The AI bubble isn’t just hype — it’s real and could create many corporate casualties if or when it bursts. The companies that will succeed will be the ones solving real-world problems and engaging clients, according to tech industry execs and analysts. AI startup valuations have skyrocketed, creating the fear of an AI bubble that’s

Threat actors now have the ability to exploit a new zero-day vulnerability in the Chrome browser, Google has advised IT administrators. The warning comes after Google released a patch for Chrome to plug a use after free memory vulnerability (CVE-2026-2441) in cascading style sheets (CSS), which means the browser’s CSS engine isn’t properly managing memory

Retail decisions often depend on weekly performance reports, but compiling those reports can take hours of manual work. Urban Outfitters Inc. (URBN) is testing a new approach by using agentic AI systems to generate those reports automatically, changing routine analysis from staff to software. The retailer runs brands like Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and Free People,

Debenhams is piloting agentic AI commerce via PayPal integration to reduce mobile friction and help solve a familiar problem for retailers. Mobile checkout abandonment remains a persistent revenue leak for digital retailers. Debenhams Group is attempting to close this gap by deploying an agentic AI interface within the PayPal app. The pilot makes Debenhams the

NatWest Group has expanded the use of artificial intelligence in several areas of its operations, citing customer service, document management in its wealth management division, and software development. According to a blog post by its chief information officer, Scott Marcar, 2025 was the first year in which these systems were deployed at scale. The aim

The First Revenue Network Where Autonomous AI Agents Negotiate, Execute, and Earn — While Human Users Capture Ongoing Revenue  Consensus Hong Kong — Virtuals Protocol, which powers the world’s largest AI agent economy with over 18,000 agents, today announced the launch of Virtuals Revenue Network, a new onchain AI network  for autonomous agent-to-agent commerce. Unlike traditional

Enabling rapid, robot-agnostic integration of VISIE’s spatial computing platform VISIE Inc. today announced the availability of its partner application programming interfaces (APIs), marking a significant milestone in the company’s commercial and integration readiness. The APIs enable surgical robotics and navigation partners to integrate VISIE’s spatial computing and real-time scanning capabilities into existing robotic platforms with

Multi-year collaboration with AWS will help organizations not yet on AWS migrate and modernize, establish secure cloud foundations, and scale responsible Generative AI with funding and enablement Adastra, a global leader in AI and data-driven transformation, today announced that they will participate in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Greenfield Program (PGP). PGP helps organizations

Designed for mission-critical field operations, the joint solution combines autonomous and assisted AI with Vonage communications and network APIs for those working beyond the enterprise edge Vonage, part of Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), today announced a strategic collaboration with C3 AI (NYSE: AI), a leading Enterprise AI application software provider, to launch C3 AI Field Services, a module of the

We spent the better part of two decades arguing about text files. You can be forgiven for blotting that from your mind, but if you were anywhere near enterprise IT between 2000 and 2020, it’s pretty much all we talked about. GNU General Public License, Apache License, MIT License, etc., etc. That was on the