Week in Tech: Does 'Workslop' Affect Your Workplace?
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🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Do you know the definition of a friend? This week in tech news, workplaces may not be getting a good return on their AI investments and a new wearable goes all in on advertisements, but they are getting defaced. Then, Italy has a new AI regulation law and there’s a buzzy new “actress” in Hollywood. On Chat and Me, how one listener is personalizing AI to help his students learn Spanish.
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Additional Reading:
- The hottest workplace policy at startups right now: No shoes | Fortune
- AI Generated Workslop is Destroying Productivity
- I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned.
- AI Startup Friend Bets On Foes With $1M NYC Subway Campaign
- $55 Billion Deal for Electronic Arts Is Biggest Buyout Ever - The New York Times
- Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms | TechCrunch
- Italy enacts AI law covering privacy, oversight and child access | Reuters
- AI Actress Tilly Norwood Draws Backlash From Melissa Barrera, Lukas Gage and More Hollywood Names as Creator Defends Her as a ‘New Tool’ and ‘Not a Replacement for a Human Being’
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