AI Changes Worker Productivity, Evidence Mixed
Clinicians using AI-drafted patient messages often spend extra time reviewing and editing them, according to reporting from Vox. A National Bureau of Economic Research paper found access to a conversa…
Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) is a technology company that develops the open-source Llama series of large language models, alongside AI research at Meta AI (formerly FAIR).
Clinicians using AI-drafted patient messages often spend extra time reviewing and editing them, according to reporting from Vox. A National Bureau of Economic Research paper found access to a conversa…
Basecamp released its fifth major version, an update to the project management service used by about one million users daily. The new version introduces a text editor with tables and markdown, full ke…
Microsoft and Uber are facing rising costs from AI coding tools as employee adoption outpaces budget projections, with Uber burning through its entire 2026 AI coding budget in four months. Nvidia's vi…
Recent economic data shows no evidence that artificial intelligence has caused large-scale disruption to the U.S. labor market, despite widespread predictions of a white-collar jobs apocalypse. Analys…
Meta released CacheLib 2026.05.25 on Monday, its first new version in two years, to help services cope with surging DRAM prices driven by the AI boom. The open-source caching engine, originally launch…
Researchers have developed BODHI, a domain knowledge prompting method that improves automated generation of formal operating system kernel specifications using large language models. The technique, wh…
A study evaluating 15 large language models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on over 6,000 political claims found that standard models performed poorly at fact-checking, with reasoning capabili…
Starbucks has abandoned its AI initiative as Meta, Intuit, and other major tech companies cut over 11,000 jobs this week, signaling a structural shift in the labor market that experts are calling "AI …
A developer launched an AI API pricing calculator that compares 28 models across 7 providers without requiring signup. The tool estimates monthly costs based on usage patterns, including batch process…
Researchers bypassed safety guardrails on Meta and Google's AI models within minutes, exposing vulnerabilities that allow the generation of harmful content. The findings raise concerns about the effec…
Tech layoffs have surpassed 100,000 in 2026, with Meta cutting 8,000 employees and Cloudflare laying off 1,100 workers in its first mass layoff. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince stated the cuts targeted …
Pope Leo XIV released an encyclical titled “Magnifica humanitas” on Tuesday, warning that artificial intelligence controlled by a handful of powerful technology companies risks creating “new forms of …
Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are quietly discouraging internal use of third-party AI coding tools like Claude Code in favor of their own alternatives, as employee token consumption costs spiral out of …
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical on Monday, a 245-paragraph letter titled "Magnifica humanitas" that warns against Big Tech monopolization of artificial intelligence, AI-driven unemployment,…
In May 2026, Meta cut 8,000 jobs, roughly 10% of its workforce, while redirecting 7,000 employees to AI teams, and Cloudflare conducted its first mass layoff of 1,100 workers, pushing total tech layof…
The article details the creation of KundliAI, a free Hindi-language Vedic astrology app built in 25 days using Next.js, Groq AI, and AstrologyAPI. Key successes included features like a free Kundli ge…
After over a decade at Meta, a former global director was laid off in 2022 as part of a 13% company-wide reduction. The layoff prompted a period of reflection, leading the author to realize their pass…
US tech companies Microsoft and Meta have shared the names of Dutch civil servants and academics involved in European tech regulation with a U.S. Senate committee investigating "tech censorship." The …
During Amazon's Memorial Day sale, the second-generation Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are available for $347.65, a 15% discount from the regular price of $409 and the lowest price recorded at the retail…
The article describes how the author's Instagram automation tool, GramShift, triggered a soft cooldown from Meta due to three "aggressive" settings being used simultaneously over two weeks. In respons…