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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/10/01/microsoft_consumer_copilot_corporate/ They’d kept the building. They believed that clients liked visiting a real space, real people, getting away from the cameras. The reception area was smart of course. The work projected on the walls behind the smiling receptionist changed depending on who was checking in. The sensors fed data through to the meeting room, giving … [Read more…]

https://digiday.com/marketing/the-red-line-keeps-moving-advertising-creatives-have-lost-the-ai-ick She was good. They could see she was good. The algorithms said she was good. Her data showed she was good. Searches and modelling showed she had potential to add 12.7% value and had an awards potential of 0.56. She wasn’t even going to be expensive. The Agent showed she’d accept an offer 16.8% … [Read more…]

https://gizmodo.com/openai-rolls-out-chatgpts-ability-to-buy-stuff-for-you-2000665177 It was an important anniversary. They weren’t the sort of couple who made a fuss about dates. He’d never been in the doghouse for missing one in the past – before his Agent made such slips impossible. They’d been together a long time and such things were not important to them. All the more … [Read more…]

https://www.marketing-interactive.com/from-ai-to-aisles-how-shoppers-are-balancing-tech-and-touch-in-retail She wasn’t a luddite. She had her Agents, some of them did the shopping. They kept an eye on them fridge and the pantry as well as the streams; checking what she had and what she should have advertising to get influencers. And of course they saved her money. But today she was in … [Read more…]

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/26/ai_workslop_productivity/ The union rep was a human. She had Agent support of course but he was glad that a human could make his case to the Tribunal Agents. She was used to it. He wasn’t sure he wanted the job back. He was most concerned about the reference on his ID. He could already see … [Read more…]

https://www.ft.com/content/73f106e7-5174-4f38-93e9-6cd1448b1052 He said he wanted to turn the room into a gym. She said she wasn’t ready. He said he missed her too. She said she knew he did but it was too soon. He said they had an Agent and that could be anywhere. She said it wasn’t the same, her room, where the … [Read more…]

https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-pulse-openai-morning-briefing-2000663894 The alarm went off and eventually she got out of bed. Her Agent waited until she was dressed and making breakfast before starting its briefing. She could hear her partner’s Agent starting their briefing in the bathroom. The kids had their own “chat” running as they got their toast. She asked them to go … [Read more…]

https://www.adweek.com/media/openai-chatgpt-ads-job-listing-marketing-platform/ She’d started the agency after she’d come back from maternity leave and realised that her existing employer was looking at her differently. It wasn’t that they weren’t accommodating. She was given extra Agent support but her career was stalled. That was a while ago now. Her own agency had taken off and now she … [Read more…]

https://www.engadget.com/ai/google-photos-conversational-editing-is-rolling-out-to-android-users-170057906.html She didn’t remember doing it. She remembered coming home and yes she was upset and angry, and yes she’d had a drink or two but she couldn’t remember the conversation. But she looked at the pictures and it was clear. He was gone from some photos and in some of them he was, er… … [Read more…]

https://meetthe85.substack.com/p/the-reality-advantage-series-max He remembered the early home visits. He’d travelled the country spending time in people’s houses, just talking, listening, seeing their real lives. During the Bubble he’d fought the idea that AI models could stimulate the real. He’d refused to compromise, convincing his clients through stories. Those had been good days. He settled onto the … [Read more…]