Like many, I've been playing around with Anthropic's MCP (Model-Context-Protocol) with my Claude Desktop App and I have occasionally been pretty impressed with it. I've extended Claude Desktop with a whole load of different MCP capabilities both for research purposes and to try and
I've been deeply engaged in a load of research for one of my clients so I haven't had the opportunity to publish much recently. I'm finding it fascinating to watch the ongoing evolution of the Conversational and Agentic AI space. I can't
Stop the clocks once more. The AI world has changed, again. This time it's the 800lb gorilla in the form of Amazon arriving at the party with a series of fascinating developer previews based on enabling a highly focused, intensively trained web browsing agent. It's called
I wanted to make sure I documented skyfire.xyz here on Conversational AI News. The company's mission is one that is absolutely fascinating. And here is the Overview from their about page: To create the world’s first fully autonomous, open economy for Agentic AI. AI Agents shouldn’
From an article in The Times of London today: About 2,000 jobs will be cut at Sky as it replaces more of its customer call centre positions with online and artificial intelligence. Three of Sky’s UK call centres, in Stockport, Sheffield and Leeds, will be closed and another
My good colleague Ankit Chhajer, the top man in AI at Barclays UK has published his personal PRIMED™ AI framework for managing AI project success and I think it's worth a read. He's given a whole load of detail on how to apply it on his
Here's a fascinating press release from the team at agentic commerce experts Bloomreach: Bloomreach, the agentic platform for personalization, today announced new data from its conversational shopping agent, Clarity, highlighting the powerful impact of conversational AI and the new consumer behaviors it is unveiling. Live on a number
As a senior executive charged with keeping a bank operational, I have plenty of experience running the tightrope of managing multiple competing demands from all sorts of stakeholders. One of the key questions I always asked myself and the team whenever we were evaluating the approach for technology was this:
I did have to smile when I saw this photo on the Vibe Coding subreddit on Reddit earlier today. Although I would modify it to add a third key for RUN (or refresh, or reload). ChatGPT defines vibe coding as: ... an informal term that refers to programming in a relaxed,
It's absolutely fascinating watching the speed of development in the Artificial Intelligence marketplace these days. What a buzz. Earlier today I was trying to get Claude to give me some recommendations for a query that really should have been supported by a live (or semi live) web search.
Congratulations to the team at NatWest - they've just announced that they've signed what I imagine is a super-charged Enterprise-style agreement with OpenAI. This is an important step for any financial services player that's trying to do anything material when it comes to leveraging
I made a note of this story when I saw it the other week, because it's just astonishing. It's an article by Kate Rooney over at CNBC. She details that OpenAI is getting around 400 million weekly active users and that this is up 33% in
Earlier this afternoon, I realised that my WisprFlow subscription had expired. This is a fantastic app that sits on your desktop and is activated when you press a couple of keys that you define on your keyboard. So, for example, I press CTRL and SHIFT and the app immediately starts
I recently sat down with Paul Walker, Global Solutions Director at iManage. With 25 years of experience in legal tech, Paul offered his insights into how AI has evolved in the legal and professional services sectors. We discussed how iManage specialises in knowledge work industries, particularly legal and accounting, and
There's been quite a bit of chatter around Sesame's conversational speech generation demo recently, with quite a lot of Reddit readers insisting this is something akin to the 'Her' movie moment in our collective AI journey. On Thursday Anjney from VC Andreessen Horowitz posted
I came across this fascinating metric via Reddit and then LinkedIn. It was referenced in a tweet by Jake who points out that the huge pharma giant, Novo Nordisk has gone from a team of 50 drafting clinical reports to just 3. I went and found the original post -
I was reading this post on LinkedIn from Guilherme Quelhos earlier today and I had to smile. In today's day and age, is it good enough to make any customer wait 43 minutes to 'type' to an adviser? 43 minutes... really? I'd suggest that&
I asked Oddmund Braaten, CEO of multilingual event technology and services provider, Interprefy, to give us an overview of their offerings and tell us more about how they're leveraging Conversational AI. It's tempting nowadays to assume that you can just throw an audio feed through to
I liked the look of Asteroid.ai. The company offers browser automation for startups and SMEs that need help navigating legacy portals, filling in forms and easily extracting data. Quite a lot of big companies already have various robotic-process-automation ("RPA") activities underway. In one of my previous companies,
I've been on two different emergency Teams calls this evening discussing the launch of Alexa+ and the immediate implications with some clients. Alexa and Amazon has been on the radar for the longest time. It's been sat in many of my slide decks and strategy papers
Finally. It's taken them a bit of a time, hasn't it? Are we there yet? Have we got an 'Alexa' that's bang-up-to-date and ready to compete with the latest and greatest? Quite possibly, yes. It's been rather painful watching how
Here's a fascinating post from cybersecurity Dor Attias who, writing on Medium, discusses how he and his colleagues have managed to systematically extract confidential data from Copilot Studio implementations. Dor's approach has nothing to do with Microsoft's cybersecurity capabilities – and everything to do with
There are plenty of API listings all over the place, and some of those sites do a really nice job. When you are trying to create an extensible capability with your agents and automatic systems, at some point you're going to want to be able to dynamically look
Having spent quite a lot of time discussing a radical approach to adopting AI over the past year or so, Klarna's CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski took to Twitter with a slightly different message recently: We just had an epiphany: in a world of AI nothing will be as valuable