Tag: AI Platforms & Assistants

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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Meta smart glasses were the best tech I took on my honeymoon, but privacy concerns kept them from being as frictionless as I wished they could be

It’s probably fair to say Meta is facing serious public backlash to its AI glasses. Musician Lorde took time at a recent concert to tell her audience, “Don’t get the glasses,” many online are branding them “pervert glasses,” and activist group Everyone Hates Elon has put up spoof adverts for…

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Nvidia launches Open Secure AI Alliance — but there’s no room for OpenAI, Anthropic or Google

Nvidia and Microsoft lead the list of founder members of the Open Secure AI Alliance AI, financial services, tech companies, and other organizations with developing AI services have joined the alliance Notable exceptions include OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Nvidia has confirmed its membership of the new Open Secure AI Alliance,…

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