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They run on GEP software.
Market leading companies use GEP's agentic AI-powered procurement software to reduce risk,
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Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host Rosie Bloor.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
I bet you've used an online review recently.
Maybe to pick where to eat on holiday, what to watch or which toaster to buy.
Question is, who writes them, why and should we trust them?
Amazingly, people have actually done academic research on this.
And we gobble millions of turkeys at Christmas,
and apparently some of us like to get to know a bird before we devour it.
Or at least get to know the farmer who reared it.
Our correspondent assures us that no foul play was involved.
First up, though.
To say that there's been quite a lot going on in the past four years is a bit of an understatement.
Health organisation officially announced that this is a global pandemic.
In a televised address at around 6am in Moscow,