I think I spotted it.... :) tech buzzword recovery program in effect.......

Enterprise hits and misses - the digitally exhausted workplace needs new metrics, and #AWS re:Invent closes out the event season diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw #HRTech #FutureOfWork #HR #HCM #AWSreInvent2025

As the last event closes, what were our highlights this week? Stranger Things, robodogs, break-ups and acquisitions, AI project lessons, a workplace digital exhaustion, plus our analysis on the latest numbers. All these and more, from @jon.diginomica.com in Hits and Misses: bit.ly/48qiwev

KPMG auditors caught using AI to cheat on tests www.afr.com/rear-window/... -> if it's good enough for high school students, it's good enough for auditors

Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... -> who says AI isn't creative? I thought the goal of news was clicks not accuracy anyhow lol

Zuckerberg Basically Giving Up on Metaverse After Renaming Entire Company "Meta" futurism.com/future-socie... -> wearing VR goggles might be fun (for some), but it clearly damages your strategic thinking skills lol.... acting on the obvious shouldn't take this long

AI-generated job loss, Cyber Week spending, the AI skills gap, CXOs split on economic optimism but pressing on with AI - all these and more in your hits and misses this week from @jon.diginomica.com As always, your whiffs: bit.ly/3MhbNux

Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI www.nature.com/articles/d41... -> my bot is presenting at this conference, looking forward to hearing the feedback from home in my bunny slippers.... lolz

Code suggests that OpenAI may be close to introducing ads for ChatGPT www.engadget.com/ai/code-sugg... -> you know this is coming..... and hallucations will be provided to advertisers at no additional cost....

‘Avatar’ director James Cameron says generative AI is ‘horrifying’ | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/11/30/a... -> terminators don't scare James Cameron but ChatGPT sure does.. I get that... lol

we had some super smart customer questions from the show floor to field, that's the best kind of hot seat for a podcast

Shouldn't customer success be free? More on this, and other thorny questions, from @jon.diginomica.com when he sat down with Jean de Villiers, Unit4's Chief Customer Officer. bit.ly/4oAdbpT

How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare hackaday.com/2025/11/20/h... "Customers who were on the old FL proxy did not see this error." -> the shiny new code broke, which we found out the hard way - I'm detecting a pattern here...

Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/g... "“It won’t be easy but through collaboration and co-design, we’re going to get there.” -> don't worry about what it's all for or why, just press the accelerator until you drop

New study reveals TikTok & Instagram content actually “rots” your brain - Dexerto www.dexerto.com/tiktok/new-s... "heavy short-form video consumption is linked to diminished cognitive function" -> I think the hope is brains won't be needed going forward lolz

Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj... "$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist" -> Deloitte, our fearless innovators lmao

Enterprise hits and misses - want #AI success? It's about change management, not tech. Plus: the sixty hour workweek debate heats up diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw #ChangeManagement #FutureOfWork #HRTech

Why Can’t I Just Watch Sports on Television? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... -> because streaming is revolutionizing entertainment baby - have with with all your apps and log ins...

Disney animator slams CEO and encourages viewers to 'pirate' show over AI-generated content www.msn.com/en-us/news/t... ""If you pay us we'll let you make your own content slop! That we will own!' " -> I guess maybe this isn't the best holiday present then lol

It’s the fake thing: Coca-Cola tries another AI Christmas TV ad pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/04/i... "This is the best ad that Pepsi never paid for. Coca-Cola: it’s the fake thing." -> ouch

Spats, risks and stock market insights, AI bubbles, the M&S cyber attack recovery, CIOs and the Microsoft price hikes... all these and more in your hits and misses this week from @jon.diginomica.com. Plus some whiffs to make you smile. bit.ly/43j4rwr

ASUG Tech Connect brought AI adoption to a head. What do customers need to build with SAP AI? Is the Gen AI Hub for BTP message getting out there? @jon.diginomica.com discussed this with SAP's Walter Sun - starting with SAP's RPT-1 foundational model news: bit.ly/3JVxT53

Podcast: People Are Modding Meta Ray-Bans to Spy On You www.404media.co/podcast-peop... -> Being a creep used to be free, now you have to fork over $60 #aiisawesome

Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic' www.404media.co/automattic-a... -> but what about "hyyyyyrdomatic?" Why not try and claim that while you're at it lol cc: @brianssommer

Risks of Generative AI for Therapy and Companionship enterprisespectator.substack.com/p/risks-of-g... -> really good one by @fscavo, who is always pushing the research forward and not relaxing into stale positions. I learn from him....

Music recommendation algorithms were supposed to help us cut through the noise, but they just served us up slop : r/technology www.reddit.com/r/technology...htt> Spotify's music recommendation engine is comically bad, with AI slop making it worse, but I've found a ton of stuff on YouTube.....

AI gets 45% of news wrong — but readers still trust it pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/05/a... -> my rule is: if it's more convenient and faster for me to get the info, then I'm going to absolutely trust it... lolz

SAP TechEd Berlin is well underway - and so is ASUG Tech Connect. What have we learned from this event mashup so far? What SAP AI news stands out? Do customers have the tools (and skills) to move forward? @jon.diginomica.com is in Louisville for us with a timely mid-event gut check: bit.ly/4hPd5c2

Vendors made their agentic ambitions clear this fall - but the role of partners? Not so much. Oracle AI World was an exception. @jon.diginomica.com boils down some AI agent lessons from a demo with Auditoria.AI, and a talk with Oracle AI Agent Marketplace launch partner Apex IT: bit.ly/3JtMHaY

Enterprise hits and misses - is there an agentic #AI gap between vendors and customers? #Amazon's #outage fallout continues, and deep fakes are ready for prime time diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw #AgenticAI

Biochips made from mushrooms rival power of manmade semiconductors newatlas.com/computers/mu... Biochips made from mushrooms rival power of manmade semiconductors newatlas.com/computers/mu... -> not the most attractive looking gear, but I'm in....

I Can't Help Feeling Like a Creep Wearing Meta's New Gen 2 Glasses www.wired.com/review/ray-b... "The glasses are great, but I find myself feeling hesitant to wear them around in public." -> no worries, you can always wear them around the house lol

Enterprise hits and misses - #LLMs need context, enterprise #events need analysis, and #AWS ruins Monday diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw #AI #LLM #Cloud

Cybersecurity experts warn real-time voice deepfakes are here www.techspot.com/news/110006-... > if you haven't spoken with family members about this (especially aging relatives) and established safe words etc, now is the time...

A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light www.404media.co/how-to-disab... -> not to worry, Meta takes your privacy very seriously, as long as they can keep selling their (hackable) surveillance/video glasses lol

The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds www.404media.co/the-aws-outa... -> my dumb bed never felt so good. But to be fair, Alexa wasn't very nice to me that night.

Microsoft Confirms Emergency Update For Millions Of Windows Users www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof... "A new, mandatory security update is a “total disaster” and an emergency update has suddenly been confirmed." -> no problem, Copilot can fix this lmao

Major AWS outage across US-East region sows chaos online www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a... -> everything is awesome

Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin www.404media.co/reddit-answe... "Reddit’s conversational AI product, Reddit Answers, suggested users who are interested in pain management try heroin and kratom" -> Hey, it's call "Reddit Answers," not "Reddit Answers Correctly" lolz

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making www.404media.co/the-end-of-w... "to cut support for something that is legitimately a flagship product is bizarre" -> my Win 10 machines aren't going in the landfill but my computing relationship with Microsoft is.....

With an AI news flurry on the one hand, and customer realities on the other, #OracleAIWorld is now in high gear - but where do the two intersect, and where is the value? @jon.diginomica.com went behind the news with Oracle's Steve Miranda: bit.ly/479NXro

We're knee deep into #OracleAIWorld and the newsfeeds are surging. But on the ground, @jon.diginomica.com dug into some AI stories beyond the headlines, including an AI deep dive with Kaushal Kurapati, Oracle's Head of Agent Platform. Here are the high points: bit.ly/4qvZD0P

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...