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Eight industry experts debate whether AI and flatter organizational structures are making managers obsolete or more essential, arguing that AI eliminates information-control roles but demands managers skilled in decision…
Commodore International Corporation has launched the Callback 8020, a 2000s-styled flip phone running Sailfish OS that blocks social media and web browsers at the system level to combat doom-scrolling, and includes no AI…
Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok warned that AI-driven profit gains in regulated industries like healthcare, banking, and pharma could take years longer than Wall Street expects, potentially leading to a painful repri…
The British consulting sector is forecast to grow by 6% in 2026, down from a previous estimate of nearly 9%, as domestic demand weakens amid economic uncertainty. Revenue rose nearly 10% in 2025, driven by overseas clien…
ABC Australia will trial using Anthropic's Claude AI to convert radio programs into articles, aiming to free up staff for investigative work. The broadcaster will hire AI specialists to support adoption, despite public d…
South Korea's stock market has doubled this year, driven by AI-linked semiconductor stocks like SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics, but leveraged ETFs and retail borrowing have fueled extreme volatility, prompting regulato…
Mozilla AI's Otari team argues that the next era of enterprise AI is about infrastructure, not models, citing fragmentation, cost opacity, and governance gaps as key challenges. The team predicts that by 2026, production…
Chile is reviewing the future of state-owned Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, as an internal audit reveals a 27,000-tonne overstatement of 2025 production, bringing output to its lowest in 27 years. The revi…
Deutsche Bank analyst Jim Reid said artificial intelligence will likely enhance productivity significantly, but any economic impact may be years away. Reid expressed excitement about AI's potential and predicted it will …
The European Commission introduced a Tech Sovereignty Package on 3 June to reduce Europe's dependence on foreign technology, particularly from the U.S., citing concerns over security and liability. The package includes t…
The Bank of England warned that rapid advances in artificial intelligence are increasing financial stability risks, including a potential stock market bubble and heightened cyber attack threats. The central bank's Financ…
AI music startup Suno hired former Atlantic Records executive Grace James as VP and head of artist marketing and editorial, and former YouTube head Christian Bowne as head of music business development, signaling its pus…
CIOs are prioritizing upskilling existing employees over external hiring to address the AI talent shortage, as tools become commoditized but application expertise remains scarce. DeVry University and KPMG are investing i…
Comedian Pete Holmes, star of HBO's Crashing, told WIRED he keeps his iPhone screen time under an hour and 15 minutes daily by using grayscale mode, a screen-time widget, and avoiding social media. Holmes, an AI optimist…
A viral video of soccer star Erling Haaland reacting to his reflection in a restaurant was actually AI-generated footage of Chinese comedian Jin Long, not the real Haaland. The clip, which amassed over 31 million views o…
China's AI boom is fostering a new wave of micro-entrepreneurs who use generative AI tools to run businesses, driven by economic slowdown and the phenomenon of 'involution' (neijuan). Unlike the optimistic entrepreneurs …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in a fictional earnings call script written by Stratechery's Ben Thompson, defends the company's massive AI spending by recounting Facebook's history and his own product intuition. He argues tha…
The Bank of England warned that rapid advances in AI are increasing financial stability risks, citing heightened cyber attack threats and stretched stock valuations that could trigger a sharp market correction. The Finan…
A UN preliminary report on AI safety released in July 2026 restates findings from a 2019 presentation on integrity failures in machine learning, including examples of dangerous translation errors in clinical settings. Th…
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke mandated AI usage as a baseline expectation for employees, requiring teams to justify why work cannot be done with AI before requesting resources. The policy risks creating 'adoption theater' where…