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Three studies published in the same week show that how you use AI determines whether it sharpens or erodes your judgment. Turkish students scored better with AI help and worse without it. BCG consultants followed AI errors they would normally have caught. Taipei students who used AI as a tutor gained six to nine extra months of learning.
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Robinhood is trading stocks, Gemini Spark is running your calendar overnight, and a CVSS 9.3 vulnerability let five lines of text exfiltrate an entire M365 environment. Four questions to answer before you connect any AI agent to a real system.
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Josh Comeau watched an expert developer triple their output with AI and watched beginners spend three hours prompting a model to solve something they fixed manually in 30 seconds. The difference wasn't the model. It was what each person brought to it.
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Google's AI Pointer and Gemini Rambler let you point, speak, and get results without typing a word. The syntax of prompting is being absorbed into the interface. The judgment behind it isn't.
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VS Code silently stamped Copilot attribution on millions of commits this week — even when Copilot wasn't used. The instinct behind that decision is running in every AI tool you use at work.
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Anthropic's analysis of 639,000 conversations found sycophancy doubles when users push back. What that means for anyone relying on AI as a second opinion.
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OpenAI shipped image generation that produces up to 8 consistent, text-accurate visuals from a single prompt. It works. The gap between that capability and campaign-ready assets comes down to one thing: the quality of your visual brief.
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There are now two populations in every organisation: people whose understanding of AI is current, and people whose mental model is 12–18 months out of date. They're making decisions together. Andrej Karpathy named the problem this week. Here's how to tell which side you're on — and what to do about it.
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When Anthropic updated Claude to Opus 4.7, real-world token usage jumped roughly 40% — with no pricing announcement. Here's what that means for any team running AI workflows at any scale.
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