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A San Francisco marketing agency copied the entire contents of a bestselling book, replaced its original artwork with AI-generated images, and launched a website that now outranks the official page in search results. Andy Baio writes on Waxy.org that the agency, Qontour, built the unauthorized platform for John Koenig’s “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” without …
Artificial intelligence is dividing the global labour market into two distinct groups, with companies that use AI to enhance human expertise pulling ahead of those that deploy it mainly to cut costs. That is the central finding of the PwC 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer, which analysed more than one billion job advertisements across 27 …
German companies are the most optimistic in the world about the financial returns of their artificial intelligence investments, but significant obstacles are slowing down real-world results. A press release from management consultancy Horváth reports that 75 percent of senior executives at large German companies expect AI investments to have a strongly positive effect on EBIT …
Roughly one in two U.S. adults now use AI chatbots, a sharp jump from just a third in the summer of 2024. Jeffrey Gottfried, William Bishop, Monica Anderson, Michelle Faverio, Eugenie Park and Colleen McClain write for Pew Research Center about a new survey of 5,119 adults. The data paints a picture of rapid adoption …
Author and entrepreneur Tim Ferriss is seeing dramatic drops in sales across his entire book catalog, and he writes for his personal blog that the rise of AI chatbots is the primary cause. His data, drawn from BookScan domestic print figures, shows a sharp acceleration in decline that closely tracks the mainstream adoption of large …
Brookings Institution researcher Molly Kinder predicts a prolonged and painful period of AI-driven disruption that will hit knowledge workers far harder than blue-collar employees. Casey Newton reports for Platformer in an interview with Kinder, who is leaving Brookings to launch a new organization focused on solving what she calls the problems of the “AI transition.” …
AI companies advertise ever-larger context windows for their language models, but a developer argues that the usable portion is far smaller than the marketed figures suggest. Garrit Franke writes in his blog Garrit’s Notes that effective model performance begins to degrade around 100,000 tokens, regardless of whether the advertised limit is 200,000, one million, or …
Opposition to data centers in the United States has reached a record level. In the first quarter of 2026, opponents blocked or delayed at least 75 projects worth approximately $130 billion, the highest figure recorded in a single quarter. Allan Smith reports for NBC News, citing a study by Data Center Watch, a project of …
White-collar workers spend an average of 6.4 hours per week managing AI tools rather than benefiting from them. Thibault Spirlet reports for Business Insider on a new study from Glean’s Work AI Institute, conducted with researchers from Notre Dame, Stanford, and UC Berkeley, which surveyed 6,000 full-time workers in the United States, the United Kingdom, …
A new survey by device management company Jamf finds that companies using artificial intelligence extensively are significantly more likely to experience security incidents tied to that use. The survey polled 687 IT professionals and highlights a growing gap between how fast organizations adopt AI and how well they can govern it. Nearly three quarters of …