AI that can control your computer
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Boeing’s machinists voted on Wednesday to reject the company’s latest offer and the US has finalised long-awaited ‘open banking’ rules, hoping it will inject more competition into the market. Plus, Deutsche Bank reported a record third-quarter profit and artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic has built a virtual agent that can perform tasks on a computer.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Striking Boeing machinists reject offer as stand-off nears 6 weeks
US rolls out ‘open banking’ rules to make sharing financial data easier
Open banking challenges America’s cozy lenders’ club
Deutsche Bank warns of rising bad loan provisions
Anthropic says latest AI model can control users’ computers
The FT News Briefing is produced by Niamh Rowe, Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Joseph Salcedo. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.0 | Learn more at equinore. |
| 0:10.0 | At Aquinore. |
| 0:11.0 | The UK. |
| 0:12.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Thursday, October 24th, and this is your |
| 0:18.4 | F.T. news briefing. There's more bad news for Boeing, and U.S. lenders are trying to close the door on |
| 0:26.6 | open banking. Plus over in AI a new virtual agent could run your life for you. |
| 0:33.4 | It can schedule calendar appointments for you. |
| 0:36.2 | These kind of tedious things that take us quite a long time to do. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Sonia Hudson and here's the news you need to start your day. Boeing workers voted to reject a deal with a company yesterday. |
| 0:59.0 | That means the nearly six weeks strike will continue. The deal would have increased pay by 35% over four years and |
| 1:07.6 | improved retirement benefits. But workers wanted a 40% raise and for the company to restore a defined benefit pension plan they previously lost. |
| 1:20.0 | It's a blow to Boeing's new CEO and his plan to stabilize the business. |
| 1:25.0 | The company reported a $6 billion loss last quarter |
| 1:29.0 | and said it would continue to bleed cash. The U.S. has announced new rules that will make sharing bank information a little bit simpler. |
| 1:45.0 | They're called open banking regulations and they'll help customers connect their accounts to apps like Venmo or PayPal. |
| 1:53.5 | But big banks are not a fan. |
| 1:57.0 | Here to tell us more is the FT's Josh Franklin. |
| 1:59.8 | Hey Josh. |
| 2:00.8 | Hi there. |
| 2:02.0 | OK, so give me the rundown on these new rules. |
| 2:05.4 | What are we talking about here? |
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