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Microsoft adds Copilot adoption benchmarks to Viva Insights
According to Microsoft, an "active Copilot user" is one who "performed an intentional action for an AI-powered capability in Copilot within Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat (work), Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, or Loop."
It makes sense to track Copilot use – those licenses aren't cheap – but benchmarking adoption may be seen by some as a step too far for something still struggling to prove its worth, especially with the risk of turning it into a leaderboard game.
AI Push Drives Record Job Cuts at Top India Private Employer TCS - Slashdot
Tata Consultancy Services made its steepest-ever job cuts as strained ties with the US and a rapid shift toward AI reshape the country's $280 billion IT services sector. From a report: India's biggest private-sector employer cut 19,755 employees in the quarter ended Sept. 30, according to the compa...
AI tutors coming to California Community Colleges
Commentary on AI tutors coming to California Community Colleges by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more
Anthropic Academy: Claude AI Solutions for Business \ Anthropic
Get started with Claude in your professional workflow. Find practical guides, use cases, and implementation tips for integrating AI assistance across your business tasks.
TildeAI/TildeOpen-30b · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Real AI Agents and Real Work
The race between human-centered work and infinite PowerPoints
Hand in Hand: Schools’ Embrace of AI Connected to Increased Risks to Students
Artificial intelligence (AI) has continued to alter the educational experiences of teachers, students, and parents during the 2024-25 school year. The frequency and variety of AI uses continues to grow; at the same time, the increased use of AI in educational settings is correlated with heightened risks to students. This report details the current status […]
Salesforce AI faces backlash from customers
Customers are saying things like: “It is so infuriating that Salesforce wants to abandon things THAT CURRENTLY WORK” .
Octave 2: next-generation multilingual voice AI • Hume AI
Today we’re launching Octave 2, the second generation of our frontier voice AI model for text-to-speech. We just made a preview of Octave 2 available on our platform and through our API.
Create Beautiful Docs & Slides in Seconds with AI
Turn ideas into stunning documents and slides instantly. AI handles structure, formatting, design, and branding — you don’t have to.
All-In-One AI Platform | Easy-Peasy.AI
Your One-Stop Solution for Content Creation, Image Crafting, Audio Generation, and AI Transcription.
2025 State of the API Report | Postman
89% of devs use AI, but only 24% design APIs for agents. As AI agents become the new API consumers, your strategy must evolve.
Build expert AI agents in minutes | Sana Agents
Meet Sana. Think of it as your team's new hire that can break down entire projects, handle multi-step workflows, and take action across all your applications to deliver finished work. With Sana’s AI platform, your powerful agents can: Search Drive, Slack, and Confluence simultaneously for that pricing doc Pull context from your CRM, emails, and meeting notes for client call prep Build board decks from your live data with charts and citations included Gather updates, write summaries, handle next steps, and keep tools in sync Don't just use AI for search and chat. Build agents that think, act, and deliver like your best people.
Samsung AI researcher's new, open reasoning model TRM outperforms models 10,000X larger — on specific problems
New model out-reasons rivals 10,000x its size: The Tiny Recursion Model (TRM), developed by Samsung researcher Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau, is a neural network with just 7M parameters that reportedly outperforms much larger models like GPT-4 on some complex reasoning tasks. By repeatedly refining its own predictions rather than relying on raw computational power, the breakthrough suggests that careful architecture design could potentially drive the next wave of AI innovation.
Repo Bench – Ranking AI models
Ranking models for large context reasoning, file editing precision, and instruction adherence for coding tasks.
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State of AI Report 2025
The State of AI Report analyses the most interesting developments in AI. Read and download here.
AI: Schools in Wales 'excited but wary' as teacher workloads cut
Most schools are at the early stages of embracing AI as a watchdog finds benefits and potential pitfalls.
Police issue warning over AI home invasion prank
A trend is going viral on TikTok of people using AI to prank their loved ones that an intruder is in their home. Police are issuing a warning to users that the prank could result in criminal charges. NBC News' Ellison Barber has more on the viral trend.
Figure AI claims its Figure 03 robot can wash dishes, clean floors, and handle chores
Figure AI unveils Figure 03, a third-generation humanoid robot built for real-world use in homes and businesses.
The Internet is Better on Comet
Today we are releasing the Comet browser to the world, for free.
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Three Types of AI Workflows
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Agentic AI: 50 Use Cases
Classrooms embraced AI - training didn’t keep up, CDT warns
Prior research and experts warn that spending too much time with AI bots can have a negative effect on in-real-life (IRL) social skills - an outcome which may be more severe for young, developing minds. Teachers who responded to CDT's research appear to agree, as 71 percent said that they're worried AI weakens key academic skills such as writing and critical thinking. . . only 11 percent of teachers said that their training covered how to respond if they suspect a student's use of AI is harming their well-being, for example, hurting self-esteem or encouraging risky behavior.
Anthropic Says It's Trivially Easy To Poison LLMs Into Spitting Out Gibberish - Slashdot
All it takes is just 250 malicious training documents (a mere 0.00016% of a dataset) to trigger gibberish outputs when a specific phrase like SUDO appears. The study shows even massive models like GPT-3.5 and Llama 3.1 are vulnerable.
The New Talk: The Need To Discuss AI With Kids
“[I]t is a massively more powerful and scary thing than I knew about.” That’s how Adam Raine’s dad characterized ChatGPT when he reviewed his son’s conversations with the AI tool. Adam tragically died by suicide. His parents are now suing OpenAI and Sam Altman, the company’s CEO, based on allegations that the tool contributed to his death.