I think the potential of Agenic is to rethink how work gets done overall.

It challenges all sorts of traditional orthodoxies around how organizations execute the work at hand.

That's Jason Gersatus, CEO of Deloitte U.S., talking about the transformational potential of A.Gentic AI.

Join him later to learn why agents are a game changer for businesses across industries.

Here's your midday brief for Wednesday, March 18th. I'm Alex Osala for the Wall Street Journal.

Israel says it's killed Iranian intelligence minister Ismail Khatib, the latest member of Tehran's top leadership it's killed this week.

Israel said Khatib played a significant role during the Tehran regime's crackdown on recent protests

and that it planned to hunt down all of Iran's leadership.

Separately, Israel struck Iran's massive South Pars gas field, which Tehran shares with Qatar.

Iran warned that attacking energy facilities would escalate the war. News of the strikes sent energy prices rising

again, and Brent crude futures topped $108 a barrel this morning. In an effort to curb rising energy

prices, President Trump has issued a short-term waiver of the Jones Act.

That's a federal statute that requires ships moving goods between U.S. ports to sail under a U.S.

flag and be owned and crewed by U.S. citizens. In recent history, the governments waived the Jones

Act during natural disasters like hurricanes. And Macy's posted an unexpected rise in same store sales in the fourth

quarter, driven by its Bloomingdale's brand. But it sounded a note of caution for the year ahead,

given tariffs and macroeconomic uncertainty. Heads up, an artificial intelligence tool helped

us make this episode by creating summaries that were based on WSJ reporting and then reviewed

and adapted by an editor. We'll have more coverage of the day's news on the WSJ's What's News

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