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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...
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...
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...
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, ...
Workers Are Afraid AI Will Take Their Jobs. They’re Missing the Bigger Danger. - WSJ
It isn’t whether artificial intelligence is going to replace them. It’s who will control the knowledge that companies capture from their employees.
AI Prompting Made Simple – #TSAE AI Conference – Another Think Coming
Welcome to my resources for the AI Prompting Made Simple session. This session was created for the TSAE AI Conference, but anyone can access the session resources. What’s more, you will find …
How AI helps this civil rights lawyer beat the Feds
Joseph McMullen uses AI to sort through terabytes of evidence, freeing him to focus on what the machines can’t find: the human story
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
The True Price of Every ChatGPT Prompt | Earth Day
AI tools like ChatGPT rely on energy — and water-hungry data centers. As prompts soar, emissions rise, raising urgent questions about sustainable AI growth now.
There's a New Term for Workers Freaking Out Over Being Replaced by AI
No one's mental health improves when they are told constantly that they are about to lose their job.There isn’t a ton of evidence to suggest that the introduction of AI has led to significant job losses, yet. But it has led to a significant amount of …
'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School
Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that sometimes do "more harm than good."
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.
Claude just upgraded its AI — and it can now process entire projects at once
Sonnet 4.6 closes the gap between mid-tier and flagship AI models. Tasks that previously required an Opus-class model can now run on Sonnet — at a fraction of the cost.
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.
The Jevons Paradox for Intelligence
Fears of AI-induced job loss could not be more wrong
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...
Before You Buy AI for Your Campus, Read This
Does your institution need to buy AI?
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
An eight-month study found that these tools made productivity surge—as well as cognitive fatigue, unsustainable hours, and other problems.
ChatGPT gets Lockdown Mode and risk warnings for safer use: What they do
Written By Shubham AroraOpenAI has added two new security features to OpenAI’s ChatGPT platform – Lockdown Mode and “Elevated Risk” labels. The update focuses on reducing the chances of prompt …
The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation
In this 2025 edition of the annual McKinsey Global Survey on AI, we look at the current trends that are driving real value from artificial intelligence.
Cognitive Offloading: Using AI Reduces New Skill Formation | Psychology Today
Is cognitive offloading harmless or does it have negative effects for cognition? A new study offers interesting insights.
Google Docs can turn long documents into audio summaries in latest Workspace update | TechSpot
The new feature will roll out across Google Workspace over the next two weeks. It will appear under Tools Audio Listen to document summary, where...
Vera Cubero Guest Post: These Students Aren't Waiting for the Future — They're Building It
Inside the First NC AI Solve-A-Thon, Where North Carolina Students Tackled Real Problems with Real Solutions
Your AI Conversations Are Not Privileged: What a New SDNY Ruling Means for Every Lawyer and Client
A federal judge just confirmed what many suspected, but few wanted to hear: conversations with AI tools are not protected by attorney-client privilege. On Febru
GPT-5 bests human judges in legal smack down
ai-pocalypse: But that doesn't mean AI is ready to dispense justice
We're Not All Having the Same AI Experience
What Cowork and Moltbook reveal about where we’re actually headed
ByteDance's Seedance 2 Criticized Over AI-Generated Video of Tom Cruise Fighting Brad Pitt - Slashdot
1.5 million people have now viewed a slick 15-second video imagining Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt that was generated by ByteDance's new AI video generation tool Seedance 2.0.
But while ByteDance gushes their tool "delivers cinematic output aligned with industry standards," the cinema industry isn...
Something Big Is Happening — matt shumer
A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.
Oblivious to what's coming
If you talk to people about LLM's like ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Claude, you'll still hear things like, 'They hallucinate and will make up fake research', and something I heard recently, 'they actually make work harder because workers need to spend more time editing and cleaning up what they produce'. What people who say this don't realize is that this is [...]