Tag: AI Platforms & Assistants
‘The right approach is for people to deeply control the future’: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is worried about AI being controlled by just a few powerful players
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is worried that powerful companies are dominating the evolution of AI Altman has also expressed concern over AI’s potential for acting autonomously and possibly escaping human control The comments are believed to be a reference to his rival, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Are too few companies…
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Salesforce AI agent platform hasn’t delivered meaningful growth two years after launch, customers report finds
Agentforce is now worth around $1.2 billion annually, and climbing Customers aren’t so sure about their data readiness and agentic maturity Many AI projects could be cancelled as users experiment with use cases Even though Salesforce says its Agentforce business has reached a staggering $1.2 billion in annual recurring revenue,…
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Amazon security engineer hacks PC accessories with Claude Opus to make them work better — Asus, Insta360 and Elgato products reverse engineered in hours for ‘better control’, but engineer admits this also ‘scares me’
A security engineer at Amazon hacked a bunch of peripherals using AI Claude Opus did most of the legwork in applying modified firmware to a webcam, microphone and more The relative ease with which AI allows this kind of modification points to a worrying future of peripherals being compromised on…
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Met Office finds most of us still won’t trust an AI weather forecast
Public confidence in AI weather forecasts is far lower than for numerical and physics-based methods Just 11% said they were “very confident” in machine learning weather prediction, compared with 30% for tried-and-trusted methods The Met Office has been using machine learning techniques in weather forecasting for some years A survey…
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When AI dating goes wrong: as EVA AI hires the world’s first ‘AI Companionship Therapist’, its resident relationship expert talks chatbot dependency — and the 28-year-old CEO of a human-only meet-up app tells me why he thinks AI infatuation is over
Content warning: This piece discusses suicide and difficult emotional experiences. Does the world really need a dedicated, human ‘AI Companionship Therapist’ in 2026? The answer, according to the popular ‘game-like’ AI character-creation and interaction site EVA AI, is ‘yes’ — and the job pays well. How would I know this,…
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AI isn’t killing jobs yet: Over 50% of businesses say AI is creating roles as massive upskilling push begins
Over half (54%) of UK businesses say AI created new jobs, new study finds A similar amount (58%) plan to raise AI skills investment soon Some firms plan to spend up to £250,000 on Artificial Intelligence training Concerns that AI would eliminate jobs have dominated public conversation for years, fueling…
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