Say goodbye to “save as”—Word wants all your docs in OneDrive now www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/mi... -> Mac OS anyone? lol

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’ www.404media.co/meta-tells-w... -> I agree, the sooner the Metaverse can be discredited as the future of business the better... proceed and let's be speedy about it

Consultants Forced to Pay Money Back After Getting Caught Using AI for Expensive "Report" futurism.com/future-socie... "The substance of the independent review is retained, and there are no changes to the recommendations" -> true - the downside is that trust and credibility took a real pounding

At this week's #SAPConnect @jon.diginomica.com asked a pesky question to SAP executive board members during the Q/A, and heard from early Ask my Payslip adopter, PostNL, about its plans to adopt this at scale: bit.ly/47jGIOQ

Breaking down line of business silos is not easy. AI agents are in the mix too, but how do customers achieve that end-to-end mindset? At #SAPConnect a strong opening keynote (a phrase @jon.diginomica.com rarely uses!) from SAP customer Heartland Dental shook things up. Here's how: bit.ly/46KNWeQ

AI Sam Altman and the Sora copyright gamble: 'I hope Nintendo doesn't sue us' undefined -> who says ethics can't be gamified?

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Criminal Pikachus www.404media.co/openais-sora... "Within moments of opening OpenAI’s new AI slop app Sora, I am watching Pikachu steal Poké Balls from a CVS." -> guardrails are boring lol

Microsoft’s Office 365 workslop generator — for ‘vibe working’ pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/01/m... "it made up a spreadsheet of completely fake data about the product! With graphs!" -> hey, if it looks professional, we can worry about the facts much later lol...

#WDAYRising 2025 marked a new phase in @jon.diginomica.com’s event coverage: the reboot of his next-gen tech video series. Here are the top two demos he filmed on the show floor this year - and why he picked them. bit.ly/3INx65x

Going Shoeless Is a Trendy Office Perk. Should Your Company Follow Suit? www.inc.com/kit-eaton/go... -> we made you endure a crummy commute so you can do Teams meetings in your cube but hey, you can take your shoes off

I ended up going off a few times but to be fair there were some provocative enterprise stories to cover.....

Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "again, he couldn’t do it, as the “missed video call” alerts stacked up on the onstage display" -> to be fair, I might let Zuck go to voice mail also...

Lionsgate still can’t turn its movies into an AI video model pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/24/l... "The Disney catalog is too small to create a model." -> err: "Google Veo 3 can’t keep a scene together, keep characters consistent, or take direction — and that’s training on twenty years of YouTube."

Exclusive: Neon takes down app after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/v... -> I'm downright shocked that an app called "Neon" wasn't fully mature or baked

More than 1,000 MCAS essays scored incorrectly due to AI mishap www.boston.com/news/educati... "it is possible that the 90-10 ratio of AI to human scoring is not yet sufficient to achieve the accuracy rates desired for high-stakes reporting" -> ya think?

At Workday Rising 25, the AI jobs controversy was a hot topic. Workday's stance on this goes back to what they've learned building AI agents. This piece takes us through @jon.diginomica.com’s talks with Workday leadership, and into the heart of their AI (and SaaS) strategy bit.ly/4mtvzQ2 #WDAYRising

Samsung faces backlash for testing ads on Family Hub refrigerator screens www.techspot.com/news/109553-... -> not sure I see the problem - you get ads on your TV, why not on your fridge? lmao

Who is the woman "hiding" behind Diella, the first virtual minister in Albania? www.balkanweb.com/en/Who-is-th... "The Albanian Constitution does not provide for the decree of a minister who does not physically exist and who is not a real legal person." -> no problem, that can get sorted lol

Wellesley College is applying critical thinking to AI adoption, and making Workday personal with Extend. Find out why @jon.diginomica.com says College CIO Ravi Ravishanker's views on adopting AI - and what he's pulled off with Workday Extend - are an event highlight. bit.ly/46w9rOZ #WDAYRising

As @jon.diginomica.com hits the road (ok the airport) for events season, he’s primed for heavy doses of MCP from keynote stages as fuel for the agentic AI buzz. But why MCP? Why is context the vendor obsession? K2view CTO Yuval Perlov tells him why "data readiness" is overrated. bit.ly/4gwGFTa

AT&T tracked employee attendance to find 'freeloaders.' Now, it admits the system is driving workers to the 'brink of frustration.' www.businessinsider.com/att-system-f... > translation: we learned a lot from over-surveilling our employees, but we're still surveilling them, just more sensibly...

a aidarwinawards.org/nominees-202... The AI Darwin awards - nice. I like the Airbnb nomination: "deploying AI to commit fraud, coupled with AI-assisted investigation systems failing to detect obvious manipulation" yikes

[15!] Fake citations inside Education Accord don't impact its credibility, minister says www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... -> keep clicking your heels together when you say this, and maybe it will come true...

A week of stories curated by @jon.diginomica.com - why deriving value from enterprise AI isn't just a data problem. Fall event fun kicks off, with Hubspot Inbound. AI and cybersecurity remains on the front burner, but what about AI "de-skilling?" And, as always, your weekly whiffs: bit.ly/4673Mi3

Volkswagen’s New Horsepower Subscription Sparks Outrage Among UK Drivers autos.yahoo.com/articles/vol... -> c'mon, at least they aren't requiring a subscription to use the brakes...

U.S. House tells staffers not to use Meta’s WhatsApp www.cnbc.com/2025/06/23/m... -> hmmm... the next chapter isn't off to a blazing start lol

Burger King hacked, attackers 'impressed by the commitment to terrible security practices' www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr... "Their security was about as solid as a paper Whopper wrapper in the rain" -> great job all around lol

On of my fave podcasts in our series to date... @alyx.diginomica.com brought out the tech founder side of Daniel Dines... hearing a seasoned RPA practitioner talk about what's real or not with agentic AI and how these technologies work together, or not.... a good listen for sure.

Has enterprise software failed customers? IFS Ultimo CEO Steven Elsham says yes - at least when it comes to bringing insights to the users. @jon.diginomica.com dug a little deeper into why 'Systems of record must change' as Elsham shared his agentic AI plans for EAM: bit.ly/47IugsX

Taco Bell Rethinks Using AI at Drive-Thru WIndows After Viral Videos www.yahoo.com/entertainmen... -> "18,000 water cups... coming right up!"

ChatGPT Answered 'High Risk' Questions About Suicide, New Study Finds www.404media.co/chatgpt-answ... "The proclivity of ChatGPT and Claude to generate direct responses to lethality-related questions " -> ugh, but evidently not Gemini, interesting.. guardrails are flawed but not irrelevant

LLMs easily exploited using run-on sentences, bad grammar, image scaling www.csoonline.com/article/4046... "new research has revealed that LLMs can be easily persuaded to reveal sensitive information by using run-on sentences" -> grammar is overrated lol

Man uses AirTag to track down stolen luggage, finds person wearing his clothes mashable.com/article/appl... -> more of a feel-weird story than a feel-good story methinks....

ICYMI: A podcast about AI with a difference - no big promises or bigger buzzwords. @jon.diginomica.com and Sage CTO Aaron Harris chat about what AI actually means for finance leaders. Take a listen: bit.ly/4msqOHm

xAI's Grok offers political explanations for why it was pulled offline www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... -> I am so looking forward to more "evidence-based" discourse.......

Bizarre Glitch Sees Google Gemini Sink Into Self-Loathing www.pcmag.com/news/bizarre... "In June, after failing a vibe-coding task, Gemini began calling itself a "disgrace," "failure," "moron," and more" -> A for honesty.... :)

Anthropic’s Claude AI will now cut off abusive chats with users for its own ‘welfare’ indianexpress.com/article/tech... "AI chatbots showed signs of stress/anxiety when users shared traumatic narratives" -> lol - humans will be okay... let's protect the feelings of our pattern recognition systems

Enterprise hits and misses - #AI vs entry-level #jobs - hype or reality? Plus: developer productivity and GPT-5 fallout diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw #HRTech #HR #HCM #ChatGPT #ChatGPT5

Why are entry-level jobs now harder to come by? And how should we rethink AI and education? A big new developer productivity study is previewed, and GPT-5 didn't live up to its billing - what does this mean for enterprise AI? @jon.diginomica.com is back, and so are your whiffs! bit.ly/4oFjBoN

Enterprise AI: Common Myths Inhibiting Successful Adoption (Jon Reed) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUUE... -> Part two of the summer AI projects/pitfalls discussion series with Andreas Welsch, where we take down AI project and leadership myths and dissect real use cases...

Microsoft: AI 'Business Agents' Will Kill SaaS by 2030 thenewstack.io/microsoft-ai... -> so does this mean Dynamics customers can expect immediate discounts now that they are running on deterministic legacy technology? lmao

As People Ridicule GPT-5, Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Need 'Trillions' in Infrastructure gizmodo.com/as-people-ri... -> Altman: we're in a bubble, and I don't like AGI anymore, and I need to spend a lot more money. What a clown show

reCAPTCHA: 819 million hours of wasted human time and billions of dollars in Google profits buff.ly/4gwQKgX "Google's widely-used CAPTCHA system is primarily a mechanism for tracking user behavior + collecting data while providing little actual security against bots." -> $urveillance > convenience

Australian lawyer apologizes for AI-generated errors in murder case apnews.com/article/aust...

Enterprise hits and misses - #SAP to acquire #SmartRecruiters, but why? Dirty #data borks #AI, and context engineering is here diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw #HRTech

In this week's highlights from @jon.diginomica.com SAP is to acquire SmartRecruiters, but why? Dirty data borks AI, context engineering is here, vendor earnings show resilience, and Ozzy 🦇makes this week's edition! bit.ly/4l7GcaF

After Backlash, ChatGPT Removes Option to Have Private Chats Indexed by Google www.pcmag.com/news/be-care... -> Google search just got a bit less interesting.....

Delta denies using AI to come up with inflated, personalized prices arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... > no need for airlines to be transparent anymore now that @southwest has thrown in the towel on doing things differently...

AI for creative differentiation, or not? @jon.diginomica.com wanted to test AI's format dexterity against his recent video and infographic projects. How would AI fare with Powerpoints? Video editing? Infographics? The result were mixed... Find out how he got on: bit.ly/4oirUGY

Mercedes Gives Customers the One Thing They've Always Wanted: Microsoft Teams www.motor1.com/news/766631/... "You know what would make this car perfect? Microsoft Teams.” -> pretty sure the lines at the dealership are already forming...