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Instacart has deployed an embedded checkout experience within ChatGPT through the emerging Agentic Commerce Protocol. With the deployment, the company is the first partner to launch an app on ChatGPT that offers a complete shopping cycle – from query to payment – without requiring the user to leave the conversation interface. Operationalising agentic commerce The […]

According to OpenAI, enterprise AI has graduated from the sandbox and is now being used for daily operations with deep workflow integrations. New data from the company shows that firms are now assigning complex and multi-step workflows to models rather than simply asking for text summaries. The figures illustrate a hard change in how organisations

Resemble AI has raised US$13 million in a new strategic investment round for AI deepfake detection. The funding brings its total venture investment to US$25 million, with participation from Berkeley CalFund, Berkeley Frontier Fund, Comcast Ventures, Craft Ventures, Gentree, Google’s AI Futures Fund, IAG Capital Partners, and others. The funding comes as organisations are under

Digital payments and fintech company Ant International, has won the NeurIPS Competition of Fairness in AI Face Detection. The company says it’s committed to developing secure and inclusive financial services, particularly as deepfake technologies are becoming more common. The growing use of facial recognition in many sectors has highlighted the issue of algorithmic bias in

InTouchNow.ai is now offering doctors surgeries a piece of software designed to modernise phone answering, designed to reduce hold times and create a smoother, more responsive experience for patients and staff. In the UK, many GP (general practice) surgeries’ phone lines are tied up in the mornings as patients try to contact their medical practitioner

ByteDance’s December 2 launch of an agentic AI smartphone prototype with ZTE sparked immediate consumer enthusiasm – and just as quickly triggered privacy concerns that forced the company to dial back capabilities. But beneath the headline-grabbing sell-out and subsequent controversy lies a more significant story: the enterprise implications of operating-system-level AI agents that can autonomously

The convergence of mobile and desktop operating systems is a goal that has remained elusive for big tech firms since the early days of the smartphone. Microsoft’s attempt in the form of Windows Mobile was reaching the end of its road by 2010, and despite Apple’s iOS/iPadOS and macOS moving very slowly towards one another

The UK and Germany plan to integrate their science sectors to accelerate the commercialisation of quantum supercomputing technology. Announced on the final day of the German president’s state visit, these joint commitments target the gap between R&D and enterprise application in computing, sensing, and timing. The partnership involves specific funding to fast-track product development and

Amazon Web Services has scored another major win for its custom AWS Trainium accelerators after striking a deal with AI video startup Decart. The partnership will see Decart optimise its flagship Lucy model on AWS Trainium3 to support real-time video generation, and highlight the growing popularity of AI accelerators over Nvidia’s graphics processing units. Decart

According to AWS at this week’s re:Invent 2025, the chatbot hype cycle is effectively dead, with frontier AI agents taking their place. That is the blunt message radiating from Las Vegas this week. The industry’s obsession with chat interfaces has been replaced by a far more demanding mandate: “frontier agents” that don’t just talk, but