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Worldline, ING and Mastercard have run Europe’s first live agentic payment, with an AI agent assembling a purchase the shopper still has to approve — showing agent-led buying can clear existing bank security and authorisation.
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Space warfare is coming and satellites are largely defensless and vulnerable to attack, so now they have buddies to defend…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Reusable electromagnetic interceptors solve the “magazine depth” crisis by neutralizing low-cost drone swarms without expensive, one-shot explosive missiles. Matthew…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Europe risks being irrelevant across multiple sectors as they get thrashed by China and the US, this is their belated…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Airbus is trying to find ways to cut the aviation industry’s emissions, and they’re getting closer to the first full…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One day aircraft will literally fly themselves autonomously, and Airbus is gathering all the data it needs to accelerate that…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Countries are struggling to find ways to defend themselves against fast moving hypersonic weapons systems, and early detection is crucial….
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The French have found a new way to generate energy and bio-products from datacenter waste energy. Love the Exponential…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many believe that quantum technologies are unhackable, we’ll see in time, but for now there’s a race to create the…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Rotation detonation engines look like they’re capable of Mach 16 plus flight, so they are game changers if they can…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF At 5 million fps you can record the movement of individual molecules, and change science – and other stuff. …
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When it comes to hypersonic weaponry China and Russia lead, with the rest of the world trailing far behind, and…
