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nemo™ 🇺🇦🚨 New MIT study reveals 95% of companies see ZERO return from their Generative AI investments—only 5% successfully scale AI tools in production! 🤖💼 Tech & Media sectors lead with real impact, but many industries remain untouched. Is the AI hype justified or overblown? Read more: <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/generative_ai_zero_return_95_percent/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/generative_ai_zero_return_95_percent/</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TechNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechNews</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"[T]he vast majority of MCP servers are a waste of time. And that’s normal because the MCP spec is only months old. People jump into it, and they start building for MCP without really thinking it through or understanding what it should be.The vast majority of MCPs that you can see now are reflections of APIs. I think that’s a complete waste of time. This might be offensive, but let’s take Kubernetes. As an example, Kubernetes is an API-driven platform of sorts. Now let’s say you have a Kubernetes MCP server that basically allows you to get resources, to describe resources, and to see the logs and so on and so forth. They’re basically reflections of the Kubernetes API, just as kubectl is a reflection of the Kubernetes API.Now, does an AI agent really need that MCP server? Absolutely not. It’s perfectly capable of using kubectl directly. And even if there weren’t a kubectl CLI, it’s perfectly capable of talking to the API as is. And it’s not hard for an AI backed by an agent to execute the URL commands to go to some API, and effectively do the same thing that that MCP server is doing.What we need is MCPs that are actually providing additional value around user intents. Instead of having a Kubernetes MCP server that is a reflection of its API, have a Kubernetes MCP that will have certain logic or workflow or this or that, that will help you combine resources to get an application up and running. So, something beyond just a one-to-one reflection of an API."<a href="https://nordicapis.com/why-internal-developer-platforms-need-apis/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://nordicapis.com/why-internal-developer-platforms-need-apis/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/APIs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#APIs</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/APIFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#APIFirst</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MCPs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MCPs</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIAgents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIAgents</a>

JürgenWhat a surprise.<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#llm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/genAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#genAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#generativeAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#data</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/datascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#datascience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/llms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#llms</a><a href="https://www.techradar.com/pro/almost-all-genai-pilots-companies-deploy-are-failing-are-they-really-worth-the-hype" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.techradar.com/pro/almost-all-genai-pilots-companies-deploy-are-failing-are-they-really-worth-the-hype</a>

heise onlineKI-Update kompakt: LLMs für Malware, Anti-Human-Bias, Sutton, ChatbotsDas "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.<a href="https://www.heise.de/news/KI-Update-kompakt-LLMs-fuer-Malware-Anti-Human-Bias-Sutton-Chatbots-10553011.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.heise.de/news/KI-Update-kompakt-LLMs-fuer-Malware-Anti-Human-Bias-Sutton-Chatbots-10553011.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon</a><a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/K%C3%BCnstlicheIntelligenz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KünstlicheIntelligenz</a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Journal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Journal</a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/KIUpdate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KIUpdate</a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Wissenschaft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wissenschaft</a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#news</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Hiring has been relatively dormant since Trump took the oath of office. Only 597,000 jobs have been added in the first seven months of the year, a 44 percent drop from the first seven months of 2024, as former Biden economist Heather Boushey notes. The year has seen low hiring and a low quit rate, as people hunker down in the jobs they have. There are fewer entry-level positions and Americans aren’t moving very much for work. That’s a housing story but it’s also a job security story, and the expectations are even worse: The University of Michigan survey shows expectations for a higher unemployment rate next year at the highest level since the Great Recession.Maybe artificial intelligence is playing a role here, though concluding that for sure seems premature. Or maybe the behavior of the ill-fated Department of Government Efficiency is filtering down to corporate boardrooms. But the most likely reason for sluggish hiring is the tremendous uncertainty from the tariff announcements, regulatory policy, and Trumpian wild cards. An economy based on individual whim is not one where businesses can plan for the future; indeed, 37,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost since the “Liberation Day” tariff announcement in April, and the subsequent flurry of trade adjustments.I think you can see the consequences of uncertainty come forward in the explosion in corporate stock buybacks; that’s a sign of retrenchment, where money that could be deployed or invested is instead pushed out to shareholders. No wonder markets are near all-time highs while ordinary workers feel miserable.The only area where this investment retrenchment and uncertainty is not in evidence comes from the insane capital expenditures for AI computing power, which is propping up the economy almost by itself. That’s why municipal pushback to data centers will be one of the more fascinating developments."<a href="https://prospect.org/economy/2025-08-19-what-us-economy-really-looks-like/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://prospect.org/economy/2025-08-19-what-us-economy-really-looks-like/</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Economy</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Crisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Crisis</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliticalEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoliticalEconomy</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Unemployment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Unemployment</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"There’s so much AI news that it’s impossible to keep up. It seems like we’re racing toward a Singularity of AI enshitification, beyond which the enshitified world is hidden by the enshitificatory “event horizon.”The aim of this post is to aggregate some notable news stories relating to AI that you might have missed — some of these are quite hilarious, while others are disturbing and deeply tragic. I’ve said before that, with respect to climate change, the weather right now is more stable, less extreme, and colder than it will be, on average, for the rest of our lives. (So, you know, savor that heatwave, because things ain’t getting better!) Perhaps something similar applies to AI: the present moment might be the least terrible that things will be moving forward. If so, then yikes."<a href="https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/why-you-should-never-use-ai-under" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/why-you-should-never-use-ai-under</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Enshittification</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AISlop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AISlop</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIBlops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIBlops</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Residents of the state that launched the modern AI boom are deeply skeptical of the technology, and are overwhelmingly in favor of regulating AI companies, a new in-depth survey of Californians’ attitudes towards the technology finds.This is crucial data because, as readers of this newsletter well know, given the Trump administration’s quest for American AI dominance and deregulation, if there’s going to be any meaningful democratic governance of AI in the United States at all over the next few years, it’s going to come from the states. And a lot of it’s going to come from California.TechEquity, a tech accountability group, spearheaded the research, and interviewed 1,400 Californians about their feelings on AI. The findings were stark: 55% were more concerned than excited about AI, while only 33% expressed more excitement than concern. Meanwhile, 59% thought that “AI will most likely benefit the wealthiest households and corporations, not working people and the middle class.” And both Democrats and Republicans shared that view."<a href="https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-california-feels-about-ai" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-california-feels-about-ai</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#California</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIDoomster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIDoomster</a>

Pyrzout :vm:Securing the AI Stack for Federal Missions – Source: securityboulevard.com <a href="https://ciso2ciso.com/securing-the-ai-stack-for-federal-missions-source-securityboulevard-com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ciso2ciso.com/securing-the-ai-stack-for-federal-missions-source-securityboulevard-com/</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/rssfeedpostgeneratorecho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rssfeedpostgeneratorecho</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/SecurityBloggersNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SecurityBloggersNetwork</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/Analytics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Analytics</a>&Intelligence <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/softwaresupplychain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwaresupplychain</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/CyberSecurityNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CyberSecurityNews</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/SecurityBoulevard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SecurityBoulevard</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/securityrisks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#securityrisks</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/Federal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Federal</a>

Pyrzout :vm:NIST’s attempts to secure AI yield many questions, no answers <a href="https://www.csoonline.com/article/4042627/nists-attempts-to-secure-ai-yields-many-questions-no-answers.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.csoonline.com/article/4042627/nists-attempts-to-secure-ai-yields-many-questions-no-answers.html</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/Security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Security</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"What if generative AI isn’t God in the machine or vaporware? What if it’s just good enough, useful to many without being revolutionary? Right now, the models don’t think—they predict and arrange tokens of language to provide plausible responses to queries. There is little compelling evidence that they will evolve without some kind of quantum research leap. What if they never stop hallucinating and never develop the kind of creative ingenuity that powers actual human intelligence?The models being good enough doesn’t mean that the industry collapses overnight or that the technology is useless (though it could). The technology may still do an excellent job of making our educational system irrelevant, leaving a generation reliant on getting answers from a chatbot instead of thinking for themselves, without the promised advantage of a sentient bot that invents cancer cures.Good enough has been keeping me up at night. Because good enough would likely mean that not enough people recognize what’s really being built—and what’s being sacrificed—until it’s too late. What if the real doomer scenario is that we pollute the internet and the planet, reorient our economy and leverage ourselves, outsource big chunks of our minds, realign our geopolitics and culture, and fight endlessly over a technology that never comes close to delivering on its grandest promises? What if we spend so much time waiting and arguing that we fail to marshal our energy toward addressing the problems that exist here and now? That would be a tragedy—the product of a mass delusion. What scares me the most about this scenario is that it’s the only one that doesn’t sound all that insane."<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-mass-delusion-event/683909/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-mass-delusion-event/683909/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MassDelusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MassDelusion</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AGI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIHype</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIBubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIBubble</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAI</a>

Church of Jeff<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/PlagerismMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlagerismMachine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AIisTheft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIisTheft</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#copyright</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/intellectualproperty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#intellectualproperty</a>

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IT NewsExcel formula meets AI prompt: Microsoft brings new ‘COPILOT’ function to spreadsheet cells - Microsoft Excel’s new COPILOT function lets users generate, summarize, and analyz... - <a href="https://www.geekwire.com/2025/excel-formula-meets-ai-prompt-microsoft-brings-new-copilot-function-to-spreadsheet-cells/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.geekwire.com/2025/excel-formula-meets-ai-prompt-microsoft-brings-new-copilot-function-to-spreadsheet-cells/</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#artificialintelligence</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/productivitysoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#productivitysoftware</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/aiinspreadsheets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aiinspreadsheets</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/microsoftcopilot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microsoftcopilot</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/excelcopilot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#excelcopilot</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/generativeai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#generativeai</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/microsoft365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microsoft365</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/officeapps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#officeapps</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microsoft</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/excel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#excel</a>

Alex JimenezMIT report: 95% of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> pilots at companies are failingDespite the rush to integrate powerful new models, the vast majority of projects stall, delivering little to no measurable impact on P&L.<a href="https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DigitalTransformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalTransformation</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"The annual meeting of state utility regulators is typically a humdrum affair of dry speeches and panel discussions. But in November, the scene at the Marriott in Anaheim, Calif., had a bit more flash.The conference’s top sponsors included the nation’s biggest tech companies — Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Their executives sat on panels, and the companies’ branding was plastered on product booths and at networking events. Even the lanyards around attendees’ necks were stamped with Google’s colorful logo.Just a few years ago, tech companies were minor players in energy, making investments in solar and wind farms to rein in their growing carbon footprints and placate customers concerned about climate change. But now, they are changing the face of the U.S. power industry and blurring the line between energy consumer and energy producer. They have morphed into some of energy’s most dominant players.They have set up subsidiaries that invest in power generation and sell electricity. Much of the energy they produce is bought by utilities and then delivered to homes and businesses, including the tech companies themselves. Their operations and investments dwarf those of many traditional utilities.But the tech industry’s all-out artificial intelligence push is fueling soaring demand for electricity to run data centers that dot the landscape in Virginia, Ohio and other states. Large, rectangular buildings packed with servers consumed more than 4 percent of the nation’s electricity in 2023, and government analysts estimate that will increase to as much as 12 percent in just three years. That’s partly because computers training and running A.I. systems consume far more energy than machines that stream Netflix or TikTok."<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/business/energy-environment/ai-data-centers-electricity-costs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fE8.0PTM.0P9fT6U7TXDp&smid=nytcore-android-share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/business/energy-environment/ai-data-centers-electricity-costs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fE8.0PTM.0P9fT6U7TXDp&smid=nytcore-android-share</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DataCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataCenters</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Energy</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Electricity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Electricity</a>

PrivacyDigestHe Sold His <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Likeness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Likeness</a>. Now His <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Avatar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Avatar</a> Is Shilling Supplements on <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TikTok</a>. Welcome to a new era of commercial work fueled by generative artificial intelligence. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#genai</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/generativeai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#generativeai</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/business/tiktok-ai-avatars.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/business/tiktok-ai-avatars.html</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Companies are betting on AI—yet nearly all enterprise pilots are stuck at the starting line.The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative, reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling flat.Despite the rush to integrate powerful new models, about 5% of AI pilot programs achieve rapid revenue acceleration; the vast majority stall, delivering little to no measurable impact on P&L. The research—based on 150 interviews with leaders, a survey of 350 employees, and an analysis of 300 public AI deployments—paints a clear divide between success stories and stalled projects. (...) [F]or 95% of companies in the dataset, generative AI implementation is falling short. The core issue? Not the quality of the AI models, but the “learning gap” for both tools and organizations. While executives often blame regulation or model performance, MIT’s research points to flawed enterprise integration. Generic tools like ChatGPT excel for individuals because of their flexibility, but they stall in enterprise use since they don’t learn from or adapt to workflows..."<a href="https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIBubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIBubble</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIHype</a>

Eric Maugendre'Three syntactic patterns appear consistently: • Passive constructions, such as “Data shall be retained,” which avoid naming the actor. • Nominalizations, such as “submission,” which replace verbs like “submit” to obscure who acts. • Instruction templates without subjects, such as “Confirm identity before approval,” which issue commands without specifying any agent.'Each of these forms is grammatically acceptable and often institutionally adopted. What unites them is that they structurally remove the subject, the speaker, and the agent.'Why This Has Consequences'Where no one is named, no one is held accountable. […] 'Formality, once a guarantee of procedure, becomes a mask for the absence of responsibility.'Documents continue to function. Authority continues to be exercised. Yet no one signs, and no one speaks.'<a href="https://www.agustinvstartari.com/post/who-gave-the-order-when-ai-issues-commands-without-a-speaker" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.agustinvstartari.com/post/who-gave-the-order-when-ai-issues-commands-without-a-speaker</a> by <a href="https://mastodon.social/@agustinstartari" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@agustinstartari</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/responsibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#responsibility</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#accountability</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ethics</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authority</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/technique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technique</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/risks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#risks</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/assessment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#assessment</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/algorithms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#algorithms</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/technocriticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technocriticism</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/judicialBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#judicialBias</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/institutionsDeceive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#institutionsDeceive</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ethics</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#justice</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/publicLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#publicLaw</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/bias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bias</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/justiceSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#justiceSystem</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#judiciary</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/genAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#genAI</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#generativeAI</a>

eicker.news ᳇ tech newsA new <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MIT</a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/report" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#report</a> reveals that while <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#generativeAI</a> holds promise for <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/enterprises" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enterprises</a>, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/failing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#failing</a>. The report highlights the success of <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/startups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#startups</a> and the importance of purchasing <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/AItools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AItools</a> from <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/specialisedvendors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#specialisedvendors</a> and building <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/partnerships" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#partnerships</a>. It also emphasises the need for <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/empowering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#empowering</a> line managers. <a href="https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/?eicker.news" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/?eicker.news</a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#media</a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#news</a>

Jason YipUsing <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a>, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bacteria</a> <a href="https://news.mit.edu/2025/using-generative-ai-researchers-design-compounds-kill-drug-resistant-bacteria-0814" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.mit.edu/2025/using-generative-ai-researchers-design-compounds-kill-drug-resistant-bacteria-0814</a>

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