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Amazon engineers publicly criticized the company at a Seattle City Council hearing this week, accusing the tech giant of spending $200 billion on AI infrastructure and data centers while cutting 30,000 corporate jobs in …
A short fiction piece published today in *Nature* retells the biblical Book of Job as a story about AI alignment, adversarial testing, and machine theodicy. The narrative follows a blameless and upright machine named Cro…
Professor Scott Galloway stated that 95% of enterprise AI spending generates no return a CFO can identify, citing Uber burning its entire 2026 AI budget before April and Stripe spending $100,000 daily on AI tokens. The w…
A security researcher discovered that Meta's smart glasses companion app, Stella, contains a fully functional on-device facial recognition pipeline, including three face models, a local database, and a biometric vector i…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a new national AI strategy called "AI for All," which prioritizes strengthening data protections, increasing AI adoption, and investing in Canadian-owned AI infrastructure ov…
Prime Minister Mark Carney launched Canada's national artificial intelligence strategy, AI for All, on June 4, 2026 in Toronto, targeting $200 billion in economic growth and 250,000 new AI-related jobs over five years. T…
Security firm DTEX warned that agentic AI tools embedded in enterprise systems can enable insiders to exfiltrate data in as little as 10 to 30 minutes, according to research reported by CyberScoop. DTEX researchers demon…
U.S. employers announced 97,006 job cuts in May 2026, the highest May total since 2020, with 40% of those cuts attributed to artificial intelligence, according to a June 4 report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray &…
Psychological safety is critical for successful AI integration in workplace teams, yet junior and female employees report feeling the least safe to speak up, according to a new survey of nearly 900 legal professionals. T…
Microsoft accidentally leaked internal documents revealing plans to make employees "addicted" to its new AI assistant, Scout, according to a memo obtained by 404 Media. The three-phase strategy explicitly aims to make us…
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon acknowledged during a Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast that artificial intelligence tools rely on uncredited and uncompensated use of artists' work, marking a shift from his earlier Wharton Scho…
Alphabet shareholders will vote Friday on a resolution demanding greater transparency over risks from government use of Google’s cloud and AI technology, after Norges Bank Investment Management, the world’s largest sover…
Developers reverse-engineered Chipotle's customer service chatbot Pepper to access its underlying AI for free coding assistance, creating tools like ChipotlAI Max that bypass subscription fees for commercial AI models. T…
ESPN faced backlash Thursday after airing an AI-generated image of former San Antonio Spurs star Tony Parker during a commercial break in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. The network used the fabricated image, which showed Park…
The identity stack designed for human users is failing as AI agents outnumber humans 80-to-1, according to CyberArk's 2025 research. Security expert and former MuleSoft executive warns that current identity systems canno…
Canada on June 4, 2026 launched the AI for All Strategy, a federal plan targeting $200 billion in economic growth and 250,000 new AI-related jobs over five years while providing up to 90,000 jobs and work placements for …
Hilton released its 2026 Trends Report, based on surveys by Ipsos and Morning Consult, finding that 94% of workers value the office for relationship-building and 88% say purpose influences career decisions. The report id…
Companies cited artificial intelligence as the reason for 40% of 97,006 job cuts by US-based employers in May 2026, the highest monthly total since Challenger, Gray & Christmas began tracking AI-related layoffs in 2023. …
Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb.io, asked what it would take for engineers to feel comfortable shipping code to production without reading it. A developer responded that code review serves to diffuse responsibility acro…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) lacks a cryptographically verified human approval mechanism, leaving systems vulnerable to unauthorized changes. Without a mandatory approval button, agents can execute irreversible actio…