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Eight in ten UK teachers now use AI regularly at work, a figure that has doubled in just one year. But here is the catch — only about a third say they are actually working fewer hours because of it. AI appears to be reshaping the job without necessarily lightening the load.

Turning to infrastructure, Nutanix has built a twenty million dollar internal AI cluster with the goal of reducing its reliance on tools like Copilot and Claude. The company expects to recoup that investment within a year, which tells you something about how much enterprise AI licensing is costing large organizations right now.

And on a lighter note, ICANN is processing over sixteen hundred applications for new internet domain extensions, and yes, dot A-I-dot-slop is among the names being floated. As AI-generated content continues to flood the web, someone apparently decided the internet deserves a dedicated address for it — whether that is a warning label or a badge of honor probably depends on who you ask.

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