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Brands spent decades building direct customer relationships. Now, as consumers increasingly use AI tools for product recommendations, they are contending with a new reality.

Romania’s potential economic growth has fallen to around 2% from 3.5-3.75% before the pandemic, with weaker productivity gains becoming a larger constraint on the economy despite still-strong investment, according to an analysis by ING Chief Economist for Romania Valentin Tătaru.

Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the customer-relationship-management software group, closed lower for a fifth straight session on Monday, its longest losing streak since June. The shares finished the day at $236.42, down 0.63%, having traded between $236.29 and $241.34 during the session. Salesforce sits in the Technology sector, within the Software – Application industry, and carries a…

For the past few years, investors could hardly go wrong simply putting their money into the economy’s biggest companies. The Magnificent Seven stocks — Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Meta Platforms, Alphabet, and Tesla — were almost single-handedly pulling the S&P 500 higher, and investors consistently chased them.

You have heard about the two Anthropic employees who, this week, publicly informed America that artificial intelligence could eradicate the whole of humanity within a decade, which is less time than it takes for your average Seamless order to arrive. If these gentlemen, Jacob Coxon and Evan Hubinger, are correct in their assessment, the beginning of…

US stock futures wobbled in premarket trading on Friday as investors braced for inflation data that could solidify, or undercut, rising bets that the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates next week.

The U.S. inflation rate was 3.4% as of July 2026, based on the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s based on the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, and it’s well above the Federal Reserve’s target inflation rate of 2.0% (although the Fed measures that goal using the PCE price…

BambooHR research finds employees spend 42 percent of their AI time troubleshooting errors and refining prompts, compared with 35 percent on productive work. With 63 percent of organisations increasing AI budgets, the findings raise new questions about enterprise deployment ROI.

The YouGov study found that 28% of NHS employees spend more than 10 hours each week on administration alone, equivalent to more than a full working day. Extrapolated across the NHS workforce, that represents around 430 million hours every year, or the equivalent of 220,000 full-time roles.