For most of manufacturing history, progress has been defined by how effectively companies were able to remove friction from production processes. Mechanization replaced manual labor. Software replaced ...

Embedded Anthropic engineers have spent six months at Goldman building autonomous systems for time-intensive, high-volume back-office work. The bank expects efficiency gains rather than near-term job ...

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says AI will reach "human-level performance" in white-collar work. He predicts most tasks in that field can be automated within the next 12 to 18 months. Several ...

A Greater Manchester council wants to use artificial intelligence as it battles to plug a £16m budget black hole. Bury council plans to use AI to ‘automate mundane administrative tasks’ and ‘gradually ...

Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI. After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work—drafting routine documents, summarizing information, and ...

Don’t start with moon shots. by Thomas H. Davenport and Rajeev Ronanki In 2013, the MD Anderson Cancer Center launched a “moon shot” project: diagnose and recommend treatment plans for certain forms ...

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