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Even organizations with mature, sophisticated security controls can be successfully attacked. For that reason, resilience is less about avoiding every attack than about continuing to operate when safeguards are compromised. Much of that depends on decisions made long before an incident. 

When Shopify updated its robots.txt policy to tell autonomous agents that “checkouts are for humans,” it drew a boundary at the point of transaction. The directive – advisory, not a hard block – has since become shorthand for the merchant-side gate in agentic commerce.

For years, the franchise marketing“toolkit” was relatively straightforward: Give franchisees a library of logos, social media templates, promotional materials and brand guidelines, then trust them to put those resources to work.

Booking’s new Seattle startup:Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG)islaunching an AI travel venture calledVayo, led by veteran Seattle entrepreneurMike Fridgen, with plans to invest $100 million depending on its progress. Vayo’s AI agents pull flight, hotel and restaurant confirmations from a user’s email, then watch for price drops, openings at sold-out hotels and other changes. The startup…

Franchise brands have a built-in marketing advantage: national scale combined with local ownership. But having both doesn’t automatically mean they work together.

The home improvement retailer is expanding its advertising business to new platforms and rolling out tools around incrementality and AI optimization.

While any business would like to have a beautiful website, it does not guarantee appearing first on Google. Even with all the advancements made by search engines, one thing that still remains a strong signal is quality backlinks. Link building continues to be one of the best ways to improve visibility, traffic and brand authority…

Organizations have proven they can launch artificial intelligence pilots, but scaling those pilots into repeatable enterprise capabilities requires more than access to new technology. As AI moved beyond isolated use cases and into core business processes, many organizations discover that readiness depends on the data, governance, controls and operating model underneath it. For middle market…

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Baillie Gifford & Co, an independent investment management firm, released its third-quarter 2026 investor letter for “US Equity Growth Strategy”. The letter can be downloaded here. While AI safety and human control concerns dominated recent industry discussions, the quarterly letter highlights the massive, untapped potential of deploying existing AI capacity into industrial applications. The letter…