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<p>Oh come on. </p><p>&quot;We are observing stealth crawling behavior from Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine. Although Perplexity initially crawls from their declared user agent, when they are presented with a network block, they appear to obscure their crawling identity in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferences.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity</span><span class="invisible">-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/</span></a></p><p>Via <a href="https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/114971052570561612" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="techhub.social/@Techmeme/114971052570561612"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techhub.social/@Techmeme/11497</span><span class="invisible">1052570561612</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a></p>

<p>All kinds of awful.</p><p>&quot;I am the lawyer for a multinational group active in the energy sector that intends to displace a small Amazonian indigenous community from their territories in order to build a dam and a hydroelectric plant.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://futurism.com/leaked-chatgpt-lawyer-displace-amazonian" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="futurism.com/leaked-chatgpt-lawyer-displace-amazonian"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurism.com/leaked-chatgpt-la</span><span class="invisible">wyer-displace-amazonian</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a></p>

<p>Anthropic, the creator of the Claude AI chatbot now faces &quot;hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months based on a class certification rushed at &quot;warp speed&quot; that involves &quot;up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history,&quot; each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine&quot;.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20</span><span class="invisible">25/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technolog/" rel="tag">#technolog</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/copyright/" rel="tag">#copyright</a></p>

<p>I&#x27;ve heard about some jobs pushing their workers into using AI, but now students? </p><p>&quot;The reach and pace of AI’s impact to society, including many dimensions of higher education, means that we at Purdue must lean in and lean forward and do so across different functions at the university.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/12/13/purdue-university-approves-new-ai-requirement-for-all-undergrads/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/12/13/purdue-university-approves-new-ai-requirement-for-all-undergrads/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltn</span><span class="invisible">ietzel/2025/12/13/purdue-university-approves-new-ai-requirement-for-all-undergrads/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>&quot;We’re learning a lot, I’m going to be honest with you.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/767421/taco-bell-ai-drive-thru-trolls-glitches" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theverge.com/news/767421/taco-bell-ai-drive-thru-trolls-glitches"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theverge.com/news/767421/t</span><span class="invisible">aco-bell-ai-drive-thru-trolls-glitches</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/tacobell/" rel="tag">#TacoBell</a></p>

<p>It&#x27;s working!</p><p>&quot;Large companies (defined as having more than 250 employees) have reduced their AI usage, according to the data. The slowdown started in June, when it was at roughly 13.5%, slipping to about 12% at the end of August. Most other lines, representing companies with fewer employees, are also at a decline, with some still increasing.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-adoption-rate-is-declining-among-large-companies-us-census-bureau-claims-fewer-businesses-are-using-ai-tools" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-adoption-rate-is-declining-among-large-companies-us-census-bureau-claims-fewer-businesses-are-using-ai-tools"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.tomshardware.com/tech-indu</span><span class="invisible">stry/artificial-intelligence/ai-adoption-rate-is-declining-among-large-companies-us-census-bureau-claims-fewer-businesses-are-using-ai-tools</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>&quot;Only ten percent [of over 5,000 US adults] said they were &quot;more excited than concerned,&quot; indicating that most Americans simply do not share the extremely optimistic views of tech leaders selling AI products.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://futurism.com/new-poll-americans-loathe-ai" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="futurism.com/new-poll-americans-loathe-ai"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurism.com/new-poll-american</span><span class="invisible">s-loathe-ai</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/survey/" rel="tag">#survey</a></p>

<p>Learning a new AI-related term: workslop.</p><p>&quot;The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work. In other words, it transfers the effort from creator to receiver.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-w</span><span class="invisible">orkslop-is-destroying-productivity</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/workslop/" rel="tag">#workslop</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/slop/" rel="tag">#slop</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/study/" rel="tag">#study</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> news picks of the day:</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>404mediaco</span></a></span> - Reader-supported investigative journalism on tech, privacy etc</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>arstechnica</span></a></span> - Tech news site since 1998</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@osnews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>osnews</span></a></span> - Computing &amp; tech news site since 1997</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@2600" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>2600</span></a></span> - Hacking magazine since 1984</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>heiseonline</span></a></span> - German-language tech news since 1996</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@verge" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>verge</span></a></span> - Tech news site in US</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>TechDesk</span></a></span> - Human-curated tech news on Fedi</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>TechCrunch</span></a></span> - US tech news site</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://tffp.masto.host/@podcast" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>podcast</span></a></span> - Tech news podcast from blind people&#x27;s perspective</p><p>🧵 1/8</p>

<p>Atlassian is sunsetting its Data Center products. For Confluence users, the question is no longer whether to migrate, but how.</p><p>Together with <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/@nextcloud" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nextcloud</span></a></span> ,we ran a webinar, “Break free from Confluence”, covering:<br>✔ Live migration demo<br>✔ Preserving hierarchies, macros &amp; permissions<br>✔ Migration strategies with minimal disruption</p><p>Recap 👉 <a href="https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/Webinar-overview-break-free-from-Confluence/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="xwiki.com/en/Blog/Webinar-overview-break-free-from-Confluence/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">xwiki.com/en/Blog/Webinar-over</span><span class="invisible">view-break-free-from-Confluence/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/xwiki/" rel="tag">#XWiki</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> <a href="/tags/digitalsovereignty/" rel="tag">#DigitalSovereignty</a> <a href="/tags/confluence/" rel="tag">#Confluence</a> <a href="/tags/datacenter/" rel="tag">#DataCenter</a> <a href="/tags/atlassian/" rel="tag">#Atlassian</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#Technews</a></p>

<p>🇦🇹 Austria&#x27;s Armed Forces have replaced MS Office with LibreOffice on 16,000+ workstations 📄</p><p>This shift began in 2020 to avoid mandatory cloud reliance ☁️<br>Their goal? Digital sovereignty—not cost saving 🔒<br>They even contributed 5+ person-years of code 🛠️<br>EU trend toward open-source grows 🇪🇺</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>libreoffice</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@itsfoss" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>itsfoss</span></a></span></p><p>🔗 <a href="https://news.itsfoss.com/austrian-forces-ditch-microsoft-office/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="news.itsfoss.com/austrian-forces-ditch-microsoft-office/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.itsfoss.com/austrian-forc</span><span class="invisible">es-ditch-microsoft-office/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/libreoffice/" rel="tag">#LibreOffice</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#Privacy</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a> <a href="/tags/security/" rel="tag">#Security</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#Europe</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#EU</a> <a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#Microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/cloud/" rel="tag">#Cloud</a> <a href="/tags/digitalsovereignty/" rel="tag">#DigitalSovereignty</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/defense/" rel="tag">#Defense</a> <a href="/tags/innovation/" rel="tag">#Innovation</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a></p>

<p>Getting ever closer to living the dream!</p><p>&quot;Slackbot today is fairly rudimentary. But what we&#x27;ve done is we&#x27;ve actually rebuilt it from the ground up as a personalized AI companion.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/797890/slack-slackbot-ai-assistant-upgrade" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theverge.com/news/797890/slack-slackbot-ai-assistant-upgrade"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theverge.com/news/797890/s</span><span class="invisible">lack-slackbot-ai-assistant-upgrade</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/work/" rel="tag">#work</a></p>

<p>&quot;Research outfit Five Percent has published a new white paper analysing online content published between January 2020 and May 2025. The results indicate that material created with machine learning tools initially overtook human-written content late last year.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/ai-content-now-outnumbers-human-written-articles-on-the-internet-but-the-good-news-is-that-the-slop-seems-to-have-plateaued-for-now/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/ai-content-now-outnumbers-human-written-articles-on-the-internet-but-the-good-news-is-that-the-slop-seems-to-have-plateaued-for-now/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/ai</span><span class="invisible">-content-now-outnumbers-human-written-articles-on-the-internet-but-the-good-news-is-that-the-slop-seems-to-have-plateaued-for-now/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/slop/" rel="tag">#slop</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/deadinternet/" rel="tag">#DeadInternet</a> <a href="/tags/deadinternettheory/" rel="tag">#DeadInternetTheory</a></p>

<p>&gt; For example, Google reduced our headline “I used the ‘cheat on everything’ AI tool and it didn’t help me cheat on anything” to just five words: “‘Cheat on everything’ AI tool.” It almost sounds like we’re endorsing a product we do not recommend at all.</p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theverge.com/tech/896490/g</span><span class="invisible">oogle-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/google/" rel="tag">#google</a> <a href="/tags/search/" rel="tag">#search</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#enshittification</a></p>

<p>&quot;You are responsible for reviewing activity performed by your Agentic Commerce Agent and for promptly notifying the Agentic Commerce Agent and Target of any activity you believe is unauthorized or outside the scope of permissions you approved.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/target-ai-agent-tos" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/target-ai-agent-tos"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurism.com/artificial-intell</span><span class="invisible">igence/target-ai-agent-tos</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#enshittification</a></p>

<p>Dystopian.</p><p><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/01/1134863/humanoid-data-training-gig-economy-2026-breakthrough-technology/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/01/1134863/humanoid-data-training-gig-economy-2026-breakthrough-technology/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.technologyreview.com/2026/</span><span class="invisible">04/01/1134863/humanoid-data-training-gig-economy-2026-breakthrough-technology/</span></a></p><p>via <a href="https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/technology-shjum1jiz/-/a-C6tPZBTVTxqHxInIhLyDEw%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/technology-shjum1jiz/-/a-C6tPZBTVTxqHxInIhLyDEw%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/tec</span><span class="invisible">hnology-shjum1jiz/-/a-C6tPZBTVTxqHxInIhLyDEw%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/robots/" rel="tag">#robots</a> <a href="/tags/automation/" rel="tag">#automation</a></p>

<p>&quot;Sources tell Windows Central that internal teams are also beginning to push back against excessive integration, and the company may therefore reconsider its stance.</p><p>At the very least, Microsoft may dial back Copilot features or remove the chatbot’s branding from apps like Notepad and Paint to make the experience feel more conventional, the report says.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-reportedly-plans-to-dial-back-copilot-across-windows-11-apps" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-reportedly-plans-to-dial-back-copilot-across-windows-11-apps"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-r</span><span class="invisible">eportedly-plans-to-dial-back-copilot-across-windows-11-apps</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#microsoft</a></p>

<p>&quot;It’s one thing when a taxi is replaced by an Uber or a Lyft. It’s another thing when the jobs just go completely overseas.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurism.com/advanced-transpor</span><span class="invisible">t/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/waymo/" rel="tag">#waymo</a> <a href="/tags/automation/" rel="tag">#automation</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a></p>

<p>Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl at today&#x27;s hearing over social media’s alleged harms to children:</p><p>&quot;If your glasses are recording, you must take them off. It is the order of this court that there must be no facial recognition of the jury. If you have done that, you must delete it. This is very serious.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-02-18/mark-zuckerberg-tesimony-la-social-media-trial" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-02-18/mark-zuckerberg-tesimony-la-social-media-trial"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.latimes.com/california/sto</span><span class="invisible">ry/2026-02-18/mark-zuckerberg-tesimony-la-social-media-trial</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/usnews/" rel="tag">#USNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#meta</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/metaglasses/" rel="tag">#MetaGlasses</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>&quot;Many people did not want this in their neighborhood. We don&#x27;t want these kinds of centers that&#x27;s going to take resources from the community.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://patch.com/new-jersey/newbrunswick/new-brunswick-city-council-kills-proposal-build-ai-data-center-100-jersey" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="patch.com/new-jersey/newbrunswick/new-brunswick-city-council-kills-proposal-build-ai-data-center-100-jersey"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">patch.com/new-jersey/newbrunsw</span><span class="invisible">ick/new-brunswick-city-council-kills-proposal-build-ai-data-center-100-jersey</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/usnews/" rel="tag">#USNews</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/newjersey/" rel="tag">#NewJersey</a> <a href="/tags/nj/" rel="tag">#NJ</a> <a href="/tags/datacenter/" rel="tag">#DataCenter</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>&quot;At Microsoft, managers are including questions about AI use in performance discussions. Employees are supposed to quantify how they are using AI tools in their workflows.&quot;</p><p>Solidarity with all workers affected by this ✊ </p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/tech-firms-aren-t-just-encouraging-their-workers-to-use-ai-they-re-enforcing-it/ar-AA1X0lge" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/tech-firms-aren-t-just-encouraging-their-workers-to-use-ai-they-re-enforcing-it/ar-AA1X0lge"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/</span><span class="invisible">tech-firms-aren-t-just-encouraging-their-workers-to-use-ai-they-re-enforcing-it/ar-AA1X0lge</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/workslop/" rel="tag">#workslop</a></p>

<p>&quot;According to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, some of his underlings have created an AI clone of him so they can prepare for meetings with him, ensuring everything is fine-tuned for his wants and needs.&quot;</p><p>Is the next step getting rid of CEOs altogether?</p><p><a href="https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/uber-employees-ai-ceo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/uber-employees-ai-ceo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurism.com/artificial-intell</span><span class="invisible">igence/uber-employees-ai-ceo</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/ceos/" rel="tag">#CEOs</a></p>

<p>&quot;A grassroots boycott called QuitGPT has been spreading across the US and beyond, asking people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions. More than a million people have answered the call.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/04/quit-chatgpt-subscription-boycott-silicon-valley" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/04/quit-chatgpt-subscription-boycott-silicon-valley"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/commentisf</span><span class="invisible">ree/2026/mar/04/quit-chatgpt-subscription-boycott-silicon-valley</span></a></p><p>&quot;We&#x27;re organizing Americans and people around the world to quit ChatGPT.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://quitgpt.org/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>quitgpt.org/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/quitgpt/" rel="tag">#QuitGPT</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/usnews/" rel="tag">#USNews</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/openai/" rel="tag">#OpenAI</a> <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a></p>

<p>&quot;These multinationals are coming to rule and dominate here. It’s a very unfortunate supply chain, and my call today as data labelers is to build up on this—as we are fighting for labor rights, we are also fighting for the environment […] we are fighting big companies.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.404media.co/ai-is-african-</span><span class="invisible">intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#BigTech</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a></p>