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, February 26th. I'm Pierre Bien-Ame for the Wall Street Journal.

The president and chief executive of the World Economic Forum said he would step down after the organization conducted a review into his past connections with Jeffrey Epstein.

The World Economic Forum is the organization behind the annual meeting of executives and political leaders in Davos, Switzerland.

Its review focused on three business dinners that Borga Brenda had with Epstein in 2018 and 2019, as well as emails and texts between them.

Brenda has denied wrongdoing.

Papa Johns International says it's closing 300 U.S. stores by the end of 2027.

The company said those restaurants are largely unprofitable and generate low sales.

Papa Johns also said it's slashing menu items and cutting corporate jobs to try and turn around its business.

The U.S. pizza sector overall is struggling to increase sales.

The owner of Pizza Hut, Yum Brands, is closing restaurants and exploring a sale of the brand.

And Warner Brothers Discovery today reported lower

quarterly revenue. It's the subject of a bidding war between Netflix and Paramount. The company's

revenue fell 6% to $9.46 billion, contributing to a fourth quarter loss of $252 million. But subscribers

to its streaming services were up by 3.5 million compared with

the previous quarter. Warner ended the quarter with 131.6 million subscribers to services,

which include HBO Max and Discovery. 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 podcast.

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