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Macmillan Staff Say the Publisher Threw a Party for a Workplace AI Assistant That Was Later Killed
According to the description, Wired reports that Macmillan workers say its internal AI assistant NOA, short for No Ordinary Assistant, was unhelpful, and that bestselling authors say AI is damaging their relationships with the Big Five publishers.
Why it matters
The same thing, for different readers.
What it means for you
Staff at publisher Macmillan told Wired that a workplace AI assistant the company celebrated was unhelpful and was later dropped.
The question it raises
Authors telling Wired that AI harms their relationships with big publishers raises who creative work is for and who decides how it is used.
The record
- Questions
- What happens to work, income and the economy?
- People
- Adam Morgan (Wrote it)
- What we read
- We have read only the description the publisher gives. No quotations until someone reads the source itself.
- Found by
- The Radar, run of October 29, 2026, via
wired-ai(tier 2: a major outlet’s own reporting) - Cite this
- Wired, “Macmillan Staff Say the Publisher Threw a Party for a Workplace AI Assistant That Was Later Killed”, October 28, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/wired-2026-10-28-macmillan-noa-assistant-killed
Our notesLight lane: triage description only; staff claims are as reported by Wired and not checked.