Kategorie: Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is transforming the world of work at breathtaking speed. Algorithms are screening job applications, optimising production workflows and handling customer queries. But who decides how these systems are used? And what role do employees play in that decision? In Germany, the answer is clear: co-determination.

US artificial intelligence company Anthropic – creator of the Claude chatbot and founded by former OpenAI employees – has made headlines with a landmark settlement: it plans to pay a staggering $1.5 billion to authors.

It may sound like a joke – Google Nano Banana – but behind this quirky codename lies one of the most powerful visual AI models ever released: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image. Since August 2025, this next-generation image model has been turning heads, not just among tech insiders but across the global user base. Whether you're an engineer, a content creator, or simply someone with a wild imagination – Nano Banana is about to change how we think about images.

Internet search in Germany is undergoing a historic turning point in 2025. A large-scale study by technology company Yext, published in July under the title “The Rise of the AI Search Archetypes”, documents a profound shift in how people access information.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the job market – not in some distant future, but right now. Current research shows that this technological shift is affecting not just individual tasks, but entire job profiles. Occupations that rely heavily on information processing, analysis and communication are at the heart of this transformation. These are exactly the areas where AI systems already deliver a level of efficiency and precision that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

Through my training and consultancy work, I’m in daily contact with ChatGPT – it’s long since become something like a reliable sparring partner for me. When GPT-5 was released in Germany last Thursday night, I wasted no time and integrated the new model straight into my workflow. My first hours with it were a mix of anticipation and scepticism: could an already strong version like GPT-4o really make a noticeable leap forward? After several intense days of use, my answer is yes – and in such a way that I already wouldn’t want to be without it.

The technological shift is cutting deep into the world of work, and artificial intelligence is no longer playing a supporting role – it has become the driving force, catalyst, and guide all at once. While many are still speculating about its risks and opportunities, Microsoft’s latest study, Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI, provides a much-needed counterweight to all the theory: it shows how people are actually using AI, what they are doing with it – and what they’re not.

With key provisions of the EU AI Act coming into force on 2 August 2025, a new era of artificial intelligence regulation begins across the European Union. This legislation marks the world’s first comprehensive, binding legal framework for the use of AI, particularly affecting general-purpose AI models (GPAI) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and Meta’s LLaMA. These versatile models are increasingly embedded in products, services and internal processes across industries.