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Calgary Herald
09-07-2025
- Business
- Calgary Herald
What are AI agents and which jobs are they coming for first?
Article content Some in the industry are already working toward establishing guardrails to advance the development of safe and ethical AI. Canadian-French computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, considered one of the 'godfathers of AI,' recently launched a Montreal-based non-profit called LawZero focused on AI systems that will filter out certain traits like dishonesty. He aims to create a tool to de-risk AI agents and keep them in line. 'I'm deeply concerned by the behaviours that unrestrained agentic AI systems are already beginning to exhibit — especially tendencies toward self-preservation and deception,' Bengio wrote in a June 2025 blog post. Article content What is the timeline for rolling out agentic AI? Article content Agentic AI technology is nascent, but developing rapidly, Filan said. 'I'm not even thinking about what it would look like 10 years from now. Most of the conversations occurring now are between a two-to-five-year period,' he said. Article content Article content A growing number of startups are now developing AI agents customized for different professional and personal needs. Partners at Silicon Valley's fabled startup accelerator Y Combinator LLC, recently said that they have been bombarded with a wide range of AI agent proposals in fields ranging from marketing to recruitment and debt collection. Article content Silicon Valley leaders have warned that job displacement is coming rapidly. Anthropic PBC chief executive Dario Amodei told Axios in May 2025 that he thought AI could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs and push unemployment to 10 to 20 per cent in the next one to five years. Article content Others say agentic AI technology has a ways to go. Article content Article content A May 2025 Carnegie Mellon paper showed that Google LLC's Gemini 2.5 Pro, the top-performing AI agent, was unsuccessful 70 per cent of the time in completing real-world office tasks. Other rival agents created by tech giants like OpenAI and Meta Platforms Inc. had failure rates of over 90 per cent. Article content 'Right now, we're seeing early glimpses: AI agents can already analyze data, predict trends, and automate workflows to some extent. But building AI agents that can autonomously handle complex decision-making will take more than just better algorithms. We'll need big leaps in contextual reasoning and testing for edge cases,' according to a March 2025 International Business Machines Corp. report titled AI Agents in 2025: Expectations vs. Reality.
AU Financial Review
30-06-2025
- Business
- AU Financial Review
Apple weighs using Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri in major reversal
Apple is considering using artificial intelligence technology from Anthropic PBC or OpenAI to power a new version of Siri, sidelining its own in-house models in a potential blockbuster move aimed at turning around its flailing AI effort. The iPhone maker has talked with both companies about using their large language models for Siri, according to people familiar with the discussions. It has asked them to train versions of their models that could run on Apple's cloud infrastructure for testing, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private deliberations. Bloomberg
Hans India
29-05-2025
- Business
- Hans India
Anthropic Launches Beta Voice Mode for Claude AI Chatbot
In the latest AI news development, Anthropic PBC, an American artificial intelligence startup company launched a beta version of voice mode for their AI chatbot Claude. Company officials announced on their X channel that voice mode is being rolled out in english over the upcoming weeks time. This voice assistant mode will be powered by their latest Claude Sonnet 4 model. Users can leverage this option in 5 different modes which will vary for paid and free users. Free users will be limited to 20-30 voice messages, while paid subscribers enjoy significantly higher usage limits. Additionally, only paying users can integrate voice mode with Google Workspace for access to Google apps. A promo video clip posted by the Company displayed how users can ask Claude via voice mode to access apps like Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendars to do multiple things. It will also allow users to search the web and switch between text and voice whenever.
Time of India
28-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Norway's Wealth Fund CEO demands AI adoption among employees
Chief executive officer Nicolai Tangen sees no future at Norway's $1.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund for employees who resist using artificial intelligence in their jobs. Tangen, who recently told lawmakers in Oslo that the technology can help keep the fund's headcount from growing in the near future, says he has been running around "like a maniac" since 2022 to convince his roughly 670 staff to use AI. "It can't be voluntary. It isn't voluntary to use AI or not," Tangen said in an interview. "If you don't use it, you will never be promoted. You won't get a job," he said, referring to Norway's wealth fund-the world's biggest. Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a prerequisite for performance in the asset management industry as investment firms race to boost efficiency, cut costs, and gain an edge in decision-making. In that vein, AI tools are being embedded across trading desks, research teams, and back-office operations. While some question the consequences of hastened adaptation of AI, the 58-year-old leader of Norway's wealth fund is mostly worried about his employees not using it enough. In his home country, Tangen is known to sing the praises of AI on every stage, and in every podcast and seminar he attends. Inside Norges Bank Investment Management , it's the same. "You have to repeat and repeat and repeat, attack the organization from all sides," he says. There's now a six-person "AI enabler" team, 40 AI ambassadors and repeated seminars, conferences and courses. About 300 staff now write code, with the help of AI, according to Tangen. "My biggest surprise was that resistance when we first started. People don't want change," he said. "There's 10-20% who don't want do things if it's voluntary. But those are the ones who need it." In an internal survey, the fund's employees reported a 15% increase in efficiency last year. Tangen said he believes number will be 20% in 2025 and another 20% the year after that. This gives the CEO a visible boost. His face lights up, his voice grows louder. 'If we compete with companies that are not using AI, we're 50% ahead! It's unbelievable. They will never catch up,' he says. 'I've never seen anything like this, a situation where you can get this far ahead of your competitors.' 'We save a lot on trading and will save much more,' he said, quoting trading costs, putting money into the markets and on the general increase in efficiency. Key tools used at the fund include Claude, built by Anthropic PBC and 'used by 100% of the employees,' Copilot by Microsoft Corp, Perplexity, Cursor, Open AI Deep Research and Google AI. The fund monitors news articles about its investments in 16 different languages and structures the information to get an overview of the companies' accountability, spending minutes on something that used to take days, Tangen has said. NBIM, as the fund is known, is far from alone in telling staff to embrace the change — Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke told his company in April that AI usage is now a baseline expectation and JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon has said the firm's more than 400 use cases of AI are likely to grow to 1,000 in a year. The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund is owned by Norges Bank and operates along guidelines set by the Norwegian finance ministry. Its mandate is decided by Norway's lawmakers. That does set some boundaries on the use of AI, Tangen said. There's a requirement to have 'humans in the loop,' and two people have to look at any code that is sent out. Staff cannot input personal or classified information or disclose active trading in AI models, and the fund won't use AI on independent trading or in hiring processes. 'Independent trading is always done by humans. I don't see that changing for the fund in the future. But they use AI to gather information,' he said, adding analysts are no longer of much use. The fund owns about 1.5% of all listed companies around the world and is tech-heavy, with Apple Inc., Microsoft, Nvidia Corp, Alphabet Inc, Inc and Meta Platforms Inc among its biggest investments, in line with a bespoke benchmark index. It's also known to be an activist investor, publishing its voting decisions five days before the companies' annual general meetings. It famously voted against Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk's record $56 billion compensation package that's since risen in value and been contested in court. AI helps the fund making these decisions, Tangen said. 'The documents about the pay packages might be 40-50 pages long. We feed that and our guidelines into the system and our voting history on previous pay packages, and it tells us, with about 95% accuracy, if we should vote yes or no', the CEO said. Tangen said he will replace employees who leave, but only with tech-savvy new ones. Employees should use the time saved with AI to 'think more and make better decisions,' he said.
Economic Times
28-05-2025
- Business
- Economic Times
Norway's Wealth Fund CEO demands AI adoption among employees
Live Events (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our ETMarkets WhatsApp channel Chief executive officer Nicolai Tangen sees no future at Norway's $1.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund for employees who resist using artificial intelligence in their jobs. Tangen, who recently told lawmakers in Oslo that the technology can help keep the fund's headcount from growing in the near future, says he has been running around "like a maniac" since 2022 to convince his roughly 670 staff to use AI. "It can't be voluntary. It isn't voluntary to use AI or not," Tangen said in an interview. "If you don't use it, you will never be promoted. You won't get a job," he said, referring to Norway's wealth fund-the world's intelligence is rapidly becoming a prerequisite for performance in the asset management industry as investment firms race to boost efficiency, cut costs, and gain an edge in decision-making. In that vein, AI tools are being embedded across trading desks, research teams, and back-office some question the consequences of hastened adaptation of AI, the 58-year-old leader of Norway's wealth fund is mostly worried about his employees not using it his home country, Tangen is known to sing the praises of AI on every stage, and in every podcast and seminar he attends. Inside Norges Bank Investment Management , it's the same. "You have to repeat and repeat and repeat, attack the organization from all sides," he says. There's now a six-person "AI enabler" team, 40 AI ambassadors and repeated seminars, conferences and courses. About 300 staff now write code, with the help of AI, according to Tangen. "My biggest surprise was that resistance when we first started. People don't want change," he said."There's 10-20% who don't want do things if it's voluntary. But those are the ones who need it." In an internal survey, the fund's employees reported a 15% increase in efficiency last year. Tangen said he believes number will be 20% in 2025 and another 20% the year after gives the CEO a visible boost. His face lights up, his voice grows louder.'If we compete with companies that are not using AI, we're 50% ahead! It's unbelievable. They will never catch up,' he says. 'I've never seen anything like this, a situation where you can get this far ahead of your competitors.''We save a lot on trading and will save much more,' he said, quoting trading costs, putting money into the markets and on the general increase in efficiency. Key tools used at the fund include Claude, built by Anthropic PBC and 'used by 100% of the employees,' Copilot by Microsoft Corp, Perplexity, Cursor, Open AI Deep Research and Google fund monitors news articles about its investments in 16 different languages and structures the information to get an overview of the companies' accountability, spending minutes on something that used to take days, Tangen has as the fund is known, is far from alone in telling staff to embrace the change — Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke told his company in April that AI usage is now a baseline expectation and JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon has said the firm's more than 400 use cases of AI are likely to grow to 1,000 in a Norwegian sovereign wealth fund is owned by Norges Bank and operates along guidelines set by the Norwegian finance ministry. Its mandate is decided by Norway's lawmakers. That does set some boundaries on the use of AI, Tangen a requirement to have 'humans in the loop,' and two people have to look at any code that is sent out. Staff cannot input personal or classified information or disclose active trading in AI models, and the fund won't use AI on independent trading or in hiring processes.'Independent trading is always done by humans. I don't see that changing for the fund in the future. But they use AI to gather information,' he said, adding analysts are no longer of much fund owns about 1.5% of all listed companies around the world and is tech-heavy, with Apple Inc., Microsoft, Nvidia Corp, Alphabet Inc, Inc and Meta Platforms Inc among its biggest investments, in line with a bespoke benchmark also known to be an activist investor, publishing its voting decisions five days before the companies' annual general meetings. It famously voted against Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk's record $56 billion compensation package that's since risen in value and been contested in court. AI helps the fund making these decisions, Tangen said.'The documents about the pay packages might be 40-50 pages long. We feed that and our guidelines into the system and our voting history on previous pay packages, and it tells us, with about 95% accuracy, if we should vote yes or no', the CEO said he will replace employees who leave, but only with tech-savvy new ones. Employees should use the time saved with AI to 'think more and make better decisions,' he said.
