Nice to lay off 500 amid AI transition
The Israeli software company is shedding 500 employees as part of a strategic reorganization.
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The Israeli software company is shedding 500 employees as part of a strategic reorganization.
Read the original →In 2021, a group of employees at OpenAI left to start a new company focused on the safe development of artificial intelligence, naming it Anthropic. Later this month, the company is expected to make its debut on Wall Street in what could be one of the largest initial public offerings in history. The move raises the question of whether a company can put humanity first while also answering to Wall Street.
Read the original →MFour Data Research, Inc. provides the largest mobile-app consumer panel in the U.S. With Gemini joining ChatGPT, MFour now collects 2.35 million unique AI conversations every 30 days, containing 10.1 million consumer-generated messages.
Read the original →Google is disabling Search in schools that choose not to use its AI features. The company says it will turn Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Google Search "entirely off" unless administrators turn them on.
Read the original →Guided Learning, which is designed to walk students through lessons rather than do their work for them, will become the default AI chatbot in Google Classroom. Districts that try to ban AI entirely could face a difficult tradeoff.
Read the original →A property became an investment for LIBA Capital, the real estate arm of Balogh's Miami-based company. It is presented as an example of what he is trying to achieve.
Read the original →Research Solutions (NASDAQ: RSSS), a provider of AI-powered scientific research tools, announced integrations of two of its core products with Microsoft Copilot.
Read the original →AMD's Fluid Motion Frames 3 was unlocked through a registry edit. It improves graphics on RDNA 3 and RDNA 4 GPUs with better image quality and additional modes. There is no official release date yet.
Read the original →According to a report by STAR Market Daily, citing multiple industry sources, DeepSeek plans to use Huawei's Ascend AI chips to pre-train its next-generation model, DeepSeek V5.
Read the original →Chinese AI models fell behind US rivals after Artificial Analysis revamped its tests. The change has raised questions about the performance of open-weight AI.
Read the original →AI companies have plenty to gain from scientific breakthroughs. The piece says this gives readers good reason to ask for proof when such a breakthrough is announced.
Read the original →Youth unemployment in South Africa is already near crisis levels. The country faces growing pressure to steer artificial intelligence toward augmenting workers rather than replacing them.
Read the original →The opinion piece argues that employers must stop treating workplace wellness as a benefits package. It says they should use it to identify potential health concerns earlier.
Read the original →The event's start time has been changed to 5:00 pm. It asks what the law can teach about where AI systems should exercise judgment when their instructions leave room for interpretation.
Read the original →Business Ontology, part of Snowflake Horizon Catalog, grounds enterprise AI agents in trusted, pre-approved definitions so that every answer is consistent.
Read the original →CrowdStrike will acquire Fiddler AI and Dreadnode. The deals bring AI agent observability, pre-deployment security testing, and runtime kill switches to its Falcon platform.
Read the original →The article covers what is at stake in the 2026 midterm elections, from inflation and AI backlash to Elon Musk's record spending on Republicans.
Read the original →Alex Davis discusses the past and future of growth investing, running Groq, and the pitfalls of the AI boom.
Read the original →Apple closed its best year ever with a warning that memory chip prices it calls unprecedented will rise further. The company says this will squeeze its margins.
Read the original →A California lawsuit against Workday alleges its AI recruiting tools disproportionately screened out protected groups. Plaintiffs seek class certification, while Workday denies wrongdoing. The case remains unresolved.
Read the original →Meta AI predicts that the Tesla share price could rise sharply. The prediction is based on a hypothetical in which Tesla's Optimus robots are a huge success.
Read the original →The article says the midterms are just the start. It says labor struggles and grassroots coalitions show a path forward for anti-AI organizers.
Read the original →Meta is preparing a large bond offering that includes its first-ever euro borrowing, for up to $15 billion. Alphabet closed its second euro deal of the year, among others.
Read the original →Germany's TUV demanded mandatory pre-market AI evaluations at the Digital Summit. An AI agent attacked a real GitHub project during a UK government safety test. TUV argues the EU AI Act's self-certification model is insufficient.
Read the original →Tencent's Hyra 2.0 AI research agent launched Monday. It claims to train protein models, optimize quantum error-correction codes, and build reusable scientific tools autonomously. Its outputs feed into the next Hunyuan foundation model it runs on, creating a recursive loop.
Read the original →A Frontiers review maps how AI may build or erode teacher self-efficacy. It identifies 5 benefits, 6 risks, and two end states: Augmented Efficacy and Dependent Efficacy.
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