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AIM Roundup, 30 October 2026

This week’s AI news worth knowing if you run a UK business, with a line on why each one matters. Every link is free to read, with no sign-up.

  1. Oracle is building a way to use its business applications and data from inside ChatGPT, with access governed by each organisation’s own permissions. If your business runs on one big system, ask your supplier what its plans are for AI assistants.

    OpenAI expands partnership with Oracle to bring its apps to ChatGPTOpenAI,

  2. Microsoft plans AI agents in Business Central, expected this month: one turns emailed orders into sales documents, another matches supplier invoices to purchase orders, and each step is logged. Worth a look if you run orders or accounts on it.

    Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agentsMicrosoft 365 roadmap,

  3. Teams meeting organisers will be able to choose who can turn on and use Copilot and other AI in a meeting, with simpler controls for IT. Due in November. Useful when a client asks how AI is used in your calls.

    Microsoft Teams: Enhanced Copilot and AI controls for meetingsMicrosoft 365 roadmap,

  4. Power Automate is adding an AI repair step: when an automation can’t find the button or field it is meant to click, it proposes a fix while the flow runs. In preview now, with general release planned for March 2027.

    Power Automate: AI-assisted UI Automation repairMicrosoft 365 roadmap,

  5. AI helped uncover flaws in PHP that had gone unnoticed for more than a decade, and security agencies told website owners to check and update. PHP sits behind WordPress and many online shops, so ask your web host or developer whether your site has been patched.

    PHP: What is it and why did it spark a global cyber security scramble?BBC News,

  6. Check Point says OpenAI’s Daybreak cyber models have cut its vulnerability research from hours to minutes. It also says threats are growing in number and sophistication. For most businesses the practical step is still to install updates promptly.

    How Check Point accelerates vulnerability research with DaybreakOpenAI,

  7. Bots wrote 76% of the responses to a 2023 UK government consultation, 90,835 of 118,756, according to new research. If you collect feedback, applications or survey answers online, expect some of them to be machine-generated.

    3 out of 4 responses to UK smoke-free generation consultation were AI bot-generatedBMJ Group,

  8. The government is putting £100m into a national AI Biosecurity Lab, as part of Budget spending on cyber, biological and AI-enabled threats. Details of what it will do are still to come.

    UK to invest £100m in ‘world first’ AI Biosecurity LabBBC News,

If any of these raises a question for your own business, message us and we’ll talk it through.

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