AI is saving office workers hours and stealing much of that time back in botsitting (yahoo.com)

¶A new survey of individuals using AI found it made them more productive, saving each roughly 11 hours per week. But at the same time, the workers on average have to spend more than six hours “botsitting,” checking the AI output, fixing mistakes and rerunning the prompt.

¶I believe both sides of this coin. I’ve experienced both sides of it. I think productivity will increase as people become more adept at using AI and botsitting time will decrease as the models improve and people learn to trust their output more.

Vance says U.S. expects Strait of Hormuz to be open ‘toll free’ long term (cnbc.com)

¶“Our expectation is that the strait is going to be opened in a toll-free way for the long term, and that’s the sort of thing that we’re going to figure out in these technical negotiations,” Vance told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” in an interview.

¶So, like it was before the war?

Trump has achieved none of his aims in Iran. His ‘ceasefire’ can’t work and won’t work (independent.co.uk)

¶Trump’s ceasefire is an opportunity for the US to wriggle out of a war it started – nothing more.

¶The sell job cometh — Trump and the Administration will be working hard over the coming days, weeks, and months to sell this agreement as a victory. It’s hard to tell right now because no one has seen the text of it yet. The talking points sure sound like it’s nothing more than a return to a pre-war status quo, though.