AI link dump
2026-03-23 17:27:05.628773+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Nadella paid $650M to recruit his AI chief. After 2 years he's quietly pushing him aside — these brutal numbers are why. Looks like it's not necessarily that people don't want AI in their Microsoft products, it's that Copilot kinda sucks.
Independent research tells a worse story. A Recon Analytics survey of more than 150,000 U.S. paid AI subscribers found that Copilot's market share fell from 18.8% in July 2025 to 11.5% by January 2026 — a 39% contraction. The most damaging finding: when workers only have access to Copilot, adoption sits at 68%. Add ChatGPT as an option and Copilot drops to 18%. Add Gemini on top of that and just 8% choose Copilot.</bockquote>
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Frank Elavsky: Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used
And tools use us by their design. This is Heidegger’s Gestell (“en-framing”): the notion that technologies shape who we are because of their design and use. A hammer isn’t just made of wood and iron, then. A hammer is a hammer because of what it does and who we become when we use it.
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Jeremy Keith on adactio.com and on the Fediverse:
It feels like all my peers are experiencing Deep Blue and having to choose their future career path:
expert in a dying field
or
collaborator in a fascist project.