Memory chip stocks rallied on Friday, July 31, after a week of declines, with Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. jumping 26.81% and 29.95% respectively, and Micron Technology and Sandisk Corpor…
A Gallup poll released this week found that 39% of Americans now believe AI does more harm than good, up from 31% in 2024 and 2025, while only 9% think it does more good than harm, down from 12% last …
In 2013, entrepreneur and Shark Tank contestant turned down Mark Cuban's investment after telling him he was wrong about AI, only to watch his market restructure three years later. Cuban, owner of the…
Employers and platforms are increasingly using AI text detectors, but experts warn their results are unreliable signals, not definitive proof. In March, Hachette Book Group canceled Mia Ballard's nove…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's $24 billion AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness sold off the bulk of its public equities to Ken Griffin's $71 billion Citadel fund after suffering massive losses on AI …
LinkedIn has added a button allowing users to report posts as 'AI slop,' which hides the content and provides feedback to improve the feed, chief product officer Hari Srinivasan announced Thursday. Th…
Y Combinator startup LemonLime offered job interviews to candidates who got a tattoo at a party, with co-founder Jordan Zietz saying the company wants employees 'just as crazy as we are.' Seven people…
Fast Company and the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) launched the first Design Pricing Transparency Project to help freelance designers determine fair rates amid AI disruptions. The project,…
The AI industry has abandoned two of its most valuable ideas—durable object orientation and reinforcement learning—not because they failed but because architectural shifts and incentive changes pushed…
A coalition led by Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta published a letter on July 24 urging Washington to avoid premature restrictions on downloadable AI models, with signatories doubling to 50 within a day t…
Fast Company identifies four 'AI types' for solopreneurs—Builder, Curious, Skeptic, and Resister—based on their default approach to artificial intelligence, and advises each on how to make intentional…
Microsoft stock rose while Meta stock fell after both reported quarterly earnings, as investors showed impatience with AI spending. Microsoft posted Q4 2026 revenue of $90 billion, up 18%, and adjuste…
CMOs must become AI orchestration leaders who prioritize workflow integration over tool selection, according to a Fast Company analysis. The Lippincott and Bloomberg Media CMO Outlook 2026 highlights …
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Karim Khan was locked out of his Microsoft email account in May 2025 after the Trump administration sanctioned him, illustrating how cloud infrastru…
An AI-powered thermal camera system called WhaleSpotter is being piloted on a San Francisco Bay ferry and on Angel Island to detect gray whales and alert crews to avoid collisions, after 21 whales die…
A growing pressure to build personal brands, driven partly by AI making basic competence easier to commoditize, is reshaping careers, with 67% of Gen Z adults deeming a strong personal brand important…
A new study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology found that generative AI boosts creativity only for workers with strong metacognitive skills. Researchers randomly assigned 250 employees to …
A new ZipRecruiter survey of over 1,000 recruiters and hiring leaders found that nearly 35% said AI will increase headcount at their company in the near future, while only 16% said they were actively …
AI startup Orchid faced backlash after a viral video showed its personal assistant texting a boyfriend to remind him of a forgotten anniversary and then booking a dinner and flowers, with critics accu…
Agentic AI systems such as Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT 5.6 can find and exploit vulnerabilities far faster than human hackers, prompting the U.S. government to limit public release of these mo…