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From finance and medicine to used cars, artificial intelligence is radically improving market efficiency
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AI is prompting investors to reassess every business model under the sun

Rich and poor consumers are seeing their spending patterns converge

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

How imperfect technologies spread

Markets for goods, services and financial assets, as well as labour, would be upended

Get ready for a new wave of securities, hedges and collateral