Reading Time: 7 minutesIf I had to whittle down my favorite thing about CSS-Tricks to one thing — and like Tom Petty hits, there’s a lot of ’em — it’s that we take moments like this to hit Pause and simply write like humans. We’re a super technical site that gets into super technical web dev jargon and […]
Arm and the future of AI at the edge
Reading Time: 4 minutesArm Holdings has positioned itself at the centre of AI transformation. In a wide-ranging podcast interview, Vince Jesaitis, head of global government affairs at Arm, offered enterprise decision-makers look into the company’s international strategy, the evolution of AI as the company sees it, and what lies ahead for the industry. From cloud to edge Arm […]
Inside China’s push to apply AI across its energy system
Reading Time: 4 minutesUnder China’s push to clean up its energy system, AI is starting to shape how power is produced, moved, and used — not in abstract policy terms, but in day-to-day operations. In Chifeng, a city in northern China, a renewable-powered factory offers a clear example. The site produces hydrogen and ammonia using electricity generated entirely […]
text-decoration-inset is Like Padding for Text Decorations
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe text-decoration-inset CSS property solves a problem that we’ve had since the beginning of the web, which is that text decorations such as underlines extend beyond the first and last characters (to the edges of the content box, to be specific), resulting in vertical misalignment. CodePen Embed Fallback I say it’s a problem “we’ve” had […]
Tesco signs three-year AI deal centred on customer experience
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor large retailers, the challenge with AI isn’t whether it can be useful, but how it fits into everyday work. A new three-year AI partnership by Tesco points to how one of the UK’s biggest supermarket groups is trying to achieve just that. Tesco plans to work with Mistral to develop AI tools that can […]
Masonry Layout is Now grid-lanes
Reading Time: 6 minutesWe’ve talked a lot about Masonry layout here on CSS-Tricks, so there’s no need to remind you of the two-sided discussions about how to approach it, the idea of using it as a new unifying layout concept, or alternative approaches for making it work today. Here’s what you do need to know: it’s going to […]
Become the ultimate host in just a few clicks with Office@Hand AI Receptionist (AIR)
Reading Time: 2 minutesEnd of year festivities are here! For most of us, that means cozy fires (or maybe sunny breaks?), family and friend gatherings, and perhaps a cup of well-deserved eggnog. How about a quick end of year-getaway? Yes, please! For getaway owners? These magical times often mean a flurry of bookings, urgent late-night calls about the […]
Marketing agencies using AI in workflows serve more clients
Reading Time: 4 minutesOf all the many industries, it’s marketing where AI is no longer an “innovation lab” side project but embedded in briefs, production pipelines, approvals, and media optimisation. A WPP iQ post published in December, based on a webinar with WPP and Stability AI, shows what AI deployment in daily operations looks like. Here, we’re talking […]
50,000 Copilot licences for Indian service companies
Reading Time: 3 minutesCognizant, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, and Wipro have announced plans to deploy more than 200,000 Microsoft Copilot licenses in their enterprises – over 50,000 per company – in what Microsoft is calling a new benchmark for enterprise-scale adoption of generative AI. The companies involved are framing the move as the implementation of a default tool […]
Zara’s use of AI shows how retail workflows are quietly changing
Reading Time: 3 minutesZara is testing how far generative AI can be pushed into everyday retail operations, starting with a part of the business that rarely gets attention in technology discussions: product imagery. Recent reporting shows the retailer using AI to generate new images of real models wearing different outfits, based on existing photoshoots. Models remain involved in […]
Search CSS-Tricks Raycast Extension
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have to search for articles often on this site. And I’d say searching this site is Pretty OK™ in general. Making content searchable on a site with 18+ years of published content is gonna be challenging no matter what, and the Jetpack Search tool we use is darned good considering it’s a drop-in solution. […]
Search CSS-Tricks Raycast Extension
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have to search for articles often on this site. And I’d say searching this site is Pretty OK™ in general. Making content searchable on a site with 18+ years of published content is gonna be challenging no matter what, and the Jetpack Search tool we use is darned good considering it’s a drop-in solution. […]
AI in Human Resources: the real operational impact
Reading Time: 4 minutesHuman Resources is an area in many organisations where AI can have significant operational impact. The technology is now being embedded into day-to-day operations, in activities like answering employees’ questions and supporting training. The clearest impact appears where organisations can measure the tech’s outcomes, typically in time saved and the numbers of queries successfully resolved. […]
Wall Street’s AI gains are here — banks plan for fewer people
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy December 2025, AI adoption on Wall Street had moved past experiments inside large US banks and into everyday operations. Speaking at a Goldman Sachs financial-services conference in New York on 9 December, bank executives described AI—particularly generative AI—as an operational upgrade already lifting productivity across engineering, operations, and customer service. The same discussion also […]
Ensuring effective AI in insurance operations
Reading Time: 4 minutesArtificial intelligence has been part of the insurance sector for years – the Finance function in many businesses is often the first to automate. But what’s remarkable in the instance of AI is how directly the technology is woven into day-to-day operational work. Not sitting in the background as a niche modelling capability, AI is […]