Reading Time: 3 minutesNatWest Group has expanded the use of artificial intelligence in several areas of its operations, citing customer service, document management in its wealth management division, and software development. According to a blog post by its chief information officer, Scott Marcar, 2025 was the first year in which these systems were deployed at scale. The aim […]
Debenhams pilots agentic AI commerce via PayPal integration
Reading Time: 3 minutesDebenhams is piloting agentic AI commerce via PayPal integration to reduce mobile friction and help solve a familiar problem for retailers. Mobile checkout abandonment remains a persistent revenue leak for digital retailers. Debenhams Group is attempting to close this gap by deploying an agentic AI interface within the PayPal app. The pilot makes Debenhams the […]
URBN tests agentic AI to automate retail reporting
Reading Time: 3 minutesRetail decisions often depend on weekly performance reports, but compiling those reports can take hours of manual work. Urban Outfitters Inc. (URBN) is testing a new approach by using agentic AI systems to generate those reports automatically, changing routine analysis from staff to software. The retailer runs brands like Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and Free People, […]
AI forecasting model targets healthcare resource efficiency
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn operational AI forecasting model developed by Hertfordshire University researchers aims to improve resource efficiency within healthcare. Public sector organisations often hold large archives of historical data that do not inform forward-looking decisions. A partnership between the University of Hertfordshire and regional NHS health bodies addresses this issue by applying machine learning to operational planning. […]
What Murder Mystery 2 reveals about emergent behaviour in online games
Reading Time: 3 minutesMurder Mystery 2, commonly known as MM2, is often categorised as a simple social deduction game in the Roblox ecosystem. At first glance, its structure appears straightforward. One player becomes the murderer, another the sheriff, and the remaining participants attempt to survive. However, beneath the surface lies a dynamic behavioural laboratory that offers valuable insight […]
Video reimagined: New RingCentral Video desktop experience and AI capabilities
Reading Time: 6 minutesMeetings are where decisions happen—but too often, the tools get in the way. Presenters worry about sharing the wrong screen or losing their place. Laptops slow to a crawl during video calls. Side conversations spill into separate apps. And when the right person isn’t in the room, momentum stalls. The brand-new RingCentral Video desktop application […]
What’s !important #5: Lazy-loading iframes, Repeating corner-shape Backgrounds, and More
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis issue of What’s !important is dedicated to our friends in the UK (aka me), who are currently experiencing a very miserable 43-day rain streak. Presenting: the five most interesting things to read about CSS from the last couple of weeks. Plus, the latest features from Chrome 145, and anything else you might’ve missed. TL;DR: […]
Agentic AI drives finance ROI in accounts payable automation
Reading Time: 4 minutesFinance leaders are driving ROI using agentic AI for accounts payable automation, turning manual tasks into autonomous workflows. While general AI projects saw return on investment rise to 67 percent last year, autonomous agents delivered an average ROI of 80 percent by handling complex processes without human intervention. This performance gap demands a change in […]
Newsweek CEO Dev Pragad warns publishers: adapt as AI becomes news gateway
Reading Time: 2 minutesAuthor: Dev Pragad, CEO, Newsweek As artificial intelligence platforms increasingly mediate how people encounter news, media leaders are confronting an important change in the relationship between journalism and the public. AI-driven search and conversational interfaces now influence how audiences discover and trust information, often before visiting a publisher’s website. According to Dev Pragad, the implications […]
How e& is using HR to bring AI into enterprise operations
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor many enterprises, the first real test of AI is not customer-facing products or flashy automation demos. It is the quiet machinery that runs the organisation itself. Human resources, with its mix of routine workflows, compliance needs, and large volumes of structured data, is emerging as one of the earliest areas where companies are pushing […]
Making a Responsive Pyramidal Grid With Modern CSS
Reading Time: 10 minutesIn the previous article, we built the classic hexagon grid. It was a responsive implementation without the use of media queries. The challenge was to improve a five-year old approach using modern CSS. Support is limited to Chrome only because this technique uses recently released features, including corner-shape, sibling-index(), and unit division. CodePen Embed Fallback […]
Google identifies state-sponsored hackers using AI in attacks
Reading Time: 4 minutesState-sponsored hackers are exploiting highly-advanced tooling to accelerate their particular flavours of cyberattacks, with threat actors from Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia using models like Google’s Gemini to further their campaigns. They are able to craft sophisticated phishing campaigns and develop malware, according to a new report from Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). The […]
How AI-powered Quality Management transforms coaching and engagement
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs customer expectations rise, teams are under increasing pressure to deliver meaningful, efficient, and personalized experiences. Yet, focusing on improving customer conversations alone isn’t enough. Service quality is shaped well before those interactions ever take place through employee experience, coaching, and performance management. These areas influence how agents engage at every touchpoint, making them essential […]
Approximating contrast-color() With Other CSS Features
Reading Time: 5 minutesYou have an element with a configurable background color, and you’d like to calculate whether the foreground text should be light or dark. Seems easy enough, especially knowing how mindful we ought to be with accessibility. There have been a few drafts of a specification function for this functionality, most recently, contrast-color() (formerly color-contrast()) in […]
Barclays bets on AI to cut costs and boost returns
Reading Time: 3 minutesBarclays recorded a 12 % jump in annual profit for 2025, reporting £9.1 billion in earnings before tax, up from £8.1 billion a year earlier. The bank also raised its performance targets out through 2028, aiming for a return on tangible equity (RoTE) of more than 14 %, up from a previous goal of above […]











