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An early Salford pilot found a 40% drop in hazardous prescribing within 12 months, prompting a rollout across 400 GP practices.
Social media is pushing retailers to restock faster, as 65% of UK shoppers now expect technology to keep viral items available.
Accountants face a shift towards advisory work as AI and data tools reshape finance, with trust and judgement remaining vital.
Governance and review processes are lagging as AI-assisted coding lifts developer output, with 71% saying it adds team coordination work.
Banks may avoid building separate systems for stablecoins, tokenised deposits and CBDCs as UK regulators back tokenisation in wholesale markets.
Guest shoppers could face fewer checkout steps as merchants using Ecommpay can now surface Apple Pay and Google Pay earlier in the process.
UK partners gain a three-tier route to Leaseweb services as the cloud provider steps up support for hybrid and AI workloads.
Worries over household budgets are driving UK shoppers towards discounts of up to 80% as summer spending comes under pressure.
Local firms can now upskill in robotics as NMITE opens an eight-week online course aimed at defence, manufacturing and commercial users.
MSPs can now detect and contain Microsoft 365 breaches in one platform, as Inforcer adds incident response to its security suite.
Boards are being warned to assess AI risk as well as opportunity, after new demand from executives prompted the course expansion.
The capital's lead in AI use may widen Britain's productivity divide, with many regional firms lacking the data and cloud basics to scale.
Rising rates and insolvencies are forcing lenders to move faster on troubled assets, prompting a new workout service for distressed property.
The move adds 50 creative technologists as clients scramble for staff who can turn AI trials into production work.
Pay by Bank providers face rising pressure to win digital payments share as Token.io adds a veteran engineer to its leadership team.
The London startup aims to help smaller retailers turn WhatsApp chats into sales as it begins growth with fresh pre-seed funding.
More than 1,000 CI&T AI engineers are being trained on Claude as the firm targets financial services, retail and consumer goods projects.
The funding will help the London- and New York-based software group expand its AI agents for revenue teams and hire globally.
Winning nations have historically seen markets outperform around the tournament, though wider forces can easily outweigh any football-related lift.
Most Australian fans would still join venue-named hotspots, leaving match-day travellers exposed to phishing, fake streams and account theft.