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Mariano Gomide de Faria Contributor Mariano Gomide de Faria has over 20 years of experience in digital commerce and is the founder and co-CEO of global enterprise digital commerce platform VTEX. Legacy digital commerce architectures are no longer sustainable in today’s commerce arena. With every component tightly integrated into a monolithic architecture, a legacy platform’s inflexibility, low reliability, and high maintenance costs make it nearly impossible for a merchant to…

That a new cancer trial is about to start in the US is positive but not out of the ordinary, right? Except it is. This trial will be one of the first undertaken in a real-world clinical setting and represents a new model for future clinical trials.The US’s National Cancer Institute (NCI) has helped launch a phase 3 clinical trial, the Pragmatica-Lung Study, investigating the use of a two-drug treatment for people with advanced (stage 4) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). What makes this trial different is that it’s one…

Competition Commission Chairperson Ashok Kumar Gupta on Tuesday said the regulator has been pragmatic in levying and quantifying penalties as the enforcement actions are not divorced from business and economic realities.Gupta, who will be demitting office on Tuesday after being at the helm of the watchdog for nearly four years, also said that the feasibility of an ex-ante framework should be considered for effectively regulating digital markets.The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has been taking steps to ensure fair…

There’s a tendency to discuss artificial intelligence with a certain degree of abstraction.Maybe it’s the complex math powering the latest massive models, or the equally thorny debates around safety. Perhaps it’s still a challenge for many of us to bridge the mental gap between a concept that comes with an aura of futurist optimism (and an occasional overtone of dread) and a technology that’s already here, changing the way we work, create, and live.Our latest selection of recommended reads focuses squarely on the latter.…

Holding a conversation with a five-year-old can be an adventure. One second you're sharing opinions on favorite breakfast cereals, the next they've jumped ship to something vague about a cartoon octopus.  What seems like a limited vocabulary or difficulty in keeping focused could actually be an inability to reconcile inferences with another person's perspective.Researchers are discovering these two critical cognitive skills make it all but impossible for kids around five years old or younger to read between the lines of…