I've been trying out Amazon's latest — and possibly greatest — e-reader, the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, and while I love it for reading comics in full colour and note-taking, I've been waiting patiently for Amazon Prime Day to see how the device fares in the megasale.

As expected, it's seen a sizeable discount; 20% off, knocking it from £629.99 to £504.99, which is, to be honest, much closer to the value proposition I think the slate offers. Still, though, it's pricey for what it is; and the fact that it's actually cheaper right now to buy a Kindle, Kindle Scribe and a Kindle Colorsoft separately leaves me perplexed.

Right now, the Kindle (in graphite) is £79.99 (was £94.99) at Amazon, the 32GB Kindle Scribe (in tungsten grey) is £244.99 (was £399.99) and the Kindle Colorsoft is £154.99 (was £239.99). That totals £479.99; £26 cheaper than just one Kindle Scribe Colorsoft. Make it make sense.

While we scored it a respectable 4 stars in our review, a major sticking point for the Scribe Colorsoft is its value proposition. There's nowehere near enough going for it to justify this e-reader costing more than a MacBook Neo. View Deal

For the pared-back basic experience, the most recent Kindle (2024) scored 4 stars in our review as an affordable and capable e-reader. It's compact enough to stash in your hand luggage while travelling, performance is solid, and it taps into Amazon's vast library of books. View Deal

A notetaker's best friend, the Kindle Scribe is great for students, avid readers and productivity users alike, offering a satisfying and slick screen on which to doodle and annotate. We scored it 4.5 stars in our review.View Deal

If you mostly want the colour screen, you'll be just fine with the Kindle Coloursoft; as a comic reader, this is really all I want and need from my Kindle. While you can't ever match the vibrancy of an LCD or OLED screen in e-ink, it's a valiant effort that earned the device 4.5 stars in our review.View Deal

While not a factor in the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft pricing hoo-ha, it's worth noting the Kindle Paperwhite is also on sale with a neat £35 discount. We scored this model 4-stars in our review, praising its bright, white screen and long battery life.View Deal

The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft isn't without its selling points entirely; if you really do want to read comics and take notes on one device, it's the only Kindle that offers both functions... just not in tandem, so you can't annotate comics or manga.

That means the main benefit is access to colour pens and highlighters, which isn't a big enough sell for me to drop half a grand on an e-reader.

More Prime Day deals in the UK

• Amazon Prime: sign up for a 30-day free trial
• Amazon Devices: Fire TV, Ring & Blink from £24.99
• Amazon Haul: up to 30% off
• Apple: AirPods Pro 3 for a record-low price
• Appliances: up to 45% off Ninja, Tefal & Sage
• Beauty: up to 60% off Philips & Oral-B
• Essentials: household goods from under £10
• Fashion: up to 50% off
• Father's Day: up to 50% off gifts & drinks
• Headphones: up to 50% off
• Laptops: from £149.99
• Tablets: Samsung & Lenovo from £125
• Toys: up to 25% off Lego and Tonies
• TVs: from £129.99
• Vacuums: up to 40% off Eufy & Roborock
• Wearables: Garmin & Huawei from £36.99

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/gd8st4E

Agentic AI is moving rapidly from boardroom ambition to enterprise reality.

Gartner forecasts that roughly 40% of enterprise applications will incorporate task-specific AI agents this year, up from just 5% last year.

This surge forces every CIO, CISO, and technology leader to consider: What should AI be allowed to access, and how should it operate once inside the enterprise?

Many organizations begin by embedding AI agents directly into legacy systems, connecting them to backend databases, APIs, and workflows in the name of speed.

While this inline approach can work in modern, well-governed environments, it often bypasses the approval workflows and controls that legacy systems were built around. Agents can access restricted data, skip approvals, or execute transactions without a complete, attributable record.

The result is a growing governance gap. Decisions tied to sensitive data can’t be reliably reconstructed or defended with the same confidence as human-driven work. Even advanced models stall in pilots because organizations can’t prove how outcomes were produced.

The solution is not to slow AI adoption. It’s to change how AI interacts with the systems that already run the business.

When AI bypasses the system, it breaks it

Consider a finance workflow in an ERP software system. An agent updates vendor bank details and pushes a payment through a fast-track path, bypassing a required approval step and segregation-of-duties check. Later, when the transaction is questioned, the organization can’t prove who approved the change, why it was made, or whether proper controls were followed.

That’s where accountability breaks down. Changes are made inside core systems, but the evidence is incomplete, inconsistent, or disconnected from the system of record.

Emulated human behavior offers a more secure and practical path. These agents operate exactly as a human employee would: logging in with standard credentials, navigating the existing user interface, reading screens in context, following established workflows, and executing tasks while remaining fully subject to every control already in place.

No new APIs. No raw backend data exposure. No rewriting of decades-old business logic or security rules. The guardrails designed to protect against human error or misuse — validations, permissions, approvals, and audit logging — remain 100% intact.

This UI-first approach is especially effective for organizations running mission-critical processes on older platforms. Building secure, governed APIs for legacy systems is expensive and time-consuming, often leaving out protections built into the interface layer.

While emulated human agents may not match the speed of direct backend calls, they provide far more valuable enterprise advantages: immediate deployability, ironclad accountability, and zero disruption to proven controls. Secure operation doesn’t require avoiding AI. It requires rethinking how it fits into the systems around it.

Preparing for emulated human in the enterprise

Three priorities can help organizations prepare for the emulated human approach as AI scales into critical workflows.

1. Place AI at the points where work happens

Most enterprise AI strategies assume deeper backend integration creates better automation. In environments shaped by legacy systems, it often does the opposite: introducing new complexity while bypassing the workflows and controls already built into the interface layer.

Instead, focus AI at the points where it can operate without requiring systems to be rebuilt. This approach dramatically reduces integration overhead, limits exposure of core systems, and allows AI to scale within existing operating models rather than forcing costly modernization.

2. Align AI accountability with human accountability

Agents should operate under named identities and the same policies as employees. They preserve approval workflows, follow role-based permissions, and generate the same audit artifacts — including log entries, change histories, tickets, and recorded approvals — that organizations already rely on to review human activity.

This removes the dangerous two-tier governance model where AI operates under different standards than employees. Organizations can maintain visibility, accountability, and established compliance and risk management controls as AI takes on greater responsibility.

3. Design for adaptability rather than brittle automation

Traditional robotic process automation (RPA) relied on rigid, click-by-click scripts that broke the moment screens changed or exceptions appeared. Emulated human agents interpret context in real time, adjust to variation, and continue operating, just as skilled employees do.

That adaptability is essential in dynamic enterprise environments where policies change, exceptions are common, and systems are rarely static. Instead of constant break/fix maintenance, organizations gain AI that can operate more resiliently inside real-world workflows.

Scaling AI with the systems already in place

As agentic AI scales, enterprises will be judged not only by the intelligence of their systems but by their ability to govern them. The pressure to balance innovation with control will only intensify.

The most durable strategies will be those that embed AI safely within the systems already in place, rather than racing around them. When an agent’s actions can be audited and justified with the same rigor applied to a human colleague, it’s finally ready for production.

That’s how secure, scalable AI will be defined in the enterprise.

We feature the best small business software.

This article was produced as part of TechRadar Pro Perspectives, our channel to feature the best and brightest minds in the technology industry today.

The views expressed here are those of the author and are not necessarily those of TechRadarPro or Future plc. If you are interested in contributing find out more here: https://www.techradar.com/pro/perspectives-how-to-submit

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/C5PQiYE

Harber London is always my pick for business backpacks - get yours for less this Amazon Prime Day 2026.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/LbpQvB3

You don't even have to spend a cent to get extra value out of your subscription this Prime Day.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/GJTRq2k

Pokémon Champions was great on my Nintendo Switch 2, but the iOS and Android version is better.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/fmH91z2

I tested a mess-free smart misting fan with powerful yet quiet performance and a budget-friendly price — here’s why it’s a must-have device for the summer.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/zeYfDMR

Allen Chen talks all things Fitbod, including what’s coming in the coming months.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/VRJH1ya

University researchers and NHS staff developed an AI forecasting tool that predicts resignations and explains workforce factors behind possible departures.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/BkEInMN

Britain has the AI talent and capital, now it needs the network to match.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/rymL5pV

The Kensington SD5010T5 EQ Thunderbolt 5 Dock is an elegant option for those with TB5 ports.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/OgJfRpC

How to overcome attackers that impersonate IT support in chat and gain access to M365 tenants.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/WCnPqxD

Harlan Coben is racking up adaptations on Netflix, and I Will Find You is easily the weakest — but I promise you that's not as bad as it sounds.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/X4b73Up

All the ways to watch the England vs New Zealand 2nd Test from the Oval, from anywhere in the world, as Joe Root returns as captain for the home side.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/JweB5qU

AI delivers lasting value when strategy, governance and trust shape adoption.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/fXwedUT

Philips Hue now offers new Play table and floor lamps, upgraded candle bulbs and new smart switches for existing lighting fixtures

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/P7fFHJ4

The UK has become the latest country to ban social media for under-16s — here's everything you need to know.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/0ynhTe8

Rising component costs are forcing Nintendo to increase the Switch 2’s price by AU$70 very soon, which makes this 10% discount on Amazon seem like a bargain by comparison.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/ErxjSwd

McLaren is using Iron Mountain's Insight DXP platform to digitise and catalogue over 60 years of legacy media.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/f0Dau8g

All the ways to watch 2026 Copenhagen Sprint live streams online and from anywhere, as the fastest men in the world go head to head on the streets of the Danish capital.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/FvMDzVh

NHS England is deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 staff members after successful pilot with 30,000 workers.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/yxeQijD

The week's biggest tech news from Nintendo, Apple, Trump Mobile, and more for June 13, 2026.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/JE8vwch

All the ways to watch 24 Hours of Le Mans 2026 live streams online and from anywhere, as BMW M Team WRT seek to maintain their early-season form.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/dR1G2pm

KitchenAid's latest fully automatic coffee maker is extra compact and makes an excellent espresso, though its 'iced' drinks leave something to be desired.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/HsNxTVJ

As fraud evolves with AI, finance teams must use the same technology to defend.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/INBptjo

While AI adoption is accelerating, 77% or organizations still report no meaningful impact on overall revenue.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/ZjLUTE5

All the ways to watch the 2026 Women's T20 World Cup as England hosts the biggest edition of the tournament to date.

from Latest from TechRadar https://ift.tt/stQqivL