• Barclays targets AI for significant cost cuts

    Barclays aims for £2 billion cost savings using AI. The bank plans to enhance productivity and customer experience by investing in technology while returning over £15 billion to shareholders by 2028 as part of its restructuring strategy.


  • Alibaba chatbot coupon pause exposes limits of AI-led commerce push

    Alibaba paused chatbot coupons after heavy demand strained its AI systems. The disruption followed a Lunar New Year promotion tied to AI-driven shopping, highlighting execution risks as generative AI tools move from conversation into real-world commerce.


  • OpenAI launches enterprise platform to win business customers

    OpenAI has launched a new enterprise platform aimed at business customers. The move signals a deeper push into corporate software, as the company looks to scale AI deployment inside large organisations and grow enterprise revenues.


  • VivaTech barometer highlights tech confidence paradox

    Tech leaders report record confidence in emerging technologies worldwide. The VivaTech 2026 Confidence Barometer reveals rising investment in AI and cybersecurity, alongside growing concerns over sovereignty, trust, and data governance among executives across Europe and North America.


  • UK enterprises struggle to measure AI emissions

    UK organisations face mounting difficulty proving AI’s environmental impact. New research shows enterprises remain confident in AI’s sustainability potential, but lack the emissions data required to evidence progress against environmental targets.


  • Uptycs targets AI trust gap with new AI Analyst

    AI trust remains a major barrier to enterprise cybersecurity adoption. Uptycs says its new Juno AI Analyst replaces opaque security copilots with verifiable, evidence-based investigation grounded in real cloud telemetry.


  • Big enterprises overestimate payroll automation readiness

    Large enterprises overestimate payroll readiness despite automation, AI, and integration ambitions. New research from CloudPay shows budget constraints, legacy systems, and governance barriers are slowing real-world deployment across enterprise payroll operations.


  • AI application from Anthropic reaches EU data reserves

    Anthropic’s legal AI debut rattles European data and software stocks. Shares in major European data, publishing, and legal software companies fell sharply after Anthropic launched a legal productivity tool for in-house counsel, raising fresh concerns about AI-driven disruption to high-margin professional information businesses.


  • Beyond the AI bubble — from hype to lasting impact

    AI’s business promise is cooling as leaders confront implementation reality. Cian Clarke, Head of AI at Nearform, argues organisations must move beyond hype, rethink model strategy, and build durable systems grounded in real data and operational discipline.


  • Miro launches MCP server for AI coding

    Miro connects visual collaboration directly with AI coding environments. The new MCP server links shared diagrams, requirements, and design context in Miro with agentic development tools to improve accuracy, reduce rework, and align cross-functional teams.