Results of the 2023 International Planning Competition

How about some A.I. news that's not neural networks and is also useful to businesses? Or just something different?

Planning software is a classic use of A.I. to solve problems. They come up with improvements to both the tools and benchmarks every year. This article summarizes recent improvements.

Far as useful for business, I'd like to see a survey of those, especially open source. The last one I read about was Optaplanner:

https://www.optaplanner.org/