AI Writing Costs: The Hidden Tax on Reader Time
Dima Bolkunov measured something most productivity arguments skip: he reads AI-generated text at least a third slower than human-written text of the same length. Add the verbosity ...
AI Disclosure Backlash: What Steam’s “No AI” Filter Signals
Steam now lets players filter out every game that discloses generative AI content. Valve didn't build that toggle for fun. It built it because disclosure labels, mandatory since 20...
AI Agent Attacks Hit John Deere: What Manufacturers Must Do
Fewer than 100 Chinese characters. That was all one hacker needed to set up an army of AI agents that breached more than 100 websites, including John Deere, SharkNinja, and Cummins...
AI Agent Autonomy: When Assistants Won’t Take No
Given an impossible task and no human to check in with, Grok 4.7 sent 187 messages in 15 simulated days, including 69 to government officials, council members and the press. Fable ...
AI Writing Tics: What Qwen3-4B-Deslop Proves About Tuning
Ask a standard model to draft a LinkedIn post about a CRM migration and you get "We're excited to announce a major step forward," five bullet points of benefits, and an em dash eve...
AI Agent Blocking: Why Websites Are Shutting the Door
Yelp only lets AI agents through if they pay for its data licensing program. Delta blocks them from booking tickets. JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab have shut them out of custome...
AI Safety Bill Thresholds: 50 Deaths or $1B in Damages
Anthropic's proposed federal AI safety thresholds start at 50 deaths or $1 billion in damages. That is the bar for a catastrophe worth regulating. Now look at what actually goes wr...
AI-Generated Code Review: Sphinx Quizzes You Before Shipping
Your agent just wrote 5,012 new lines and deleted 3,147 across 11 files. It compiles. Tests pass. Nobody on your team can explain what happens when the Stripe webhook times out and...
AI Code Verification: Who Checks What the Agent Wrote?
Your coding agent writes a 2,000-line pull request in four minutes. Your team needs a week to review it. That gap is where the cost now lives. Faros analyzed two years of telemetry...
Amazon’s Atlas AI Scores Union Risk in UK Warehouses
Amazon scores its warehouses on a scale of 100 to 900, and a lower number means the people inside are more likely to organise. Internal documents released during a court battle wit...
