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Inside TikTok Shop’s push to make ecommerce more human
TikTok Shop UK boss Jan Wilk says live selling, founder-led content and discovery are reshaping how brands reach shoppers. With 300,000 UK small businesses now on the platform and LIVE sales up 55 per cent in a year, what can retailers learn from the businesses getting it right?
Amazon shows Meta's Muse AI shopping agent the door
Retailer cites credentials and transparency concerns while guarding its lucrative customer journey
Invesco launches behavioural intelligence platform technology
Invesco has launched its personalised investor engine (PIE), a behavioural intelligence platform technology to help banks and wealth platforms turn savers into investors.
Perpetual underdog AMD nips at Nvidia's heels as it joins the $1T club
Fueled by the AI boom, the House of Zen's rise isn't just Instinct - Lisa Su is riding high on some Epyc design chops too
Two weeks to go until MMI London 2026
There are just two weeks to go until MMI London returns to the capital on Tuesday 6 October. The event, taking place at etc.venues County Hall, will bring together advisers, regulators, investment experts and industry leaders to discuss the future of financial advice and the
Alibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them
USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam
Google smacks forehead, realizes $899+ thin-and-lights were what it was missing
'A new category,' insists the Chocolate Factory, not a premium Chromebook - yet some of the family resemblance remains
Gartner predicts 55% of enterprise VMware users will be investigating an exit by 2029
Chasing pack has its problems too, with maturity, cost, and complex licenses
Waitrose ramps up ethical cocoa sourcing with Tony’s Open Chain expansion
Waitrose has expanded its partnership with Tony’s Open Chain, increasing the amount of cocoa beans it purchases through the ethical sourcing initiative by 53 per cent.
AWS bolts together open source agent harness, says it sips fewer tokens than rivals
Strands claims near-parity with Claude Code and Codex on benchmarks, though it only raced coding agents and marked its own homework
California tightens datacenter rules on water and power
Public pushback puts bit barn resource use under the microscope
Flying Tiger Copenhagen opens new store at The Liberty Romford
Flying Tiger Copenhagen has opened a new 4,500 sq ft store at The Liberty Romford. The new shop, located next to Boots and Clarks, stocks the brand’s mix of homeware, stationery, gifts and toys.
Did Hacktron's OpenAI probe go too far?
Some security pros balked at Hacktron's decision to open a PR once it gained access to OpenAI's GitHub account, but others believe it had to prove its case.
Anthropic-linked CVEs pile up, attackers mostly shrug
Of 225 flaws found by Glasswing and tracked by VulnCheck researcher, just one has confirmed exploitation in the wild
Nscale's S-1 shows it still needs financing for $44.6B Anthropic deal
British neocloud firm Nscale has filed its S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission in New York, showing massive dependence on Anthropic.
Skip the upgrade? iPhone 18 Pro aperture about as unrepairable as it gets, iFixit finds
Repairability improvements can't lift last year's score as camera complexity and screen-frame concerns remain
Treasury chief says AI bosses, not their bots, will carry the can for criminal acts
'Humans are responsible, not the AI,' argues Scott Bessent as he calls out OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face
Kingfisher lifts profit outlook as first-half profits rise 10%
Kingfisher has raised its full-year profit guidance after the B&Q and Screwfix owner posted a near-10 per cent rise in first-half profits. The company reported adjusted pre-tax profit of £404m for the six months to 31 July, up 9.9 per cent year on year.
AI can't outprompt a shortage of power, water, and land
Forrester predicts operators will face tariffs, grid commitments, and tougher community scrutiny
Amazon blocks Meta's Muse agent
Amazon is blocking Meta's new Muse AI agent from shopping on behalf of customers on its platform.
London neocloud Nscale takes its $1B loss to Wall Street
Rent-a-GPU firm reportedly seeks a valuation of up to $35B in New York IPO
Human engagement is the centre of AI adoption - Kaplan
What kind of AI training is conducive and helpful within the financial services space?
RansomHouse picks a fight with Namibia's defense establishment
National cyber team confirms the breach, but not whether data was stolen or encrypted
Schneider says hotter coolant can make AI datacenters less thirsty
Modeling suggests liquid-cooled designs can halve water consumption, though the company has skin in the game
Mark Glover: How the ‘advice continuum’ is changing the game
Three or four years ago, clients had two options: execution only; or full service financial advice. Things are changing and we’re facing what I like to call the ‘advice continuum’; a term used to describe the spectrum of advice from a straightforward, execution only transaction
Clop gets a taste of its own medicine after ShinyHunters hijack leak site
Rival crew demands eight figures and threatens to expose companies that paid to keep quiet
Kastle raises $24m to build AI agents for lending
Kastle has raised $24 million in Series A funding for its AI workforce platform for consumer lending.
Kylian Mbappé joins On as sportswear brand enters “the beautiful game”
Swiss sportswear brand On has signed football superstar Kylian Mbappé as it makes its first major move into the football market. The partnership will see the France captain become a global ambassador for On, and work directly with its product teams on the development and testing…