AI

In 2025, the financial sector continues its courtship with generative AI, hoping it will finally make compliance less of a bureaucratic slog. According to Global Relay’s State of AI in Surveillance Report 2025, attitudes are thawing: there’s been a 19% drop in firms reluctant to implement AI. Apparently, nothing eases doubts like the promise of automated paperwork and plausible deniability. Still, not all is rosy. Explainability remains elusive, regulators are breathing down necks, and integration often resembles a Frankensteinian patchwork. Innovation, it seems, comes with a compliance hangover. ...

How I lost my mind (and won an AI war) for a depressed octopus office worker: a tale of shrimp, sharks, and prompt-engineering madness. Chapter 1: The vision To understand what fake imagery can look like, one has to do it. So I investigated these AI image creators. And browsing around it began, as all terrible ideas do, with a whisper: “What if under water, but capitalism?” Armed with nothing but a keyboard and a dream of a silly image, I set out to create the ultimate underwater dystopian office scene, a place where octopuses ring up kelp groceries, clownfish drown in paperwork, and shrimp riot against the 1% (plankton). ...