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Opinion: The dangers of letting AI agents do your shopping (opens the original)
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Vass Bednar is the managing director of the Canadian Shield Institute and co-author of The Big Fix. Meta just launched its Muse AI agent; a personal assistant designed to handle tasks such as e-mail, online shopping and travel booking. Some people assign these bots to find and negotiate discounts on flights, or to locate the lowest possible price for something. Apparently, Wall Street loves Muse, available so far only in the United States and Canada. Meta stock has surged 20 per cent since its l
Opinion: Google Maps has become a tool of digital imperialism (opens the original)
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Vass Bednar is the managing director of the Canadian Shield Institute and co-author of The Big Fix. Back in 2005, when the internet was still silly, exploratory and fun, one of the first mainstream viral videos was a three-minute clip from Saturday Night Live called “Lazy Sunday.” The rap song represented a kind of crossover moment between traditional media and whatever this new thing on our screens was becoming. The video contains another artifact of a lost time, in which comedians Andy Samberg
Opinion: Moneris, a big payments processor, is being sold to U.S. private equity. This should worry us (opens the original)
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Vass Bednar is the managing director of the Canadian Shield Institute and co-author of The Big Fix. Earlier this week, two Canadian banks agreed to sell Moneris Solutions Corp. to an American private equity firm. You may not have heard of the payment processing company, but you’ve likely relied on it to make a purchase; the company touches roughly a third of the country’s business transactions. At first glance, it’s not obvious how to think about the acquisition. As a payment terminal would ask:
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