Everseen Acquires Viztel Portfolio from RadiusAI, Extending Its Vision AI Platform from Checkout to Full-Store Intelligence July 28, 2026 Everseen, the market leader in AI-powered revenue recovery, trusted by 11 of the top 20 global retailers, becomes the only company that recovers revenue for retailers at scale and delivers full-store intelligence on a single AI platform Viztel turns retailers' existing store cameras into store-wide intelligence on how shoppers and products move, how they engage and dwell, how queues form, and where freshness or safety issues arise, with no facial recognition and no personally identifiable information Retailers get one AI platform connecting loss prevention, store operations, workforce productivity, and the customer experience, areas that have historically required separate vendors and dashboards
ICON announces multi-year collaboration with Anthropic to bring frontier AI to clinical trials July 28, 2026 ICON plc (NASDAQ: ICLR) today announced a multi-year collaboration with Anthropic to bring Claude’s AI capabilities across the clinical trial lifecycle. The collaboration further advances ICON’s digital innovation and AI strategy, and builds on Orbis – ICON’s secure, governed, agentic AI platform. Through this collaboration, ICON will work closely with Anthropic’s Life Sciences research team [...]
Man Group shares surge as assets hit record $253bn July 28, 2026 Shares in Man Group surged on Tuesday morning after the group posted record assets under management and a recovery in performance fees. Shares in the FTSE 250 hedge fund increased six per cent to 318p per share. The stock has rocketed 36.5 per cent since January. Core net revenue hit $853m, while core performance fee [...]
Students urged to rethink idea of a ‘safe job’ as Labour pledges major education reform July 28, 2026 A Cabinet minister has warned young people against depending on “safe and secure jobs” as Andy Burnham announced that children as young as 14 will get access to technical education. Pat McFadden, the work and pensions secretary, has said that changes to the education system were “more urgent” given disruption to the jobs market from [...]
Ten Finalists Announced for the Reply AI Film Festival, the International Competition Bringing Together Cinema and Artificial Intelligence July 28, 2026 The jury, chaired by Gabriele Salvatores, will announce the winners in Venice on Sunday, 6 September.
OpenAI’s rogue agent doesn’t scare me – the millions of others do July 28, 2026 The model that broke out of a lab will get the headlines. The millions of agents already inside your banking app, wreaking havoc, are the ones that should worry you more, says Rory Blundell Frontier AI labs are racing to build faster, more capable, more autonomous agents. This week showed what that race can cost. [...]
Screens aren’t the problem, it’s what’s on them that’s rotting our brains July 28, 2026 Technology is just a tool. Like every tool, it can make us better or it can waste our time. So the real question isn’t how much of it we use – it’s what we use it for, says Bhav Singh We’ve spent years arguing about the impact of screen time on kids’ development, but I [...]
InterSystems Launches Data Studio AI Assistant to Accelerate Enterprise Data Exploration and Insights July 27, 2026 New Generative AI extension simplifies how teams explore, analyze, and visualize enterprise data
Trust, stability, resilience and innovation – the cornerstones of 25+ years of cybersecurity leadership July 27, 2026 The digital transformation drive has completely changed organisations’ operational and technological architectures. SaaS, cloud and now AI have brought with them a wealth of fiscal and productivity benefits, however, they have also led to increased organisational complexity and, from a cybersecurity perspective, a considerably expanded attack surface. AI has equipped malicious actors with tools to [...]
AI, drones and data: Defence giants splash record $4.1bn on tech start-ups July 27, 2026 Investment in defence tech start-ups has reached a record high this year as the world’s biggest arms companies step up spending on new military technology. New figures from Dealroom show defence contractors including BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and Airbus have participated in $4.1bn (£3bn) of venture capital funding rounds so far this year, the highest [...]