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Add to Google Preferred Sources AI is everywhere — in headlines, earnings calls, and government budgets — yet the economist who literally wrote the book on how progress ends is now warning that the productivity payoff will disappoint. Carl Benedikt Frey, Oxford professor and author of *How Progress Ends*, argues on the Trumponomics podcast that…

Productivity—it’s quite the buzzword these days. Popular podcasts are built entirely around the topic, and the corporate world has gone mad trying to measure it in its employees. That is a large reason why people use AI—it has been touted as being able to increase productivity. But because corporate America and AI companies don’t seem…

Does the composition of public research and development (R&D) investment matter for productivity outcomes? By using a local projections method to estimate dynamic responses for macroeconomic productivity outcomes to changes in R&D composition, the authors present new evidence on this question. In particular, they find that increases to basic research spending generate the greatest returns,…

Most productivity advice tells you to pick one app and stick with it. That works until you actually try to run a week of real work through a single tool. Tasks pile up in one place, your calendar lives somewhere else, your notes drift into a third app, and the connective tissue between them is…

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A small but fast-growing share of American workers are doing two full-time jobs at once. They aren’t necessarily con artists and many aren’t running themselves into the ground. But they are finding ways to complete the work expected of them while earning two salaries, raising questions about how employers define productivity and a full-time workload.

While the new Siri AI is, of course, taking the headlines, there are a number of less spectacular but still useful AI enhancements in Apple’s upcoming operating systems.

Your Android phone has evolved to the point that it can now replace your computer in a pinch. You can use it to email your boss, edit a spreadsheet, and even attend video conferences on the go. But sadly enough, the rise of distracting social media apps made it incredibly easy to treat your Android…

AI tools are already being used in hospitals, clinics and doctors’ offices. Who is making treatment decisions, and who is responsible if an AI gets it wrong? To address these questions, Science and Technology editor Eric Smalley hosted a webinar with panelists Dr. Jodyn Platt, an Associate Professor Health Management and Policy at the University…