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UK consumers can now access their personal Experian Credit Score within an AI platform, following a major upgrade to the ChatGPT Experian app. This is significant because nearly two-thirds (62%) of regular ChatGPT users saying they turn to AI tools for support in helping them reach their financial goals - but, when seeking information about credit scores, AI platforms can offer generic, generalised answers, based on publicly-available sources - which may not be accurate. The upgraded Experian app solves that issue.

AI-native behaviour security company Abnormal AI has formed a strategic partnership with OpenAI to accelerate the safe adoption of AI across the enterprise, expand Abnormal’s use of OpenAI internally across its business and product development, and explore new security capabilities. Abnormal trains and deploys behavioural AI to stop sophisticated cybersecurity attacks that. OpenAI develops models and products that help defenders investigate threats, identify and validate vulnerabilities, and turn findings into fixes.

Agentic software quality assurance enterprise Sauce Labs has introduced a bring-your-own-model capabilities are available now to Sauce Labs enterprise customers. Organisations can work with their Sauce Labs account team to enable model choice within AURA. An industry first for release assurance, AURA now supports open-source, open-weight, or proprietary large language models (LLMs) as its underlying model layer, standardizing release assurance without forcing organizations to rely on a single AI provider for coding.

Italian retail chain Max Factory Group has selected Vonage to transform how it connects with customers. By integrating the Vonage Messages API via WhatsApp and Vonage Conversational Connect – a multi-channel messaging platform that enables brands to create, launch, and manage personalised campaigns across WhatsApp, RCS, and SMS – Max Factory has achieved a 100% increase in its active customer user base and a 65% read rate for its personalised email marketing campaign in just one year.

Global sugar markets at Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), one of the world's leading providers of financial market technology and data powering global capital markets, hit record open interest (OI) of over 2.3 million contracts on August 14, 2026, up 43% year-over-year, surpassing the previous record set in February 2010. This record was driven by activity across ICE Sugar No. 11, the global benchmark for raw cane sugar, with record OI of 2.2 million, and ICE White Sugar, the benchmark for refined sugar, with record OI of 188,000 contracts.

Fintech company and crypto trading platform OKX has recorded significant growth in everyday use of the OKX Card across Europe, with purchase volume increasing 280% year over year this summer and transactions rising 178%, as customers increasingly use the Card for routine spending including groceries, transport and fuel. The growth comes as crypto cards gain momentum across the wider payments industry. Industry-wide crypto card purchase volume reached a record $759 million in July.