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Why the Numbers Tell a More Complicated Story

For years, Australians have been warned that artificial intelligence is coming for their jobs. So far, the economy-wide wave of AI-driven layoffs hasn’t arrived. A new Australian government analysis found no evidence that AI has caused broad upheaval across the country’s labour market since ChatGPT arrived in late 2022. But beneath that reassuring headline is…

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NYT Strands hints, answers for August 13, 2026

Today’s NYT Strands hints are easy if you’re really passionate about something. Strands, the New York Times‘ elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky…

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Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes

Anthropic recently made the decision to watermark Claude’s outputs — inserting invisible code into the chatbot’s editorial text that marks it as AI-generated. Anthropic rolled out this new policy to satisfy the EU AI Act’s Transparency Code, which now requires tech companies to label content that has been AI-generated or edited in a manner identifiable…

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