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90% of Code will be written by AI

In March 2025, the CEO of Anthropic (Claude) CEO Dario Amodei made a bold prediction that in 3-6 months AI will write about 90% of all code and that in about 12 months AI will write 100% of all code.

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ChatGPT 5.2

So, OpenAI issued a new version of ChatGPT this week, not long after 5.1, and this is what those that know are saying about it.

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Why I don't use AI

When asked why they do not use AI, Gallup found that 44% surveyed did not believe that AI could help them with their job. 16% did not have access to AI and 11% simply didn't want to change.

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What people use Copilot for

The 2025 Copilot usage research is in. The team looked at 37.5 million deidentified conversations randomly sampled on a daily basis between January and September 2025.

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AI saving babies lives, in Africa

Imagine a world where an AI system analyses ultrasound images to detect complications, providing timely and accurate diagnostics previously inaccessible to many expectant mothers in low-resource settings.

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Farmer Chat

This is one of those good news stories from AI, thanks to the UN Behavioural Science team.

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The question every parent dreads

Open AI have issued their '2025 State of the Enterprise AI' report today, which looks at two sources to see whether organisations are getting it yet, or not

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The $25m AI enabled Scam

On 3rd Feb, 2023, the South China Morning Post reported that a multinational company's Hong Kong office, had lost HK$200 million (US$25.6 million), due to a sophisticated scam using deepfake technology.

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Will Autonomous companies be a thing

Can an organisation become truly autonomous? At the Gartner conference in Barcelona, they predict that by 2035, at least one major industry will be led by an autonomous business. In their research paper, they believe that, by 2030, machine customers could drive or influence $18 trillion in purchases.

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The Sasquatch series

This is one for your coffee break, but also highlights how quickly you can achieve very professional storytelling with AI tools.

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TheraBot

In March 2025, Dartmouth researchers published results from the first-ever clinical trial of an AI therapy chatbot, providing care comparable to “gold-standard cognitive therapy” and showing improvements across depression, anxiety, and eating disorders.

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Are AI chatbots effective at changing political opinions?

A recent large scale study of over 77,000 adults based in the UK, who were paid to participate, asked for people’s views on political topics, such as taxes and immigration - then an AI chatbot tried to change their mind, to an opposing view.

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