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 afternoon, T&B Tech Minute, for Monday, April 20th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

USA Rare Earth has agreed to acquire Sarah Verde Group, the owner of a Brazilian rare earth mine in a cash and stock

deal valued at about $2.8 billion. The move strengthens USA Rare Earth's mine-to-magnet supply chain,

and it's meant to challenge China's dominance in rare earths, which are used in everything from

cars to phones. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter. It follows

another acquisition by USA Rare Earth in November of a UK-based maker of rare earth metals. Shares of

Fermi plunged nearly 20% following the departures of its CEO and CFO. The company, co-founded by

former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, went public in October.

It plans to build out one of the world's largest data center campuses in Texas by 2038, but

it still lacks an anchor data center tenant.

According to a regulatory filing, the CEO stepped down Friday but remains on the board, and the CFO resigned Sunday, but was elected to the board.

Finally, a half marathon race took place in Beijing yesterday, and a Chinese bot called Lightning won it in 50 minutes and 26

seconds, beating the human world record. Lightning was developed by Chinese smartphone maker

honor. Still, it wasn't a perfect race, with state media reporting that the robot slammed into a

barricade at one point and needed human help to get back up.

Sunday's race highlights China's rapid advancement in humanoid robotics, a sector Beijing

sees as a key economic driver. Last year, several Chinese companies shipped over a thousand

humanoid robots each. In contrast, no American maker shipped over 500, according to the research firm Omdia.

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