"I'd do it. Small chunks would be easy to fit in," she says. "I don't have a gym membership or any of that but I could go for a walk. That's free."

But when it comes to incentives, discounts wouldn't cut it. "If my walking is converted into a freebie, like a drink or food, then that would help get me to do it."

UK retailers are increasingly seeing AI agents carry out transactions on their platforms, but many remain unclear over who is liable when purchases go wrong, according to new research from The Payments Association.

The trade body’s new report, Agentic commerce in UK retail, an unresolved liability question, found that 58 per cent of UK online retail merchants believe AI-initiated transactions have already reached their platforms.

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Lidl's new loyalty scheme less generous, shoppers say. Upset Lidl shoppers have complained on social media the supermarket chain's updated loyalty scheme is less generous than before. Under changes to the programme which came into force on Tuesday, customers collect points rather than reward coupons, with £1 spent equalling one point.

Meta will start tracking the way employees work, including their keystrokes and mouse clicks, to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. The company, which owns Instagram and Facebook, told workers on Tuesday that a new tool will run on Meta's computers and internal apps, logging their activity to be used as training data for AI technology.

Live Nation, the entertainment giant which owns Ticketmaster, has been illegally operating as a monopoly and overcharging fans, a federal jury has found. The verdict followed four days of deliberations in a seven-week trial in New York City that could have a major impact on the music industry.

Flood warning: How citizens’ AI agents will swamp public services. While governments eagerly look to implement AI to cut costs, they are less prepared for an incoming wave as people begin to use AI agents to drive applications to public services.

Food delivery giant Just Eat and motoring site Autotrader are among five firms being investigated as part of a probe into fake and misleading online reviews by the UK's competition watchdog. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which is also examining funeral firm Dignity, reviews site Feefo and fresh pasta chain Pasta Evangelists, is looking at whether they have broken consumer law.

An independent game developer for Roblox says he believes the platform's child safety measures, including age verification checks, do not go far enough. Roblox is the most popular gaming platform in the UK among eight to 12-year-olds.

Confidential health records from UK BioBank project exposed online. Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds data from flagship medical research leaked dozens of times. Confidential health data has been exposed online on dozens of occasions, a Guardian investigation can reveal, raising questions about the safeguarding of patient records by one of the UK’s flagship medical research projects.

Yoti has been fined 950,000 euros (roughly US$1.1 million) by Spanish data protection regulator AEPD for the handling of biometrics and other data within its digital identity app. The regulator has ruled Yoti violated three clauses of the EU’s General Data Protection Rule (GDPR).

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