“Employers are navigating a flood of errors and low-quality work that are sapping employee time, raising privacy and security risks and pushing up costs. Now, some businesses that started off fast and furious on AI are pumping the brakes.”
Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back theguardian.com
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- Meta's Project OT, which would have cut some teams by up to 60% and routed their work through AI agents, was scrapped after internal results soured.
- At Meta, code changes rose 220% year over year, but shipped features only 36%, while technical and security incidents climbed 40%.
- Forrester's 2026 'Future of Work' report found 55% of employers regret laying off workers for AI-related reasons.
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“The Senate GOP campaign arm, in a private memo to top AI companies, warns that toxic views of U.S. data centers are killing the party's chances of holding a vital seat in Ohio.”
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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
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“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
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“We should be asking, how much computation do we really need? How many resources are actually justifiable to put into this project? What are we actually getting out of it?” Read my interview with @mollytaft.com in @wired.com about some of my big takeaways from HYPERSCALE!
What the US Movement Against Data Centers Can Learn From Abroad wired.com
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- In Wired, Paris Marx argues US data-center opponents should study Ireland, the Netherlands and Singapore before trusting grid-side moratoriums alone.
- Dublin's 2021 moratorium on new data-center grid connections pushed operators toward gas generators and dedicated gas-fired plants, Marx tells Wired.
- The piece cites Google's facilities in The Dalles, Oregon, using 29 percent of the city's water as a transparency case study.
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“Mainstream corporate America is pulling back and starting to view token spending not as a source of growth but as a cost center that weighs on margins.” Beyond the tech giants, other companies in the S&P500 haven’t seen a boost in profit margins or revenue per worker from gen…
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welcome to the dumb future where software malfunctioning is spun - by both tech cos and journalism - as some kind of evidence of sinister intent www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon theguardian.com
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anthropic is so good and oh so ethical … just ignore how it keeps working with the military and intelligence services
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“Almost every big pool of capital, from every corner of the developed world, has been tapped. In short, if you have invested savings, you are financing the AI build-out.” That means that when the bubble bursts, we’ll all feel the pain.
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honestly i welcome the data center lobby just openly saying climate goals needed to be trashed so the tech industry can build ai — intense heat waves, record forest fires, worsening natural disasters be damned
Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says politico.eu
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people have joked the AI CEOs don’t want you to own a computer because they’ve made them so expensive. but it’s still wild to hear sam altman just come out and say it. it’s pretty obvious why: he wants people to be stuck using chatgpt instead of running a smaller, more targete…
Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk theverge.com
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- He argued memory achieves 'maximum utilization in the cloud' and pushed back on the case for local AI inference on open-source models.
- The comments drew immediate pushback online, with critics noting data-center buildouts by firms like OpenAI are themselves straining memory supply.
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