[music] Is this the future of online shopping. A complete change to Google searches and no more endless scrolling through blue links. In its place, AI agents offering a hyperpersonalized experience for now.That means that AI can recommend products and compare prices as well as allow you to check out all on the same page. And the vision is that in the future, you'll set the AI agent a task and a budget and leave it to it. But is this really what shoppers want.After all, AI shopping agents can raise serious c ...

Decades after governments dismantled [music] food reserves and placed their faith in global trade, a growing number are rebuilding emergency stockpiles. From Sweden and Norway to India and Indonesia, states are withholding ever larger quantities of rice, wheat, and other staples as insurance against a world that they view as increasingly unstable. The return of food stockpiling reflects a convergence of shocks.Pandemic era disruptions, the wide ares generated by the war in Ukraine and conflicts in Gaza, Ven ...

Cuba is running out of oil. According to energy consultancy Kepler, it hasn't had a shipment since January the 9th, and now it only has enough to last for 15 to 20 days. Mexico was Cuba's biggest supplier last year, overtaking Venezuela, whose exports to the communist island dried up after the US captured Nicolas Maduro on January the 3rd.The shipment that arrived in Cuba on January the 9th, came from Mexico. But another shipment that had been planned has been shelved, at least for now, amid pressure from D ...

[music] [music] [music] Spark is New Zealand's largest telco and as a telco we're a large software business right so our whole business runs on software vibe is the use of AI to accelerate our testing process so we can release software more quickly it's tempting to think of it as sort of tool or robot. It is not. The way we think about that is it's like a junior tester like an intern coming on board. Like a junior tester, it requires some supervision. It requires some training and checking its results.And i ...

Since US President Donald Trump imposed punitive tariffs on India, exporters across the country have been forced to seek new markets for their goods. For companies heavily dependent on the US, the message has been clear. Diversify or absorb the impact of Trump's tariffs.While New Delhi continues to hope for a lifting or easing of the cumulative 50% tariffs, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has moved with unusual urgency to deepen trade ties elsewhere. In a major step in that direction, India and the EU recently ...

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A fever is sweeping over investors. Gold fever. The precious metal usually does well in times of turmoil.This week, it surged past $5,000 per troy ounce for the first time. Measured in real terms, the price for gold in 2025, broke through a record last set in 1980, and it's risen more than 15% in January alone. This could end up being the metal's strongest monthly rally in more than 40 years.But how long can the run on gold last. There's always demand from retail buyers for things like jewelry, gold bars, a ...

I used to think that people who use exclamation marks in work emails were less serious, less worldly, and less professional. So, I shun the things like mad, especially when writing to someone important. Somewhere along the line though, possibly around the time I sent my first emoji, I caved.Hello, I started writing to colleagues. That's fantastic news. Thanks.I blame this on the informality that social media ushered in and the pandemic, which seemed to intensify that informality. Happily though, research fr ...

I think coal is rooted in the fabric of Indian society. >> The guy who is ironing your shirt to the person who's making your chai. Every part of the economic chain is connected to coal or coal related consumption in some way or the other.>> Coal we are having an abundance. >> Coal was the thing that gave us not just electricity but also light. Coal is the king.But now the king is taking lives of the people. You, me, anyone who is breathing this air cannot escape the ill effects of air pollution. India is fa ...

To understand why the US and Iran are enemies, you need to go back in time. Let's start in 1953. That's when the US and UK backed a coup against Iran's Prime Minister Muhammad Mosedc.American Britain opposed his nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian oil company, now known as BP. And they helped restore Iran's last shot to power. But he ran a corrupt and repressive regime.At the end of the 70s, a revolution broke out. It was fueled by mass protests with a strong anti-American slant. The sha by now suffering f ...