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Top marketing executives from Duolingo, Gap, and American Express said at Business Insider's CMO Insider Breakfast that prioritizing creative risk-taking over AI and brand safety is key to success in a fragmented digital…
Oracle cut 21,000 jobs in fiscal 2026, reducing its workforce to 141,000, and explicitly blamed AI in its SEC filing, stating that the adoption and deployment of AI technologies resulted in workforce reductions. The deep…
AI is unlikely to make factory farms obsolete, with only a 32% chance of cultivated meat displacing animal agriculture, according to a forecaster who argues that AI-driven efficiency gains will also lower the cost of tra…
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son questioned the economic viability of Elon Musk's proposal to build AI data centers in space, arguing that lower electricity costs would not offset the high expenses of maintenance, networking, …
A Gallup study finds tech workers who rarely use AI face an 18% layoff risk, triple the 6% risk for monthly users, highlighting an AI literacy gap. Despite employer-side data attributing 40% of layoffs to AI, only 1% of …
Amazon walked away from an OpenAI movie deal, likely due to the $50 billion valuation gap versus a $50 million budget and concerns the film could be anti-AI. Meta launched $299 AI glasses without the Ray-Ban brand, under…
Cloudflare and beehiiv have integrated AI crawl controls into beehiiv's platform, giving newsletter publishers a dashboard to monitor, allow, or block AI bots from accessing their content. The controls, announced Tuesday…
Scammers are using deepfake AI to impersonate people in video calls, making it harder to detect fraud. The technology enables realistic fake identities, posing a growing threat to personal and financial security.
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a virtual employee chatbot that operates within Slack to autonomously complete tasks for teams. The tool, designed for enterprise use, allows multiple employees to collaborate with a single…
A Guardian investigation reveals brands are secretly deploying AI-generated influencers to create fake user-generated content, including wedding testimonials and product reviews, without disclosure. Consumer groups and l…
AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic are pouring millions into US midterm elections through super PACs, spending $37 million so far on both Republican and Democratic candidates. The funding aims to crush non-parti…
REI shared an Instagram ad for a Van Rysel bike using an AI-generated image that featured handlebars protruding from the seat, drawing mockery for failing to depict a realistic bicycle.
Oracle cut 21,000 jobs (13% of its workforce) in the past year, citing the adoption of AI technologies as a direct cause. The software giant is spending $70 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, joining other tech compan…
A Mastodon user's post went viral after criticizing AI, but the experience felt empty and meaningless. The user reflects on how social media platforms train people to confuse engagement with genuine connection or busines…
Amazon-owned MGM Studios dropped Luca Guadagnino's nearly completed Sam Altman biopic "Artificial," which reportedly portrays the OpenAI CEO as a pathological liar. The decision follows Amazon's $50 billion investment in…
Oracle cut roughly 21,000 jobs over the past year, reducing its workforce from 162,000 to 141,000, as it reorganizes around AI and ramps up spending on data centers for customers like OpenAI and Meta. The restructuring c…
Google Cloud announced new Confidential Computing innovations, including Confidential G4 VMs with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, to enable verifiable private AI inference and fine-tuning globally. The service uses h…
Meta suffered its most embarrassing outage ever when a bug allowed users to change any account's email by simply asking the Meta AI bot, leading to high-profile account takeovers. Engineers attributed the disaster to AI-…
A developer released the Cascade Graph, an interactive knowledge map of 393 nodes tracing how physical and economic constraints—from energy to materials—cascade through the real economy, identifying chokepoints, feedback…
OpenAI reported $13.07 billion in revenue against $34 billion in costs and expenses in 2025, resulting in a net loss of $38.53 billion, according to financials seen by Ed Zitron. The losses, nearly eight times higher tha…