The Career Edge No Algorithm Can Take Away
The story we've been telling ourselves about AI and work is unraveling. For the past few years, the narrative seemed clear: AI automates tasks, jobs disappear, companies pocket the savings.
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When AI Giants Meet Labor Organizing at Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind's unionization effort hit turbulence this week, marking a pivotal moment in how AI workers negotiate their role in shaping the technology reshaping everyone else's work. During Wednesday negotiations, employees voiced frustrations with what they consider an unwillingness among executives to engage meaningfully with the prospect of unionization.
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Why Humans Still Win When AI Gets Unpredictable
Something curious is happening at the World Cup. AI systems designed to predict match outcomes are struggling to keep up with this year's tournament—and that's actually revealing something important about where humans maintain their edge.
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Why AI Models All Pick the Number 7
Large language models have a groupthink problem—and it's revealing something fundamental about how AI systems shape outcomes. Open your preferred chatbot and ask for a random number between 1 and 10.
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AI Agents Win Trust on Reports, Not Service Mesh
When MIT Technology Review and Microsoft surveyed practitioners about their confidence in AI agents across 101 different tasks, they discovered something telling: the confidence gap is massive. Report generation sits at the top of the index—the task where professionals trust AI agents most.
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