Generative AI linked to sharp drop in UK entry-level jobs

The number of entry-level jobs in the UK has plummeted by nearly a third since the widespread availability of generative AI tools. According to a report from the job platform Adzuna, cited by Adam McCulloch in “Personnel Today”, such roles have declined by 32% since November 2022. This includes a significant drop in graduate positions, …

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT gains ground against Microsoft’s Copilot in corporate market

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is winning over corporate customers at the expense of Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant, creating tension between the two partner companies. Bloomberg reporters Brody Ford and Shirin Ghaffary reveal how this competition is reshaping the enterprise AI market. Drugmaker Amgen initially planned to deploy Microsoft’s Copilot to 20,000 employees but switched to ChatGPT after …

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AI companies scrape vastly more content than they send traffic back to publishers

Publishers face an existential crisis as artificial intelligence companies extract their content without providing fair compensation, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince warned at an event in Cannes. Christine Wang reported for Axios. Prince revealed striking statistics about the imbalance between content scraping and traffic referrals. Ten years ago, Google crawled two pages for every visitor it …

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OpenAI reaches $10 billion in annual revenue milestone

OpenAI has achieved $10 billion in annual recurring revenue, nearly doubling its performance from $5.5 billion last year. The milestone comes less than three years after launching ChatGPT. The revenue figure encompasses consumer ChatGPT subscriptions, business products, and API services, but excludes Microsoft licensing deals and large one-time contracts, according to an OpenAI spokesperson. Despite …

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Analysis: AI’s growing energy footprint and environmental impact

MIT Technology Review’s new analysis provides a comprehensive look at the energy consumption of artificial intelligence systems, revealing significant environmental impacts that are often overlooked. The research, part of the “Power Hungry: AI and our energy future” series, examined AI’s energy demands down to individual queries and traced the industry’s expanding carbon footprint. According to …

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Poe report reveals AI usage trends among frontier models in spring 2025

A new report from Poe provides insights into AI model usage trends from January to May 2025, showing significant shifts in user preferences across text, reasoning, image, video, and audio generation models. The report draws on aggregated usage data from Poe’s platform, which offers users provider-agnostic access to various AI models. Assistants: According to the …

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Generative AI overtakes cybersecurity as top budget priority for 2025

A new AWS study reveals that generative AI has surpassed cybersecurity as the primary budget focus for IT leaders heading into 2025. According to the AWS Generative AI Adoption Index, which surveyed 3,739 senior IT decision-makers across nine countries, 45% of organizations prioritize generative AI spending over security tools (30%). The research indicates that 90% …

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Study shows generative AI has minimal impact on jobs and wages

New research seems to show that generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT have had almost no significant impact on jobs or wages so far. Economists Anders Humlum and Emilie Vestergaard analyzed data from 11 occupations across 25,000 workers in Denmark, according to The Register. Despite rapid adoption of AI tools, users reported average time savings of …

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ByteDance leverages data from a billion users to power AI ambitions

China’s ByteDance is transforming data from its popular apps TikTok, Douyin, and Toutiao into a competitive advantage in artificial intelligence, reports Meaghan Tobin of The New York Times. The company collects behavioral data from approximately 170 million U.S. TikTok users and around 1 billion users of its Chinese apps. This wealth of information has become …

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