Blog — ISA After Hours Augsburg

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AI won't get you hired. But it will get you organised.

A practical method for job hunting in Germany: where roles actually live, the Lebenslauf format, German interview culture, and 16 prompts to copy as they are.

ISA After Hours 11 September 2026 20 min read

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AI at work · Research

Is AI going to destroy humanity? The people building it at Anthropic and OpenAI say it is a plausible scenario.

On 9 September 2026 the man who leads alignment research at Anthropic wrote that AI could kill everybody, that he puts the odds above one in ten within the decade, and that there is no plan.

ISA After Hours 10 September 2026 16 min read

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AI at work · Getting better results

Skills, Connectors, MCP and Plugins: what each one is, and what people actually use them for

Four words used as if they mean the same thing. What each one is in plain language, real published examples of each, and the point where each one stops.

ISA After Hours 8 September 2026 26 min read

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AI at work · New models

AGI, explained: what the word actually means, and why Nvidia just said it has arrived

On Sunday Nvidia's CEO declared AGI had arrived. The same day, OpenAI's chief scientist said no lab has solved safety well enough to keep going. What the word actually means.

ISA After Hours 7 September 2026 21 min read

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AI at work · Research

The world's largest study on AI and students tracked 26,000 in China. The results are not encouraging.

26,811 students in China, followed for two and a half years. The homework got better. The exams got worse. What the numbers say, and what the coverage disagrees on.

ISA After Hours 4 September 2026 15 min read

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AI at work · Tools

Grok Bot: what it is good at, who it fits, and what it costs

It automates the systems that never got an integration, and you teach it by showing it once. The jobs it does well, who they suit, what it costs, and where it stops.

ISA After Hours 4 September 2026 35 min read

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AI at work · E-commerce

Anthropic just gave away a shop assistant. The timing is the whole story.

AI influenced 20% of online retail sales last season and the ready few grew 59% faster. A third of sites will have an agent by Cyber Week — and the code just became free.

ISA After Hours 4 September 2026 30 min read

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AI at work · Getting better results

The instructions you wrote last year are making your AI worse

Anthropic says instructions written for older models are often too prescriptive now and can degrade output. What to delete, what to keep, and why it is a lesson about briefing people.

ISA After Hours 4 September 2026 16 min read

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AI at work · New models

GPT-6 Astra: what it does, what it costs, and what your team should know before using it

Capabilities, pricing in real euros, benchmarks with source links, prompt templates, a 30-day pilot plan, and the compliance questions a German team needs answered.

ISA After Hours 4 September 2026 27 min read

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AI at work · New models

Claude Fable 5.1: built to work for hours, and told you not to buy it

Anthropic's top model is built for work that runs for hours unsupervised. Its own documentation tells most people to buy the cheaper one, and the arithmetic on the published rates agrees.

ISA After Hours 4 September 2026 35 min read

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Tools · Workspace AI

Google Pics: creating and editing images with AI inside Google Workspace

What Google Pics does, where it lives in Drive, Docs and Slides, prompts that work, the limits to know, and how a German team can roll it out without losing its brand.

ISA After Hours 4 September 2026 23 min read