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“Anyone who can afford to leave is hoping to be laid off and receive the 16 weeks minimum of severance and 18 months of paid health care that come with it, several people say. As the Instagram employee put it, ‘Everyone is just like, do it now, jesus fucking christ.’”

Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale | WIRED wired.com

“Developers talk not just about how the AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience … More concerning, developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling the…

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains 404media.co

“All of France’s central government agencies have to come up with plans to move away from US tech—across office software, antivirus, AI, databases, and more—by this fall. On April 23, French officials also announced the country will move its health data platform away from Micr…

The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech | WIRED wired.com

doesn’t he know he’s not supposed to admit ai spending isn’t paying off? jensen huang is not going to be happy

Uber president says AI spending is getting ‘harder to justify’ | The Verge theverge.com

ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris. With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further de…

Google is its own worst enemy disconnect.blog

looks like another consequence of carney’s cuts

cbc.ca

Reading this report about one in seven Brits swapping their doctors for chatbots sets off alarm bells, especially coming after the report from the Auditor General in Ontario about all the mistakes chatbots make in medical settings

theregister.com

part of the reason lord of the rings is as good as it is is because jackson had to deal with a more limited budget and cg wasn’t advanced enough to go all in with it. you can basically guarantee that if he was making them today they’d be more like the hobbit and not nearly as …

variety.com

are other provincial governments getting caught with ai-generated citations in reports and ai-generated marketing as the government of NL? would love to hear from people in other provinces

cbc.ca

❌ 45% AI Scribe systems fabricated information and made suggestions to patients’ treatment plans ❌ 60% of the systems captured a different drug than what was prescribed by the doctor ❌ 85% of systems missed key details about the patients’ mental health issues globalnews.ca/new…

globalnews.ca

unfortunately its integration of generative ai is sort of working against its stated mission

ketanjoshi.co

first the pope comes out as an ai-critical luddite, now he’s literally quoting gandalf in the anti-ai encyclical? these popes are almost making catholicism look cool

now that google is being sacrificed to the ai demons, is it time for the encyclopedia to make a comeback? 👀

ai overviews wrong again. the fifth season is airing now; the sixth and final season is expected in 2027