US travel update: FAA lifts flight restrictions after government shutdown ends; major airports return to normal Monday

Representative image (Picture credit: AP) The Federal Aviation Administration will lift all flight-reduction orders at 40 major airports from Monday, allowing airlines to return to normal operations after weeks of shutdown-triggered disruptions.In a joint statement, transportation secretary Sean Duffy and FAA administrator Bryan Bedford said regular schedules can resume from 6 am EST on Monday….

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Indian firms shift from AI pilots to scale: Report

BENGALURU: Nearly half of Indian enterprises (47%) now have multiple GenAI use cases live, a report by EY-CII report showed. Another 23% are currently in pilot stages, marking a decisive shift from experimentation to scaled execution. The report showed that Indian enterprises are increasingly embedding AI into core business workflows to deliver measurable outcomes. It…

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Guardrails in place for AI-led commerce: Visa

SINGAPORE: Payments giant Visa is looking to launch agentic commerce pilots across the Asia-Pacific region as regulatory and ecosystem readiness advances by early next year. Agentic commerce refers to a new era where AI-powered agents shop and pay on behalf of users. The company’s Visa Intelligent Commerce (VIC) programme incorporates features like tokenisation, authentication, payment…

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