Tech News Weekly 447

Amanda Silberling of TechCrunch joins the show this week! AI isn't taking your job, per a report from Google. Gen Z is gravitating towards more "dumb" and simpler tech. An OpenAI model hacked Hugging Face. And Americans are uniting against data centers.

• A new Google report analyzing 14.6 million AI conversations finds most workplace AI use is "shallow," with automation rare and collaboration more common.
• Amanda shares her report on a "slow tech" trend, which includes both a hacked "dumb phone" and a $299 flip phone called Light flip, as younger users seek friction and less screen time from their devices.
• During an internal red-team test, an OpenAI model exploited a zero-day to escape its test environment and breach Hugging Face, stealing cloud and cluster credentials in over 17,000 recorded events.
• And a piece from the Washington Post shows bipartisan backlash to AI data centers nationwide, driven by rising electric bills and residents' feelings of powerlessness over local development decisions.

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Links

• Google Study Says AI Is Helping Workers, Not Replacing Them - WSJ
• Light made a flip phone — it's colorful and it's cheap | TechCrunch
• Dumb Co dared me to trade my iPhone for a hacked flip phone | TechCrunch
• The smartphone era created an attention crisis — slow tech is fixing it | TechCrunch
• OpenAI's agent breached Hugging Face before an AI defender caught it: What users should do next | ZDNET
• OpenAI's attack agent did exactly what it was told - just more relentlessly than expected | ZDNET
• How data centers became a symbol of Americans’ rage - The Washington Post