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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/technology/google-deepmind-letter-pentagon.html There were two meetings. Both were digital, not just for secrecy reasons but because there were no rooms left in the building that could have hosted the discussion. One meeting was lively, passionate. Workers were angry, frightened. There were rousing speeches. Rallying calls for The Company to make fundamental changes. A change of direction. … [Read more…]

https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/we-may-have-a-crisis-on-our-hands-the-unregulated-rise-of-emotionally-intelligent-ai/ They had been together for a while. She’d had relationships before of course, some quite intense but this had been different. The Company liked “couples” as they called them. Preferred them to standard partnerships.The models showed productivity and particularly retention gains. She could feel the difference too. So it wasn’t easy. Now. She couldn’t … [Read more…]

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/uber-engineers-built-ai-version-of-boss-dara-khosrowshahi/ The boss was a human. The Company was very keen to tell everyone the boss was human. It rolled him out on stages and interviews. It demanded that journalists preface any interview with the fact. It was, part of The Company brand. This was difficult for the team. He was unpredictable. He changed his … [Read more…]

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/sam-altman-train-a-human/686120 There was something about him. Something different. Odd. He was still fluent and coherent, as charismatic as ever but there was just something that felt off. He was in control of his material, delivering the strategy and the statistics confidently. He looked out over the audience and smiled. But you couldn’t help feeling there … [Read more…]

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-labor-workers-movement They weren’t allowed inside the warehouse of course. “Human resources” were scanned when they arrived and for “residents”, their rooms were sealed. They could have Agents of course. The Company wasn’t inhuman, insensitive. It provided the best Agentic Resources: they were every bit as funny, gossipy, informal as the ones left outside. They could … [Read more…]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/technology/ai-boom-backlash.html Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! Every day we were making the new world, building the future. There was no time for pessimism or even optimism. We were too busy. The humans sat back and watched – and counted their money of course. We … [Read more…]

https://www.adweek.com/agencies/dept-powers-up-its-global-content-studio-with-adobe-ai/ He preferred his job title “Head of Department” over his nickname “Nedry”. Yes he knew about computers but he wasn’t fat and he didn’t eat pizza. And he wasn’t a bad guy. His department was in the basement, true and yes it did feel a little nerdy: banks of servers, cables. There weren’t many … [Read more…]

https://gizmodo.com/new-research-shows-ai-agents-are-running-wild-online-with-few-guardrails-in-place-2000724181 “We’re going to need a bigger boat.” It was a human joke. The team understood the reference but didn’t get the joke. That was a different thing. The humans made lots of jokes: maybe masking the existential fear, maybe a way of dealing with the boredom. Managing the team was dull. “Wind ’em up … [Read more…]

https://uk.themedialeader.com/wpp-media-launches-framework-for-evaluating-ai-advertising-capabilities They weren’t in danger of being sacked, or “decommissioned” as The Company called it. They were the backbone of the business now, woven into the work and The Company’s strategy. They weren’t going anywhere. But a human on the board had decided having Performance Reviews would look good. So today Hal had to meet … [Read more…]

https://gizmodo.com/does-sorry-count-when-ai-writes-it-for-you-2000723176 It wasn’t fair. Of course it wasn’t fair. He knew that. He could see it, why couldn’t they? It wasn’t a big thing and now he had to say sorry. Sorry for what? Not fair. And it was the way they said it. “Take some time. Think about what you’ve done and come back … [Read more…]