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UAE retailers turn to AI agents to drive faster decisions and smarter automation | Computer Weekly
1+ hour, 17+ min ago (684+ words) From pricing and inventory management to merchandising and commercial sales processes, businesses are now exploring the use of AI agents capable of making decisions, analysing operational data in real time and autonomously executing tasks previously handled by employees. The growing…...
Kmart taps Google AI to launch virtual try-ons in retail first
12+ hour, 33+ min ago (421+ words) Kmart has teamed up with Google to shore up its digital storefront with a slew of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools built on the tech giant's Gemini large language models and agentic AI platform. This includes a new AI companion,…...
What VTEX's AI push really means for European retailers | Computer Weekly
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (1255+ words) Irina Sokolovskaya - stock. adobe When VTEX co-CEO Mariano Gomide de Faria takes the stage at his company's annual event in S'o Paulo, he does not do understated. This April, 50, 000 attendees over two days heard a single, consistent message: the era…...
The hybrid shift: Where workloads are headed
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (964+ words) Studio Romantic - stock. adobe. co Businesses migrating from a single, public cloud provider has been the direction of travel of UK digital infrastructure for years. As far back as 2020, Barclays found that 43%of enterprise CIOs were already planning to bring…...
Fujitsu finally thrown out of Post Office in "500m Horizon replacement deals | Computer Weekly
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (558+ words) The Post Office is set to sign "500m in contracts that will finally end use of the controversial Horizon system and its supplier, Fujitsu. Accenture has won a "322. 8m contract to take over from Fujitsu in running the Horizon IT system at…...
Buyers call for electronic invoicing
1+ week, 3+ day ago (530+ words) Jeanette Teare - stock. adobe. com A Censuswide survey of 550 business buyers across the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Australia has found that, in spite of digitisation, there is friction in the business-to-business buying process. The survey, for B2 B payment platform…...
Immersive narratives: how VR transforms industries through storytelling
2+ week, 6+ day ago (977+ words) Virtual reality (VR) has already seen many commercial and industrial uses. Yet VR also can be one of the most powerful tools for storytelling, visualising ideas and enhancing narratives " most obviously in the arts and entertainment sphere, where VR brings…...
Atlassian Rovo makes AI-native teamwork "real, really
3+ week, 23+ hour ago (555+ words) There's a lot of debate out there in terms of when, what, how (and possibly even why) agentic functions are now going to augment human workers in real work workflows and real world working environments. Atlassian reminds us that teams…...
Post Office acknowledges ECCO+ user's calls for help three decades ago | Computer Weekly
3+ week, 2+ day ago (617+ words) Bigc Studio - stock. adobe. com The Post Office ignored a subpostmaster's calls for help when she experienced accounting shortfalls while using its ECCO+ system. The software, which was used in Crown branches (larger branches owned and run by the Post…...
La identidad reutilizable y otras tendencias para prevenir el fraude en 2026 | Computer Weekly
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (139+ words) La expansi'n de las identidades digitales nacionales, la protecci'n de los datos biom'tricos y el fortalecimiento de la educaci'n del usuario ante el aumento del fraude de identidad marcar'n el pr'ximo a'o, prev' Jumio, compa'a especializada en inteligencia de identidad…...