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 Thursday, June 4th. I'm Pierre Bienname for the Wall Street Journal.

President Trump said he plans to nominate acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for the role permanently.

Blanche was formerly the president's criminal defense lawyer, and he's pleased Trump since

assuming the role on a temporary basis in April. He's refocused the Justice Department to benefit

the president's allies, and he's urged prosecutors to accelerate investigations into the people

Trump wants to target. But Blanche has faced backlash from some Republican senators over a $1.8 billion, quote,

anti-weaponization fund. He'll need the support of those senators to secure his confirmation.

The UK has banned financier Lex Greensill from serving on company boards for nine years.

It's the first formal punishment of the Australian man over the bankruptcy of his firm,

Greensell Capital, in 2021. The firm's unraveling ricocheted across the financial world.

It especially weighed on the now-defunct Swiss Bank Credit Suisse, which had sold loans by the firm to its clients.

A spokesman for Greensville said that the UK regulator's investigation had concluded with no

finding that he acted dishonestly or in bad faith. And investors in the world's biggest private

credit fund, Blackstone's B-Cred, asked to pull more of their money from the fund in the second quarter.

Investors requested to redeem $4.4 billion or 10% of their shares. That's up from about 8% in the

first quarter when redemptions across the industry soared. Blackstone will limit redemptions to

5%. That's a reversal from its strategy in March when it said it would

pay the full amount that investors requested. Blackstone's withdrawals were being closely watched as a gauge

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