Four developments this week shed some light on this — with temporal frames ranging from a few quarters to decades. The body of this newsletter will deal with some of these, but here’s a quick summary.

Numa, AI for dealership customer operations, today announced an integration with Tekion, innovator of the first end-to-end, AI-native cloud platform serving the entire automotive retail ecosystem.

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