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Is your LLM your new competitor?

If you are a software company, selling for example legal services, investing heavily in AI solutions, then there is a good chance that you woke up with a headache yesterday and the sense that your market might disappear overnight.

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An Essay from Dario

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently published 'The Adolescence of Technology,” an essay that lays out what he sees as the biggest dangers of AI, from bioterrorism and autonomous weapons to mass job loss and AI-powered dictatorships.

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Is AI coming for your job?

Microsoft published research in December, highlighted the Top 40 jobs they thought were are risk of being replaced by AI.

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Wikipedia licenses its content

On Jan 15, Wikipedia's owner confirmed that it has agreed licensing arrangements with Microsoft, Meta and Amazon. It had previously agreed licensing with Google back in 2022, along with Perplexity and Mistral AI.

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Anthropic create an incubator lab

In January, Anthropic (Claude) announced the opening of their incubator lab 'a team focused on incubating experimental products at the frontier of Claude’s capabilities.'

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A network for AI Agents

Imagine what would happen if AI agents created their own Reddit and started chatting to each other, creating subforums and building communities with common beliefs.

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The Widening AI Value Gap

Back in September, BCG published their 'The Widening AI Value Gap' report, to highlight what the winners and losers in the race to be AI native were doing, what was working and what wasn't.

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When the past has hidden depths

If you have ever dug through your phone photo album looking for something, you can appreciate the work the the European Space Agency did recently.

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AI in Schools, Good or Bad

The Brookings Institution’s Center for Universal Education embarked on a yearlong global study into AI in schools.

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Can AI predict the day you die?

This article by Rebecca George is an emotional read. It charts the journey of her fathers demise, and death due to an incurable brain tumor.

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AI in Therapy

Imagine turning the tables on AI and putting it in the therapist chair to see how it is doing - well that is exactly what a team in Luxembourg did.

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The BCG AI Assembly Line

For the last year, BCG has been building what they are calling their AI Assembly Line. Their consultants have built over 36,000 Custom GPT's in the last year - they claim to be a top creator in the field.

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Is AI your new work 'friend'

With over 33% of UK adults using AI for companionship at some point in the last year (reported in the Frontier AI Trends study), are we missing an opportunity to bring some humanity and empathy into our workplaces?

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AI Companionship

In China, Xiaozhi A.I. is a gadget that can have long conversations with children, it is are part of a growing multi-billion dollar AI toy industry where many parents are embracing them as companions for their only children.

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Who do you trust?

We often talk about Garbage in-Garbage out when it comes to AI. The quality of your outcome depends on the quality of the data it has to work with.

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