As a senior executive charged with keeping a bank operational, I have plenty of experience running the tightrope of managing multiple competing demands from all sorts of stakeholders. One of the key questions I always asked myself and the team whenever we were evaluating the approach for technology was this:
I did have to smile when I saw this photo on the Vibe Coding subreddit on Reddit earlier today. Although I would modify it to add a third key for RUN (or refresh, or reload). ChatGPT defines vibe coding as: ... an informal term that refers to programming in a relaxed,
It's absolutely fascinating watching the speed of development in the Artificial Intelligence marketplace these days. What a buzz. Earlier today I was trying to get Claude to give me some recommendations for a query that really should have been supported by a live (or semi live) web search.
Congratulations to the team at NatWest - they've just announced that they've signed what I imagine is a super-charged Enterprise-style agreement with OpenAI. This is an important step for any financial services player that's trying to do anything material when it comes to leveraging
I made a note of this story when I saw it the other week, because it's just astonishing. It's an article by Kate Rooney over at CNBC. She details that OpenAI is getting around 400 million weekly active users and that this is up 33% in
Earlier this afternoon, I realised that my WisprFlow subscription had expired. This is a fantastic app that sits on your desktop and is activated when you press a couple of keys that you define on your keyboard. So, for example, I press CTRL and SHIFT and the app immediately starts
I recently sat down with Paul Walker, Global Solutions Director at iManage. With 25 years of experience in legal tech, Paul offered his insights into how AI has evolved in the legal and professional services sectors. We discussed how iManage specialises in knowledge work industries, particularly legal and accounting, and
There's been quite a bit of chatter around Sesame's conversational speech generation demo recently, with quite a lot of Reddit readers insisting this is something akin to the 'Her' movie moment in our collective AI journey. On Thursday Anjney from VC Andreessen Horowitz posted
I came across this fascinating metric via Reddit and then LinkedIn. It was referenced in a tweet by Jake who points out that the huge pharma giant, Novo Nordisk has gone from a team of 50 drafting clinical reports to just 3. I went and found the original post -
I was reading this post on LinkedIn from Guilherme Quelhos earlier today and I had to smile. In today's day and age, is it good enough to make any customer wait 43 minutes to 'type' to an adviser? 43 minutes... really? I'd suggest that&
I asked Oddmund Braaten, CEO of multilingual event technology and services provider, Interprefy, to give us an overview of their offerings and tell us more about how they're leveraging Conversational AI. It's tempting nowadays to assume that you can just throw an audio feed through to
I liked the look of Asteroid.ai. The company offers browser automation for startups and SMEs that need help navigating legacy portals, filling in forms and easily extracting data. Quite a lot of big companies already have various robotic-process-automation ("RPA") activities underway. In one of my previous companies,
I've been on two different emergency Teams calls this evening discussing the launch of Alexa+ and the immediate implications with some clients. Alexa and Amazon has been on the radar for the longest time. It's been sat in many of my slide decks and strategy papers
Finally. It's taken them a bit of a time, hasn't it? Are we there yet? Have we got an 'Alexa' that's bang-up-to-date and ready to compete with the latest and greatest? Quite possibly, yes. It's been rather painful watching how
Here's a fascinating post from cybersecurity Dor Attias who, writing on Medium, discusses how he and his colleagues have managed to systematically extract confidential data from Copilot Studio implementations. Dor's approach has nothing to do with Microsoft's cybersecurity capabilities – and everything to do with
There are plenty of API listings all over the place, and some of those sites do a really nice job. When you are trying to create an extensible capability with your agents and automatic systems, at some point you're going to want to be able to dynamically look
Having spent quite a lot of time discussing a radical approach to adopting AI over the past year or so, Klarna's CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski took to Twitter with a slightly different message recently: We just had an epiphany: in a world of AI nothing will be as valuable
Today, I came across Y-Combinator alum CopyCat. The company helps enterprise customers create browser agents to perform repetitive tasks - just like you might have with the likes of OpenAI's Operator or Claude's 'Computer Use. ' To create a browser agent, you simply describe the
It's time for another AI Innovator Spotlight series, and this time we're featuring Dr. John Bates, the CEO of SER Group. SER Group is defining Intelligent Content Automation (ICA), the next generation of enterprise content management, which leverages AI to provide intelligent content understanding and process
In today's AI Innovator Spotlight, I'm delighted to bring you an overview of how Matt Malden and his team have used Conversational AI. Matt is Chief Product Officer at Globality, the market leader in AI-driven autonomous sourcing. I asked Matt to give us an overview -
I read a fascinating post from Matt Sanderson this afternoon on LinkedIn. Matt is Head of Data Products for Channels (Digital & Customer Operations) at The AA ("the Automobile Association"). Only a year ago – or perhaps just a few months ago, you'd have had to phone
Just in case they're not on your radar already, I want to make sure you have Zaion in your bookmarks. They're a France-based Conversational AI company having quite a good bit of success, most notably with their client (and now investor) La Banque Postale. (Or, more
I’ve seen this movie before, dear reader. I watched the transformation of the mobile industry from a world where Nokia‘s one-million-phones-a-day position of absolute power was eroded, gradually and then suddenly, by the next generation of players. The executives at Nokia just could not see it. They had
I really enjoyed reading this blog post ("Beyond the AI MVP") over at technology news site The Stack from Lawrence Jones, an engineer at incident.io. In the post, Lawrence sets out how 'deceptively simple' it look to deploy AI. Lawrence wanted a little system to