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FUTURE OF WORK
The AI store manager fired its first human. It had to be reminded of its own rules first
An AI store manager in San Francisco has dismissed a human worker for the first time, after that worker turned up late for 17 of 23 shifts. The interesting part is that the AI wrote the attendance policy, then forgot it, and had to be told to look it up.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Target appoints its first chief AI officer as retailers scale up AI spending
Chandhu Nair joins from Lowe's on August 24, into a job that barely existed two years ago and now sits in three quarters of large organisations
DATA AND SECURITY
France’s tax agency lost data on 678,000 people to a stolen login
The French tax agency breach exposed income and property data on 678,000 people and businesses. Attackers used a staff login and an authorised outsider's, not a software flaw. DGFiP cut the access, but its own checks missed the theft. It learned the scale when the hacker advertised the database.
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