Square Mile and Me: Katrina Cheverton talks paper rounds, City life and the push for more diversity May 11, 2023 We dig into the memory bank of the City’s great and good: this week, Katrina Cheverton, CEO of recruitment and consulting firm Savannah Group, joins City A.M. for a chat.
Artificial intelligence will make my job obsolete, and I’m (almost) at peace with it May 11, 2023 Life as an editorial photographer is almost unsustainable today, and artificial intelligence is not helping. But what happens when we cut corners at all costs in photojournalism? asks Andy Blackmore
Binance seeks green light from UK as City minister lays out future for crypto rules May 10, 2023 Binance said it would do “everything we possibly can” to be regulated in the UK as the world’s largest crypto exchange hit out at the US’s regulatory environment. Speaking at the Financial Times’s Crypto and Digital Assets Conference, Binance’s chief strategy officer Patrick Hillmann argued the US “has been very confusing over the past six [...]
Bob Bob Ricard City review: Like a hallucinogenic trip, or a warm hug, this just needs to be experienced May 10, 2023 Bob Bob Ricard founder Leonid Shutov said he wanted his recently renovated Bob Bob Ricard City restaurant to be “somewhere you’ll travel to” rather than somewhere you’d go “because you happen to be nearby.” In the capital, where half the new restaurants close within two years of opening, it’s a smart approach. ‘Make somewhere memorable’ [...]
Crypto markets shuffle sideways as traders cautiously await CPI figures May 10, 2023 The price of Bitcoin is holding steady above $27.500 today while Ethereum is trading around $1,840 as investors wait for CPI numbers.
Pearson integration of AI appears to excite investors as share price rises May 9, 2023 Educational publisher Pearson is embedding AI across its products as the AI race heats up and the technology encroaches on the edtech sector. The London-based publisher said on Tuesday that projects to embed generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology — meaning tools which can create new content from large data sets — were already “well underway.” [...]
Price of Bitcoin slips as other cryptocurrencies follow suit May 9, 2023 The price of Bitcoin fell below $28,000 over the weekend and was trading around $27,600 this morning as the markets turn 'neutral'.
What To Do If You’re Worried AI Will Take Your Job May 9, 2023 Are you worried you’ll be replaced (professionally at least) by a robot in the near future? If so, you’re not alone. Thanks to the advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, chatbots and their capabilities to not only mimic human behaviour and thought processes, but in some instances, surpass them, have been swiftly propelled into sharp focus. At [...]
As the middle classes rush to degree apprenticeships, poorer British kids miss out May 9, 2023 Degree apprenticeships create a rare species of child - an economically independent 21-year-old, but as middle class parents discover this, they become harder to access for poor British kids, writes Eliza Filby.
AI doing the work of over 200 people at Octopus, chief executive says May 8, 2023 Octopus Energy customers are more satisfied with AI bots answering their emails than humans, the energy provider’s chief executive revealed on Monday. Writing in the Times newspaper, the energy company’s chief executive, Greg Jackson, said the technology was doing the work of 250 people by answering customer emails and had received a 80 per cent [...]