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Frontier AI Is Faceplanting at Real-World Workplace Tasks
2+ hour, 42+ min ago (558+ words) Published Jul 21, 2026 4:33 PM EDT To date, AI industry spending has topped $1.6 trillion, and shows no sign of slowing anytime soon. So what do we actually have to show for it? Historically, it’s been a whole lot of nothing: as numerous…...
Furious Users Are Fed Up of Getting Stuck Talking to AI Customer Service Agents, Resort to Screaming "Human"
3+ week, 5+ day ago (449+ words) Published Jun 25, 2026 1:47 PM EDT There’s something grating about finding out that the customer service representative on the other end of the line is an AI agent, not an actual human. If it hasn’t happened to you, it’s certainly happened to…...
CEO Says There Will Be No Raises Because He Spent All the Money on AI
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (454+ words) Published Jun 5, 2026 1:52 PM EDT For years, tech CEOs have used AI as an excuse to justify layoffs. In reality, though, many experts say that what’s really happening is that execs are diverting financial resources into AI at the expense of…...
CEOs Change Tune, Saying Lazy Workers Are Using AI to Waste Money Automating Tasks They Don't Enjoy
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (439+ words) Published May 29, 2026 9:04 AM EDT Companies that fell head over heels for AI are experiencing a rude awakening. Costs to access powerful AI tools are soaring, forcing company leaders to ask some difficult questions. As Axios reports, the early warning signs…...
Programmer Breaks Out of the Matrix
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (545+ words) Published May 16, 2026 7:30 AM EDT Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: a programmer realizes he’s living in an invisible cage, mediated by algorithms that keep him going through the dull motions of life — and he’ll stop at nothing to…...
Large Study Finds That Replacing Workers With AI Is Backfiring Badly
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (306+ words) Published May 12, 2026 4:32 PM EDT As AI continues to weave its way into every corner of daily life, one of the public’s chief fears is what it will mean in the workplace. They’re not irrational to worry. Many name-brand big tech…...
AI Is Giving Your Boss Tools to Be More Monstrous Than Ever Before
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (397+ words) Published May 12, 2026 9:06 AM EDT The debate raging about AI’s future consequences, with a complete AI automation apocalypse on one side and a resplendent AI utopia on the other, has overlooked one tiny detail: the tech is already making workers’ lives…...
Bosses Are Blowing More Money on AI Agents Than It'd Cost Them to Just Pay Human Workers
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (286+ words) Published Apr 27, 2026 4:14 PM EDT Mindlessly unleashing AI agents to take over employees’ jobs can be pretty costly, it turns out. Some companies are learning the hard way that paying for the incredible volume of AI agent requests is costing more…...
You’ll Snort-Laugh When You Learn How Much AI Actually Added to the US Economy Last Year
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (394+ words) Published Mar 23, 2026 3:37 PM EDT Scanning the headlines, it can be easy to get the impression that every investor, banker, and financial analyst is enamored with AI. Yet this simplified view obscures a more complicated story: the US economy isn’t where…...
Amateurs Using AI to “Vibe Code” Are Now Begging Real Programmers to Fix Their Botched Software
10+ mon, 5+ day ago (555+ words) Published Sep 16, 2025 2:49 PM EDT Welcome to the future, where the vibes are bad in almost every meaningful respect — but where you do, at the very least, get to “vibe code,” or use an AI model to write code and even…...