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‘A’ for AI, ‘I’ for insurance (1/3) – how Aviva is betting on Machine Learning investments to deliver advantage in a tech arms race.
In the first of three use cases around AI in the insurance sector, Aviva CEO Amanda Blanc talks through the benefits seen to date. Go to Source
Julien Bek on X: “Services: The New Software” / X
The next $1T company will be a software company masquerading as a services firm. Go to Source
Jamie Cuffe on X: “We stress-tested GPT 5.4 on the hardest UI on the internet” / X
People don’t realize how good AI "computer use" has actually gotten — until they see it tackle the hardest UIs in existence: legacy insurance portals. Go to Source
Building pro-worker AI | Brookings
Artificial intelligence (AI)’s capacity to automate work and displace workers is substantial. But AI also has transformative potential to act as a force-multiplier for human skills and expertise by expanding worker capabilities. This potential arises from AI’s...
Physical OS: Vision Language Action (VLA) vs. World Models
The New Alpha in Investing. The $200 Billion Race to Build Machines That Operate in The Physical World Side-By-Side With Us. Go to Source
ServiceNow Autonomous Workforce and Moveworks: The New Era of Enterprise AI | by 4MATT | Mar, 2026 | Medium
Artificial Intelligence is transforming the way companies operate, and ServiceNow has just taken a significant step in this direction. The company announced the launch of Autonomous Workforce, a new concept that introduces AI specialists capable of performing tasks...
Adactio: Journal—Feedback
It only recently struck me that the agile approach is basically a cybernetic system. Go to Source
Nvidia’s Huang: All software will be agentic | Constellation Research
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the SaaS vs. agentic AI storyline doesn't make a lot of sense. Why? All software will become agentic. Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, Huang made headlines by saying Nvidia's investment in OpenAI...
Introducing GPT-5.4 | OpenAI
Today, we’re releasing GPT‑5.4 in ChatGPT (as GPT‑5.4 Thinking), the API, and Codex. It’s our most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work. We’re also releasing GPT‑5.4 Pro in ChatGPT and the API, for people who want maximum performance on complex...
Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence Anthropic
Key Findings We introduce a new measure of AI displacement risk, observed exposure, that combines theoretical LLM capability and real-world usage data, weighting automated (rather than augmentative) and work-related uses more heavily AI is far from reaching its...
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