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Artificial intelligence may be changing where consumers decide what to buy before it changes where they pay for it. “We are seeing adoption for shopping, but not yet for autonomous payments,” Visa CEO Ryan McInerney said Tuesday (Sept. 8) at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference. Consumers are using large language models and other…

Statistical Notice  The Bank of England is pleased to announce the availability of a BEEDS User Acceptance Testing (UAT) environment for statistical reporting firms and software houses to test Bank of England Statistical Taxonomy v1.3.1 FINAL. The UAT environment will be open from 02 June to 12 June 2026 and will run in parallel with…

Firefighters conduct works to extinguish wildfires in Agia Paraskevi, West Attica, Greece on August 1, 2026. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images As wildfires, heatwaves, and extreme weather are becoming a permanent feature of European summers, insurers warn that the region faces a growing “protection gap” as disaster recovery costs outpace insurance coverage. A gigantic…

(Bloomberg Opinion) — Mark Walter should be precisely the kind of owner the National Basketball Association wants. He is spectacularly wealthy and — as he’s proved as the owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers — he’s willing to spend big to win. Yet less than a year after taking control of the Los Angeles Lakers,…

The US Senate failed to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act on September 15, with Senator Elissa Slotkin calling its ethics provisions “simply too thin” as she cast one of the no votes. The tally stood at 50 senators voting yes against 49 no, short of the 60 affirmative votes required to advance the…