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Andy Jassy memo warns staff that Amazon will “need fewer people” as it rolls out more generative AI
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has told his workforce that their jobs could be taken by generative AI in the coming years. In a memo sent to employees on 17 June, Jassy wrote that Amazon expects “efficiency gains” from AI across the company, which would result in job losses. “We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are…
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CEOs and CISOs at odds over the benefits of generative AI
While CEOs are gung-ho about the use of AI, CISOs are far more cautious, with nearly half having a negative attitude about generative AI rollouts. According to a survey from NTT Data, there’s a big misalignment between C-suite leaders when it comes to business goals and operational readiness for generative AI deployment. Virtually all – 99% – of C-suite executives…
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Adobe made a mobile app for its Firefly generative AI tools
The all-in-one platform for Adobe’s Firefly-branded generative AI models is now available on iPhone and Android devices. The new Firefly mobile app allows users to generate images and videos using text descriptions and experiment with popular AI photo editing tools, enabling creatives to generate assets for their projects on the go. Adobe is also introducing new third-party AI models and…
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‘Using generative AI as a copilot is the sweet spot’: A look at Nationwide’s AI approach
When Nationwide Building Society – or the Southern Co-operative Permanent Building Society as it was originally known – arrived on the scene in 1884, it was part of a fast-growing member-owned mutual movement in the UK. And as Nationwide embarks on new experimentation with technology and the drive for growth in the 21st century, it is doing so in recognition…
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Managing change fatigue in the generative AI era
Employees are becoming tired of the rush to implement AI and its different guises. According to an EY report released in December that measured the pulse of AI investments, half of 500 US-based senior executives reported that they had seen company-wide enthusiasm for AI decline and 54% of the respondents revealed they felt they had failed as a leader. This…
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SoundCloud says it isn’t using your music to train generative AI tools
The TOS explicitly prohibits the use of licensed content, such as music from major labels, for training any AI models, including generative AI. For other types of content uploaded to SoundCloud, the TOS allows for the possibility of AI-related use. Importantly, no such use has taken place to date, and SoundCloud will introduce robust internal permissioning controls to govern any…
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SAS rejects generative AI hype in favor of data fundamentals at Innovate 2025
SAS Innovate 2025 is over and with it, three days of keynotes, hands-on sessions, and roundtable discussions focused primarily on data and AI have come to an end. Mood on the ground throughout the conference was high, with customers and partners alike paying testament to the analytics veteran’s nuts-and-bolts announcements and realistic outlook on how businesses can benefit from technology…
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The generative AI ‘scramble’ is over – now it’s time to sort your infrastructure or fall behind
The early days of the generative AI boom were somewhat of a “scramble”, according to Thomas Meyer, General Manager and Group VP of IDC research, EMEA. But now the industry has entered its “pivot” era – and enterprises need to take a reasoned approach to investment. Speaking at Huawei’s 2025 IDI Forum in Munich this week, Meyer detailed findings from…
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Microsoft made an ad with generative AI and nobody noticed
Microsoft has revealed that it’s created a minute-long advert for its Surface Pro and Surface Laptop hardware using generative AI. But there’s a twist: it released the ad almost three months ago, and no-one seemed to notice the AI elements. The ad, which went live on YouTube on January 30th, isn’t entirely made up of generated content. In a Microsoft…
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NASA finds generative AI can’t be trusted
Although many C-suite and line-of-business (LOB) execs are doing everything they can to focus on generative AI (genAI) efficiency and flexibility — and not about how often the technology delivers wrong answers — IT decision-makers can’t afford to do the same thing. This isn’t just about hallucinations, although the increasing rate at which these kinds of errors crop up is terrifying. This…
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