Botsitting is the hidden job AI created: 6.4 hours a week feeding it context, checking it and fixing its mistakes. Here is where those hours actually go.
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Will AI Replace Workers? What Employers Actually Did
Will AI replace workers? A New York Fed survey asked employers what they actually did with AI in 2026, and retraining ran far ahead of layoffs – with a catch.
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Where Are the AI Killer Apps? 30% More Apps, Only 3% More Downloads
Where are the AI killer apps? App Store apps grew about 30% last year while downloads grew 3%. Paul Ford explains why making got easy, but caring did not.
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Cookies Made From Plastic: Baker’s Yeast Now Eats Bottles
Cookies made from plastic are real: engineered baker’s yeast turns old bottles and corn stalks into protein. How it works, and why nobody has tasted one yet.
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Australia Wants to Let You Turn Off the Algorithm
Australia wants to let you turn off the algorithm on social media. The part still undecided is which way the switch starts – and that is the whole thing.
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AI Fusion Plasma Control: 200ms Early, and No Longer a Demo
AI fusion plasma control predicted a plasma tear 200 milliseconds early — and the bigger news is the part almost nobody reported. Here is the honest read.
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Living Transistors: MIT’s Bacteria Compute in 8 Hours
MIT built living transistors from bacteria that really compute — but each calculation takes eight hours. Here is what that slowness quietly reveals about life.
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WiFi Can Now Identify You — No Camera, No Phone Needed
Researchers showed ordinary WiFi can identify you with almost perfect accuracy — no camera, no phone in your pocket. Here is how it works, and what it misses.
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NASA Satellites Navigate Without GPS by Watching Space Junk
NASA’s Starling satellites learned to navigate without GPS by watching space junk and dead satellites. Then they improved the very map they were given.
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Mechanical Turk Is Closing. It Was Never a Machine.
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk closes September 30 after 21 years. It was named for a chess machine with a person hidden inside, and it worked exactly the same way.