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technology11 hours ago•40 min saved

Wall Street's AI Coaches Charge $25K a Day to Drive the Agentic Shift

Two former bankers, Felipe Sinisterra and Dave Wang, run Wall Street Prompt and now charge about $25,000 per day to teach banks how to deploy AI in workflows, using Google’s Gemini to analyze pitch videos, FBI-inspired behavioral analytics to flag red flags, and OpenAI/Anthropic tools to turn earnings calls into forecast-ready data. Their clients include Citi, Bank of America, and others, and demand is so high they’re backlogged for two months. The trainers claim AI is becoming a necessary edge and are even exploring Singapore as a base while building live webinars for finance professionals.

via Bloomberg.com|

#ai-trainers #artificial-intelligence #automation

business1 day ago•16 min saved

Automation Wave Forecasts Near-Term Job Cuts Across Firms

Mercer’s Global Talent Trends survey finds 99% of CEOs expect AI-driven layoffs within two years as companies redesign work around automation; only 32% believe the workforce can optimally combine human and machine capabilities, with concerns about early-career workers and rising anxiety over AI displacement.

via Gizmodo|

#artificial-intelligence #automation #business

technology1 day ago•7 min saved

Pichai: Booing Graduates Will Shape AI, and They'll Live With Its Fallout

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says booing graduates at commencements reflects AI anxiety, but he’ll use his Stanford speech to frame AI as a force for progress that graduates will help shape while also facing its employment consequences amid public concern and a tougher job market.

via Business Insider|

#ai #automation #commencement

world3 days ago•111 min saved

Standard Chartered Chief Apologizes Over Four-Word AI Remark About Workers

Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters sparked backlash by describing some jobs as 'lower value' that could be replaced by AI, prompting two LinkedIn posts and a staff memo clarifying plans to transition workers into higher-value roles as about 8,000 roles may be cut over four years.

via The Daily Beast|

#ai #automation #bill-winters

business4 days ago•3 min saved

Standard Chartered chief apologizes after 'lower value human capital' AI remark

Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters apologized after saying employees whose roles are at risk from automation are 'lower value human capital' during a conference on AI-driven changes. The bank expects back-office roles to fall by about 15% over four years (around 7,800 positions) and says it will help staff transition into higher-value roles. Winters later provided clarifications on LinkedIn, stressing the commitment to supporting staff through rapid change, though some colleagues criticized the wording.

via BBC|

#ai #automation #business

technology4 days ago•4 min saved

Gemini Spark Aims to Do Your Tasks, Not Just Answer Questions

Google's Gemini Spark is an AI agent integrated with Gmail, Calendar and other Google apps that can take user objectives and actively perform tasks—such as drafting emails, summarizing meeting notes, or making reservations—by connecting to external tools like Instacart and OpenTable. It marks a shift from chat-based AI to a task-running partner, but raises privacy concerns due to access to personal data and will require user permission for high-stakes actions, with a cautious rollout limited to Google AI Ultra subscribers.

via CBS News|

#artificial-intelligence #automation #google

technology4 days ago•19 min saved

AI Shortcut Forge Turns Natural Language Prompts into Apple Shortcuts

MacStories founder Federico Viticci unveils Shortcuts Playground, a free open-source plugin for Claude Code and Codex that converts natural-language prompts into functioning Apple Shortcuts by generating and signing .shortcut files on macOS; it supports build and remix commands, runs validation loops to fix errors, and showcases the potential of AI-assisted automation while noting that outputs should be checked, with a future prospect of an official Apple integration.

via MacStories|

#ai #automation #claude-code

business7 days ago•4 min saved

AI-driven overhaul prompts Standard Chartered to trim nearly 8,000 jobs

Standard Chartered plans to cut almost 8,000 jobs—more than 15% of its back-office staff by 2030—as it places AI at the center of a new growth strategy, describing the move as replacing lower-value human work with capital and training to redeploy staff, while targeting higher returns, more income per employee, and a larger dividend, alongside leadership changes and investor-day highlights.

via Financial Times|

#ai #automation #banking

technology8 days ago•3 min saved

Graduation Jeers Spotlight Campus AI Anxiety as Schmidt Urges Adaptation

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed during his University of Arizona commencement speech after mentioning artificial intelligence, highlighting student anxiety about AI’s impact on jobs and study. Schmidt acknowledged the fears as rational and urged graduates to adapt and shape AI’s future, a sentiment echoed by similar reactions at other universities and surveys showing rising concern about AI in education and daily life.

via BBC|

#ai #automation #backlash

technology10 days ago•12 min saved

iPhone Power-Up: 10 Apple Shortcut Hacks You Need

Lifehacker rounds up 10 Apple Shortcuts to turbocharge iPhone use, showing how to extend the Action Button with multi-shortcut setups, pull News Report AI into Notes via RSS, save X video clips, use MusicBot for smart playlists, log your current location, get tailored low‑battery alerts (even via ChatGPT), add discovered songs to Apple Music with Shazam, personalize post‑alarm routines, receive battery warnings when leaving home, and run specific actions in CarPlay, plus tips for building your own automations using triggers and actions in Shortcuts.

via Lifehacker|

#apple #automation #iphone

technology11 days ago•7 min saved

Seattle lawyers launch AI-powered firm to cut big-law costs for startups

Seattle-based Talairis Law Group launches as an AI-powered firm designed to handle startup legal work with a four-layer stack (base LLM, 100+ specialized AI agents, a per-client “client genome,” and partner oversight). Founders Sam Shaddox and Matt Souza—former Perkins Coie partners now in-house general counsels—say the model offers bespoke, faster, and cheaper service at roughly half the typical big-law rate. They emphasize data privacy (client data is never used to train models) and demonstrate a concrete workflow for SAFEs that delivers a built-out cap table and terms, not just a legal opinion. The bootstrapped firm aims to provide day-to-day legal support across multiple areas, positioning itself within a broader wave of AI-native law firms and viewing Claude for Legal as validation of the trend.

via GeekWire|

#artificial-intelligence #automation #law-firms

business-tech15 days ago•313 min saved

AI Isn’t Replacing Jobs—It’s Redefining Them at Work

AI isn’t wiping out jobs; it’s reshaping them by automating components of many roles rather than replacing entire positions. Experts say humans are still needed for problem solving, design, and complex decision-making, while tasks that can be automated are being distributed across teams and sometimes prompting title changes (e.g., software engineers evolving toward “builders”). The impact includes real layoffs at companies like Cloudflare and Coinbase, but there’s little sign of mass displacement across industries yet; McKinsey estimates up to 57% of work activities could be automated in parts, signaling a shift in skills and responsibilities rather than wholesale job losses.

via CNN|

#ai #automation #business-tech

technology17 days ago•5 min saved

Sony bets AI will turbocharge game creation while keeping human creativity at the center

Sony says AI tools will speed up development and broaden the slate of games by automating workflows like QA and animation, enabling faster production and smarter discovery, while insisting AI is an enhancer—not a replacement—for human designers and creators; NPCs with AI personalities could be a future possibility.

via Ars Technica|

#ai #automation #game-development

technology20 days ago•6 min saved

AI vibe-coding turns Windows 11 automation into a no-code task

PCWorld shows how AI tools (like ChatGPT) can generate AutoHotkey v2 scripts to customize Windows 11, enabling non-programmers to automate tasks such as hotkeys, scrolling, and text expansion. The process involves ideating a simple automation, confirming AHK can do it, prompting the AI to produce an AHK v2 script, iterating to refine it, saving the code as an .ahk file, and running it with AutoHotkey (reloads needed after edits). Simpler automations work best, while more complex ideas require more back-and-forth. The guide emphasizes testing, startup deployment options, and the potential of AI-assisted vibe coding to change Windows behavior without coding experience.

via PCWorld|

#ai #autohotkey #automation

technology20 days ago•3 min saved

Remy Emerges: Google’s 24/7 AI Agent for Gemini Aims to Act on Your Behalf

Google is building Remy, an always-on AI agent for its Gemini platform that can take actions across Google services on a user’s behalf. It’s being tested internally as a dogfooding project and described as more capable than existing Agent Mode, with OpenClaw-like ambitions; no public launch timeline yet, with an I/O event anticipated to reveal more.

via Business Insider|

#ai #automation #gemini