In this episode, Transform NOW co-hosts Brad Hairston and Michael Marchuk banter about some interesting recent news headlines in the world of automation and AI.

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News stories covered in this episode:

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Accenture plans on ‘exiting’ staff who can’t be reskilled on AI amid restructuring strategy

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/26/accenture-plans-on-exiting-staff-who-cant-be-reskilled-on-ai.html

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Google's new open protocol secures AI agent transactions - and 60 companies already support it

https://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-new-open-protocol-secures-ai-agent-transactions-and-60-companies-already-support-it/

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OpenAI foresees millions of AI agents 'somewhere in the cloud' in just a few years — with human supervision

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/openai-foresees-millions-of-ai-agents-somewhere-in-the-cloud-in-just-a-few-years-with-human-supervision/ar-AA1ME7Zv?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds

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With AI Agents, 'Memory' Raises Policy and Privacy Questions

https://www.techpolicy.press/forget-me-forget-me-not-memories-and-ai-agents/

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Bloomberg reports: Foreigners Are Buying US Stocks at Record Pace Despite Trade War https://finance.yahoo.com/news/foreigners-buying-us-stocks-record-093000606.html

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