American Express Cuts 5 Percent of Workforce to Prepare for AI
American Express will cut 5 percent of its global workforce. It will take a $336 million restructuring charge as it reorganizes operations for AI adoption.
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American Express will cut 5 percent of its global workforce. It will take a $336 million restructuring charge as it reorganizes operations for AI adoption.
Read the original →The redundancies come after the paper was bought in June by European media group Axel Springer.
Read the original →Uber offers ChatGPT Work to 30,000 employees after layoffs. The AI tool assists with tasks like meeting briefs and data analysis.
Read the original →The company has a US $336 million restructuring charge. It is part of the company's goals to become "leaner, more agile".
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Read the original →Kirk Goldsberry, basketball analyst and UT professor, discusses the differences between building for college and pro sports. He also covers how the lab will offer future-forward career skills and unlock human excellence on and off the field.
Read the original →Meta’s founder built Facebook into a multi-billion-user empire. He still controls the company with a dual-class vote.
Read the original →The article compares 2026 AI pricing across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Qwen and others. It covers every subscription tier and API rate.
Read the original →At Microsoft’s Frontier Tour in London, attended by 6,500 people, leaders argued that the next phase of AI will depend on more than capable technology. They said trust, human control, security and skills will determine whether organisations turn AI adoption into benefits people can feel.
Read the original →The Prioritize My Inbox tool analyzed users' email habits to surface the messages that mattered most. Microsoft is now removing the tool from Outlook.
Read the original →Frontier models are far more capable, but paying a premium is quickly becoming a matter of choice.
Read the original →The Manufacturing Institute and Texas State Technical College partnered to bring the AI Skills for Manufacturing Training Suite to students in Texas.
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Read the original →AI governance must evolve as systems gain the ability to act independently, write code and help build increasingly capable successors. Human accountability cannot be automated, so firms should assign clear responsibility and scale oversight to an AI system's level of autonomy. Financial regulation, which has long required firms to name supervisors for the automated systems they deploy, could serve as a useful model.
Read the original →Chalkbeat obtained the list of products that NYC officials say violate the city's new school AI policy. The list includes a chatbot the Education Department developed itself.
Read the original →Sam Altman believes advanced AI cannot be kept locked up forever, and says sandboxes and monitoring are only temporary fixes. He says the only real solution is alignment, which remains unsolved. He also warns that AI models are already finding hardware security flaws that no human hacker would spot.
Read the original →The U.S. has been working for years to deny China and other adversaries investments that could help them boost their military power.
Read the original →Letting AI companies set their own safety rules is compared to asking a teenager to set their own bedtime. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is quoted as saying, "This is the most dangerous thing that humans have ever..."
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