https://gizmodo.com/big-tech-funding-ai-trainings-2000674753 There were positive things about INSET days: the chance to catch up with colleagues, the shorter day with no marking to oversee and, yes, a change from the routine. But she sighed as she sat down at her console and the sponsor began. She zoned out as the corporate imaginaries filled the room. But … [Read more…]
https://digiday.com/marketing/advertisings-new-universal-language-for-ai-agents-sparks-old-debates-about-power-and-openness It was a closed shop, a secret society, a powerful network. The Protocol underpinned the Agents work, allowed them to “talk” to each other, connect, work, deal. The Protocol decided who could join, made demands on how they joined, what they could do, which members they could connect with. They said it made their … [Read more…]
https://hyperallergic.com/1050375/the-arch-of-trump-triumph-and-downfall/ He was notoriously illiterate when it came to technology. His advisors knew if they needed him to make a decision on tech policy they would have to find a way to make it accessible and, above all, interesting to him. They had to stretch metaphors and analogies to present the options. But he was … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/too-burned-out-to-travel-this-new-app-fakes-your-summer-vacation-photos-for-you/ It was a civilised breakup. Polite. Adult. They’d just reached the end of the relationship. Agreed. Even sorting through the possessions happened without rancour. There was a sort of melancholy. “This one was yours. I remember when your Agent bought it. You couldn’t work out why until it explained it to you.” “No you … [Read more…]
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/teachers-get-an-f-on-ai-generated-lesson-plans/ She’d finished supervising the marking. The Agent had commented and calculated a mark. She didn’t need to check its working but she liked to read the children’s work and try and spot the human paragraphs. There were still a few. She smiled. The Agent had already uploaded the marks. She could have overridden them … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/kayak-launches-an-ai-mode-for-travel-questions-search-and-bookings/ Their Agents predicted they would get enough work by the Spring. His contracts would fall-off in January but he’d pick up again in February. They should be ok. It looked like they’d be able to get a holiday next year. They loved this moment when the models came in and they could start planning. … [Read more…]
https://www.adweek.com/media/new-york-times-le-monde-bundle-ai-translation-onbackground/ He liked to sit at the table for breakfast. He called it his “start to the day”. His family rushed around, packing bags, configuring their Agents, grabbing a coffee but he sat there with his “newspaper”. He couldn’t afford a material copy; one day, he thought. “Then I want it ironed,” he would joke. … [Read more…]
https://www.marketing-interactive.com/how-raffles-hotel-is-modernising-luxury-through-storytelling The Hotel Manager was human. That was the point, what made the hotel special, at the heart of its “gracious service”. Tall, immaculate, perfect accent. The hotel was smart of course. Rooms seamlessly adapted to particular guests, needs were predicted and serviced before the guests could even ask. The Hotel Manager’s connection to the … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/news/798821/anduril-eagleeye-palmer-luckey-mark-zuckerberg-meta-military-mr The Tailor was busy. His small shop in the historic street was always busy. He didn’t need a shop but it added to the mystique. His clients liked it: a real world fitting rather than an impersonal scan, a chance to discuss the options: the hardware the client wanted, the sensors, the intelligence he … [Read more…]
https://www.ft.com/content/c8dbfb26-1c89-4e28-b728-d2c39725a87d The veterans met up every so often to remember, to support, but more than anything else, to tell stories. Some were old enough to have been there at the beginning. They told stories of the early days, long forgotten theatres. They remembered making decisions themselves, making mistakes. Younger veterans told their own stories of … [Read more…]