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Talkdesk unveils Commerce Orchestration and Consumer Goods Experience Cloud to coordinate AI-driven retail journeys end to end.

Brands must build “machine trust” by 2026 or risk vanishing from AI-led discovery as CEEK warns creativity alone will no longer secure visibility.

Digital Asset predicts 2026 tipping point as institutions go on-chain, prioritising privacy, clear rules and routine stablecoin use.

CelcomDigi adds Prime Video to its StreamMORE portfolio in Malaysia, bundling trials, data perks and 4K streaming for mobile users.

REGnosys warns of a fresh 2026 regtech wave as global rule rewrites loom and London fights to defend its fintech edge from rising rivals.

Zama predicts privacy-first compliance tools and quantum-safe cryptography will become standard for regulated onchain finance by 2026.

Qantas has topped System1's first annual ranking of Australia's funniest TV ads, ahead of Australian Lamb, AAMI and a strong auto line-up.

APAC retailers are rapidly adopting Agentic AI to tackle mounting supply-chain volatility and tighten inventory control by 2026.

Blue Yonder rolls out fresh AI tools to tighten retail planning, boost fulfilment accuracy and speed up warehouse and logistics decisions.

Black Friday still delivered the peak online surge, but AI-driven search stretched shopping demand across a longer November window.

Retailers urged to brace for early-year spike in chargebacks as mobile shopping and buy now, pay later fuel record US holiday spend.

AI coding tools are set for a 2026 reset as enterprises pivot from 'vibe coding' experiments to architecture-first, governed co-developers.

Agentic AI is set to move from hype to frontline tool by 2026, autonomously steering cyber defence workflows and search-led marketing.

AI SRE, GPU-aware schedulers and autonomous ops are set to overhaul how large enterprises run Kubernetes clusters by 2026.

DTCC maps an ambitious 2026 plan, deepening tokenisation and AI while overhauling risk, collateral and post-trade ahead of Europe's T+1 shift.

Banks are turning apps and accounts into ad space, with SAS tipping media networks to lift non-interest income by up to 30% within two years.

Rithum links its commerce platform to Stripe's Agentic Commerce Suite, enabling AI agents to handle product discovery and payments end-to-end.

Microsoft tops rivals for weaving nature restoration into European data centres, but report warns sector lags as AI power demand surges.

Thales launches AI Security Fabric to shield enterprise LLM and agentic AI apps from runtime threats like prompt injection and data leakage.

BCS Consultancy names Chris Coward COO to steer global expansion and sharpen operations as AI-driven data centre demand accelerates.