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Shopify says artificial intelligence (AI) is now driving record levels of shopping activity, with traffic to its merchants’ stores up sevenfold since January and AI-attributed orders rising elevenfold, claiming it marks the start of a new “agentic commerce” era. Shopify’s AI Milestone Announced Alongside Strong Financials These latest figures were unveiled on 4 November 2025 during Shopify’s…
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A new report has revealed that AI-written code is already responsible for a significant share of security incidents, with one in five organisations suffering a major breach linked directly to code produced by generative AI tools. Vulnerabilities Found in AI Code The finding comes from cybersecurity company Aikido Security’s State of AI in Security &…
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New research from Arctic Wolf shows that most security leaders say they would sack staff who fall for phishing scams, even as incidents rise and leaders themselves admit to clicking malicious links. Hardening of Attitudes Arctic Wolf’s 2025 Human Risk Behaviour Snapshot reveals that 77 per cent of IT and security leaders say they have…
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UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has announced that digital ID will become mandatory to prove the right to work in the UK by 2029, triggering both ministerial praise and civil liberties concerns. Petition Interestingly, a petition on the UK Government’s site : https://petition.parliament.uk/ had attracted approaching three million signatures of people opposed to the bill, within a…
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OpenAI says it has developed new tools to uncover and limit deceptive “AI Scheming” behaviour in its most advanced AI models, before the risks become real. What Is “AI Scheming”? “AI scheming” refers to a type of hidden misalignment, where a model deliberately acts in a way that appears helpful or compliant on the surface,…
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The parents of a 16-year-old boy in the US have launched a wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming its chatbot encouraged their son’s suicide after months of unmonitored conversations. First Known Case of Its Kind The lawsuit, filed in August, alleges that Adam Raine, a high-achieving but mentally vulnerable teenager from California, used ChatGPT-4o extensively…
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Hundreds of thousands of conversations with Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot have been discovered in Google Search results, while China has released DeepSeek V3.1 as a direct rival to GPT-5, together raising urgent questions about privacy, competition and security in the AI market. How the Grok Leak Happened The exposure of Grok transcripts was first reported…
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The UK Government has entered into a formal partnership with OpenAI aimed at accelerating the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) across public services, infrastructure, and national growth zones. What Is The Deal? Announced on 21 July 2025, the agreement takes the form of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Department for Science, Innovation…
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New research has found that 70 per cent of AI agents struggle to complete standard office tasks successfully, while Gartner warns that over 40 per cent of current agentic AI projects will be scrapped by the end of 2027. What Are ‘AI Agents’ And Why Are They Struggling? AI agents are software systems that use…
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A massive trove of stolen usernames and passwords totalling 16 billion records has been discovered across 30 newly uncovered databases, revealing one of the largest and most dangerous credential breaches ever recorded. Two Login Credentials for Every Person on Earth Security researchers at Cybernews have uncovered an unprecedented cache of login data scattered across unsecured…
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