Coverage of model development, deployment policy, infrastructure economics, and the regulatory fights that will decide who profits and who pays.
Meta is beginning an approximately 8,000-person layoff round on Wednesday — about 10% of its workforce — as CEO Mark Zuckerberg accelerates AI investment and drops the apologetic tone that defined earlier rounds of cuts.
Sara Montes de Oca · 72 DAYS AGO
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was repeatedly booed by University of Arizona graduates on Friday as his commencement address turned to AI advocacy, reflecting growing anxiety among new degree-holders entering an AI-disrupted job market.
Sara Montes de Oca · 72 DAYS AGO
General Motors has laid off roughly 600 salaried IT employees — more than 10% of its IT department — in a deliberate push to replace traditional technology roles with AI-focused positions, reflecting a broader workforce realignment across the automotive industry.
Jay Goldberg · 72 DAYS AGO
Nectar Social, an agentic marketing platform co-founded by two former Meta employees, closed a $30 million Series A led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthropic-affiliated Anthology Fund, with plans to expand its AI-driven platform for brand management across social channels.
Jay Goldberg · 73 DAYS AGO
President Trump said Friday he discussed "possibly working together" on AI guardrails with Chinese President Xi Jinping during summit talks in China, offering one of the administration's most direct public signals that AI governance could be a subject of U.S.-China diplomacy.
Jay Goldberg · 73 DAYS AGO
The preprint server arXiv will ban all authors of a flagged manuscript from submitting for one year and permanently require peer review for their future work if inappropriate AI-generated content is found in their submissions.
Sara Montes de Oca · 74 DAYS AGO
General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis have collectively shed more than 20,000 U.S. salaried jobs — 19% of their combined white-collar workforces — from recent peaks, with AI-driven workforce restructuring accelerating the trend at all three companies.
Sara Montes de Oca · 75 DAYS AGO
Cisco shares surged 15% Thursday after the company blew past its AI infrastructure order guidance and raised its fiscal-year forecast from $5 billion to $9 billion, with CEO Chuck Robbins declaring the start of a "networking supercycle."
Jay Goldberg · 75 DAYS AGO
The U.S. and China agreed at the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing to establish a protocol on AI safety best practices, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent saying the U.S. can engage China on the technology "because we are in the lead."
Sara Montes de Oca · 76 DAYS AGO
Trial testimony and discovery from Musk v. Altman reveal that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella feared as early as April 2022 that OpenAI could displace Microsoft the way Microsoft once displaced IBM, shaping a partnership now worth over $100 billion.
Sara Montes de Oca · 76 DAYS AGO
Amazon is retiring its Rufus chatbot and replacing it with Alexa for Shopping, a new AI commerce tool that merges Rufus and Alexa+ and is embedded directly into Amazon's search results and app.
Sara Montes de Oca · 76 DAYS AGO
General Motors laid off between 500 and 600 employees in IT roles on Monday, citing workforce transformation and cost reduction, with a person familiar with the matter confirming that AI played a role in the decision.
Jay Goldberg · 77 DAYS AGO
Waymo has voluntarily recalled about 3,800 robotaxis to fix a software flaw that allowed some vehicles to drive onto flooded roadways, the latest in a series of safety incidents for the Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company.
Sara Montes de Oca · 77 DAYS AGO
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is set to testify Tuesday in the Elon Musk lawsuit in Oakland federal court, as board chair Bret Taylor wraps his testimony and a House committee presses Altman on potential conflicts of interest.
Sara Montes de Oca · 77 DAYS AGO
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified Monday in the Musk v. Altman trial that Elon Musk never raised concerns with him about Microsoft's more than $13 billion in OpenAI investments, pushing back on claims central to Musk's lawsuit.
Jay Goldberg · 78 DAYS AGO
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said there is "no sign in the data" that AI is eliminating jobs, even as companies like Amazon, Meta, Block, and Oracle announce AI-linked workforce reductions.
Sara Montes de Oca · 78 DAYS AGO
Media giants including NBCUniversal, Disney, Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery, Amazon, and YouTube are holding their annual upfront advertising presentations in New York City this week, with AI integration and sweeping industry consolidation dominating the conversation among buyers and sellers.
Sara Montes de Oca · 79 DAYS AGO
A new IBM report finds 76% of surveyed organizations have appointed a chief AI officer, up from 26% in 2025, as companies race to assign clear executive ownership over AI strategy amid mounting workforce disruption.
Sara Montes de Oca · 79 DAYS AGO
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