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By the time you hear or watch this, the workers at Swedish game developer King, owned by US giant Microsoft, might have gone out on strike.

The dispute centres on the company's refusal to sign a collective bargaining agreement in which unions and employers jointly negotiate pay and other employment terms.

The strike threat, this time from the Engineers of Sweden union, is the latest salvo from unions against Sweden's many tech companies, some of which have long been resistant to deals with unions which they say don't give them the flexibility they need.

Richard, why does the union say a collective bargaining agreement is needed? After all, surely workers at King already have pretty decent pay and conditions.

I think they do, actually.

I spoke to Camilla Frankilius, the union's negotiations chief, and she said it wasn't so much about pay as about them wanting to have a say in how the company is run.

So in Sweden, there's this thing called, which is quite hard to say, I'm going to try and say it now, the medbestemmande lagen.

Or MBL, which means, I mean, MED means with, bestemmander means deciding, and login means law.

And then the second one is called yoodly.ai. And you kind of put in what role you want and it sort of interviews you as if you were going for that role.

Tobii's has quite a lot of flexibility because you can kind of design the situation and scenario.

But it might, I think it's probably just worth practicing and then getting some feedback.

Otherwise, the first time you're getting feedback is quite a high, I also like

So really democratizing access to these voice technologies.

And then simultaneously working with various AAC vendors like your Tobii Dynabox, your Smartbox, those folks to really improve the support for AI models in those AAC softwares.

And then also looking, what is the future of AAC? What opportunities do we have? Prior to all of my focus on shift left at Microsoft, I was running our AI for accessibility grant program, which was basically I got to spend Microsoft's money on or invest Microsoft's money in advancing technology for people with disabilities globally.

And I did a couple of targeted investments into the AAC space.

But I did get it back up and running and decided – While I'm at it, I'm going to get off of Windows Home and go to Pro, which I did so I could do local accounts.

And everything did fine except for the Tobii eye tracker decided it just did not want to load.

And I said, hmm, I'm going to talk to Claude.

And Claude and I spent probably about five and a half hours talking.

And we finally got it to work.

I was successful with Claude getting it to work.

Can I ask you what it was? Because I'm having trouble with my Tobii eye tracker.

It's not working.

Gaze control has always felt like a luxury feature.

The good hardware, such as Tobii bars, dedicated IR trackers, costs more than the games you'd play with it, and every tutorial seems to assume you already own one.

So I ask the obvious question, how far can I get with the webcam that's already sitting on top of my monitor? The answer, it turns out, is surprisingly far.

Far enough to look around a 3D scene by moving my eyes.