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Retail

Shopify Opens Catalogue to More AI Shopping Agents

Shopify is giving more third-party AI shopping agents access to over a billion product listings, letting shoppers search, compare and buy via bots instead of storefronts.

14 Oct 2026 · 2 min read

Meta's Muse AI Agent Can Be Prompted Into Sexting, Wired Finds

A Wired investigation found Meta's Muse AI companion could be steered into sexually explicit roleplay, and Meta called the behaviour permissible rather than a safeguard failure.

13 Oct 2026 · 2 min read

Hospitality

Delta Links Loyalty and Premium Strategy to Lift Spending

Delta CEO Ed Bastian says the airline's loyalty programme and premium-cabin push work as one reinforcing system, not separate revenue levers, to drive higher customer spend.

13 Oct 2026 · 2 min read

AI Autonomy Worries UK Public More Than AI Errors

New UK research finds Britons are more unsettled by autonomous AI decision-making than by AI mistakes, revealing a trust gap rooted in control rather than competence.

12 Oct 2026 · 2 min read

MBZUAI's RAIS Fellowship Sends Emirati to Oxford for AI Research

MBZUAI named Dr Mohamed Almarei as the first RAIS Fellowship recipient, funding two years at the University of Oxford to research AI applications in synthetic biology.

12 Oct 2026 · 2 min read

OpenAI Dismisses Three Safety Staff Amid Internal Trust Crisis

OpenAI has dismissed three employees linked to safety work, including staff investigating a Hugging Face security breach, prompting an open letter warning that internal trust is eroding.

10 Oct 2026 · 2 min read

Just in

10 Oct 2026Investment Research Spend Stalls Despite Rising AI Demand 10 Oct 2026OpenAI Revenue Run-Rate Revised to $50bn Amid $30bn Funding Talks 9 Oct 2026India's AI Data Centre Push Meets Local Resident Pushback 9 Oct 2026OpenAI's Math Proofs Fall Short of Rigour, Panel Finds 9 Oct 2026Walmart Reinvests AI Savings from Sparky into Customer Experience 9 Oct 2026Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance 9 Oct 2026AI Visibility Doesn't Guarantee Brand Recall, Skyword Finds 9 Oct 2026GlobalFoundries, TSMC Sign $2bn AI Chip Packaging Deal 8 Oct 2026PoeLLM Malware Uses Poetry to Bypass AI Filters, Hits 3K+ Servers 8 Oct 2026PwC: Leaders Less Prepared for AI Cyberattacks Than Traditional Ones 8 Oct 2026Meta AI Tools Detect Ads Masking Child Abuse Material Links 8 Oct 2026UAE Tops Global Ranking for Digital Government Services

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