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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… Read the rest

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… Read the rest

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… Read the rest

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… Read the rest

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… Read the rest

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… Read the rest

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… Read the rest

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/28/1114001/the-first-trial-of-generative-ai-therapy-shows-it-might-help-with-depression/ They knew they needed help. They were still talking, still together, still happy to a certain extent but they needed… something. They knew when it had started. That was obvious. Something like that would knock any couple off balance a little. They’d talked about it, about moving forward but… Read the rest

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-doge-to-rapidly-rebuild-social-security-codebase/ If he still worked in a building he would have been heading down to the basement with a torch. No one went down there! the bowels of the building, he thought. But when something went wrong, someone had to go down there and find the problem. Tip toe through… Read the rest

https://gizmodo.com/madison-square-garden-bans-fan-after-surveillance-system-ids-him-as-a-critic-of-its-ceo-2000582132 The mall was open 24 hrs of course but, as had always been the case, there was a rhythm to the day. The systems that ran and staffed the Mall might not have a life but the human customers still slept and some even had fixed work hours. She… Read the rest