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Amazon is facing an uncomfortable internal contradiction. The company has been pressuring employees to increase their use of AI tools, but according to Fast Company, workers are responding by inventing busywork just to hit those metrics. It is a telling sign of what happens when adoption targets outpace genuine utility.
That tension between corporate ambition and real-world behavior connects neatly to our next story. Microsoft reportedly wants its engineers to abandon Claude Code, the AI coding assistant from Anthropic that has become genuinely popular inside the company, and switch instead to GitHub Copilot. The move appears driven less by performance than by business alignment, since Microsoft has deep investment in Copilot. Engineers who found something that works may not appreciate the swap.
And on the hardware side, Apple is planning something unusual for the iPhone eighteen cycle. Rather than a single fall launch event, the company is reportedly splitting the lineup across two separate announcements. The reasoning likely comes down to supply chain timing and product differentiation, but it also signals how sprawling Apple's device portfolio has become.
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