https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/trump-administrations-attack-on-university-research-accelerates/ The university was scared, he knew that. It was dependent on those students and the governments that lent them the money to pay the fees. And that government was clear about its criteria: where it would “invest” and where it would not, which invitations it would “work with” and which it wouldn’t. The university … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/08/a-nonprofit-is-using-ai-agents-to-raise-money-for-charity/ She was never able to just walk past let alone launch an expletive tirade against them. She was too polite, maybe too British. She couldn’t do it when the Chuggers were cheerful students, she couldn’t do it now. She used to smile back and point at her device, mouthing “sorry, I’m late.” Why did … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/news/644943/shopify-ceo-memo-ai-hires-job She’d got through to the last four. She’d got through a series of interviews with different Agents. She felt good. Confident. Her preparation had been right. She’d have bought her trainer a drink if it drank. The trials runs, the pep talks had all worked. Now it was the last interview: the human one. … [Read more…]
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/05/marketing-advertising-industry-far-right-activism When she’d joined it was all so simple. She was young, an activist, political. Her comrades had asked how she could go into advertising, work for The Man. She’d argued she could make the world better through comms, through brands, through purpose. That was then. Then there was the backlash. But she carried on. … [Read more…]
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/nyregion/ai-lawyer-replica-new-york.html At least he wasn’t going to be alone, he thought. It was such a wonderfully archaic thing. The “Viva” sounds so much weightier than the “oral exam”. He had this vision of the examiners wearing heavy robes and solid expressions. He knew they wouldn’t of course. You can’t put an Agent in ermine. But … [Read more…]
https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/advertising-week-europe-2025-lessons-kfc-paddy-power-bbc-john-lewis-ba-jaguar/1913061 The briefings are ready. Each team will get its own, obviously. No point in getting reports on sessions outside your area. No, don’t worry, you’ll get anything that’s relevant. That’s why we sent a whole team to cover the event. They’ll sort through what they heard, share everything and then brief you. Knowledge sharing … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/news/642947/amazon-ai-buy-products-other-websites We need security. It just keeps happening. They arrive at all hours. Shameless. Fearless. They take what they want, clear us out and go. I’m just a small shopkeeper. I’m not part of a chain or a big company. I started the shop because I wanted to sell my stuff to my community. I … [Read more…]
https://www.engadget.com/ai/claudes-new-learning-mode-will-prompt-students-to-answer-questions-on-their-own-172057828.html I got used to it at school. You know, that annoying bouncing my question back to me… “So, what do you think? How would you start working it out?” Such a pain. My elder brother had an Agent that just did stuff. I have to use one that… well doesn’t. It’s useless. I might … [Read more…]
https://gizmodo.com/longtime-writing-community-nanowrimo-shuts-down-after-ai-drama-2000583619 It was her favourite day of the week, the afternoon where she could forget everything and just… create. She sometimes wondered if things had been different and she’d discovered it sooner she could have made a career out of it. But she had her job, kids. No time. Now she made time. Tuesday afternoons. … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/31/chatgpts-new-image-generator-is-really-good-at-faking-receipts/ He didn’t do it for anyone, just his friends. He didn’t do it often, just when he needed a day off. The school was so busy chasing Agent-enabled homework, they didn’t pay his own particular Agent any notice. The absence notes were the start but of course, no matter how the sentences matched the … [Read more…]