Three-day work week: Jeff Bezos says AI is making work almost unnecessary
Jeff Bezos has shared his view of how AI will reshape work, suggesting it could make working almost unnecessary and open the way to a three-day week.
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Workday goes headless, opening its HR and finance data to outside AI agents
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The X Subscription bundles Cursor with Grok and X Premium. But Claude now costs extra.
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