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Anthropic drops ‘workplace AI agents’ directly inside Slack

Anthropic launched a beta version of its Claude Tag feature for Enterprise and Team tiers, shifting its chat model into shared Slack channels. Moving away from traditional isolated chat boxes, users pull the artificial intelligence model into active group threads by typing @Claude.  The integration allows any team member in the channel to delegate a task, review […]

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Omio scales travel product development using OpenAI models

Omio integrates OpenAI models across its engineering operations to accelerate travel product development and launch booking interfaces. The multimodal travel platform coordinates operations with over 3,000 transportation providers across 47 countries. Omio explicitly rejects the superficial addition of technology to outdated internal processes. The company’s CTO, Tomas Vocetka, requires all internal functions to completely redesign

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Top spy agencies say AI cyber threats will impact you within months. Here’s why

The global surge in AI cyber threats is no longer a distant problem for corporate data centres, according to an urgent public warning from the world’s most powerful intelligence alliance. On June 22, 2026, the cybersecurity chiefs of the Five Eyes nations—comprising the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—issued a rare joint intelligence briefing stating that upcoming artificial

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Benchmarks of Sakana AI Fugu standard and Ultra compared to rival frontier models.

Mitigating vendor lock-in with Sakana AI Fugu multi-agent models

Sakana AI launched Fugu to orchestrate multi-agent operations and mitigate single-vendor dependency risks in enterprise deployments. Enterprises face operational vulnerabilities when relying entirely on monolithic AI APIs. Japanese AI firm Sakana AI designed Fugu as a response to these concentration risks by creating an orchestration language model that calls upon a pool of varied models

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L’Oréal brings Maybelline virtual try-on to ChatGPT

L’Oréal has announced a collaboration with OpenAI that will bring Maybelline New York’s virtual makeup try-on feature into ChatGPT. The announcement was made at VivaTech 2026. The partnership covers consumer-facing shopping tools, product discovery, advertising pilots, research, and internal content production. The collaboration also covers L’Oréal’s internal use of AI in research, formulation, content production,

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SAP and Google Cloud deploy agentic commerce architecture

SAP and Google Cloud are deploying agentic commerce architecture to automate multi-agent marketing and retail operations at enterprise scale. SAP research indicates 78 percent of businesses consider AI essential for retaining customers in 2026. However, the same data reveals fewer than two in five companies share customer data across customer experience (37%) or CRM (39%)

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Computer vision deployments drive retail productivity gains

Computer vision deployments are driving retail productivity gains as operators automate physical shelf tracking to protect eroding margins. This hardware deployment directly addresses the persistent in-store execution failures currently costing the industry billions. A study authored by Coresight Research – in partnership with technology providers Simbe and RELEX Solutions – calculates the exact cost of

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HSBC expands AI banking partnership with Google Cloud

HSBC has entered a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud to develop and deploy artificial intelligence tools across its global operations. Announced at Google Cloud Summit London 2026, the agreement covers work in wealth management, financial crime risk management, and internal decision support. HSBC will work with Google Cloud and Google DeepMind engineering teams on AI

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Google Cloud generative AI automates council planning operations

Government ministries are deploying Google Cloud generative AI across municipal agencies to automate council planning operations. Public sector administration handles vast volumes of unstructured data that delay infrastructure development. The UK central government established a target to construct 1.5 million new homes by 2029. Local planning authorities encounter administrative backlogs caused by dense paperwork, delaying

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Insurers pivot AI strategy toward core risk underwriting

AI investments by insurers are now expected to generate tangible business value beyond mere efficiency. According to findings in the 2026 Evident AI Index, insurers are now embedding AI technologies into workflows that directly influence underwriting discipline and capital allocation. Christian Preece, Insurance Director at Evident, says: “For years, insurers have competed on AI ambition,

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