Well, this isn’t good:
The headlines made it seem like the AI was uncontrollable, but the facts were much simpler and boring than that. This was a case of good old-fashioned lack of governance.
The PocketOS incident is not evidence that AI agents are too dangerous to deploy or that they will eventually destroy the world. Deploying agentic AI
I spent a good part of last week at the ILTA Evolve conference in Colorado, and I heard it mentioned a few times: the potential for very serious price increases.
I wrote last week that the current pricing models are not sustainable. The link from Ed Zitron provides the deep analysis that led him
Just some of the raw data from this article caught me by surprise. These are results from UK workers:
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I’m starting to see and hear more people talk about this. The current pricing for AI tools makes no sense.
Microsoft — like every AI company — swindled its customers by selling an unsustainable service, because it never, ever made sense to sell LLM-powered services on a monthly subscription.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/ais-economics-dont-make-sense/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter
I’m cherry-picking the Microsoft note, but the
I’ve been seeing a lot of this in the media lately:
For decades, US job growth was led by white-collar work. But over the past three years, that pattern has shifted: my analysis reveals that blue-collar employment has added roughly one million more jobs than white-collar roles, with manual work rising modestly as office-based
You would think this would be obvious, especially to businesses constantly lobbying for less regulation in the free market:
Economic theory—and common sense—suggests an easy solution for these employers: offer higher wages. But in many cases, companies aren’t biting. “There are people looking for work,” says Benjamin Friedrich, an associate professor of strategy at
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This might be the single best explanation for why development efforts fail in most organizations:
“The data shows that career development isn’t being blocked by a lack of intent from leadership. In fact, very few organizations say leadership doesn’t value it. The issue is that managers, employees, and talent teams are all stretched too thin