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Merchants Put AI to Work Without Handing Over the Customer

The payments and retail industries are asking the wrong question about agentic commerce. The question is not whether an artificial intelligence agent can complete a purchase on its own, because many agents already can. It is whether the merchant wants to let one do so in the first place.

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Beyond the AI race

How BRICS is helping the Global South harness technology to deliver better healthcare, protect livelihoods, and strengthen food security. Artificial intelligence is advancing at a breathtaking pace.

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Chinese scientists propose turning abandoned coal mines into underground farms

Chinese scientists have proposed developing “underground agriculture” in abandoned coal mine tunnels as part of a push to create a green, circular economy for the country’s massive mining industry. A team of researchers from Shanxi, a major coal-producing province in central China, described the idea late last month in the journal China…

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