeks to accelerate the proliferation of AI technology.

Microsoft makes the AI tool CoPilot, and is a key partner of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. The company is investing aggressively in the infrastructure needed to power its AI push, pledging to spend $80 billion on data centers this year.

The investments come as Microsoft lays off thousands of employees in in its home state, Washington, and globally.

“ One of the things that has changed the most dramatically about Microsoft is we’ve moved as a company — as our industry has moved as an industry — from one that spent almost every dollar it earned on employing people to what is in fact the greatest capital and infrastructure investment in the history of global infrastructure,” Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith said at a launch event in Seattle.

In an interview with KUOW, Smith said that restructuring is “ frankly something that should always be hard, but it is something that needs to be done for a company to be successful for many decades and not just a few years.”

Smith said Microsoft Elevate will employ about 300 people, and partner with organizations around the world on a variety of initiatives aimed at increasing AI literacy. The Microsoft Elevate Academy plans to help 20 million people earn AI skilling credentials to be more competitive in an uncertain job market.

“ I think in many ways it gives us the opportunity to reach everybody,” Smith said, “and that includes people who will be using and designing AI in the future, say the future of what computer science education becomes, people who are designing AI systems for businesses, but consumers as well, students and teachers who can use AI to better reach and prepare for helping students.”

The initiative also includes the creation of Microsoft’s AI Economy Institute, a think tank of academics that will study the societal impacts of AI.

The effect generative AI will have on education remains a source of much speculation and debate.

While some educators are embracing the technology, others are struggling to rein in cheating and question whether the technology could undermine the very premise of education as we know it.

Regardless of the ongoing debate, Microsoft has always been at the forefront of bringing technology into the classroom, first with PCs and now AI. The company is betting that the resources it is devoting to Microsoft Elevate will help shape a path forward that allows AI to be more useful than disruptive in education and across the economy.

“ There are many different skills that we’re all going to need to work together to pursue, but I think there’s also a North Star that should guide us,” Smith said. “It’s a North Star that might sound unusual coming from a tech company, but I think it’s a North Star that matters most. We need to use AI to help us think more, not less.”

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Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Exploitation: A New Era of Risk

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July 9, 2025

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance will hold a hearing on Wednesday, July 16, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. ET. The hearing, “Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Exploitation: A New Era of Risk,” will examine the growing threat of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled crime, including how criminals are leveraging AI to conduct fraud, identity theft, child exploitation, and other illicit activities. It will also explore the capabilities and limitations of law enforcement in addressing these evolving threats, as well as potential legislative and policy responses to ensure public safety in the age of AI.

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LTC Andrew Bowne, Former Counsel, Department of the Air Force Artificial Intelligence Accelerator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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