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- Customers prefer AI chatbots, says British Gas owner as 1,300 call centre and back office jobs axed
Customers prefer AI chatbots, says British Gas owner as 1,300 call centre and back office jobs axed
CEO Chris OβShea defends Centricaβs plans as it reports rise in retail profits following focus on bigger margins
The owner of British Gas has claimed that most households would rather speak with an AI chatbot than deal with the companyβs staff as it prepares to cut 1,300 jobs from its call centres and back office.
Centrica, the supplierβs FTSE 100 owner, plans to cut 800 jobs as the company carries out a βtargeted deployment of AI toolsβ, on top of the 500 cuts it confirmed last month.
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- Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlement
Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlement
Bloomsbury has 14,087 titles listed in agreement between AI startup and authors over use of their work
The publisher of Harry Potter has received a multimillion-pound payout as a beneficiary of a $1.5bn (Β£1.12bn) copyright settlement between the AI startup Anthropic and thousands of authors over the use of their protected work to power chatbots.
Bloomsbury, which is home to the bestselling novelists Sarah J Maas and Susanna Clarke as well as JK Rowling, said it had 14,087 titles listed within the settlement, with a proposed compensation of about $3,000 a title.
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- ChatGPT e Meta AI ganham novas funcionalidades para reforΓ§ar a proteΓ§Γ£o dos adolescentes
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