Google has introduced several new tools and standards to help retailers with AI-driven commerce, where digital agents handle purchases for users. The biggest news is the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). An open standard that enables different AI agents, payment systems, and stores to collaborate through a common language. The protocol has been developed in collaboration

The Guardian has published a number of articles highlighting the risks of asking health-related questions to chatbots or other AI tools. For example, Google’s AI overviews provide directly dangerous answers about liver values, which can lead people with serious liver diseases to believe that they are healthy. Following the review, Google has decided to remove

AI is like electricity when it was first introduced more than a century ago: People understood its promise, but didn’t know what to do with it.  That’s where enterprises are with AI technology today: IT leaders know it will transform businesses, but are not yet sure how to implement it safely and securely — or

Meta’s US$2 billion acquisition of AI agent startup Manus has become every enterprise CTO’s cross-border compliance risk lesson. China’s Ministry of Commerce announced on January 9 that it would assess whether the deal violated export controls, technology transfer rules, and overseas investment regulations, despite Manus relocating from Beijing to Singapore in 2025. The investigation exposes

Retailers are starting to confront a problem that sits behind much of the hype around AI shopping: as customers turn to chatbots and automated assistants to decide what to buy, retailers risk losing control over how their products are shown, sold, and bundled. That concern is pushing some large chains to build or support their

Shopify is enhancing core enterprise commerce workflows with agentic AI, automating operations while expanding sales channels. The adoption of generative AI in commerce has largely centred on customer support chatbots and basic content generation. Shopify’s Winter ‘26 Edition, titled Renaissance, pushes this technology toward agentic commerce where AI systems actively manage workflows, configure infrastructure, and

Featuring Algolia Board Member Bernadette Nixon with David Clark, Chief Customer Officer at Frasers Group, and Jennifer Myers, Microsoft Shopping, to discuss how AI agents and adaptive commerce are reshaping retail Algolia, the AI Search and Retrieval platform trusted by more than 18,000 businesses and millions of developers worldwide, today announced that Algolia Board Member,

Fueled by Massive Customer Adoption of AI Agents, Torq Scales the World’s First True AI SOC Platform and Accelerates Expansion into the U.S. Federal Market Torq, the established Agentic AI security operations pioneer, today announced it has closed a massive $140 million Series D funding round, propelling its valuation to $1.2 billion and total funding

Articul8’s domain-specific GenAI platform, running on Google Cloud, helps a top semiconductor leader accelerate complex product development workflows with high-precision, multimodal intelligence. Articul8, the leader in domain-specific Generative AI (GenAI) for enterprises and regulated industries, today announced the successful deployment of its enterprise GenAI platform with a leading semiconductor company based in Santa Clara. Running

Strategic acquisition, 16+ AI patents and launch of UtilityAI Pro cement Bidgely as industry’s leading energy AI provider Bidgely solidified its position as the premier provider of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for the utility industry in 2025, driven by the evolution of its journey from foundational ML to generative AI (GenAI)