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How Much Influence Will AI Have on CFOs and Accountants?

How much influence will AI have on CFOs and accountants?

Preserving Competitive Skills in an AI-driven Economy

This HBR article warns that AI can standardize work so aggressively that companies risk eroding the distinctive capabilities, judgment, and institutional know-how that actually make them competitive.

A Yale economist says AGI won’t automate most jobs—because they’re not worth the trouble

Pascual Restrepo's new NBER paper argues it's not about what AI can do. It's about what AI will bother doing—and most human work doesn't make the cut.

MIT Study Challenges AI Job Apocalypse Narrative

A new study from MIT challenges the prevailing narrative that AI will cause massive job losses. The research provides a more nuanced view of AI's impact on the workforce. Topic group: Labor & Society

Evidence The AI Jobs Crisis Is Mostly Hype for Now

A.I. Could Change the World. But First It Is Changing Silicon Valley.

Worried About A.I. Taking Your Job? That's Not Very 'Agentic' of You.

China Tightens AI Guardrails for IP in Innovation Push

As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in high-impact innovation, from patent drafting to drug discovery, Chinese regulators are moving to impose guardrails, warning of rising legal risks while rolling out new frameworks to govern its use.

I have always seen myself as ‘progressive’ – but with AI it’s time to hit the brakes | Peter Lewis

At a time when the populist right is on the rise, progressives are shooting blanks while history rushes headlong into an automated future Canberra rolled out the red carpet this week to one of the AI overlords whose technology is driving the world down the path of creative destruction. Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei, the putative “good” tech oligarch, was spinning his version of a machine-driven future with the elan of a man who has untangled the mysteries of the universe – or at least built a predictive text model that can scrape the output of humanity and spit out compelling summaries of our collective consciousness. He regaled the prime minister, assorted elected officials and the tech sector’s glitterati with his pitch for good AI that would transform the economy, before becoming the first to sign up to the government’s new datacentre principles, conveniently released just a week earlier. It was compelling shill and, to be fair, Amodei is not the worst of the gods. He created Anthropic after leaving Open AI when the company dispensed with its not-for-profit, “safety first” mission. He regularly shares thoughtful essays on the path of technology and has been open about his fears for the impact of his own products. He broke with the Trump administration over the limits to how his technology would be used to spy on citizens and enable autonomous weapons, turning himself into an enemy of the state. Continue reading... Topic group: Labor & Society

AI boom drives clash between grid power vs. energy islands

Google Releases Gemma 4 with Open Weights and Multi-Modality

Google has released Gemma 4, a new AI model with open weights, multi-modality, and support for over 140 languages.

Microsoft launches 'mid-class' AI model as compute limits bite

Tech giant’s AI chief says it will have the resources to build frontier systems later this year

AI is rewiring the world’s most prolific film industry | Reuters

Studios in India are responding by deploying AI at a scale unseen elsewhere: creating full-fledged AI -generated films; using AI dubbing to release movies in numerous languages; and recutting endings to suit different markets.

Would You Let AI Day Trade Your Money?

Plus, a college kid used cat memes to hunt a cyberweapon and new jobs are being created by AI.

Autonomous Agents in the Legal Industry

This article argues that legal AI is moving beyond chatbot-style assistance toward autonomous agents that can review large document sets, draft across workflows, conduct multi-step research, and become part of a firm’s core operating infrastructure.

Big Banks Seeking a Piece of SpaceX's I.P.O. Must Subscribe to Elon Musk's Grok

Cursor refreshes its vibe coding platform with focus on AI agents

Startup Cursor today debuted a new version of its popular artificial intelligence coding platform. The release includes features that will make it easier for developers to automate programming tasks using AI agents. It also introduces improvements in other areas. Cursor has raised more than $3 billion in funding from Nvidia Corp., Google LLC and other […] The post Cursor refreshes its vibe coding platform with focus on AI agents appeared first on SiliconANGLE. Topic group: Adoption & Impact

DeepSeek V4 to use Huawei chips as geopolitics drives AI strategy