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  • City law firm Shoosmiths invests extra £1m in firm’s bonus pot

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    City law firm Shoosmiths has doubled down on its commitment to AI after setting aside a second £1m for its bonus pot to help staff become AI-fluent through its new internal accreditation programme, Morning Wire can reveal. Last year, the firm exclusively told Morning Wire that it set a “clear and ambitious annual target” of one million [...]

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  • Shoosmiths to give staff extra £1m after hitting AI target

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    Law firm Shoosmiths will give staff an extra £1m in bonuses after they hit the firm’s annual target for 1m Microsoft Copilot prompts more than four months ahead of schedule, Morning Wire can reveal. The firm told Morning Wire in April that it had set a “clear and ambitious annual target” of 1m on its [...]

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  • UK businesses wasting millions on ChatGPT-style AI tools

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    Companies could be wasting millions on AI tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude as they rush to boost productivity. MIT’s State of AI in Business 2025 study found that while employees in over 90 per cent of companies regularly use personal AI tools, only 40 per cent of organisations have official LLM subscriptions. Despite [...]

    AI could take reduce demand for entry level jobs by as much as 50 per cent
  • Microsoft launches AI ‘agents’ to woo investors ahead of earnings

    October 21, 2024

    Microsoft has launched a suite of artificial intelligence-powered ‘agents’ geared towards businesses, as the tech giant continues to build out its suite of AI products in a bid to stay ahead of the competition and woo investors. At its AI Tour event in London on Monday, Microsoft boss Satya Nadella introduced the autonomous agents, which [...]

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