Higgsfield AI CEO Alex Mashrabov debuted "Hell Grind," a 95-minute sci-fi action thriller featuring AI-generated actors, at Cannes' Marche du Film in May and screened it this week in New York. The $50…
A North Carolina software engineer secured a workplace accommodation in May allowing her to avoid using artificial intelligence on religious grounds. The accommodation comes as the share of U.S. emplo…
Six tech workers at Amazon and other firms told Business Insider they use AI to reduce hours of work to minutes for tasks like drafting documents, summarizing meetings, reviewing code, and automating …
Higgsfield AI debuted a 95-minute feature film, *Hell Grind*, at the Marché du Film in Cannes in May, produced using ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 model and the company's platform. A 15-person team complet…
Contractors for Uber AI Solutions reported earning up to $150 per hour but described unpredictable scheduling, including surprise calendar invites after months without work, according to Business Insi…
Developer Gavriel Cohen found his own code reused inside the viral agent framework OpenClaw, prompting him to create the sandboxed alternative NanoClaw. OpenClaw, released in November 2025, grew to ov…
A $500,000 sci-fi thriller starring entirely AI-generated actors, "Hell Grind," premiered in New York this week, marking the highest-profile film made with fully synthetic visuals. The 95-minute movie…
Big Tech employees report using AI tools to compress hours of work into minutes for tasks like document drafting, meeting summarization, and code review. However, some workers say the time saved is re…
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on artificial intelligence, which warns that AI dehumanizes society, could prompt more workers to seek religious exemptions from using the technology at their jobs. One softw…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp compared excessive token consumption in AI workflows, known as "tokenmaxxing," to a pornography addiction during a live interview at Palantir's AIP Con 10. Karp stated that Pala…
Sergey Brin said at Google DeepMind Build Day that artificial intelligence can enhance human performance rather than replace jobs, using the board game Go as an example. Brin noted that top players Le…
ElevenLabs hosted a New York City pop-up where every experience was run by a voice agent, including an AI shopkeeper that negotiated prices with visitors. Business Insider reported that the shopkeeper…
Five workers from diverse backgrounds — including a former attorney, a structural engineer, and a data professional — successfully pivoted into artificial intelligence roles at companies like Microsof…
Uber is expanding its gig-work model into white-collar AI training jobs, offering contractors hourly rates between $50 and $150 — significantly higher than similar roles at other companies. However, w…
Teradata CEO Steve McMillan told 5,100 employees in January that the company would forgo annual salary raises in 2026 to reallocate budget toward AI investments, while TTEC informed 15,000 U.S.-based …
Anthropic proposed that leading AI labs develop a system to potentially pause frontier AI development, comparing the need for oversight to nuclear weapons monitoring. Former Senator Mitt Romney endors…
Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million per month for compute capacity from October 2026 through June 2029, according to a SpaceX SEC filing. The deal, which includes approximately 110,000 NVIDIA…
A Brooklyn homeowner listed his 4,470-square-foot Williamsburg townhouse at 3 Wythe Lane for $5.99 million, offering to accept cash, Bitcoin, or vested shares of AI company Anthropic as payment. The s…
Charles Holive, chief AI officer at BNP Paribas CIB, told Business Insider he prioritizes dollar-value and productivity outcomes over raw token consumption, rejecting what he called "vanity metrics." …
Vibe coding, the practice of using plain English to prompt AI to write code and build apps, has exploded in popularity in 2026, with tech CEOs, retirees, and even children participating. Business Insi…