5 h. ago Visa wants to give artificial intelligence 'agents' your credit card

Visa is hoping to hand your credit card to an artificial intelligence “agent” that can find and buy clothes, groceries, airplane tickets and other items on your behalf

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37 h. ago Office manager who bought Celtic FC tickets and other treats with company credit card sells home to repay former bosses

Karen Fitzpatrick, 54, from Coatbridge, siphoned off cash from PBR Building Services for almost five years.

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5 d. ago Microsoft says everyone will be a boss in the future – of AI employees

Tech company predicts rise of ‘frontier firms’ – where a human worker directs AI agents to carry out tasksMicrosoft has good news for anyone with corner office ambitions. In the future we’re all going to be bosses – of AI employees.The tech company is predicting the rise of a new kind of business, called a “frontier firm”, where ultimately a human worker directs autonomous artificial intelligence agents to carry out tasks. Continue reading...

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1 week ago I'm an interior designer, here's how you can spruce up your home for summer without breaking the bank

With the warm months approaching, it's a perfect time to spruce up your home. And you don't need a full-blown renovation or a maxed-out credit card to make your space feel fresh for summer.

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1 week ago Gen Z amazed to discover life was very different before surprising law changes

From women being banned from having a credit card, to smoking in restaurants or on planes, the rules of life used to be very different in a way many youngsters can't even imagine

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1 week ago Credit card late fee cap scrapped as Trump admin sides with Wall Street banks

Last month, President Trump tried to dismantle the bureau completely by slashing £100m in contracts and firing 70 employees

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2 w. ago Texas judge throws out rule that would have capped credit card late fees

A Texas judge has thrown out a federal rule that would have capped credit card late fees

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3 w. ago Josephine Baker: the superstar turned spy who fought the Nazis and for civil rights

Book highlights performer’s wartime contribution and how she used her fame to provide cover and promote equal rightsShe was, according to US wartime counter-intelligence officer Lt Paul Jensen, “our No 1 contact in French Morocco”, supporting the allied mission “at great risk to her own life – and I mean that literally. We would have been quite helpless without her.”The British intelligence agent Donald Darling had her down as an especially “cherished agent of [Charles] de Gaulle’s government”. Well aware of her importance, the UK foreign intelligence service MI6 called her “the pet lady agent” of the Free French. Continue reading...

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