The Dawn of AI-Powered Sales Calls: Outsmarting Humans at Spotting Buyers and Closing Deals
In a world where tele-sales once conjured images of high-pressure boiler rooms and scripted pitches, artificial intelligence is poised to flip the script. Imagine a tireless digital rep dialing prospects, probing needs with Socratic questions, handling objections with unflappable poise, and sealing deals—all while analyzing subtle cues in real-time to Continue Reading
Asylum Seekers Launch Hunger Strike Over UK-France Removal Scheme
By Cicero’s Home Affairs correspondent Dozens detained in Britain refuse food ahead of forced returns to FranceAround 30 asylum seekers held in UK immigration detention centres have begun a hunger strike in protest at plans to deport them to France under the government’s contentious “one-in, one-out” arrangement with Paris. Sources Continue Reading
Why We Wake at 3am: The Forgotten Secret of ‘Second Sleep’
By Our Science Correspondent For most of human history, an unbroken eight hours of sleep was not the norm. Long before electric light and factory clocks ruled the night, people across Europe, Africa and Asia lived by a very different rhythm: two sleeps, not one. Known as “first sleep” and Continue Reading
