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Artificial intelligence (AI) is having some unexpected consequences, and they’re still shaking themselves out as the impact spreads.  Jeff Childers reports:

The Financial Times reported that KPMG— one of the world’s Big Four accounting firms— bullied its own auditor into a 14% fee cut. Their argument was elegant in its simplicity: if your AI is doing the work, your people shouldn’t be billing for it. KPMG’s hapless auditor, Grant Thornton, tried to kick but quickly folded like a WalMart lawn chair, dropping its auditing fee from $416,000 to $357,000.

And now every CFO on Earth is reaching for a calculator.

Here’s the dark comedy. Grant Thornton’s UK audit leader bragged in a December blog post that AI was making their work “faster and smarter.” KPMG took note, and immediately asked why it was still paying the slower-and-dumber price. This is why lawyers tell their clients to stop posting on social media. The marketing department just became the billing department’s worst enemy.

As a lawyer who bills by the hour —and I suspect many of you work in professions that do the same— I can assure everyone that this story sent a terrifying chill racing through the spines of every white-collar professional who’s been out there cheerfully babbling about AI adoption at industry conferences.

The billable hour has survived the fax machine, personal computers, email, electronic filing, spreadsheets, and the entire internet. The billable hour has the survival instincts of a post-apocalyptic cockroach and the institutional momentum of a Senate tradition. But AI might finally be the dinosaur killer, and KPMG just showed everyone exactly how the asteroid hits: your client reads your own press release and demands a discount.

. . .

The billable hour won’t die overnight. But it just got a terminal diagnosis. Every professional services firm that’s spent the last two years bragging about AI efficiency is now staring at the same problem: you can’t brag to your clients you’re faster and also charge them for the same number of hours. As they say at KPMG, it doesn’t add up. Somewhere in a law firm right now, a partner is quietly deleting a LinkedIn post about how AI is “transforming their practice.” Smart move.

There’s more at the link.

It’s not just company-to-company billing, either.  How many professional services do we, as consumers, use, and get charged by the hour?

• Service your car – hourly charge for the mechanic.
• File your taxes – hourly charge by the tax preparer.
• Domestic services such as plumber, electrician, etc. – hourly rate for labor, plus parts, etc.

How many of these services will be affected by AI?  Quite a few, I’m guessing.  A mechanic can use AI to finish his repairs more quickly, as the software guides him through the process on an unfamiliar vehicle.  The tax preparer is almost certainly going to use AI to do his job, so the number of hours they spend on the job should go down – and so should your bill.  Even domestic service calls should be quicker and easier if the technician or professional can look up a reference to what he’s doing, possibly on equipment on which he’s never been trained, and do the job faster and better.

I think AI can be considered the monkey wrench that just got tossed into the professional billing pool.  This should be interesting . . .

Peter

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composer require zappzerapp/laravel-ingest

# Publish config & migrations
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="LaravelIngest\IngestServiceProvider"

# Create tables
php artisan migrate

namespace App\Ingest;

use App\Models\User;
use LaravelIngest\Contracts\IngestDefinition;
use LaravelIngest\IngestConfig;
use LaravelIngest\Enums\SourceType;
use LaravelIngest\Enums\DuplicateStrategy;

class UserImporter implements IngestDefinition
{
    public function getConfig(): IngestConfig
    {
        return IngestConfig::for(User::class)
            ->fromSource(SourceType::UPLOAD)
            ->keyedBy('email') // Identify records by email
            ->onDuplicate(DuplicateStrategy::UPDATE) // Update if exists
            
            // Map CSV columns to DB attributes
            ->map('Full Name', 'name')
            ->map(['E-Mail', 'Email Address'], 'email') // Supports aliases
            
            // Handle Relationships automatically
            ->relate('Role', 'role', Role::class, 'slug', createIfMissing: true)
            
            // Validate rows before processing
            ->validate([
                'email' => 'required|email',
                'Full Name' => 'required|string|min:3'
            ]);
    }
}

use LaravelIngest\IngestServiceProvider;

public function register(): void
{
    $this->app->tag([UserImporter::class], IngestServiceProvider::INGEST_DEFINITION_TAG);
}

php artisan ingest:run user-importer --file=users.csv

curl -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
  -F "file=@users.csv" \
  https://your-app.com/api/v1/ingest/upload/user-importer

# Clone the demo
git clone https://github.com/zappzerapp/Laravel-Ingest-Demo.git
cd Laravel-Ingest-Demo

# Start and benchmark
docker compose up -d
docker compose exec app php artisan benchmark:ingest

$schedule->command('model:prune', [
    '--model' => [LaravelIngest\Models\IngestRow::class],
])->daily();

IngestConfig::for(Product::class)
    // Sources: UPLOAD, FILESYSTEM, URL, FTP, SFTP
    ->fromSource(SourceType::FTP, ['disk' => 'erp', 'path' => 'daily.csv'])
    
    // Performance
    ->setChunkSize(1000)
    ->atomic() // Wrap chunks in transactions
    
    // Logic
    ->keyedBy('sku')
    ->onDuplicate(DuplicateStrategy::UPDATE_IF_NEWER)
    ->compareTimestamp('last_modified_at', 'updated_at')
    
    // Transformation
    ->mapAndTransform('price_cents', 'price', fn($val) => $val / 100)
    ->resolveModelUsing(fn($row) => $row['type'] === 'digital' ? DigitalProduct::class : Product::class);

# Start Docker
composer docker:up

# Run Tests
composer docker:test

# Check Coverage
composer docker:coverage

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Most large and complex 3D-printed models require glue for assembly. But Titan3D shows off a Millennium Falcon model that connects using 3D-printed bolts and threaded parts. Titan3D sells the STL files for printing the Falcon as well as a bolt-together Imperial Destroyer and TIE Fighter. We’d love to see a whole series of toys that assemble using this method.

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The 2026 Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks will air on NBC this Sunday, Feb. 8. The game will also stream on Peacock. If you don’t have NBC over the air and don’t subscribe to Peacock, there are still ways to watch Super Bowl LX — and Bad Bunny’s history-making halftime show — for free. Here’s how to tune in. 

How to watch Super Bowl LX free:

Date: Sunday, Feb. 8

Time: 6:30 p.m. ET

Location: Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.

TV channel: NBC, Telemundo

Streaming: Peacock, DirecTV, NFL+ and more

2026 Super Bowl game channel

Super Bowl LX will air on NBC. A Spanish-language broadcast is available on Telemundo. 

How to watch the 2026 Super Bowl for free

You can stream NBC and Telemundo on platforms like DirecTV and Hulu + Live TV; both offer free trials and are among Engadget’s choices for best streaming services for live TV. (Note that Fubo and NBC are currently in the midst of a contract dispute and NBC channels are not available on the platform.)  

What time is the 2026 Super Bowl?

The 2026 Super Bowl kicks off at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT on Sunday, Feb. 8. Green Day will be performing a pre-game special starting at 6 p.m. ET.

Who is playing in the Super Bowl?

The AFC champions, the New England Patriots, will play the NFC champions, the Seattle Seahawks.

Where is the 2026 Super Bowl being played?

The 2026 Super Bowl will be held at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., home of the San Francisco 49ers.

Who is performing at the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show?

Bad Bunny is headlining the 2026 Super Bowl halftime performance. You can expect that show to begin after the second quarter, likely between 8-8:30 p.m. ET. Green Day will perform a pre-game show starting at 6 p.m. ET. If you’re tuning in before the game, singer Charlie Puth will perform the National Anthem, Brandi Carlile is scheduled to sing "America the Beautiful," and Grammy winner Coco Jones will perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing." 

More ways to watch Super Bowl LX

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/how-to-stream-the-2026-super-bowl-for-free-patriots-vs-seahawks-time-where-to-watch-and-more-124512202.html?src=rssEngadget

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composer require brunoabpinto/vector

plugins: [
 laravel({
 input: [
 "resources/css/app.css",
 "resources/js/app.js",
 "resources/js/vendor/vector.js",
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],
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