01/12/26 - Chalk 4.0 Visual LLM Architecture, Universal Commerce Protocol Launch, Honeywell Vertex AI Retail Deployment

This episode examines FIRSTHABIT’s Chalk four point zero visual LLM architecture and its seventy six point four percent completion rate in beta testing, Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol enabling agent-based checkout across Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target, and Walmart, Honeywell’s deployment of Google Cloud Vertex AI and Gemini models in physical retail environments on Mobility Edge hardware, and Debiopharm’s implementation of Genialis Expressions for standardized biomarker discovery pipelines. The briefing covers production architectures that embed AI inference into educational reasoning paths, commerce transaction flows, in-store inventory systems, and clinical data processing workflows.