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AI & The Future of Work
A newsletter at the intersection of AI and the people who have to work with it. Research findings, practical tools, and honest takes on what’s actually changing at work — and what isn’t. Published weekly and distributed on LinkedIn, Substack, Medium, and by email.
Weekly briefing
AI Roundup
The week in AI — what shipped, what shifted, and what it means for people who have to work with it.
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The US government forced Anthropic to switch off two frontier models worldwide, turning export law into an AI kill switch. Plus DeepMind's UK planning AI, Grok on Bedrock, and PwC's split labour market.
Engineers at Amazon and Google mock their mandated AI as 'slop' even as adoption hits 88% and measured impact stays near 7%. Plus Fable 5, DiffusionGemma and the EU's tech sovereignty push.
A labour economist takes apart the AI jobs-apocalypse narrative this week, arguing the displacement story can't be found in the numbers, even as OpenAI, Microsoft and Mistral push agents into every office role.
Frontline workers distrust the AI dropped on them, and a Stanford study shows the hiring algorithms screening them carry measured racial bias, while Opus 4.8, Mistral's physics-AI buy, and DeepSeek's 75% price cut set the backdrop.
Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in paid business adoption, OpenAI spins out a $14B deployment arm, Bloomberg confirms heavy job losses in AI-exposed roles. Where the work actually happens is now the contested ground.
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 and Workspace Agents in the same week, Anthropic released Claude Design and Opus 4.7, Meta trained AI on 8,000 employees' keystrokes, and SpaceX took a $60B option on Cursor. Agents are no longer a demo.
Long-form
Articles
Essays and analysis on AI, the future of work, Claude Code, and human intelligence.
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Anthropic built Claude Mythos, refused to sell it, and published 244 pages explaining why. A sceptical reading of the disclosure and what it may mean for work.
Eight practical changes to your Claude Code settings and workflow that reduce token waste per session. Tested on Pro and Max plans after Anthropic's March 2026 usage limit changes.
Most businesses that try AI go no further than the browser. Claude Desktop for business changes that, connecting directly to your tools, files, and workflows without the copy-paste cycle.
The threat from AI isn't the technology itself — it's the widening gap between people who use it well and those who don't. Here's what that means for your career and your team.
Why have so many intelligent adults convinced themselves that large language models are conscious? LLMs are voltage states in transistors, not thinking beings. The complexity of their output fools us because our surface-level minds cannot comprehend billions of mathematical operations.
The tech industry has pulled off an extraordinary sleight of hand — redefining intelligence each time AI fails at something we call intelligent. Here's what human intelligence actually is, why it can't be replicated, and what that means for your career.