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But high-income economies aren't immune, and on top of pricier fertilizer, there's rising energy prices to contend with, which also push food costs up.

See, costlier energy makes food production and transportation more expensive.

Farm machinery runs on fuel, after all, as do trucks and ships that provide transport.

All of those increases get passed down the supply chain and end up as steeper prices on grocery store shelves.

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Next up, OpenAI is forging a new desktop super app, bringing together all three of its precious tools.

Last year, OpenAI launched a bunch of standalone products that didn't really land with users.

So now it's changing tack to take direct aim at Anthropic.

Makes sense, the rival firm has been pulling ahead with its wildly successful cloud tools and huge base of business users.

Determined to rule them all, OpenAI is throwing together its flagship bot ChatGPT, coding platform Codex, and internet browser Atlas into a single desktop app.

It's all part of a grand plan to dominate the AI-powered workspace market.

The aim?

An agentic AI system, one that can carry out tasks end-to-end with minimal human oversight.

And OpenAI's pulling out all the stops to make it happen.

even adding the creator of the OpenClaw AI agent platform to its payroll.

The race to build top-tier AI is brutally competitive and equally expensive.

That's why both companies are eyeing public market debuts later this year.