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Omio scales travel product development using OpenAI models

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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 Omio explicitly rejects the superficial addition of technology to outdated internal processes.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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SAP and Google Cloud deploy agentic commerce architecture

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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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Google Cloud generative AI automates council planning operations

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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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The AI off switch: How Anthropic’s export controls sparked a global AI sovereignty scramble

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Anthropic export controls turned an abstract policy fear into a live one last week: as of June 13, 2026, one US government directive took the company’s two most powerful AI models offline for users everywhere, including, briefly, Anthropic’s own foreign-born employees, and set off alarm bells across Europe and Canada about who really controls the

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Visa ChatGPT integration enables AI agent retail purchasing

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Visa has linked its payment infrastructure to ChatGPT, enabling AI agents to recommend retail products and execute financial transactions. The deployment removes human intervention from the final stages of the retail funnel. Autonomous agents will now process user prompts, evaluate merchant catalogues, and complete the checkout process using Visa’s payment rails at any supporting merchant.

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Aviva deploys AI to stop £230M in sophisticated insurance fraud

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Aviva has uncovered a record £230 million in insurance fraud claims and is using AI tools to counter the growing problem. The battleground has changed, and the culprits are also coming armed with a new generation of tools. We’re now in an environment where AI is being used not just to defend against fraud, but

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How C3 AI agents will automate predictive maintenance for Shell

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Shell will use agents from C3 AI to shift from basic anomaly detection towards fully-automated predictive maintenance. The global energy giant is building on their current use of the C3 AI Reliability Suite, which already keeps tabs on more than 30,000 crucial pieces of equipment across upstream and downstream operations. Shell now intends to lean

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Meta Business Agent drives AI-powered conversational commerce

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Meta has launched Business Agent to automate conversational commerce workflows directly inside its messaging applications. The software allows global retail brands to execute transactions and field support tickets without human intervention. Deploying this architecture places agentic AI directly at the core of social commerce. Meta integrated these workflows natively into Instagram, Messenger, and soon WhatsApp.

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How E.ON uses SAP S/4HANA to modernise the grid with AI

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Standardising grid data through SAP S/4HANA allows E.ON to modernise infrastructure and execute AI deployments. The utility giant manages infrastructure across three distinct domains: energy grids, customer solutions, and energy infrastructure solutions. Maintaining operations across this scope requires continuous capital expenditure on IT hardware and software maintenance. Leadership initially questioned the business case supporting large-scale

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Anthropic IPO filing marks AI maturing into enterprise utility

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Anthropic’s IPO filing marks the maturation of generative AI from a research-heavy venture phase into a stabilised enterprise utility. Model developers operating in private markets have prioritised rapid iteration and maximum compute performance over predictable billing cycles. Taking a foundational provider public aligns those engineering goals with standard corporate procurement, introducing structured release schedules and

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