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The AI-Panic Cycle—And What’s Actually Different Now
The AI-Panic Cycle—And What’s Actually Different Now
Are we in another acceleration phase for AI?Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeSilicon Valley relies on hype cycles. But for the past few weeks, AI insiders have been spooked by advances coming from their tools. On this week’s Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel helps listeners calibrate thei
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WordPress Gets AI Assistant That Can Edit Text, Generate Images and Tweak Your Site - Slashdot
WordPress Gets AI Assistant That Can Edit Text, Generate Images and Tweak Your Site - Slashdot
WordPress has started rolling out an AI assistant built into its site editor and media library that can edit and translate text, generate and edit images through Google's Nano Banana model, and make structural changes to sites like creating new pages or swapping fonts. Users can also invoke the as...
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WordPress Gets AI Assistant That Can Edit Text, Generate Images and Tweak Your Site - Slashdot
New Study Tracks How Businesses Quietly Replaced Freelancers With AI Tools - Slashdot
New Study Tracks How Businesses Quietly Replaced Freelancers With AI Tools - Slashdot
A new study [PDF] from Ramp's economics lab has found that businesses are steadily replacing freelance workers hired through platforms like Upwork and Fiverr with AI tools from OpenAI and Anthropic, and the substitution is happening at a fraction of the cost. The paper, authored by Ryan Stevens, R...
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New Study Tracks How Businesses Quietly Replaced Freelancers With AI Tools - Slashdot
Microsoft Says Bug Causes Copilot To Summarize Confidential Emails - Slashdot
Microsoft Says Bug Causes Copilot To Summarize Confidential Emails - Slashdot
Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information. From a report: According to a service alert seen by BleepingCom...
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Microsoft Says Bug Causes Copilot To Summarize Confidential Emails - Slashdot
Andrew Yang Warns AI Will Displace Millions of White-Collar Workers Within 18 Months - Slashdot
Andrew Yang Warns AI Will Displace Millions of White-Collar Workers Within 18 Months - Slashdot
Andrew Yang, the former presidential candidate and longtime Universal Basic Income advocate, published a blog post this week warning that AI is about to displace millions of white-collar workers in the U.S. over the next 12 to 18 months, a wave he has taken to calling "the Fuckening." Yang cited a...
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Andrew Yang Warns AI Will Displace Millions of White-Collar Workers Within 18 Months - Slashdot
Ohio Newspaper Removes Writing From Reporters' Jobs, Hands It To an 'AI Rewrite Specialist' - Slashdot
Ohio Newspaper Removes Writing From Reporters' Jobs, Hands It To an 'AI Rewrite Specialist' - Slashdot
Cleveland.com, the digital arm of Ohio's Plain Dealer newspaper, has removed writing from the workloads of certain reporters and handed that job to what editor Chris Quinn calls an "AI rewrite specialist" who turns reporter-gathered material into article drafts. The reporters on these beats -- cov...
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Ohio Newspaper Removes Writing From Reporters' Jobs, Hands It To an 'AI Rewrite Specialist' - Slashdot
Google's AI Music Maker Is Coming To the Gemini App - Slashdot
Google's AI Music Maker Is Coming To the Gemini App - Slashdot
Google is bringing its Lyria 3 AI music model into the Gemini app, allowing users to generate 30-second songs from text, images, or video prompts directly within the chatbot. The Verge reports: Lyria 3's text-to-music capabilities allow Gemini app users to make songs by describing specific genres, ...
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Google's AI Music Maker Is Coming To the Gemini App - Slashdot
When AI Decides Your Care: The Governance Questions Every Stakeholder Should Be Asking — And Nobody Is
When AI Decides Your Care: The Governance Questions Every Stakeholder Should Be Asking — And Nobody Is
A investigation uncovered an AI tool used by a major insurer that denied more than 300,000 claims in two months. The denials were generated in minutes — faster than any human reviewer could read a single file. Most patients never appealed. They assumed the algorithm knew something their doctor did no
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When AI Decides Your Care: The Governance Questions Every Stakeholder Should Be Asking — And Nobody Is
Why your AI pilot will fail in production (and how to fix it)
Why your AI pilot will fail in production (and how to fix it)

While 91% of organizations plan to increase AI investment this year, the actual return on that capital is stalling.

According to Deloitte’s 2025 survey, only 6% of organizations see a return on investment in under a year. Even worse, new data from the Voice of the Enterprise reveals that 46% of AI projects are scrapped between proof-of-concept and broad adoption.

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Why your AI pilot will fail in production (and how to fix it)
Why AI Adoption Stalls, According to Industry Data
Why AI Adoption Stalls, According to Industry Data

About eight in ten employees had strong concern about at least one AI angst item. For example, 65% of people agreed that they “worry about being replaced by someone who knows how to use AI better than I do,” 61% worry “AI might make others think I don’t bring unique value,” 60% worry “that using AI to help with my work will make colleagues question my personal competency,” 54% feel AI is impacting the way they connect with others at work, and 44% feel it’s “making them dumber.” One in three employees had an average score of four or greater across the AI angst composite score.

Overall, we found that approximately 86% of people felt AI will make work at least a little better with 14% feeling AI will have a neutral or negative impact on the experience of work.

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Why AI Adoption Stalls, According to Industry Data
Where's The Evidence That AI Increases Productivity? - Slashdot
Where's The Evidence That AI Increases Productivity? - Slashdot
IT productivity researcher Erik Brynjolfsson writes in the Financial Times that he's finally found evidence AI is impacting America's economy. This week America's Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a 403,000 drop in 2025's payroll growth — while real GDP "remained robust, including a 3.7% g...
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Where's The Evidence That AI Increases Productivity? - Slashdot