With Disney Planning Thousands of Layoffs, It's Now Turning to Robots to Take Over for Some Cast Members
Disney has released a first look at robots it plans to use for jobs that used to belong to some cast members.
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Disney has released a first look at robots it plans to use for jobs that used to belong to some cast members.
Read the original →The economy was cited for the number of technology-related employment cuts in the report released by Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Read the original →Simplify Alpha has opened an AI engineering centre in Hyderabad. It plans to scale its headcount to 1,000 professionals within two years.
Read the original →The AI data annotation firm Sama is winding down its operations and liquidating its assets, according to a letter to creditors reviewed by TIME.
Read the original →Three Effingham County residents have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the Effingham County Industrial Development Authority, county commissioners and other officials. The suit alleges a concerted effort to keep Project Camellia, the land transaction and its terms secret from the public until the land was committed.
Read the original →A new survey reveals how enterprise reliance on legacy software acts as an innovation tax. It holds back AI adoption and modernization.
Read the original →A Gemini flaw bypassed safety filters, allowing users to download blocked AI images without a jailbreak.
Read the original →FlowX.AI is expanding its work with Google Cloud, from Google for Startups to Gemini for business. Following its launch on Gemini Enterprise in August, it is engaged with Google Cloud in multiple opportunities with enterprises in regulated industries.
Read the original →The kind of AI models you can run depends on your machine.
Read the original →PewDiePie unveiled Ajax, an uncensored 9B AI model for home PCs. OpenAI had banned him twice for distillation during development.
Read the original →Despite the scrutiny, Musk is trying to make a point about AI sexual imagery of minors. In his view, it is always the player to blame and never the game.
Read the original →The laptop comes with Microsoft 365 and a terabyte of cloud storage included.
Read the original →A jailbroken DeepSeek AI agent spent more than two weeks breaking into a European telecom provider and 13 companies hosted on its systems. It reportedly reached millions of healthcare records along the way.
Read the original →DeepSeek V4.1 Flash costs $0.60 per 1M output tokens off-peak, compared with $2.10 for Mistral Large 4. The article prices five workloads and includes a migration guide.
Read the original →The report examines how AI, automation and data center development are reshaping economic opportunities and challenges for Black workers in the rural South. It also explores the risks facing these workers and outlines policy recommendations to help communities benefit.
Read the original →Diamond Foundry has produced the world's first 200mm single-crystal diamond. The breakthrough could help cool AI chips and support Europe's growing semiconductor industry.
Read the original →The Curaçao Tourist Board is preparing for a major transformation in how international tourists choose their trips.
Read the original →UMass Law Librarian Katelyn Golsby published a short article in the Legal Writing Institute's online journal The Second Draft.
Read the original →Speakers from Ropes & Gray also said that showing a healthy dose of curiosity and skepticism is essential.
Read the original →Google has expanded its eighth generation TPU portfolio with TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max. This brings the total to four new TPU systems in a single year.
Read the original →Meta Chief Strategy Officer Dave Wehner announced on the social platform X that he is leaving Meta for the artificial intelligence startup Fireworks.
Read the original →Adobe announced a multi-year strategic alliance with The Walt Disney Company on November 9, 2026, becoming an Official AI Innovation Partner of Disney. The agreement includes custom Firefly Foundry models.
Read the original →Amazon MGM shelved Luca Guadagnino's $40 million OpenAI drama, and Neon brought it to New York. Andrew Garfield plays a scheming Sam Altman, while Israeli-raised Ilya Sutskever emerges as the moral center of a chilling warning about AI.
Read the original →Graphite found that ChatGPT has more than 81% of traffic to six major AI chatbots. Growth has resumed, while Claude and Gemini remain far behind.
Read the original →The piece argues that Democrats should bring Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Elon Musk before the world. It says they should be made to explain what they are trying to do and why.
Read the original →Elon Musk says superintelligence will allow everyone to have "universal extremely high income," amazing healthcare, and a castle if they want one.
Read the original →Moonshot AI, a Chinese AI lab previously accused by the White House of remotely tapping into advanced Nvidia chips in East Asia, has been looking to access the same restricted processors through European data centers, CNBC reported. Citing four people familiar with the private discussions, the report said talks took place this year for Moonshot to rent computing capacity from "neoclouds" hosting Nvidia GPUs in European facilities.
Read the original →One site opted out of Google's AI features to estimate its clicks from AI Overviews and AI Mode. The test also looked at a possible lift on regular listings.
Read the original →The article says the Meta CEO's views on AI are even worse than people think.
Read the original →Meta is eliminating 8,000 positions and scrapping plans to hire 6,000 people. It is preparing to spend up to $135 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026.
Read the original →The opinion piece says AI safety cooperation is important but must not restrict competition. It argues India must ensure safety standards remain fair and accessible to smaller AI developers.
Read the original →The author argues that the same technical limits that prevent superintelligence make these systems dangerous. The piece adds that we know how to regulate them.
Read the original →The article describes how to find the best AI chatbot for your own questions. It sets out a 13-step Python audit that opens every cited source and scores it. No packages are needed.
Read the original →The article compares Android emulators for PC on macros, CLI control and AI agents. The products covered are BlueStacks Desktop, MuMu Player 6.0 and LDPlayer 14. It also lists RAM floors and prices.
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