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AI coding agents are fueling productivity panic among executives and engineers, as a UCB study finds those offloading work to AI are also working longer hours (Issie Lapowsky/Bloomberg)

Issie Lapowsky / Bloomberg:
AI coding agents are fueling productivity panic among executives and engineers, as a UCB study finds those offloading work to AI are also working longer hours  —  AI coding agents promised to make software development easier.  Instead they've kicked off a high-pressure race to build at any cost.

Polymarket defends its decision to allow betting on war as ‘invaluable’

Polymarket has been allowing people to bet on when the US would strike Iran next. Obviously, now that it's actually happened and people have died, the prediction betting market is feeling some pressure. The site has been at the center of controversy before, including suspicions of insider trading on the Super Bowl halftime show and […]

An interview with Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis on plans to use in-house chips, Trainium and Inferentia, to develop AI models more cheaply, and more (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
An interview with Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis on plans to use in-house chips, Trainium and Inferentia, to develop AI models more cheaply, and more  —  Amazon's new artificial intelligence czar, Peter DeSantis, is a larger-than-life figure within the company where he has worked since its early days

macOS 26.4: Charge Limit and Shortcuts

Dylan McDonald: The Charge Limit feature, which lets you set a maximum charge to help extend battery health, was previously only available on iPhone and iPad. […] Additionally, the new iOS 26.4 and macOS 26.4 betas bring Charge Limit to the Shortcuts app. I like the current feature to automatically restore the charge limit the […]

Sync iPhone Alarms to an Apple Watch

Glenn Fleishman: And yet. And yet. When you desperately want the digital jingle bell to sound off on a particular device, my goodness, what a fuss that might be. Quick: Without picking up your iPhone, tell me how you configure an alarm in the Clock app to trigger on your Apple Watch when you’re wearing […]