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Superhuman buys AI meeting notetaker Fathom to turn your calls into automatic work
The email and productivity platform is acquiring Fathom, which has 400,000 monthly active users, to feed meeting summaries straight into its AI tools and agents.
Your Colleagues Are Now the Noisiest Alarm in the Company Security Room
Security teams built their systems to catch hackers. The loudest signal on their screens is now their own staff logging into AI chatbots with work accounts.
Your manager is rehearsing the bad news with AI before they call you in
A new wave of AI coaching tools lets managers role-play difficult conversations, from pay freezes to layoffs, before the real thing. Here's what that means for workers on both sides of the desk.
Slack's New 'Surfaces' Feature Builds Dashboards and Reports Inside Your Chat
You describe what you need, and Slackbot assembles a live, interactive dashboard or report without you ever leaving the app.
The AI Job-Hunt Doom Loop: Both Sides Are Using Bots and Nobody Is Winning
Job seekers are using AI to outsmart hiring software. Employers are using AI to sort through the flood of applications. It is making things worse for both of them.
Meta Drops AI Usage Quotas for Staff But Rolls Out a Powerful New AI Agent
Workers no longer get graded on how much they use AI tools. But a new agent called Hatch, which can browse the web and run apps on their behalf, is quietly racking up even more computing resource than the chatbots it replaces.
How a UK Construction Firm Got 11,000 Employees to Actually Use AI
Kier Group skipped the webinars and ran peer group prompt-a-thons instead. The result: 40 percent of staff now use Microsoft Copilot daily, and one dyslexic site manager says it changed his working life.
AI Is Doing the Grunt Work That Used to Turn Beginners Into Experts
When AI handles the entry-level jobs, junior workers get less practice at the skills that take years to build. Aviation and nuclear engineering figured out this problem decades ago. Here is what they learned.
Microsoft's AI meeting assistant keeps missing its own launch date
Teams Facilitator, the AI that jumps into video calls to answer unresolved questions, has slipped from June to December. Here's what the delay means for the millions of people who use Microsoft Teams at work.
How smart companies are keeping workers on side as AI reshapes their jobs
More than half of Americans fear AI will cost someone in their home a job. A handful of companies are trying a different approach, and it starts with telling the truth.
OpenAI Wants AI Agents to Run Your Workday. Can It Convince Anyone Beyond Coders?
ChatGPT Work lets software act on your behalf across your inbox, Slack, and spreadsheets. The catch: fewer than one in a hundred paying users have tried anything like it.
Slack Code puts AI coding agents into your team's group chat
Slack's new feature gives AI coding tools their own project channels, so colleagues can watch, redirect, and approve what the software is doing before it ships anything.
Slack Adds Dedicated AI Coding Channels So Teams Can Build Software Together
Slack Code lets you tag an AI coding assistant directly inside a channel, watch it write and revise code in real time, and approve the finished work before anything goes live.
Calendly Launches a Meeting Note-Taker to Compete in a Crowded Market
The scheduling app wants to do more than book your meetings. Now it will record them, summarise them, and help with the work that comes after.
xAI Launches Grok Bot: AI Agents That Log Into Your Apps and Do Your Work
Elon Musk's AI company is rolling out always-on software agents that handle workplace tasks inside tools you already use, from sales outreach to bug fixes, without you watching over them.