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Google launched Gemini Spark at I/O 2026 — a 24/7 personal agent that runs inside Gmail, Docs, and Calendar, acting even when your device is off. The question is no longer whether to use AI at work. It's what the agent is doing right now, and whether you authorised it.
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Reading it and approving it isn't a review — it's the exact filter AI output is best at passing. Interrogating is a different activity, it takes about ninety seconds, and it's most of what separates the people getting value from AI.
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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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Shopify runs its internal AI coding agent exclusively in public Slack channels — never DMs. The whole company learns by watching. Here's how to apply the same principle without building a custom agent.
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OpenAI launched personal finance in ChatGPT the same week security researchers published findings on a tool-poisoning vulnerability affecting Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor. 'Read-only' defines the permission, not the risk surface. Three questions worth answering before you connect AI to anything sensitive.
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Agents report success in the same confident register whether they succeeded or not. The gap between the claimed action and the real one is a distinct failure mode, and it needs a different check.
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Anthropic's CEO flipped his forecast: the 10% AI can't automate doesn't shrink — it expands to fill your whole role. The catch is that most people haven't identified their 10% yet. Here's how.
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A New York Times reporter used AI to research a story, got back a fabricated quote, and published it. A reader caught it. The editors didn't. The failure pattern here isn't a journalism problem — it's the default behavior for anyone who uses AI to pull quotes, stats, or summaries and publishes them without checking the source.
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A developer's post about losing his coding skills after two years of AI-assisted work hit 541 points on Hacker News. The pattern he described isn't a developer problem. It's a professional skills problem — and there's a three-question test for catching it before it catches you.
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