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The week the UK public sector, payments industry, fashion retailers and pure-plays all started working on the same agentic-commerce agenda.

The EU's AI regulation is coming into force in phases. The UK hasn't followed suit — but UK retailers with EU exposure or AI vendor contracts are more implicated than the 'not our problem' reading suggests.

Two 2024 incidents exposed the real fault line in algorithmic pricing. It's not whether prices change — it's whether consumers know they might, and whether they're already committed when they do.