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NFTs (non-fungible tokens) may have registered as a fad for some consumers, but their authenticity has value in this space. NFTs in ticketing are projected for a 13.67% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2023 to 2031, suggesting a shift toward blockchain-based ticketing. This shift allows tokenized tickets to reduce fraud, improve smart contract automation and control the secondary market by limiting unauthorized resales.

From: Stadiums Adopt New Tech to Improve Security at Live Events.

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nd, since chats with Meta AI are, by definition, chats with Meta, they are not encrypted… ut it still means that the things people say and search there can be used to train Meta’s AI models.

From: How WhatsApp for business changed the world – Rest of World.

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Meta has also built a new AI marketing tool for its ad portal. That feature allows any business to upload a list of phone numbers for customers who have opted in to receive messages. The tool then matches that list against numbers that have been shared on Facebook and Instagram, and uses AI to determine which subset of customers would be the best fit for a given message.

From: How WhatsApp for business changed the world – Rest of World.

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While Meta’s paid messaging tools brought in about $1 billion last year — peanuts compared to the whopping $132 billion the company earned from ads — paid messaging revenue is growing far faster than ad revenue and has more than doubled since early 2023.

From: How WhatsApp for business changed the world – Rest of World.

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In Brazil, the beauty juggernaut L’Oréal now makes an average of 25% of its online direct-to-consumer sales on WhatsApp.

From: How WhatsApp for business changed the world – Rest of World.

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WhatsApp is the world’s most widely used messaging app; the company says it has 2 billion daily users. These users send more than 100 billion messages every day in 60 languages across 180 countries. Some 400 million of those users are in India, WhatsApp’s biggest market, followed by another 120 million in Brazil.

From: How WhatsApp for business changed the world – Rest of World.

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AI is the future of payments. Our platform goes steps further than anybody else to make it possible to get your AI to pay for what it needs done by bringing humans in the loop.

From: Payman – AI That Pays Humans.

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Agentic AI represents a significant evolution in artificial intelligence, offering enhanced autonomy and decision-making capabilities beyond traditional AI systems. Unlike conventional AI, which requires human instructions, agentic AI can independently perform complex tasks, adapt to changing environments, and pursue goals with minimal human intervention.

From: How Agentic AI is Revolutionizing Customer Service | CustomerThink.

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Andy Haldane, chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts and former chief economist at the Bank of England,

Research has shown just how large and lasting are the costs of bowling alone. From sub-par growth to stalling social mobility, from the epidemic in loneliness to the crumbling of communities, the erosion of social capital goes a long way to explaining some of our greatest scourges.

From: Counting the cost of bowling alone.

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In the popular imagination, Warhammer is about as cool as trainspotting. But books about wizards who grew up in under-stairs cupboards and triumphed over the Dementors weren’t cool either — until they sold 500mn copies and spawned eight blockbuster films. By the same token, Games Workshop has plenty to teach the rest of corporate Britain.

From: Triumph of the orcs: why Britain needs more Games Workshops.

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More recent work at the Israeli Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) dairy farm exploits deep learning — more specifically Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers — has reached 98% face detectuon and a 96% accuracy in identifying cows.