AI that can control your computer

FT News Briefing

Oct 24 2024 • 10 mins

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.


Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com


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