Who's using AI in the workplace?
Pew has a new report out where they talked to workers in the US and asked them how they were using AI at work. The data is really interesting in a few places, so I wanted to share the most notable insights in my view.
First off, only 16% of workers are using AI chatbots
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We do this same thing with AI bots and human blogs
Giles Thomas writing on his personal blog, which he’s been writing since 2006: It's Still Worth Blogging in the Age of AI
If you want to blog to make a name for yourself, then you're going to have a hard time. Here's an example: if you're
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Perplexity is making a web browser
Kyle Wiggers writing for TechCrunch: Perplexity Teases a Web Browser Called Comet
“Just like Perplexity reinvented search, we’re also reinventing the browser,” a Perplexity spokesperson told TechCrunch via email. “Stay tuned for updates.”
Exactly one month ago I wrote “I think OpenAI’s next app is a web browser”, and today perplexity announced they
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Steam Deck sales numbers are in, and they’re not as spectacular as I’d hope (but I do still have hope)
Sean Hollister writing for The Verge: Three Years Later, the Steam Deck Has Dominated Handheld PC Gaming Shipments
Add it up, and that’s just under 6 million shipments in three years. One way to view that: it’s small and it’s not really growing. IDC’s forecasting under 2 million shipments in 2025,
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Worst headline of 2025 contender just dropped
Victor Tangermann writing for Yahoo Finance with the very enticing headline: Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value
During an appearance on podcaster Dwarkesh Patel's show this week, Nadella offered a reality check.
"Us self-claiming some [artificial general intelligence] milestone, that's just nonsensical benchmark hacking to
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When friends act like enemies
Bert Hubert writing on his blog (normally in Dutch, but this one’s in English): It Is No Longer Safe to Move Our Governments and Societies to US Clouds
Written down like this, it seems pretty bizarre, and that’s because it is. It’s also not easy to realize that our relationship with America
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Claude finally gets its “thinking” update
Anthropic released Claude 3.7 yesterday, and as a bit of a Claude stan myself, it’s fair to say I was excited to see it. The last few months have seen meaningful updates to GPT and Gemini, and in an industry moving at this rate, Anthropic felt like they were falling a bit behind.
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🕹️ I casually recommend Steamworld Heist 2 (members post)
This game is definitely fun, and I enjoyed my time with it, but it didn't blow me away.
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“Trust me”
I’m not trying to send any hate at a random MacRumors forum commentor who I don’t know, so please take this more as me explaining why there’s more skepticism about the Vision Pro than other gen-1 Apple products. From the post:
BTW, I also had the first iPhone, and it was
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Your brain doesn’t want you to work out
Dean Burnett writing for Science Focus: Your Brain Is Hard-Wired to Avoid Exercise. Here's Why
So why, even though we’ve evolved to do it, doesn't everyone enjoy exercise? The baffling complexity of the human brain is to blame. Evolving an ability doesn’t automatically mean we’ll want to
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Superhuman’s next big update looks very compelling
On the Superhuman blog: The Next Evolution of Superhuman AI 💖
Custom Auto Labels. Our built-in Auto Labels are great, but what's even better is making your own. Just write a prompt, like “job applications” or “requests for me to review work”. You can now immediately see when people apply for a job,
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400 million people use OpenAI/ChatGPT every week
Kate Rooney for CNBC: OpenAI Tops 400 Million Users Despite DeepSeek’s Emergence
The San Francisco-based tech company had 400 million weekly active users as of February, up 33% from 300 million in December, the company’s chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, told CNBC.
I don’t mean to keep bringing this up, but
On the new iPhone 16e
Today Apple unveiled the iPhone 16e, which they're calling a part of the iPhone 16 lineup now, rather
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Trump’s latest executive order plainly states no one has authority over him
The White House: Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies
Sec. 7. Rules of Conduct Guiding Federal Employees’ Interpretation of the Law. The President and the Attorney General, subject to the President’s supervision and control, shall provide authoritative interpretations of law for the executive branch. The President and the Attorney General’s opinions on questions of
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The worst product Marques Brownlee ever reviewed dies after 10 months
Jay Peters for The Verge: HP Is Buying Humane and Shutting Down the AI Pin
Humane is selling “key AI capabilities” to HP for $116 million and will stop selling AI Pin, the company announced today.
AI Pins that have already been purchased will continue to function normally until 3PM ET on February 28th, Humane
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Another study on LLM energy use
This study was linked to by The Verge today, and as someone who keeps looking at the energy costs of AI wondering why he’s missing something, one of the opening lines in the study’s executive summary really caught my eye:
Electricity consumption from data centres, artificial intelligence (AI) and the cryptocurrency sector could
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Are these 2025’s new iPhones?
9to5Mac has links to two mock ups claiming to represent the iPhone 17 Air and iPhone 17 Pro coming this fall. If I could be so bold, I’d say the 17 Air looks potentially reasonable, but the 17 pro render looks absolutely atrocious. I think there’s a very real chance that the renders
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This menu needs to die
M.G. Siegler: The Great AI UI Unification
And depending on which model you choose to use, you get other
