AI Assistants You Can Text Like a Contact Are Multiplying
Agents that take requests by iMessage, SMS, WhatsApp and Telegram now range from a $10 billion startup to family planners and travel helpers.
Productivity
Ricoh survey: leaders trust AI spend, employees report friction
A Ricoh USA survey of 2,017 employees and decision-makers in the U.S. and Canada found 91% of decision-makers confident in AI investments, while 53% of employees say AI creates friction or extra work.
Microsoft UK survey: bosses far more upbeat on AI than staff
Microsoft research covering 5,000 UK employees and 1,000 senior decision-makers found 84% of leaders, but 41% of employees, confident the UK can become a world-leading AI economy within five years.
Zoom adds a shared context layer for its AI agents at Zoomtopia
At Zoomtopia, Zoom unveiled a Unified Context Layer that connects meetings, chats, documents and outside apps for AI agents, along with ZoomMate Agent Teams and new meeting and governance features.
AI Saves Hours a Week. Rework Quietly Eats Them
Research shows most employees save time with AI, but checking and fixing its output wipes out a large share of the gain.
AI Raised the Bar, and Sunday Quietly Became a Workday
A survey of 2,000 knowledge workers finds 74% work on a typical Sunday, as AI lifts both productivity and expectations of daily output.