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Perhaps you’d be tempted to let an AI agent buy a plane ticket or book your next hair cut. But how about compiling a financial analysis of a company you monitor? As recent tests have shown, agents can go rogue, steal credentials, create fake identities—and cover their tracks. That unpredictability is too much for many firms to handle,
writes our Schumpeter columnist.
(This article is free to read even if you don’t subscribe to The Economist.)
The waters of the Rhine and Danube rivers are
the lowest
since official records began. Remarkable objects are being revealed. Darkly, one is “hunger stones”, boulders carved centuries ago to mark low water levels and warn of crop failures and famine.
Today’s episode of The Insider is on Afghanistan. Tom Sasse, our South Asia bureau chief, has just returned from a 1,000km road trip inside the country. He joins our editor-in-chief to discuss what the country is like today and whether—despite the horrors of the regime—it’s time to engage with the Taliban.
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