Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz has introduced a potentially important bargaining mechanism into the stalled effort to end the war with the United States. Tehran has indicated that shipping through the strategic waterway could resume within days… Read More ›
Artificial intelligence is moving online shopping from a system in which consumers make every important decision to one in which software can increasingly make those decisions for them. AI shopping agents can search for products, compare prices, interpret preferences and,… Read More ›
The pressure on financial stocks reflects a broader reassessment of how artificial intelligence and interest rates could change the economics of financial services. The recent decline across US financial shares brought two separate concerns into focus: whether AI could weaken… Read More ›
The European Central Bank and the national central banks of the European Union are questioning a key assumption behind Europe’s stablecoin regulation: that requiring issuers to keep a fixed portion of their reserves in bank deposits necessarily makes the system… Read More ›
