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ADP has launched an AI agent for payroll variance checks. The upgrade to Payroll Variance is now live for enterprise clients in more than 40 countries, with broader mid-market deployment planned from mid-2026.
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AWS has launched a registry to govern enterprise AI agents. The preview service aims to help teams catalogue, approve, and reuse agents across cloud and on-premises environments as adoption accelerates.
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Tesco expands AI personalisation to sharpen loyalty, relevance, and growth. A new partnership with Adobe links Clubcard insight, content creation, and co-developed experimentation as Tesco pushes for more useful offers and digitally led engagement.
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UK SMEs are losing revenue to payment failures and churn. Access PaySuite says the average annual hit is £159,500, as finance teams spend hours each week chasing preventable failures, abandoned checkouts, and customer losses.
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Basic security mistakes still dominate major cloud breaches, Wiz warns. New research says AI is widening the environments where known weaknesses appear, rather than creating entirely new classes of risk.
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Greenpark has promoted three executives to support global expansion plans. The agency says the changes support operational consistency, regional accountability, and broader product development as consumer discovery fragments across search, social, paid media, and AI-generated answers.
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Manchester leads Britain’s new ranking for independent business density today. A SumUp report places Nottingham second and Wolverhampton third, using business density and sector variety to map where local enterprises appear strongest.
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UK fleet concern is falling as cargo theft exposure persists. Geotab says operators remain vulnerable to increasingly sophisticated theft, with incident levels staying high and many fleets still relying on fragmented security measures or insurance rather than prevention.
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OpenAI expands London presence, highlighting talent over infrastructure. The AI company has secured a large office in King’s Cross, emphasising the value of UK talent despite halting a data centre project. The move underscores the UK’s role in AI research.
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Benifex has hired Mohamad Awada to scale customer delivery globally. The appointment comes as employers face growing pressure to prove benefits programmes are being implemented well, adopted by staff, and linked to wider business performance.