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Visa and Inflow Enable agent payments

Innovation

AI agents can now pay for services, thanks to new technology from Visa and InFlow.NurPhoto via Getty ImagesAI agents are doing more and more work every day. Someone help me research the humanoid robot ecosystem. another manages my daily email and weekly calendar. Until now, however, agents have struggled to pay for services, even if I wanted to authorize them to do so. This week, that changed. San Francisco-based InFlow is launching what it calls a native agent commerce infrastructure built on top of Visa Intelligent Commerce. The combination is important because it combines two things that have been missing…

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Why you shouldn’t trust artificial intelligence with the future of US immigration

Policy

Immigrants are using artificial intelligence to help them prepare applications for immigration to the United States. Is it a good idea? Not really. Here’s why.gettyIt’s past midnight. A man sits at his kitchen table, asking ChatGPT if he can come to the United States to support his daughter, a US permanent resident facing a difficult pregnancy. He once overstayed his US visitor visa more than a decade ago. The AI ​​confidently tells him that he is inadmissible and cannot apply for a waiver because he is not a US citizen parent or child.Weeks later, he walks into my office. Turns…

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What a 14-year-old cancer patient can teach us about self-protection

Innovation

Jesse BuchananLifetouch Inc. 2025.When Jessi Buchanan’s mother took her to the doctor on April 28, 2025, she expected a stomach bug. What they found instead was a mass the size of a cantaloupe on Jessie’s right ovary. Within weeks, the then-octogenarian from Kentucky would navigate one of the world’s rarest childhood cancers—and insist, with gentle but unwavering conviction, that she be included in every decision about her body.He was 13 years old.A diagnosis no one saw comingJessie was an otherwise healthy girl who enjoyed horseback riding, volleyball, and coloring. Her symptoms – bloating, nausea, diarrhea and an inability to feel…

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