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    Visa ChatGPT integration enables AI agent retail purchasing

    Visa has linked its payment infrastructure to ChatGPT, enabling AI agents to recommend retail products and execute financial transactions. The deployment removes human intervention from the final stages of the retail funnel. Autonomous agents will now process user prompts, evaluate merchant catalogues, and complete the checkout process using Visa’s payment rails at any supporting merchant. […]

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    Xebia: Why AI agents fail without the right data foundation

    If your remit is to help your organisation add AI agents to accelerate its processes, you have to start at the foundation – and that means making your data available for AI consumption. Agentic AI scales on data strength, as Niels Zeilemaker, global CTO at Xebia, explains. “If you don’t think about that, you can […]

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    AI Now Senior Fellow Dr. Katie J. Wells Testifies before the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections

    On Tuesday, June 9, 2026, AI Now Senior Fellow, AI and Healthcare Dr. Katie J. Wells testified at a Hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education & the Workforce Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. In her testimony, Dr. Wells highlighted how gig nursing platforms are targeting policymakers with legislation that upends worker protections […]

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