How Much Research Can We Safely Hand Over to AI Agents?
What the EU’s updated AI guidelines mean for researchers, grant writers and reviewers now that AI does more of their work, and who is responsible when it gets something wrong.
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Technology has overtaken skill: no one wants prompt training any more
Until recently, organisations wanted to learn how to write the perfect prompt. Today’s advanced AI models understand a task without precise wording, and the questions raised in training sessions have changed: how do we fit…
Alma Media’s newsrooms now use more than 40 in-house AI tools
Alma News Media, the publisher behind Iltalehti and Kauppalehti, says it has built more than 40 AI tools for its journalists, from a reader-interest predictor to transcription and translation. Its foreign desk estimates the tools…
No sign yet of AI hitting Finnish jobs or wages, economists at Etla say
The Finnish economic research institute says AI’s impact on work has barely begun, and warns that moving too slowly may be a bigger risk than moving too fast.
Nearly half of Finnish job seekers now use AI, survey finds, while employers split on whether it is fair
Use of AI in job hunting in Finland has roughly quadrupled since 2023, according to job search service Duunitori. Employers are split three ways on whether it is fair, and only 26% use AI in…
One in three Nordic healthcare AI projects is now in everyday use
The first large-scale map of AI in Nordic healthcare shows that around a third of more than 800 projects have moved beyond the trial stage and into regular use, in areas ranging from administrative support…
Only one in five Finnish companies looks to AI primarily for growth, OP Pohjola survey finds
According to OP Pohjola’s Yrityspulssi (Business Pulse) survey, only 22% of Finnish companies prioritise business growth over internal efficiency in their use of AI. In one in three companies, AI investment is driven by caution…
More than a home for cat pictures: data centres are the infrastructure of the future
Since Google’s investment decision, data centres have become one of the most talked-about topics in Finland. Yet few people know what actually goes on inside them. Data centres are not mere warehouses for cat pictures…
Finland and Norway lead 22-nation call for global AI oversight body, as US and China stay out
A declaration signed by 22 countries calls for AI to remain under “human direction, oversight and control” and floats a new international body modelled on the nuclear watchdog IAEA — adopted days before a Washington…
Finnish companies are buying AI, not building it
Finland offers extensive R&D support, yet too few companies use it to turn AI adoption into sustained innovation and business value.