Autonomous AI agents are here, and they’re poised to reshape the economy. By automating discovery, negotiation, and transactions, agents can overcome inefficiencies like information asymmetries and platform lock-in, enabling faster, more transparent, and more competitive markets. We are already seeing early signs of this transformation in digital marketplaces. Customer-facing assistants like OpenAI’s Operator and Anthropic’s...

It was 10 p.m. on election night. Twenty minutes prior, most news organizations had called the New York City mayoral race for state assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, a previously obscure politician who rose to power through an unrelenting campaign for affordability.  In a long line to enter Mamdani’s election night party at the Brooklyn Paramount, Naftali,...

Earlier this year, the Guardian highlighted how nature is declining in the UK and how development pressures are threatening biodiversity (Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals, 3 June). Your recent article (Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most, 1 November) also shows that, despite...