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AI Agents Are Now Negotiating Real Contracts — Here’s the Fine Print
Walmart’s procurement team now runs part of its supplier negotiations through an AI agent. Not a chatbot that drafts a counteroffer for a human to send on — an agent that actually conducts the back-and-forth. Pactum, the vendor behind it, says its agents have handled more than $1 billion in negotiated spend for Walmart, landing…
When Your Biggest Power Customer Becomes a Power Trader
OpenAI just posted a job for a power-trading lead to hedge its data-center electricity exposure. It’s the clearest sign yet that AI’s energy footprint has outgrown the utility bill — and a preview of ETRM discipline going mainstream.
The AI Confidence Gap: Executives Trust the Output, Not the Data Behind It
84% of executives trust their AI’s output. Only 11% trust the data behind it. New survey data shows where that gap is already landing — in board decks.
A cloud-native, AI-powered CTRM challenger just went live
Legacy CTRM vendors, take note: a lower-cost, AI-native challenger just landed its first customer. CTRM Next, a new cloud-native commodity trading and risk management platform, went live on Sept 28 with its first customer — a Swiss oil and refined products trader — after completing UAT. It’s already building a pipeline into Gulf region firms,…
AI Didn’t Replace Your Analysts — It Gave Them a New Job: Checking Its Work
A new 2026 industry survey finds 96% of analysts now use AI daily — and spend hours a week fact-checking it. Here’s why that’s a sign the role is working, not failing.
CTRM and ETRM Budgets Are Growing Again — But Not for the Reason You Think
For years, CTRM and ETRM budgets grew because markets were volatile. A new 2026 market report says that’s no longer the primary driver — here’s what’s actually behind the spending now, and what it means for your next trading-system decision.
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