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https://www.ft.com/content/05e6e97e-26e7-4dab-b035-793c1a0f0ed8 She knew before she started. She’d been warned at the interview. She knew she’d have to work hard to make progress. Law firms were famous for demanding juniors give their lives to the firm. She knew she’d be overloaded, overworked, on call. She was prepared. She thought. She didn’t… Read the rest

https://www.adweek.com/agencies/why-bbdos-andrew-robertson-believes-ai-will-unleash-true-creative-talent/ The transfer window had closed. The big names were on the move. The deals signed. Some of the names on the move were well known, mature talent with a long palmarès but there were surprises. Lower division talent snapped up cheap, given the chance to shine in the big… Read the rest

https://www.marketing-interactive.com/samsung-highlights-tangible-benefits-of-ai-home-in-global-campaign The removal vans were on their way, silently self-driving up the usually empty motorways. They could have had auto-unload but they saved money by having humans meet the vans and move the stuff into the house. There was something nicely old-fashioned about having “shifters”. The vans would monitor them.… Read the rest

https://digiday.com/marketing/wpps-new-boss-cindy-rose-starts-today-heres-what-will-be-on-her-to-do-list He wondered whether they switched it on. Was there a ceremony like turning on the Blackpool lights? A big red button and it whirs into life. Does it actually whir? These were the sort of things he thought as he waited with the other humans and Agents at the… Read the rest

https://gizmodo.com/ai-running-american-government-2000650716 The Primer Minister has his advisors, human and Agent. They had all been sounding warnings for a while now. It was still a few years before the election but the models were not looking good, the projections worrying. Humans and Agents agreed – a rare event – he needed… Read the rest

https://www.theverge.com/report/767765/ai-hardware-google-pixel-gemini-wearables-ambient-computing My dad is a bit of a geek. Always has been. I remember him, when I was doing my homework, coming in with a new Agent he’d found. He was always swapping platforms and services. He’d explain why and we all just rolled our eyes. And of course he… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/28/ai-or-not-will-smiths-crowd-video-is-fresh-cringe-2/ The Editor sat in his booth. On some tour dates the booth overlooked the arena but he rarely bothered to look out of the window. So this one, tucked away below the crowds, was fine with him. He watched the live and broadcast feeds, minutely out of sync. He… Read the rest

https://www.marketing-interactive.com/fairprice-taps-google-cloud-to-bring-ai-to-the-aisles She spoiled herself. It was a treat. Ever since her favourite small fruit stall had to move into The Market, she couldn’t just go to the top of the road and assess which fruit to buy: squeeze the avocados, tap the melons. She missed the conversation as well as… Read the rest

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/technology/silicon-valley-ai-super-pacs.html The humans on the Board always looked forward to the agenda item. They always took the opportunity to assert that they were the experts in this area, that their “colleagues” could never really understand the issues. Politicians after all were still human, like them. So getting those politicians to… Read the rest

https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2025/08/26/how-effectively-use-first-party-data-paid-media They weren’t going until the afternoon. Her parents always said she slept in too late at the weekend so she decided to have a lie in. Live down to their expectations. It also gave her time to dream. They’d been planning this for weeks. It was the new thing.… Read the rest