Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks

After the AI industry encouraged companies to max out their AI budgets earlier this year, and some companies even built ...
Yahoo

New study shows how a four-day work week gets more done in less time

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of coworkers celebrates. The folks in the “Land Down Under” say nope. A new study conducted among 15 Australian companies ...
Reuters

Brazil's lower house approves Lula-backed proposal to cut work week

SAO PAULO, May 28 (Reuters) - Brazil's lower house approved late on Wednesday a constitutional amendment reducing the workweek, a measure that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hopes to use as a ...
Wired

I Spent a Week Recording Myself Doing Chores for Money. Who's the Robot Now?

I am no longer a mere human being. I am a conduit of reality, a medium of messages. I hold a knife in my hand and slice into an organic cucumber, hunching so the iPhone strapped to my forehead can ...
The Conversation

15 Australian companies switched to a four‑day work week. It went surprisingly well

In a 1930 essay, British economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that in 100 years time, technological advances would have displaced so much human labour that people would be working 15-hour weeks – ...
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These 5 little-known Excel features save me hours every week

The secret to mastering Excel isn't about knowing the most complex formulas—it's about choosing the quickest, most efficient tool for each task. Here are five features I use daily to cut down on ...
Forbes

OpenAI Just Proposed A 4-Day Work Week (What April’s AI News Means For You)

OpenAI proposes a 32-hour work week, while a two-person company is on track for $1.8B revenue, demonstrating AI's immense potential. Stanford data confirms widespread adoption, and new AI tools ...
Digital Trends

Microsoft Copilot can now do actual work inside your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files

Microsoft is rolling out a useful feature for Office users this week. The company has introduced Agent Mode inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, a more powerful version of the Copilot experience that ...
The New York Times

That Meeting You Hate May Keep A.I. From Stealing Your Job

As artificial intelligence makes many tasks easier, the human work of cajoling, arm-twisting and reassuring appears to be rising in importance. Richard BorgeCredit... Supported by By Noam Scheiber Dan ...
WSFA

‘Work Zone Safety Act’ signed into law by Gov. Ivey during Work Zone Awareness Week

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Gov. Kay Ivey signed the Work Zone Safety Act into law Tuesday afternoon. The bill, now law, will launch a pilot program for an automatic speed enforcement system in ...
The Daily Signal

As House Returns Next Week, Giant Tasks Loom

When Republican leaders return to Washington, D.C., on Monday after a two-week recess, they will face a series of Herculean tasks in the House of Representatives: uniting their razor-thin majority ...