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Overnight on 11 to 12 October, attackers took control of the refrigeration controllers in hundreds of French supermarkets and drove cabinet temperatures as high as 50C. Les Mousquetaires, the group behind Intermarché, says fridges at about 150 of its stor

Artificial intelligence has changed speaking practice rather quickly. Now, learners can rehearse presentations and test pronunciation. They can also simulate interviews and receive instant corrections. They do not have to arrange a session with another pe

A single compromised vendor account just exposed personal records on 8.8 million people, more than Denmark's entire population, pulled from the country's national identity register. The attacker says an AI model wrote the program that did it, and a basic

Albert Heijn's stores are open and its checkouts work. Its distribution centers are a different story. On Monday, CEO Margaret Versteden-van Duijn told NOS that work had stopped completely at some of them, because the company had switched its systems off

A liquor store owner can now run checkout, delivery apps and distributor invoices from a single … Drinks Start-Ups Digitized the Bottle Shop. Vodka Polar Bear's Cocktail Index Takes On the BarRead more

Salesforce now sells two ways to put an AI agent on customer support, and it agreed … Salesforce Closes $3.6 Billion Fin Deal, Adding a Fast-Deploy AI Agent to AgentforceRead more

Sixteen days after Amazon began blocking Meta's Muse agent from its retail site, Meta and Sierra announced an open standard for how personal AI agents deal with businesses. The Personal Agent Protocol (PAP) arrived on October 6, 2026 with Walmart, Shopify

Amazon plans to spend about $220 billion on capital expenditures this year, and CEO Andy Jassy still told investors the company will not have enough capacity to meet all of its 2026 demand. He expects the same in 2027. When the largest cloud provider cann

Gartner said on July 1 that agentic systems deliver outcomes directly and make software invisible, which "breaks the link between user growth and revenue growth for many enterprise software vendors." It estimated that up to $234 billion of enterprise appl

Crusoe announced the initial closing of an anticipated $3.9 billion Series F on September 17 at … Crusoe Is Valued at $30.9 Billion. Only 1 of Its 6-Plus Contracted Gigawatts Is OperatingRead more