Walmart has a new employee – an AI agent named Sparky who wants to make buying things from Walmart even easier.
Category: 9 December 2025
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CURRENT AI MODELS COULD TAKE 12 PERCENT OF U.S. JOBS, MIT SAYS
Today’s AI systems are able to do 12 percent of U.S. jobs, according to a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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A NEW AI DIAGNOSES RARE GENETIC ILLNESSES
Researchers at Harvard University and Spain’s Center for Genomic Regulation have created popEVE, an AI intended to accurately diagnose rare and complex illnesses.
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AMAZON’S NEW AI AGENTS WORK AROUND THE CLOCK
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is releasing a new AI agent that can work for days on end without the need to check with a human for guidance or information, the company said.
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SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
As we have detailed, the Trump administration’s laissez-faire attitude toward major mergers and acquisitions has persuaded a growing number of companies “to take a shot at deals that merge direct competitors,” The Wall Street Journal reported after talking with executives, investment bankers, and lawyers in the field.
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CHINA’S PHONE MAKERS ARE PEELING AWAY APPLE’S IPHONE USERS
China’s leading smartphone makers now offer apps that enable iPhone users to switch smoothly to domestically made phones.
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LUXURY FIRM MUST DOWNSIZE, REBALANCE, CEO SAYS
To revive its flagging fortunes, luxury house Kering must continue to close stores, rethink its pricing strategy, seek synergies with other retailers, and reduce its dependence on flagship brand Gucci, CEO Luca de Meo said in a recent memo to senior staff.
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TAIWAN’S AI BOOM LEAVES OTHER SECTORS BEHIND
Artificial intelligence fever has swept Taiwan, lifting the island nation’s GDP by 8 percent in this year’s third quarter. However, that growth has overshadowed the country’s larger economic weakness.
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NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS MAKES SURE TO PROTECT ISRAEL ON WAY OUT OF OFFICE
Eric Adams, the New York City mayor, made it a point last week to sign executive orders that make sure protests against Israel are essentially banned in the city, including one that stated that mayoral appointees shall not engage in practices that “discriminate against the State of Israel, Israeli citizens, or those associated with Israel.”
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DOES THE ITALIAN NATIONAL BANK’S GOLD BELONG TO ‘THE PEOPLE’?
The Brothers of Italy, prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s ruling political party, has proposed that the gold now on the balance sheet of the Bank of Italy, should be declared the property of the Italian people.