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AI sentiment is turning sour as employee reviews reveal growing frustration across the workforce

30 August 2026 at 13:12

An analysis of Glassdoor reviews shows that positive AI comments have dropped from 81 to 43 percent since 2019. Executives rate AI mostly positive, while insurance claims workers rate it almost entirely negative. Fear of job loss is just one complaint among many. Forced adoption, surveillance, and unrealistic productivity expectations weigh just as heavily.

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AI agents have no sense of time and are not aware of it

30 August 2026 at 10:41

AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Codex have no sense of time, according to a new study. Both systematically overestimate how long tasks will take. Codex is off by as much as ten times the actual duration. They also rate their own work about 20 percentage points too high. For long, autonomous tasks, that creates a real problem with oversight.

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The skills that earn top grades are the ones AI can fake best

30 August 2026 at 10:34

Silhouette of a student at a desk who uses an AI tool to write marketing copy and earns an A+.

GPT-4o boosted grades on a marketing assignment by nearly a full point on a five-point scale in an experiment with 1,053 Bocconi University students. Whether they actually learned anything wasn't tested. Other studies suggest that AI-assisted performance without independent thinking does long-term harm.

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Anthropic's Claude Code limit change is a raise on paper but a cut in practice

30 August 2026 at 09:05

Anthropic is effectively cutting Claude Code's weekly usage limits by 17 percent. A temporary 50 percent boost expires on September 14 and will be replaced by a permanent 25 percent increase. Anthropic promises more control and transparency over usage in return.

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Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history"

30 August 2026 at 08:50

Sony Music, Warner Music, and other publishers are suing Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei personally for allegedly using tens of thousands of copyrighted musical compositions to train Claude without permission. The plaintiffs call it "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history." Just months after paying $1.5 billion to settle with book authors, Anthropic faces another major copyright fight.

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