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AI Picks the Shortlist Before Retailers Get the Click

Before a shopper ever reaches a retailer, an artificial intelligence assistant may have already narrowed the field to three options. Making that shortlist is becoming its own competition. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “The AI Power User Gets Pickier,” the September edition of the Consumer AI Benchmark Report, found that 23% of consumers in the United […] The post AI Picks the Shortlist Before…

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AI Picks the Shortlist Before Retailers Get the Click

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I run a 'radar' that finds free LLM endpoints and auto-adopts the good ones — behind a five-part gate so it can't adopt junk

Free LLM endpoints appear and vanish constantly — a provider opens a generous tier, a new open model shows up on someone's gateway, a promo runs for a month. Chasing them by hand is a losing game.

  • Model-radar monitors free LLM endpoints and auto-adopts good ones
  • Five-part gate screens models before adoption, preventing junk
  • Gate checks responsiveness, tool calls, prompt context, stability, and performance

·dev.to

Quant finance pay rises as AI reshapes skills demand, says survey

Quantitative finance professionals continue to see pay increases as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in research, trading, portfolio construction, risk management and technology…

  • Quant finance professionals see 3.5% salary rise in North America, 4% in Europe, 5% in Asia by 2026.
  • 59% of surveyed professionals' responsibilities expanded due to AI.
  • 88% believe skills shortage exists in quantitative finance, growing since last three years.

·hedgeweek.com

AI Has a Frankenstein Dilemma

AI Has a Frankenstein Dilemma Mary Shelley published Frankenstein in 1818. More than two hundred years later, it’s said to sell about 40,000 to 50,00 copies a year.

·pymnts.com

AI Will Kill Us All, Unless Our Country Builds It First

Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon recently resigned and accused OpenAI and Anthropic of racing toward self-improving superintelligence while “gambling with our lives.” According to Coxon, many…

  • Former Anthropic researcher warns of AI-caused human extinction risk
  • Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls for slower AI development
  • Donald Trump dismisses AI extinction warnings as hoax

·dev.to

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