Adoption of generative AI has outpaced workforce capability, prompting OpenAI to target the skills gap with new certification standards. While it’s safe to say OpenAI’s tools have reached mass adoption, organisations struggle to convert this usage into reliable output. To address this, OpenAI has announced ‘AI Foundations,’ a structured initiative designed to standardise how employees …
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How people really use AI: The surprising truth from analysing billions of interactions
For the past year, we’ve been told that artificial intelligence is revolutionising productivity—helping us write emails, generate code, and summarise documents. But what if the reality of how people actually use AI is completely different from what we’ve been led to believe? A data-driven study by OpenRouter has just pulled back the curtain on real-world AI usage by analysing over 100 …
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Newsweek: Building AI-resilience for the next era of information
Artificial intelligence is transforming the way information is created, summarised, and delivered. For publishers, the shift is already visible. Search engines provide AI-generated overviews, users get answers without clicking, and content is scraped by large language models that train on decades of journalism. In this environment one question remains: How does a publisher survive when …
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Z.ai debuts open source GLM-4.6V, a native tool-calling vision model for multimodal reasoning
Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and high-efficiency deployment. The release includes two models in "large" and "small" sizes: GLM-4.6V (106B), a larger 106-billion parameter model aimed at cloud-scale inference GLM-4.6V-Flash (9B), a smaller model …
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Anthropic's Claude Code can now read your Slack messages and write code for you
Anthropic on Monday launched a beta integration that connects its fast-growing Claude Code programming agent directly to Slack, allowing software engineers to delegate coding tasks without leaving the workplace messaging platform where much of their daily communication already happens. The release, which Anthropic describes as a "research preview," is the AI safety company's latest move …
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Booking.com’s agent strategy: Disciplined, modular and already delivering 2× accuracy
When many enterprises weren’t even thinking about agentic behaviors or infrastructures, Booking.com had already “stumbled” into them with its homegrown conversational recommendation system. This early experimentation has allowed the company to take a step back and avoid getting swept up in the frantic AI agent hype. Instead, it is taking a disciplined, layered, modular approach …
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Instacart pilots agentic commerce by embedding in ChatGPT
Instacart has deployed an embedded checkout experience within ChatGPT through the emerging Agentic Commerce Protocol. With the deployment, the company is the first partner to launch an app on ChatGPT that offers a complete shopping cycle – from query to payment – without requiring the user to leave the conversation interface. Operationalising agentic commerce The …
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Design in the age of AI: How small businesses are building big brands faster
Presented by Design.com For most of history, design was the last step in starting a business — something entrepreneurs invested in once the idea was proven. Today, it’s one of the first. The rise of generative AI has shifted how small businesses imagine, launch, and grow — turning what used to be a months-long creative …
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Enterprise users swap AI pilots for deep integrations
According to OpenAI, enterprise AI has graduated from the sandbox and is now being used for daily operations with deep workflow integrations. New data from the company shows that firms are now assigning complex and multi-step workflows to models rather than simply asking for text summaries. The figures illustrate a hard change in how organisations …
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Platform corrects AI algorithmic bias for eKYC
Digital payments and fintech company Ant International, has won the NeurIPS Competition of Fairness in AI Face Detection. The company says it’s committed to developing secure and inclusive financial services, particularly as deepfake technologies are becoming more common. The growing use of facial recognition in many sectors has highlighted the issue of algorithmic bias in …
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