Tag: AI Platforms & Assistants
Is bulldozing homes, seizing land, harming the climate, and replacing workers really worth everyone having an AI agent?
There are a lot of sacrifices being made to usher in the latest technological age. Jobs, businesses, even whole industries are at risk of disappearing. Now we can add homes to the list – as new electricity infrastructure for data centers in the state of Georgia means 30 homes are…
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This hilarious robot collapse reminds me that robot development is nowhere near where it needs to be, but a huge breakthrough from DeepMind could change all that
I watched two robot videos at the opposite ends of the Cantril Scale. You know, the ladder that measures human happiness in steps but that I am now applying to humanoid accomplishment? At the bottom step and living its worst possible artificial life, we have the Qualcomm robot that, after…
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I can’t believe it’s taken LinkedIn so long to push back against AI slop — but will its changes really stop all the cringey updates?
LinkedIn, one of the most notorious bastions of AI slop online today, is finally cracking down on the deluge being seen across its site. The social network is introducing a range of controls as it looks to turn off the tap of the torrent of AI slop increasingly dominating its…
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‘It can be a win-win situation’: Xero explains why giving businesses more control over their finances might actually be the key to AI success
With AI tools and services now increasingly common in workplaces across the country, finding the right use cases where the technology can really have an effect is becoming more and more important. Accounting and finance seems an obvious use case for AI, where an automated system can quickly go through…
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Feeling stressed and overworked? Don’t worry – OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks that we just love to work, and that’s why AI won’t result in a four-day working week
Good news everyone – it seems that the reason AI hasn’t yet resulted in less work and more leisure time, as promised by multiple “evangelists” and AI “experts” is that we just love working too darn much. That’s according to OpenAI CEO and America’s next top (AI) model whisperer Sam…
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I gave Gemini 3.6 Flash and GPT-5.6 access to my entire digital life — here’s which one actually helped me more
Both OpenAI and Google have released major new AI models within days of each other. OpenAI launched GPT-5.6, and Google has followed up with Gemini 3.6 Flash. While both companies have talked up the coding and developer features of these models, they also power the consumer versions of ChatGPT and…
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