SAP aligns fragmented commerce data structures to enable operational AI personalisation at the execution layer. The Advanced Success Plan targets data, decisioning, and delivery layers, using tools like SAP Commerce Cloud and Engagement Cloud to overcome data silos, integration complexities, and skill gaps, transforming personalisation from concept to a measurable growth engine.
SAP's Advanced Success Plan addresses three interconnected layers—data, decisioning, and delivery—to fix infrastructure deficits hindering enterprise personalisation.
SAP Commerce Cloud uses AI-powered recommendations to display real-time relevant products, boosting conversions and cross-selling.
OpenAI's financial trajectory hinges heavily on infrastructure costs, a reality that drove the development of the new custom OpenAI Jalapeño chip. Developed in collaboration with Broadcom, the application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) represents a direct attempt to mitigate the heavy capital expenditure associated with third-party hardware. While Nvidia currently commands an estimated 75% profit margin on its high-end processors, OpenAI operates on tighter margins, keeping roughly 33 cents of profit on each dollar generated after accounting for its massive operational expenses. The financial burden of running large language models at scale is severe.
OpenAI partnered with Broadcom to develop the Jalapeño chip, a custom ASIC to reduce dependence on third-party hardware.
The chip is designed specifically for LLM inference and integrates Broadcom's Tomahawk networking.
Samsung Electronics is expanding employee access to ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex, giving staff wider use of AI tools for technical and non-technical work. The deployment covers all Samsung Electronics employees in Korea and all Device eXperience employees worldwide, reversing earlier restrictions due to data security concerns.
Samsung provides ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees for software development and marketing tasks
Previous restrictions in 2023 due to data leak concerns are lifted
Anthropic launched a beta version of its Claude Tag feature for Enterprise and Team tiers, integrating its chat model into shared Slack channels. Users can invoke the AI by @Claude to delegate tasks, review outputs, and track context. This follows a $65B Series H funding round, valuing Anthropic at $965B, surpassing OpenAI's $852B. Internal data shows 34.4% enterprise adoption rate, ahead of OpenAI's 32.3%. The feature is built on Opus 4.8, supports asynchronous work, and includes ambient monitoring. While boosting productivity, it also introduces data exposure and governance challenges.
Anthropic releases Claude Tag beta for Slack, enabling team-wide AI collaboration.
Based on Opus 4.8 engine, supports asynchronous and ambient task execution.
Multimodal travel platform Omio integrates OpenAI models, including ChatGPT and Codex, into its engineering operations to accelerate product development and launch conversational booking interfaces. The integration reduces technical effort to 20% of previous levels, with significant timeline compression, while maintaining human accountability for all outcomes.
Omio embeds OpenAI Codex across the entire software development lifecycle, from research to maintenance.
Technical effort reduced to 20%; a one-month single-engineer project now replaces what previously required multiple developers for a quarter.
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance issued a rare joint warning that upcoming AI models will supercharge cyber attacks within months, urging corporations and individuals to bolster defenses.
Five Eyes warns AI models like GPT-5.5-Cyber and Mythos will lower barriers for hackers, enabling automated and scalable attacks.
AI-driven vulnerability scanning outpaces human patching, shrinking the safety window for enterprises.
Sakana AI launched Fugu to orchestrate multi-agent operations and mitigate single-vendor dependency risks in enterprise deployments. Fugu offers standard and Ultra tiers, with the latter excelling in complex tasks like cybersecurity, software development, and automated research. The system ensures service continuity through a swappable agent pool, addressing geopolitical and regulatory risks.
Fugu orchestrates multiple models to complete multi-step tasks, reducing dependence on a single AI vendor.
Two deployment tiers: standard for low-latency daily tasks, Ultra for complex analytical problems.
L’Oréal has partnered with OpenAI to integrate Maybelline New York’s virtual makeup try-on into ChatGPT, announced at VivaTech 2026. The collaboration spans consumer shopping tools, product discovery, advertising pilots, research, and internal content production. L’Oréal also uses OpenAI’s GPT-Rosalind for skin microbiome research and its CreAItech platform for content generation.
L’Oréal partners with OpenAI to bring Maybelline virtual try-on to ChatGPT, powered by ModiFace AR technology.
Partnership covers product discovery (Lancôme, Kérastase), advertising pilots (SkinCeuticals, CeraVe, Garnier), and internal AI tools.
SAP and Google Cloud have launched an agentic commerce architecture to automate multi-agent marketing and retail operations. The partnership addresses data fragmentation, using the Universal Commerce Protocol, Google Gemini integration, and bidirectional data flows to enable AI-driven customer experiences and inventory synchronization. The architecture aims to resolve common e-commerce failures such as out-of-stock issues and disconnected customer touchpoints.
SAP and Google Cloud partnered to build agentic commerce architecture using Universal Commerce Protocol and Gemini AI.
The solution addresses data silos: only 37% share customer data across CX and 39% across CRM.
e2e-assure announces Cumulo, the UK's only sovereign, AI-first, IT/OT connected SOC platform. Using digital twin technology and customer-dedicated AI models, Cumulo enables zero-day threat detection and responds to GCHQ's call for an AI Cyber Shield.
Cumulo is the UK's first sovereign AI-driven SOC platform covering IT and OT environments.
It uses digital twin technology to simulate attacks and identify risks before exploitation.
Computer vision deployments are driving retail productivity gains as operators automate physical shelf tracking to protect eroding margins. A Coresight Research study calculates that inefficiencies consume 6.4% of gross sales, with $196.4 billion in losses expected in 2026.
Computer vision deployments directly address in-store execution failures costing the industry billions annually.
Inefficiencies consume 6.4% of gross sales; $196.4 billion in losses projected for 2026.
Microsoft has quietly become the main supplier of OpenAI models in China, selling the technology to the country’s largest internet companies even as OpenAI and Anthropic keep their own models out of the market on intellectual-property and misuse grounds. The arrangement, detailed this week by Bloomberg, hands Microsoft a position no other American AI vendor holds: it sells the GPT series to Chinese firms that the model’s own creator will not deal with directly.
Microsoft sells OpenAI models to Chinese firms like ByteDance, Ant Group, Meituan, and Tencent via Azure, while OpenAI and Anthropic refuse direct sales.
ByteDance is Microsoft's largest AI customer, on track to spend over $1 billion annually on Microsoft's AI and cloud services.
Government ministries are deploying Google Cloud generative AI across municipal agencies to automate council planning operations, aiming to cut decision times by 50%. Tools include Extract for unstructured data and the Augmented Planning Decisions (APD) prototype.
UK government deploys Google Cloud AI tools to automate council planning.
Extract tool saves 255 hours per council annually by parsing PDF data.
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.
AI investments shift from efficiency to core underwriting and capital allocation.
AI specialist headcount grows 32% despite overall workforce contraction of 2.2%.
The European Union has published its AI content labelling playbook, a voluntary Code of Practice to help companies meet transparency rules that become law on August 2. The final Code, released on June 10, outlines practical steps for generative AI builders and deployers to mark AI output. It covers deepfakes and AI-generated text on public interest matters, plus disclosure when interacting with AI systems. The Code is open for signatures, with binding rules applying regardless.
EU finalizes voluntary AI content labelling Code of Practice to align with AI Act Article 50.
From August 2, deepfakes and AI-generated text on public interest must be labelled; AI interaction must be disclosed.
As AI adoption accelerates, adversarial testing of systems is becoming increasingly important. AI red teaming simulates attack scenarios to expose vulnerabilities, helping organizations strengthen security before deployment. This article explains the concept, importance, benefits, and top consulting services for AI red teaming.
AI red teaming tests AI systems by simulating real-world attack techniques such as prompt injection and data manipulation.
It helps improve model security, regulatory compliance, incident response speed, and system resilience.
AI is transforming enterprise content management from passive storage to active orchestration, enabling workflow automation, real-time analytics, personalization, content-to-commerce integration, and hybrid headless architecture. This improves efficiency, consistency, and scalability, helping enterprises manage multi-channel, multi-language content operations.
AI shifts CMS from passive storage to active orchestration, enabling workflow automation, real-time analytics, and personalization.
Content-to-commerce integration turns every editorial asset into a potential transaction trigger.
Four days after Apple confirmed Siri AI would not launch in China, Huawei unveiled HarmonyOS 7, positioning it as the start of the agent era. The OS introduces an intent-as-service model, with Xiaoyi AI assistant upgraded to a system-level agent controlling 2,100 system capabilities and coordinating 2,000 third-party agents. It runs on the openPangu 2.0 model with up to 505 billion parameters. HarmonyOS 7 already holds 19% of China's smartphone OS market, surpassing Apple's 16%. However, the system is in developer beta, with a stable release expected this autumn.
HarmonyOS 7's intent-as-service model and Xiaoyi as system-level agent
openPangu 2.0 model with 505B parameters and 512K context window
Consumers are showing a willingness to let AI agents take on more shopping-related tasks, according to new research from Accenture. The company’s 2026 Consumer Pulse Research, based on a survey of 25,590 consumers across 16 countries, found that 74% of respondents would trust a personal AI agent more than their best friend to make a purchase on their behalf.
74% of consumers trust an AI agent more than a best friend to make purchases
32% would let an AI agent make purchase decisions within defined limits
On June 13, 2026, a US government export control directive forced Anthropic to disable access to its two most powerful AI models for all foreign nationals, triggering global alarm about AI sovereignty and overreliance on American technology.
US export control order suspends foreign access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, even for Anthropic's own foreign-born employees.
The dispute centers on a jailbreak vulnerability; Anthropic downplays its severity while the government sees it as a national security risk.
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.
Visa integrates with ChatGPT, allowing AI agents to autonomously complete retail purchases.
AI agents select products based on data rather than visual merchandising, requiring retailers to provide structured data.
Xebia's global CTO Niels Zeilemaker emphasizes that AI agents need a solid data foundation, especially proper data cataloguing. The company's Agentic Data Foundation (ADF) and ACE framework help enterprises accelerate AI adoption while maintaining governance and quality.
AI agents require correct data catalogues and foundations; otherwise they misinterpret data.
Xebia's Agentic Data Foundation extends data platforms to host agents.
Apple unveiled a rebuilt Siri AI at WWDC 2026, powered by Google's Gemini models, but initial rollout is limited to English, excluding China and restricting EU access, highlighting Apple's reliance on a rival for AI leadership.
Siri AI is rebuilt with Google Gemini, enabling multi-turn conversations and cross-app actions.
Beta only supports English; China excluded entirely; EU limited to Mac and Vision Pro at launch.
McDonald’s is testing a new AI system called ArchIQ (nicknamed “Archy”) to handle drive-thru orders and restaurant operations. Developed with Google, it is being trialed at five US locations and has processed over one million transactions, with about 90% completed without staff intervention. The system can also monitor equipment and kitchen bottlenecks. This follows a previous failed AI test with IBM in 2024.
McDonald’s introduces ArchIQ, an AI drive-thru system developed with Google
Currently tested at five US locations; handles bilingual orders and repeat customer requests
Signing PDFs has become an essential task for businesses and individuals. This article covers common challenges, how to choose the right PDF signer, key features, a comparison of popular tools, a step-by-step guide to online signing, and the benefits of using an online PDF signer.
Online PDF signers solve issues like file compatibility, security, and legal compliance.
Key features to look for include ease of use, security, integration, multi-signature support, and audit trail.
Autonomous AI agents are accelerating software delivery but also shrinking the time for mistakes to become catastrophes, creating a security blind spot. In 2025, DevOps platforms saw 68 AI-related security incidents, accelerating in the latter half. Traditional access controls cannot stop authorized AI agents from making destructive errors; organizations must shift from controlling agents to recovering quickly. The article analyzes AI data loss risks and proposes a decoupled recovery layer across four fronts: blast radius isolation, encryption/immutability, complete context recovery, and granular restore.
Autonomous AI agents accelerate the time from mistake to catastrophe, creating security blind spots.
68 AI-related security incidents occurred on DevOps platforms in 2025, with acceleration in the latter half.
Aviva uncovered a record £230 million in insurance fraud and is using AI to combat AI-powered scams. Fraudsters use generative AI to create convincing fakes. Aviva's AI defense system analyzes millions of data points to detect anomalies and flags suspicious claims for human investigators. It also catches 'claims inflation.' The approach ensures fairness through human oversight.
Aviva discovered £230M in insurance fraud, with fraudsters using generative AI to create convincing fake evidence.
Aviva fights back with its own AI that analyzes patterns and cross-references data to detect anomalies.
Weis Markets is deploying Instacart's AI-powered Caper Carts in select Pennsylvania stores, featuring cameras, scales, location systems, and a touchscreen. The carts support digital coupons, loyalty features, and repeat-purchase recommendations. The article also covers other grocers like Albertsons using AI for produce quality inspection.
Weis Markets partners with Instacart to introduce AI shopping carts in Pennsylvania.
Caper Carts use edge computing and cloud AI for item recognition, real-time spending tracking, and location-based coupons.
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. Shell now intends to lean heavily into autonomous AI agents, putting them in charge of the entire maintenance lifecycle.
Shell and C3 AI expand partnership to deploy agentic AI for predictive maintenance.
AI agents autonomously perform root cause analysis, generate work orders, and check inventory.
Meta launched Business Agent to automate conversational commerce workflows in its messaging apps, enabling retailers to execute transactions and handle support tickets without human intervention. The native AI agent integrates deeply with Instagram, Messenger, and soon WhatsApp, placing agentic AI at the core of social commerce.
Meta's Business Agent automates commerce and support in messaging apps.
Native integration reduces cart abandonment and enables 24/7 service.