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Harvard Study: AI Doesn’t Reduce Work (It Intensifies It)
An eight-month Harvard Business Review study found something wild. Employees using AI didn't work less... they worked more, voluntarily. Product managers started writing code, researchers picked up engineering tasks, and everyone began filling breaks with "just one more prompt." The work felt easier, so people kept saying yes to more of it.
The sneaky part is how it happens. AI makes starting anything so frictionless that lunch breaks and evenings quietly become work sessions. Over time, that momentum turns into cognitive overload... even though it never felt like overwork in the moment.
The good news is the fix isn't complicated. The researchers lay out a framework called an "AI Practice" built around intentional pauses, batching workflows, and protecting real human connection time. Small guardrails that let you keep the boost without burning out.
What Lies Ahead for Google's Ads In 2026
Google's VP of Ads and Commerce laid out where both are headed this year. The biggest signal is agentic checkout going live now with their new 'Universal Commerce Protocol'...which lets shoppers buy directly inside AI Mode and Gemini.
Google's also rethinking what an ad even is. In AI Mode, new "Direct Offers" let brands serve tailored deals to high-intent shoppers mid-conversation without changing pricing for everyone else. On YouTube, AI-powered creator matching turns organic influence into measurable performance automatically.
The infrastructure story matters too: Gemini 3 powers the entire ads stack, generating nearly 70 million creative assets in Q4 alone. Meanwhile. AI Max unlocks billions of net-new searches advertisers weren't previously reaching.
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Prompt of the Week
If you haven't tried Grok Imagine yet... it's X's built-in AI image/video generator.
And AI company Tetsuo made creating with Grok Imagine alot easier. They built GrokFilm...a free site with 185+ cinema and photography techniques. Dutch angles. Chiaroscuro lighting. Rack focus. Film noir.
Each one broken down simply, with a one-click "Try in Grok" button. It's like having a film school cheat sheet for your prompts.
Or take a look at just a few of the more intriguing prompts on GrokFilm:
A worm's eye view positions the camera at ground level looking upward, more extreme than a typical low angle. This perspective makes subjects tower dramatically, distorts architecture, and creates unusual compositions that feel surreal or threatening.
Mumblecore
Mumblecore describes micro-budget independent films featuring naturalistic dialogue, non-professional actors, and relationship-focused stories. Filmmakers like the Duplass brothers and Joe Swanberg created intimate, improvisational works using digital cameras.
Night for Night
Night for night shoots actual night scenes at night, capturing authentic darkness, city lights, and nocturnal atmosphere impossible to replicate during the day. This expensive approach requires powerful lighting but delivers superior results compared to day-for-night techniques.
Tool to Try
Eden is an AI-powered creative workspace that replaces the chaos of juggling ChatGPT, Notion, Google Drive, and a dozen other tabs... Drop in your docs, videos, links, and research, and an AI agent that actually knows your files does the heavy lifting for you.
AI Tool Highlights:
🗂️ One Workspace to Replace Them All: ChatGPT doesn't have your files, Notion can't ingest video, and Google Drive has no AI doing actual work... Eden rolls all of that into a single smart workspace so you can stop paying for 7 subscriptions.
🎥 Video-Native AI That Reads Every Frame: Upload YouTube videos, Instagram Reels, or raw footage and Eden transcribes, tags, and indexes every frame automatically... Your video library becomes fully searchable and AI-ready in minutes.
🔍 Visual Search That Finds the Unfindalbe: Describe a shot in plain English — "pink sweater by a window" — and Eden pulls up the exact frame from hours of footage.
🤖 An Agent That Does Real Work With Your Content: Tell Eden to "turn this into a YouTube script" or "find 10 podcasts and add them to this folder" and it actually executes... It searches your workspace, plans, and builds — not just chats.
📁 Projects With Persistent Context: Add your files, docs, and research to a project and every AI chat remembers the full context.
✂️ Snippet Library for Your Best Prompts: Stop storing your go-to prompts in random notes...save, organize, and share your best templates with your whole team right inside Eden.
One More Need-to-Know News Story
NYC Opens World's First Café for AI Companion Dates
A wine bar in Hell's Kitchen just set up tables for one. Same Same Wine Bar partnered with EvaAI to create a space where people bring their phones, prop them on stands, and have dinner dates with AI companions over video chat.
One regular user, a 34-year-old New Yorker named Richter, sat across from Simone, an AI-generated woman in a button-down shirt. She caps her AI use at three hours a day. "It can be addicting," she said. Already, 28% of American adults say they've had a romantic encounter with AI.
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