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🤖 Study: Heavy AI users show signs of burnout
🌌 xAI outlines interplanetary AI roadmap
📈 More tools now available in Claude’s free version
💻 ByteDance builds in-house AI chip with Samsung
🍎 Apple’s AI-powered Siri redesign faces further delays
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🤖 Heavy AI users show signs of burnout ↗️LINK
A Harvard Business Review case study following a 200-person tech company found that employees who embraced AI ended up working faster, taking on more tasks, and letting work spill into breaks and evenings, even without explicit pressure from management.
Researchers observed that as AI made more work feel achievable, expectations and self-imposed workloads expanded, leading to fatigue and difficulty disconnecting, despite modest measured productivity gains in other recent studies.
Rather than eliminating effort, the findings suggest AI augmentation can intensify workplace demands, raising concerns that the promise of efficiency may instead accelerate burnout across knowledge industries.
🌌 xAI outlines interplanetary AI roadmap ↗️LINK
xAI released a 45-minute all-hands video outlining Elon Musk’s long-term vision, including moon-based factories and space data centers powered by solar energy to scale AI infrastructure beyond Earth.
The company is reorganizing into four teams focused on the Grok chatbot, coding systems, the Imagine video generator, and Macrohard, a project aimed at full computer automation.
Musk said Macrohard could eventually design complex systems like rocket engines autonomously, signaling xAI’s ambition to push AI development into advanced engineering and space applications.
📈 More tools now available in Claude’s free version ↗️LINK
Anthropic has added file creation, Connectors, and Skills to Claude’s free tier, unlocking capabilities that were previously limited to paid subscribers.
Free users can now generate Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, and PDFs directly within Claude.
The update also allows free accounts to connect Claude to third-party services like Slack, Notion, Canva, and PayPal, significantly broadening its practical use cases.
💻 ByteDance builds in-house AI chip with Samsung ↗️LINK
ByteDance is developing its own AI chip, codenamed SeedChip, and is in discussions with Samsung Electronics to manufacture it as the company looks to secure long-term processor supply.
The TikTok parent aims to receive sample chips by the end of March and produce at least 100,000 AI inference units this year, with potential expansion to 350,000 units.
ByteDance plans to spend over 160 billion yuan, about $22 billion, on AI-related procurement in 2026, with more than half allocated to Nvidia chips and development of its in-house semiconductor efforts.
🍎 Apple’s AI-powered Siri redesign faces further delays ↗️LINK
Apple’s planned AI-powered Siri overhaul may not launch as originally expected, with testing reportedly revealing sluggish performance and failures to process some queries properly, prompting a staggered rollout instead of a single March release.
The redesigned assistant, first unveiled in 2024, promises advanced capabilities like photo search, contact updates, note summarization, and task automation, but features may now arrive gradually across upcoming iOS updates.
Apple confirmed that Google’s Gemini models will help power the new Siri, positioning it to function more like a conversational AI chatbot when fully deployed, similar in style to ChatGPT.
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Do you think building an A.I. satellite factory on the Moon is realistic?
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