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Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic reportedly offered a salary of 145,000 euros (roughly equal to $190,000) for a personal assistant in its London office.
Lest you have any illusions, you have zero privacy at work. But AI is further encroaching on any semblance of privacy you may currently have. Forget the prolific workplace surveillance tools, now your Slack messages with colleagues or your emails with customers could be worth millions.
He looks like a CoComelon character who grew up and mated with an E. coli microbe. But don’t let looks fool you. Under the hood, Meta’s new Muse agentic AI platform is incredibly powerful—and potentially incredibly risky. I’ve been testing Muse since Meta launched him on September 8.
Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. In recent years, being gobsmacked by AI’s ever-expanding capabilities has become my new normal. More importantly, I’ve found the technology increasingly essential to my own productivity. What AI never did until last week was save my bacon.
OpenAI said on Friday that it fired three safety researchers for a “breach of trust,” defending the dismissals after the trio accused the company of putting its corporate interests before safety as the reason for removing them.
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First came the buttholes. Then the sparkles and gradients. Now, the next Big Tech AI branding trend has arrived. As the biggest artificial intelligence players introduce new agent capabilities, they’re all converging around the same visual shorthand: cute little guys.
At 10:08 a.m. on April 7, 2025, U.S. stocks were deep in the red. Then what looked like good news arrived: A claim began circulating on X that Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, had said President Donald Trump was considering a 90-day pause on tariffs for every…
Training data begat large language models—and ever since, they’ve been intimately bound. This year’s honorees include a database tuned for AI agents, a dataset for AI-aided diagnosis of breast tumors, and a platform that gives companies more control over how their data is acquired and used.
AI is poised to transform virtually everything about online and physical retail, from product exposure and recommendations to consumers even having to complete the transactions for themselves.
2026 may have been the year when AI stopped getting brownie points simply for being amazing. What’s impressive now is AI that performs useful tasks. All the better if it does it quietly, cleverly, and in areas that help humans focus on the work that we still do best.
Last month, Apple rolled out its long-awaited AI chatbot, dubbed Siri AI. The launch comes at a time when investors see AI as a must-have offering, while consumers are increasingly cautious about the effects that artificial intelligence will have on their lives and society at large.
The scale of unauthorized or previously unknown actions by AI agents keeps getting bigger by the day. More than 100 organizations have now received a metaphorical knock on the door from OpenAI after it discovered their AI agents have in some way tampered with their systems, while other AI labs are…
When I led global customer success at HubSpot, the customer base grew from roughly 70,000 to more than 220,000 in just four years. Growth at that scale stress-tests every assumption you make about your customer.
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For two years, ServiceNow’s challengers have built businesses around frustrations with its software. Their pitch centers on two complaints: Implementations take too long, and employees increasingly expect help inside tools they already use rather than through a separate portal.
In one alarming announcement after another, artificial intelligence companies in recent months have shared examples of their technology acting in ways that appeared to evade instructions from humans.
In what is now one of many known cases, OpenAI’s agents went rogue in July, launching a cyberattack on Hugging Face. Now, the ChatGPT maker is being sued over that incident and the other attacks that have since come to light—such as its not-so-casual hacking of an Australian national healthcare…
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