GitHub has Issues as repo downloads hit 50% error rate

Excel's Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin

Microsoft will retire Excel’s experimental COPILOT() worksheet function on September 14, 2026, abandoning plans for a broader rollout and steering users toward the Copilot side pane for AI-assisted spreadsheet tasks.

Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project

Nvidia is investing $1.5 billion in SoftBank-backed SB Energy and extending up to $105 billion in credit, securing exclusive compute infrastructure supply for a massive OpenAI-linked AI data center in Ohio.

fearless_simd v0.7: 64-bit integers, improved generics, SSE2, and upcoming v1.0

Fearless_simd version 0.7 introduces 64-bit integer support, enhanced generic implementations, SSE2 compatibility, and previews the upcoming 1.0 release.

The making of Cursor’s icons

Cursor replaced its inherited VS Code-era iconography with a custom system of more than 600 hand-crafted icons, creating a unified visual language for AI-native concepts, workflows, and product features while maintaining backward compatibility.

Editor's noteSix hundred hand-drawn icons for a code editor is either indulgence or the clearest sign yet that AI-native tools need a visual language of their own. We chose the second reading. Inherited iconography carries inherited assumptions, and Cursor decided the old ones no longer describe the work. Read the reasoning, not just the gallery.

Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay

AI will remain transformative despite job displacement, accuracy problems, and market turbulence, predicting broader workplace adoption, continued automation of knowledge work, and growing influence from both proprietary and open models.

The feature was fine. So why did users keep hiding it?

A UX case study argues that users often reject products not because features are poor, but because those features conflict with identity, status signals, or self-perception, revealing a hidden gap between usability and long-term adoption.

Digest: Apple Trains Its own AI Model For China; Walmart Connect Adds Negative Keyword Controls For Sponsored Ads

ExchangeWire’s roundup highlights Apple developing a China-specific AI model with Alibaba’s support, Walmart expanding advertiser controls through negative keywords, and Experian fully integrating Audigent into its marketing services business.

Editor's noteA digest led the section because its three items belong together: Apple building a China-only model, Walmart giving advertisers negative keywords, Experian absorbing Audigent. Each is a large platform accepting that one global product no longer fits every market or every buyer. That is the pattern worth carrying into any regional media plan.

Performance Agency Chief Media Acquires 2 Firms to Beef up Amazon and TikTok Expertise

Chief Media, an independent performance agency, purchased Amazon consultancy AMZ Advisers and social specialist Reach Social, expanding e-commerce and TikTok capabilities for cross-selling to existing agency clients.

The four-day week myth: Why AI won’t reduce workloads

AI-driven efficiency is unlikely to automatically shorten working weeks, as organizations typically reinvest productivity gains into additional output, raising expectations and workloads unless leaders deliberately redesign how work capacity is used.

Editor's noteAI will not deliver a four-day week; it will deliver a five-day week with more in it, because every efficiency gain before this one was reinvested in output, not returned as time. Adeline Segaux says it before the pitch decks catch up, which is why it led Human Resources. Hours come down only when a leader decides they will.

Starbucks and Bank of America: two different paths on GLP-1 coverage

Employers are taking divergent approaches to GLP-1 obesity medications, with Starbucks ending weight-loss coverage to manage healthcare costs while Bank of America continues substantial spending, viewing the drugs as a long-term workforce health investment.

Say Please! Or Not, It Could Be Causing Workplace Productivity to Slow Down

A workplace communication study found that requests framed with excessive politeness or urgency were more likely to be completed late, while clear ownership, explicit deadlines, and direct task assignment improved on-time delivery rates.

Russia’s Nuclear Weapons: Sanctified by God?

The Russian Orthodox Church’s support for Russia’s nuclear arsenal, arguing that religious endorsement of weapons of mass destruction is unusual among major faith traditions and reinforces state nuclear messaging.

Editor's noteA church blessing nuclear weapons is unusual even by the standards of churches and weapons, and Alexander Motyl writes it plainly where most analysis is either too careful or too loud. It led Public Policy because the religious layer is part of Russia’s signalling, not colour. If you model Russia risk, the arsenal’s sanctification belongs in the model.

Why We Should Fight

Article discusses areas where Trump made mistakes, without providing specific policy details or substantive arguments in the provided excerpt.

Nova Scotia’s Experiment in Research That Solves Real Problems

Nova Scotia is funding mission-oriented research around community-defined challenges, using multidisciplinary teams and long-term partnerships to generate practical solutions in areas such as health, aging, environmental management, and social wellbeing.