Half of workers worry AI will still take their job — as new report claims use of agents soars 90% in just a year
GMB Union data reveals 48% of workers fear AI job displacement, despite a 90% rise in agent usage as companies integrate AI tools.

GMB Union data reveals 48% of workers fear AI job displacement, despite a 90% rise in agent usage as companies integrate AI tools.

NHS England is deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 staff members after successful pilot with 30,000 workers.

Tech leaders debate whether the Anthropic episode is a wake-up call for India’s AI ambitions.
Meta starts dismantling its $2 billion Manus acquisition after Beijing ordered the deal reversed.
AI summary Meta is reportedly dismantling its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Chinese-founded AI startup, after Beijing demanded the deal be reversed, according to multiple reports. The company has cut Manus off from its internal systems and is sunsetting the platform. In response, Manus's founders are reportedly seeking $1 billion to buy back the company.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was reportedly the source of security concerns that led the US government to force Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer on Friday. The Wall Street Journal reported that Jassy told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other officials that Amazon researchers used Fable 5 to obtain […] This story continues at The Next Web

KPMG has pulled a report titled “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI“ after multiple organisations said the claims it made about their AI usage were either untrue or misleading. UBS, the UK’s National Health Service, Swiss Federal Railways, and Transport for London all told the Financial Times that the report’s descriptions of their […] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI is at the heart of the biggest technological transformations in human history – and one that threatens to eliminate many jobs in the creative industries

According to the Wall Street Journal , the export control directive that led to Anthropic cutting off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was triggered in part by cybersecurity research from Amazon and conversations between CEO Andy Jassy and the White House. According to the report, the paper from Amazon claims that, through a series of prompts, it was able to get Fable 5 to serve up information that…

Once again, AI proves to be an unreliable source of information about AI.
Who could have foreseen this?

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy may have been the source of security concerns that led Anthropic to cut off worldwide access to two models on Friday.
Eight years after its release, Bumblebee is now free to stream on Tubi. No Transformers movie will ever top it.

Semiconductor stocks have had a few rough days in a market that is also digesting tough news on other fronts.

It's not clear which states are involved, but they're asking about everything from OpenAI's ad policies to its handling of health data.
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I turned off Siri on the Mac years ago and never looked back. Similarly, I found Apple Intelligence so fruitless I never engage with it. But the new Siri AI coming to macOS 27 Golden Gate has at least got me slightly rethinking things. I'm still early in testing Siri AI, as I've only had access to it in the macOS 27 developer beta for little more than 24 hours. It's also in an early preview state…

Powered by the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor and 128GB of unified memory, AMD's developer kit arrives as a direct competitor to Nvidia's DGX Spark, which recently saw a price increase to $4,699.
AI summary AMD представила несколько новинок, включая ноутбуки на Ryzen 5 220, позиционируя их как лучшие для игр по сравнению с Apple MacBook Neo, и анонсировала конкурента Nvidia DGX Spark за $3999 с 128 ГБ унифицированной памяти. Также компания опубликовала первые прогнозы производительности для 256-ядерных серверных процессоров Zen 6 EPYC Venice, заявив о 3,3-кратном превосходстве над Nvidia Vera при одинаковом энергопотреблении стойки. Кроме того, сообщается, что AMD заменила дефектный Ryzen 9 7950X3D после вмешательства YouTube-канала, а пользователь Reddit запустил Windows 95 на Ryzen 9 9900X за шесть секунд.

Spoiler: It doesn't end well for Team Register
On Friday evening, the government ordered Anthropic to block access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nations, both inside and outside the US, due to national security concerns. That order included employees of Anthropic. To meet those demands, the company has completely cut off access to the models for all customers. In a statement , Anthropic said that while it was complying with the…

KPMG published a paper about the benefits of AI last year. An investigation found that it was full of AI hallucinations.

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