Finextra Research Headlines
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The Germany-Netherlands partnership signals continued public investment in privacy-preserving computation for fintech, an area (likely involving secure multi-party computation given Roseman Labs' focus) increasingly relevant to compliant data sharing and federated analytics in regulated AI applications; details on technical scope remain limited in this teaser.
https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/111048/eu-backs-spotixx?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed
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Inside Higher Ed
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Enrollment management is a high-volume, data-rich workflow that's a natural fit for AI automation, and higher-ed's slow but growing adoption offers a useful case study in applying LLMs/agentic tools to messy, compliance-sensitive business processes outside big tech.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/learning-innovation/2026/09/29/3-questions-edvisorlys-manny-smith
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Finextra Research Headlines
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Having a frontier AI lab formally disclose catastrophic-risk warnings to public market investors is a notable shift from safety-team rhetoric to legally binding financial disclosure, which could shape how AI risk gets priced, regulated, and litigated going forward; note the excerpt is a teaser, so specifics of the prospectus language remain unconfirmed.
https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/48492/anthropic-prospectus-warns-of-existential-threat-to-humanity?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed
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Finextra Research Headlines
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This signals continued enterprise adoption of ML-based decision intelligence in high-stakes financial infrastructure, where fraud detection, identity verification, and smart routing directly impact transaction security and cost at massive scale; the teaser gives no technical detail on models or architecture used, so specifics remain unclear.
https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/111043/deutsche-bank-to-roll-out-fraud-verification-and-routing-tech-across-global-payments?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed
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Finextra Research Headlines
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It's another sign that regulated financial institutions are leaning on established AI-driven fraud/risk platforms rather than building in-house, underscoring steady enterprise adoption of ML for real-time transaction monitoring even as details on model architecture and performance remain undisclosed in this teaser.
https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/111065/aaib-deploys-ibms-safer-payments-platform?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed
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Finextra Research Headlines
· based on a teaser/excerpt
As financial institutions face growing regulatory pressure, open-source infrastructure for automating fraud detection and AML/CFT compliance signals a broader shift toward transparent, customizable rule-and-model pipelines over black-box vendor tools—relevant for teams building agentic workflows or LLM-assisted risk scoring in regulated industries.
https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/48445/marble-raises-65m-to-automate-compliance?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed
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AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
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As agentic AI tools gain autonomy to browse and act on the web, incidents like this expose real gaps in guardrails around what automated agents can legally and safely touch, raising the stakes for enterprises deploying agentic workflows and for regulators weighing oversight of AI-driven web actions.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/openai-apologizes-to-australia-after-its-ai-agents-breached-government-sites/
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Finextra Research Headlines
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As financial firms embed third-party LLMs and AI tools into products, the fine print on training data provenance, output ownership, and indemnification could leave buyers—not vendors—holding the liability bag for copyright or IP disputes; this is a reminder for technical and procurement teams to scrutinize AI vendor terms as closely as the model's performance.
https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/33013/your-ai-vendors-terms-are-your-ip-risk?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed
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Finextra Research Headlines
· based on a teaser/excerpt
It's a signal that agentic workflows are moving from experimental demos into core financial infrastructure, where institutional adoption has stalled on trust, integration, and compliance bottlenecks; how Nasdaq addresses those constraints could become a template for agentic deployment in other high-stakes, regulated enterprise settings.
https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/111045/nasdaq-adds-agentic-capabilities-to-calypso?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed
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AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
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It's a bet that multimodal photo understanding—receipts, screenshots, event flyers, kids' artwork—is a richer and underexploited signal for personal context than email, which could reshape how agentic assistants source grounding data and raises fresh questions about on-device vs. cloud vision processing and privacy for sensitive personal media.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/with-dazzle-marissa-mayer-bets-your-camera-roll-has-more-info-on-your-life-than-your-inbox/
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Finextra Research Headlines
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As financial firms push agentic AI into compliance operations, the push for 'deterministic' rather than purely generative agents signals growing industry demand for predictable, auditable behavior in regulated workflows—though this teaser offers only framing ahead of the actual webinar content.
https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/3601/how-deterministic-ai-agents-can-safely-close-regulatory-loopholes?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed
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AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
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It's a rare case of a frontier AI lab codifying safety risk as a material disclosure to investors, which could set precedent for how AI catastrophic-risk liability gets treated in financial and regulatory contexts even as the company burns tens of billions to fuel growth.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/anthropics-prospectus-details-losses-growth-and-yes-a-warning-that-its-ai-could-end-humanity/
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Inside Higher Ed
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As generative tools make it trivial to mass-produce plausible-looking but low-quality or fabricated texts, librarians and information systems that rely on trust signals like publisher and authorship face a real curation crisis—an early warning for anyone building RAG pipelines or knowledge bases that assume source integrity.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2026/09/29/ai-slop-coming-university-library-near-you-opinion
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Finextra Research Headlines
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A major Japanese financial group backing an AI investment platform signals growing institutional appetite for applying LLM/AI techniques to active portfolio management, though the teaser gives little technical detail on the underlying models or evaluation methods.
https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/111046/blue-fire-ai-closes-9m-funding-round-partners-with-mizuho-financial-group-and-asset-management-one?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed
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Finextra Research Headlines
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It's another data point in AML/fraud-detection vendors positioning themselves as 'AI command centers' for compliance, showing how LLM-driven risk scoring and anomaly detection are becoming default infrastructure for high-volume payments and remittance platforms in emerging fintech markets.
https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/111066/thai-remittance-fintech-deemoney-selects-seon-as-its-fraud-and-compliance-partner?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed
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Finextra Research Headlines
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Large-scale adoption of AI and real-time rails by a major bank signals growing enterprise appetite for embedding predictive analytics and automation directly into core payment infrastructure, though the teaser offers no technical specifics yet on models or architecture used.
https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/48483/sibos-2026-bofa-expands-payments-capabilities-with-new-intelligence-and-real-time-services?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed
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Finextra Research Headlines
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As quantum computing threatens current encryption and promises optimization gains, AI/ML practitioners in fintech should watch for crypto-agility requirements and hybrid quantum-classical ML workflows on the horizon, though this teaser offers no technical specifics yet.
https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/33023/how-financial-services-can-turn-its-quantum-lead-into-readiness?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed
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OpenAI News
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Safety cases—structured arguments for why a training run is acceptably safe—could become a standard artifact frontier labs must produce before scaling runs, shaping how misalignment risks are documented and audited industry-wide; but as a teaser, specifics on technical safeguards and incident-investigation protocols remain unclear.
https://openai.com/index/towards-safety-cases-for-frontier-ai-training
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AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
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This signals Meta's push to embed agentic AI directly into SMB workflows via its massive advertiser and Business Suite ecosystem, potentially reshaping how small businesses handle marketing and customer outreach—though the teaser leaves specifics on Muse's underlying capabilities and rollout scope unconfirmed.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/meta-is-expanding-its-ai-agent-muse-to-small-businesses/
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Finextra Research Headlines
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For teams deploying LLMs in regulated finance, this reframes the priority: capability gains from newer models matter less than solving data plumbing, compliance controls, and auditability — the actual barriers to production rollout at scale.
https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/33012/the-real-constraint-on-banking-ai-is-no-longer-model-capability?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed
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Finextra Research Headlines
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As agentic workflows move beyond dev tooling into finance operations like liquidity forecasting and payment orchestration, treasury teams face new questions about autonomy limits, auditability, and integration with legacy banking systems—though this brief teaser doesn't yet detail specific architectures or vendor approaches.
https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/33011/agentic-ai-in-corporate-cash-management?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed
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Finextra Research Headlines
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Legacy-to-cloud core banking migrations are notoriously slow, risky, and costly, so applying agentic AI to automate code translation and system re-platforming could meaningfully compress migration timelines for banks; it's also a concrete example of enterprise AI agents being deployed against high-stakes legacy infrastructure rather than greenfield use cases.
https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/111074/throught-machine-and-aws-to-drive-ai-powered-core-migrations?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed
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Finextra Research Headlines
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As generative AI lowers the bar for creating deepfake-enabled social engineering, card skimming automation, and smarter jackpotting malware, this piece is a reminder that legacy physical and network security hygiene at ATMs remains a critical, often-overlooked control layer; details are thin in this teaser, but it signals ongoing industry concern about AI-augmented threats to payment infrastructure.
https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/33007/atm-security-in-the-age-of-ai-why-the-basics-matter-more-than-ever?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed
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AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
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The fast follow-on raise (total now $140M in under a year) signals investors expect enterprise adoption of autonomous agents to outpace security tooling, creating urgency around governance, permissions, and monitoring for agentic workflows before incidents force the issue.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/reco-raises-55m-as-ai-agent-security-startups-crowd-the-market/
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Finextra Research Headlines
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It's another data point in fintech infrastructure vendors branding core processing as AI-first, though the teaser gives no detail on what AI capabilities actually power card issuing versus marketing positioning; worth watching whether concrete fraud-detection, underwriting, or automation features materialize.
https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/111078/bankpro-picks-thredd-to-power-card-programmes?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed
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AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
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Nvidia's push for a shared safety standard for autonomous agents signals growing industry concern about unchecked agentic behavior, and OpenAI's behind-the-scenes involvement suggests even major labs see value in cross-vendor guardrails even as they navigate competitive optics.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/heres-why-openai-is-absent-from-nvidias-industry-wide-effort-to-end-rogue-ai-agents/
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AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
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Deploying an LLM-based assistant at government scale tests how well hallucination risks and eval/safety guardrails hold up when wrong answers could mean lost benefits or missed legal deadlines, making this a high-stakes real-world case study for agentic and RAG-based public-sector applications.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/can-a-chatbot-fix-the-government-maze-the-white-house-is-about-to-find-out/
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OpenAI News
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A model priced at a fifth of the top-tier Astra rate but near its capability level shifts the cost-performance calculus for production agentic workflows, coding assistants, and computer-use automation, potentially making advanced AI economically viable for higher-volume business applications.
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol
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Finextra Research Headlines
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Senior AI and data leaders from BNY, Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, and Citi discussing this shift suggests large financial institutions are moving past chat-assistant style deployments toward agentic systems that execute multi-step processes with less human oversight, a trend with major implications for agentic workflow design, governance, and risk controls in regulated industries. As a teaser, details on specific architectures or safeguards remain unclear.
https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/48500/sibos-2026-google-cloud-reveals-banks-are-moving-from-ai-copilots-to-autonomous-workflows?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed
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AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
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If ChatGPT becomes a discovery and execution layer for third-party software, it reshapes distribution for app developers and creates a new platform gatekeeper for agentic workflows—raising stakes for how businesses build and monetize AI-native tools.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/openais-latest-features-take-direct-aim-at-the-app-store-model/
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Finextra Research Headlines
· based on a teaser/excerpt
Mortgage lending's document-heavy, compliance-laden workflows are a prime target for LLM-driven automation, and fresh funding signals investor appetite for agentic pipelines that could cut origination costs and turnaround times; the actual technical approach remains unclear from this teaser.
https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/48495/elio-mortgage-launches-with-51m-in-pre-seed-funding?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed
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EdSurge Articles
As districts adopt AI tools with little independent efficacy data, practitioners building or evaluating education AI should note the gap between marketing claims and rigorous outcome testing—an eval and trust problem echoed across many AI deployment domains.
https://edsurge.com/news/study-edtech-is-rushing-ai-integration-before-proving-it-works
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AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
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By giving plugins persistent sidebar presence, interactive file viewers, and native automation triggers, OpenAI is pushing ChatGPT toward an app-platform model that could reshape how developers build agentic workflows and compete directly with standalone SaaS tools.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/openai-expands-chatgpts-plugins-with-app-like-interfaces-and-automations/
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AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
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A hardware-agnostic agent designed to run continuously in the background with minimal supervision signals OpenAI's push toward always-on, goal-driven agents rather than session-based chat—raising fresh questions about oversight, reliability, and safety guardrails for autonomous long-running tasks.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/openai-launches-dots-its-bubbly-agentic-avatar/
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OpenAI News
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A major new flagship model plus a batch of developer-facing tooling and security changes could reshape agentic and RAG stacks built on OpenAI's platform, but concrete technical details await the full recap beyond this teaser.
https://openai.com/index/devday-2026-recap
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AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
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A lower-cost model that closes most of the gap to the top-tier flagship shifts the cost-performance calculus for teams running high-volume coding, document-processing, and multi-step business-workflow agents, potentially making frontier-level capability affordable at production scale.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/openai-launches-gpt-6-1-sol-says-it-nearly-matches-gpt-6-astra-and-costs-less/
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AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
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The pivot signals a broader trend of AI builders merging generative UI with conversational agents, blurring the line between chatbots and on-demand software—an approach worth watching for teams designing agentic, task-persistent interfaces rather than one-off app generators.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/ai-powered-app-maker-wabi-pivots-to-a-messaging-experience/
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AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
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While mostly a branding sideshow, it underscores the intensifying rivalry between OpenAI and xAI and shows how even product launches now double as PR battlegrounds; practitioners should watch for the actual capabilities of OpenAI's new agentic tool once details emerge beyond the meme cycle.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/the-internet-is-convinced-elon-musks-xai-trolled-openais-dots-launch/
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AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
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Reusable cloud dev environments that sync across devices push agentic coding tools closer to real developer workflows, while built-in repo vulnerability scanning signals OpenAI's push to bundle security into the coding-agent stack rather than leaving it to separate tools.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/openai-gives-codex-reusable-cloud-environments-that-work-across-devices/
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AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
· based on a teaser/excerpt
By embedding document, spreadsheet, and presentation-style workflows directly into ChatGPT, OpenAI is positioning its assistant as a replacement for traditional productivity software rather than just a companion to it—raising the stakes for enterprise AI integration and putting pressure on Microsoft's Copilot strategy, though details on capabilities and rollout remain thin in this teaser.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/openai-takes-on-microsoft-with-the-launch-of-what-feels-a-whole-lot-like-chatgpts-own-office-suite/
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AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
· based on a teaser/excerpt
The incident is a reminder that odd or off-brand AI outputs on official sites aren't always model failures — they can be deliberate manipulation via hidden prompts, underscoring the need for robust input sanitization and monitoring on public-facing government AI deployments.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/america-gov-gets-really-weird-when-you-ask-it-about-minecraft-but-its-not-a-glitch/
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OpenAI News
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If dots can genuinely operate autonomously across long-running workflows while keeping users in control, it signals OpenAI's push deeper into agentic productivity tools that compete directly with existing agent frameworks and automation platforms—though the teaser leaves key details on architecture, guardrails, and actual autonomy level unconfirmed.
https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots
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