The FCA found 178 policy breaches across eight of 11 banks, and two thirds of firms now ban risky channels outright. Global Relay's May update reads whole conversations before raising an alert, but it has published no precision, recall or reviewer-time figures.

Google is bringing voice AI to Workspace, HTC is making privacy a smart-glasses feature, and new office research highlights the cost of noise. Together, the shifts show workplace technology moving closer to employees, and deeper into the spaces where they work.

UC Today's monthly look at what's changed across Microsoft Teams and Copilot: Facilitator now searches the web mid-meeting without being asked, third-party agents such as GitHub Copilot get a proper home in the Teams admin centre, and Rooms devices are rebranded as intelligent spaces

Global expansion can expose businesses to legal, operational and cultural risks before an HR function is prepared to manage them, making it essential to understand the right employment models, infrastructure and processes for scaling successfully across borders

From OpenAI’s harder-to-monitor Astra rollout to a whistleblower’s warning from inside the AI race, DeepMind’s research into self-policing agents and US claims of Chinese model distillation, this week’s developments show that controlling powerful systems is becoming as important as building them

Snap is strengthening its enterprise strategy for SPECS, HTC is adding privacy controls to AI glasses, and NVIDIA is using VR and digital twins to train factory robots. But ENGAGE XR’s planned liquidation shows that workplace XR vendors must still turn promising deployments into durable businesses

Cisco and Zoom set out competing AI platform strategies at Goldman Sachs Communacopia this week, Google made it easier to join meetings across Teams, Zoom and Webex in Google Calendar, and Microsoft pushed out Teams updates covering meeting rooms, agent admin controls and device authentication

Salesforce is bringing record Agentforce growth to Dreamforce 2026. But productivity and automation leaders should consider whether Claudeforce, Headless 360, and Slack's expanded role hold up as real infrastructure, not just headline numbers. Here are 5 points to consider.