Enterprise
The Returns Problem Was Retail's Silent Killer. AI May Finally Have a Fix.
19.3% of online purchases were returned in 2025, totalling $849.9 billion. Most never make it back to shelves. Generative AI has finally made virtual try-on convincing enough to change that, with Zara, Gap, and a wave of startups deploying it. The savings are real — and so is what gets eliminated alongside the returns.
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Opinion
The Case for Robot Rights Has Nothing to Do With Whether They Can Suffer
AI labour costs the marginal rate of electricity. Even if a human and an AI are identical in quality, AI always wins on price — not because it is better, but because it is structurally prevented from charging a fair market rate. Legal rights for advanced AI systems are not a welfare argument. They are the most direct fix for a broken market structure that is quietly draining consumer demand from the economy.
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