#productivity

Amazon has reportedly shut down an internal AI ranking dashboard after workers inflated their standing with low-value AI activity that raised cloud costs instead of productivity.

Daron Acemoglu argues that the evidence still does not support sweeping claims of an AI-driven jobs apocalypse, even as he watches agentic systems, workplace restructuring, and the direction of automation more closely.

Amazon employees are reportedly using internal AI tools to inflate token usage, exposing the perverse incentives that can appear when companies measure adoption before value.

A new MIT Technology Review analysis argues that the biggest unanswered question in AI is not capability, but the missing step between impressive systems and consistent economic value in the workplace.

ZDNET highlights six settings it changes on every new Mac, framing small interface and gesture adjustments as a way to make Apple’s desktop platform work more efficiently from day one.

Google is launching Skills in Chrome, a feature that lets users save and rerun AI prompts as one-click workflows across the web through Gemini in Chrome, with a built-in library of ready-made options.

Amazon employees say AI tools are adding to their workload, and a new study confirms the pattern is widespread across industries adopting AI productivity tools.

While most document scanning apps push cloud subscriptions and harvest user data, FairScan takes a radically different approach. The free, open-source Android app does one thing well: turning your phone camera into a clean document scanner with zero strings attached.