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Marketing teams can now automate customer journeys and routine site tasks without sending data to a separate platform, easing GDPR concerns.
Developers using AI agents could avoid GitHub rate limits and outages as Entire opens a preview network mirroring repositories across regions.
Downtime from slow devices and failed apps is prompting larger firms to unify endpoint, security and experience tools, IDC says.
Businesses could see faster, cheaper AI coding and office workflows as OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 with stronger safeguards.
AI is helping hospitals cut scan times, clear backlogs and spot disease earlier, while doctors still keep final say over treatment.
Streaming ads are being tied more closely to sales as Amazon links Prime Video's Elle to shoppable campaigns for L'Oréal Paris and Swisse.
AI-enabled scams are making it harder for UK and European businesses to win executive backing for staff-focused cyber defences.
Businesses are being urged to tighten controls as AI tools spread faster than governance, with Quorum Cyber updating assessments to cut cyber risk.
Food businesses face refund losses and regulatory checks as AI-made complaints and images are increasingly used to allege food safety failings.
Professional services firms can now query their own data in plain English, with early users already checking cash flow, staffing and overdue invoices.
Despite a global funding slowdown, the UK kept its No 2 FinTech spot as investors backed 181 deals worth USD $1.8 billion in H1 2026.
Payment disruptions are worsening customer experience at utilities and telecoms firms, with 99% of respondents reporting some form of issue.
AI is helping corporate lawyers answer stakeholders faster, with 97% of legal leaders in a new study citing quicker responses.
Businesses can now let AI agents update Salesforce records and run tasks through Airbyte's new OpenAI Marketplace listing.
The layer is designed to stop AI misreading marketing shifts, after many pilots fail because systems lack business context and governance.
Common grid designs could speed approvals and cut delays for UK data centres as demand for AI capacity strains the network.
A gap in pension understanding is leaving 43% of UK workers unconvinced their savings will deliver a comfortable retirement.
Prepaid gaming spending is shifting from launch-day splurges to year-round purchases, with UK gift card use on the marketplace nearly doubling.
Merchants will hear practical advice on approvals, AI and expansion as Ecommpay tries to simplify a crowded payments market.
Many firms still lack grants and training as ministers' industrial push is judged on what reaches factory floors, Fluke research shows.