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Companies that reduced staff on the judgment that AI could replace them have begun calling former employees back. According to Business Insider Japan, Amazon is one of them and is also rehiring employees it had laid off.
Read the original →Fearing that AI and technology will take their jobs, many young people in the United States are changing course. They are moving from office work to jobs that require practical skills and direct contact with people.
Read the original →Anthropic is offering a writer up to Rs 3.25 crore, even though AI can write in seconds. Some writers are losing clients to automation, and the job raises the question of what makes human writing valuable.
Read the original →India plans to identify AI-proof jobs. Piyush Goyal has called for protecting employment, strengthening traditional industries and preparing workers for automation.
Read the original →A Philadelphia Fed working paper shows an AI agent running economic research unsupervised. Wall Street banks are cutting junior analyst hiring because of AI.
Read the original →The collapse of an AI bubble would not mean the end of unemployment. Past research shows automation advances faster during downturns.
Read the original →Anthropic opened an investigation into elevated errors affecting five Claude models on October 25, 2026. It posted an incident on the Claude Status page at 06:14 UTC, listing claude.ai, the Claude API and Claude Code among the affected services.
Read the original →Anthropic shelved Claude Mythos after it uncovered more than 10,000 security flaws. The article covers what it found, why the release was paused, and what it means for AI safety in 2026.
Read the original →The incidents have highlighted vulnerabilities in AI security. They have also raised questions over how AI can be safely kept under human control.
Read the original →OpenAI is strengthening AI training security with offline web tools, layered containment and red teaming. The article looks at what changed and why it matters.
Read the original →SpaceX is advertising xAI's Grok Bot inside Penn Station in New York City, which sees more than 600,000 passengers daily. The ad tagline reads "Grok Bot. AI teammates that get work done."
Read the original →ChatGPT and Grok voice sessions each ended at $82,000. Claude Opus 5.5 gave separate text and voice estimates of $78,000 and $85,000.
Read the original →Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta and Amazon report on Oct 28-29. Copilot has reached 50M users.
Read the original →A Reddit thread features a photograph of a poster advertising the National Gallery of Victoria's upcoming triennial, showing an image from Ayoung Kim's multi-channel video installation, Delivery Dancer's Arc: Inverse (2024). The video piece is about women working as gig-economy delivery drivers in dystopian Seoul, besieged by an artificial intelligence that drives them to compete with one another, monitors their labour and skews their sense of time.
Read the original →The item compares DeepSeek and Claude API pricing, listing Flash-1017 at $0.30 for input. It lists Claude Haiku, Sonnet and Opus 5.5 at $0.10 to $4, and covers costs, limits and migration.
Read the original →Domestic AI companies DeepSeek and MiniMax have completed the relevant registration procedures. They have released their large-scale models as open source.
Read the original →Both stocks have soared in recent years.
Read the original →The Pershing Square billionaire, who has invested close to $100 million in Israel, believes AI will give small, highly skilled teams a competitive edge. In an interview with Calcalist, he discusses his Israeli investments, the risks of political polarization and a $400 million initiative to accelerate medical innovation inspired by his daughter's recovery.
Read the original →Some businesses say they want to see employment costs come down in the October Budget.
Read the original →With the United States and China, the two leading AI powers, forming their own AI blocs, other countries are maneuvering to harness the strengths of both groupings. They aim to do so without alienating either and risking losing out.
Read the original →Nvidia, AMD and Intel unveiled 3 rival open AI rack designs at OCP 2026. The report compares how each stacks up on power, cooling and openness.
Read the original →Dayforce agreed to buy Ribbon after more than a million AI interviews. The missing public measure is whether those conversations improve qualified hires and candidate follow-up.
Read the original →Bill Gates says AI will solve many of the world's problems. He says the next 20 years will be "as tumultuous a period as there's been in human history."
Read the original →U.S. lawmakers and White House advisers have lost patience with AI executives who repeatedly swing between "boom" and "doom" messaging.
Read the original →There are fears that AI will take away jobs and livelihoods, with machine learning and autonomous robots displacing and replacing human workers.
Read the original →Fusion demonstrated its AI In-a-Box to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at GTC Berlin 2026. The report covers what the compact system does, why it caught his eye, and what it means for on-premises AI.
Read the original →Company filings show that in just six months of this year, the world's most valued chip maker has multiplied its support for its own customers to $288 billion.
Read the original →Andrew Ng, an AI pioneer and Google Brain co-founder, spoke out against malicious uses of the technology. He named non-consensual deepfake intimate photos as one of the most troubling misuses he has encountered, in an interview on The Economist's "Inside Tech" podcast. He dismissed the notion that the technology presents an existential threat to society.
Read the original →Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are increasing their focus on artificial intelligence, science and STEM education through both philanthropic and corporate investments, according to a Fortune report. The couple pledged $50 million to Sacramento State University to pay for state-of-the-art STEM labs and an AI center, Fortune reports.
Read the original →Zuckerberg and Chan are shifting the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Biohub and AI biomedical research. The report covers what is confirmed, what is not, and what it means for developers.
Read the original →President Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths for Tina Peters, a former Colorado election official convicted for helping to breach the voting system she swore to protect. Peters served less than two years in prison for crimes related to breaching voting system security. She maintains she was trying to show flaws in the system.
Read the original →The piece quotes 1 John 2:18 and 4:3, which say that many antichrists have already appeared. It frames the question around moments in the history of civilization and the promise of salvation.
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