The Biggest AI Mistakes Companies Make

The Biggest AI Mistakes Companies Make

AI Is Slowing Down

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Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration

AI is supposed to save workers time. Instead, some employees report spending hours every week cleaning up after it. A new report from Glean's Work AI Institute, produced with researchers from universities including Notre Dame, Stanford, and UC Berkeley, found that white-collar workers spend an average of 6.4 hours a week "botsitting" AI — feeding it context, checking outputs, debugging mistakes, and cleaning up errors.

How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO)

Three weeks ago, I tested something that completely changed how I think about organic traffic. I opened ChatGPT and asked a simple question: "What's the best course on building SaaS with WordPress?" The answer that appeared stopped me cold.

A golden age of maths is dawning and mathematicians are freaking out

I am attempting to solve a mathematical conundrum that has stumped many of humanity’s greatest thinkers. I have zero mathematical training, apart from a distant undergraduate physics degree, which should put my odds of success at slim to none. But I also have a trick up my sleeve – a kind of mathematical genie that can conjure arcane secrets seemingly out of thin air.

'Ma'am, aap hi samjha do': Why teachers aren't worried about AI taking over classrooms yet

Walk into almost any school staffroom today and you will find two worlds sitting side by side. In one corner are the familiar symbols of teaching that have barely changed in decades: stacks of notebooks waiting to be checked, lesson plans being prepared, and teachers discussing the daily challenge of keeping students engaged. In the other corner are laptop screens glowing with AI-powered tools capable of generating worksheets, writing assessments, solving equations and answering questions in...

$5 billion-plus company GitLab cuts hundreds of jobs, exits 22 countries; CEO blames it on AI

GitLab is laying off around 350 employees, roughly 14% of its workforce, and pulling out of 22 countries—a restructuring CEO Bill Staples is pinning on what he calls the "agentic era" of software development. The DevSecOps company announced the cuts on Tuesday alongside a first quarter that beat Wall Street, with revenue up 23% to $264.2 million and adjusted earnings two cents above estimates. Shares climbed 7% after hours to $34.05, pushing market cap past $5 billion.

America Has a Pangram Problem

Basically every recent, high-profile accusation of someone passing off AI-generated writing as their own has started in the same way: with a tool called Pangram. In March, when a horror novel from a major publishing house was pulled just days before its scheduled U.S. release date, it was in part because Pangram, an AI-detection program, had identified the text as AI-generated. Other people have fed text into Pangram to suggest that chatbots have been used to write articles in major...

Here's why universal basic income would be a disaster for America’s future

Every generation faces a new technological revolution. Today it's artificial intelligence. Just 40 years ago it was the internet.

Has Microsoft Lost Its Mojo (Again)?

This week, Satya Nadella kicked off Microsoft’s annual Build developer’s conference with typical boasts about new products and a sunny view of AI. The focus of his speech was how Microsoft was going gaga for agentic AI. But there was a cloud over the gathering at San Francisco’s Fort Mason, and I’m not talking about Azure.