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OpenAI Says It’s Working With Anthropic, Google on AI Safety
OpenAI has for several weeks been working with Anthropic and Google to address AI safety issues.
AI may have just solved a million-dollar math problem. The field will never be the same
Artificial intelligence has reportedly solved one of the six open “million-dollar” problems in mathematics.
French AI company Mistral hits $24 billion valuation in funding round
- France's Mistral has raised €3 billion at a valuation of around €21 billion ($24 billion), in what the three-year-old AI company said on Tuesday was the biggest equity funding round by a privately owned European technology firm.
Anthropic Said to Walk Away From $6 Billion Decart Purchase
Anthropic has decided it won't buy Israeli AI startup Decart for up to $6 billion after performing due diligence.
Farmers Embrace AI More Than Any Other Tech, McKinsey Says
Nearly a fifth of the world's farmers now use AI to manage operations in a more affordable way as costs for labor, land and equipment remain stubbornly high.
Qualcomm issues warrants to Amazon to acquire $4 billion worth of chipmaker’s stock as part of AI infrastructure deal
Qualcomm shares rose 3% on Tuesday after the company announced a data center infrastructure partnership with Amazon Web Services, a major win as the chipmaker tries to take on Nvidia in the artificial intelligence market.
Introducing Muse Spark 1.3
Beverage and syrup company Torani hasn’t laid off a single employee since the Great Depression. Not in 2008, not during globalization or the automation wave that gutted American manufacturing towns, and not during the pandemic that shut the cafes that buy most of its flavored syrups.
Meet the CEO whose century-old company never laid off employees through the Great Depression, the recession, or Covid
Beverage and syrup company Torani hasn’t laid off a single employee since the Great Depression. Not in 2008, not during globalization or the automation wave that gutted American manufacturing towns, and not during the pandemic that shut the cafes that buy most of its flavored syrups.
Months After Striking to Stop AI Layoffs, NYC Nurses Lost Their Jobs to AI Anyway
Forty-one days on strike. New contract won. Explicit language in that contract protecting nurses from AI displacement. Then, four months later, termination notices landed across three Bronx campuses.
Amazon cuts 121 WA jobs as AI buildout goes elsewhere
Amazon is cutting another 121 jobs in Washington, and the roles being eliminated look like a preview of the white-collar economy CEO Andy Jassy has spent a year promising investors.
Companies say AI isn't driving layoffs — but there's a disconnect with workers
AI Concerns Grow as More Americans Expect Job Losses
Americans are becoming increasingly concerned about the use of artificial intelligence and its potential effect on employment, with worries rising particularly among younger adults, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
California Passes Bill Requiring Notices of AI-Related Layoffs
California would require businesses replacing workers with AI or automation tools to disclose it in layoff notices and reports to the state’s labor agency, under legislation going to Gov. Gavin Newsom for his signature.
Was AI really behind massive Uber layoffs of 3,300 employees? What CEO said about company's 'autonomous future'
Uber's sharpest series of job cuts after it let go of a whopping 6,700 jobs.
Dwarf Fortress creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis'
The game industry is—to use the lightest possible language—in an interesting spot. While videogames are as profitable as ever on paper, we've had a few consecutive years of brutal layoffs and studio closures, as well as all of the knock-on impacts that the advent of generative AI (and the subsequent and boneheaded insistence that it's the future) has had. Billions in spending, skyrocketing hardware prices, the whole kit and caboodle.
A new bill would tax AI tokens to fund jobs if the technology causes mass unemployment
With AI comes unemployment, this group of lawmakers wants AI companies to foot the tax bill. A new House proposal would impose an excise tax on major AI companies and automatically raise the rate if unemployment climbs, funneling the money into creating jobs in areas from housing construction and infrastructure to child and elder care.
Oracle layoffs in India today? 3,000 job cuts beyond US
Oracle’s workforce cuts are spreading into India, extending a year of major restructuring that has already reduced the company’s headcount in the U.S. and other markets.
Bill Gates Warns That AI Will Cause "Many Jobs to Disappear Forever." Is He Right?
This week, Bill Gates published a note that laid out his thoughts on navigating the 'turbulent AI era,' and part of it touched upon a fear that strikes close to home for many people. The note was filled with references to the job losses that AI could cause, and he said that he believes AI will cause 'many jobs to disappear forever'. He believes that entry-level and mid-level jobs are the most at risk.
What to Watch: AI’s Impact on the Economy
The rapidly maturing technology is on everybody's minds at home and work. It's dominating the stock market, the headlines and more.
CEOs shift messaging around AI and layoffs
CEOs used to talk up AI progress and efficiency by the number of workers it could replace, but with economic worries climbing, they're being more careful about linking AI to job cuts.
99% of CEOs are planning AI layoffs in the next 2 years — and entry-level workers will see the biggest hit. Prepare now
A new study from consulting firm Mercer finds that virtually every employer is planning to cut jobs due to the transformative technology (2). The 2026 Global Talent Trends report spoke with 825 C-suite leaders, along with 1,650 HR leaders and a jaw-dropping 99% of the executives surveyed said they expect AI to lead to at least some headcount reduction in the next two years.
Gartner Says Autonomous Business and AI Layoffs May Create Budget Room, but Do Not Deliver Returns
Among organizations piloting or deploying autonomous business capabilities, approximately 80% report workforce reductions, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. However, those reductions do not appear to translate into return on investment (ROI).
The Flaws in Mass Layoffs for AI Productivity Are Beyond Obvious Now
Just when I thought I was done calling out tech CEOs for horrible mass layoff decisions, one of those CEOs doubles down on the mass layoff rhetoric.
More companies are pointing to AI as they lay off employees
When Pinterest and Dow announced layoffs last month, they attributed the job cuts in part to a shift to artificial intelligence — a sign that some employers are stepping up their investment in AI as they pare their payrolls.
Anthropic launches new lower-cost AI models
Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 are the same model, but with different levels of safeguards. Fable 5.1 is generally available, while Mythos 5.1 is available only through our trusted access programs; its safeguards are specifically designed to support work in cybersecurity and the life sciences.
Developing Enterprise Frontier Safeguards with our customers
Anthropic announces Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS), a solution that combines the privacy of zero data retention (ZDR) with state-of-the-art safeguards for detecting misuse.
AI Billionaires Are Spending Millions to Change Your Mind About Data Centers
Opposition to local data centers jumped from 49% to 61% in just four months, according to the Annenberg Public Policy Center.
No AI until high school: NYC schools announce major classroom technology overhaul
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other city officials announced a sweeping new policy Wednesday imposing a one-year ban on student use of generative artificial intelligence in New York City public schools from 2-K through 8th grade, while limiting screen time for younger students and launching AI literacy lessons for high schoolers.
Heavy ChatGPT use linked to intellectual laziness and social isolation
Artificial intelligence has woven its way into everyday life, prompting questions about how reliance on generative tools affects the human mind. A recent small study published in Applied Cognitive Psychology suggests that leaning heavily on ChatGPT can reduce critical thinking, diminish memory, and lead to social isolation.
AI Transformation Requires Redesigning Work, Not Cutting Roles
Precisely how AI will impact the workforce in the short to medium term is unclear. Many layoff announcements are better understood as AI-washing: ordinary restructuring initiatives packaged in AI language to reassure investors that leaders have a grip on the coming technological change. Goldman Sachs estimates that AI reduced monthly U.S. payroll growth by only around 16,000 jobs over the past year, adding roughly 0.1 percentage points to the unemployment rate—a drag that includes slowed hiring as well as outright job elimination.
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The automation paradox: Robots that create jobs instead of killing them
MiddleGround Capital aims to improve employee livelihood, enabling better work.
A new bill would tax AI tokens to fund jobs if the technology causes mass unemployment
Revenue from a proposed excise tax would fund housing construction, infrastructure, child care and elder care as automation spreads.
AI wealth is creating a 'mansion shortage' and upending San Francisco's housing market
Spiking prices and rental bidding wars are raising fears of more displacement in a city where previous tech booms and a housing shortage have already driven out many.
It turns out that Gen Z didn’t quit on careers. The work force quit on them
MIT's Paul Osterman found 35% of the workforce has what he calls "disposable jobs" in his newbook of the same title. "I mean, that's a big number."
AI Data Centers Are Training Your Replacements… (And They Aren’t Going To Be Human)
The Real Story Behind Trump’s Data Center Cheerleading Donald Trump wants you to believe that AI data centers are America’s golden ticket. In a social media post that was as insulting as it was revealing, he warned that communities that don’t embrace these sp…
Fintan O'Toole: Ireland can’t be a dumping ground for data centres other countries don’t want
They have become a defining question everywhere – except Ireland. Why?
Show HN: Tubeviz – automatically edit YouTube footage to music
AI-directed, beat-synchronized music video generation from YouTube footage, with semantic analysis, interactive editing, and GPU-accelerated rendering. - interrupt21h/tubeviz
New York Governor Kathy Hochul thinks AI should be ‘less evil’
Today, I’m talking with New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and I’ll just warn you — this episode moves really fast. It’s an election year, after all, with a shocking amount of tech policy at stake, and Governor Hochul has taken strong positions on almost every m…
Australia risks missing out on AI economic boom due to 'slow' uptake
Treasury says Australia risks missing out on the economic benefits of AI unless businesses use beyond basic use and make bigger changes to how they operate.
OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before
OpenShot 4.0 adds professional color grading, screen and webcam recording, local object masks, 10 new effects, a cleaner native timeline, and faster creative workflows.
Bill Gates just said what no tech leader will about AI
The Bill Gates essay that broke from his own AI cheerleading
FO Talks: AI — Expectation vs Reality
Fair Observer’s operations chief of staff Cheyenne Torres and entrepreneur Dirk Lueth, co-founder and co-CEO of Upland, examine how artificial intelligence is reshaping economies, employment and the media. Lueth explains why today’s generative AI differs from…
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Designing Proactive Thought Partners for Writing
Writing involves diverse cognitive activities, from ideation to revision, and writers' needs vary across individuals and moments. Proactive AI promises to provide the right support at the right time, yet existing proactive tools largely focus on generic textual assistance, such as autocomplete. This paper studies the design space of proactive thought partners: AI agents that proactively offer cust
Beyond Scores: Understanding LLM-as-a-Judge Mechanisms in Summarization Evaluation
LLM-based evaluators of natural language generation (NLG) quality are widely deployed as scoring tools and as automated training signals, yet the internal procedure by which they assign a rating remains poorly understood. We investigate this procedure mechanistically through an eight-attack perturbation taxonomy across the Readability and Adequacy dimensions of NLG quality, a generation pipeline t
When AI Thinks for Us: Unveiling the Cognitive and Social Toll of ChatGPT Over-Reliance
ChatGPT has rapidly become an indispensable tool for users worldwide, integrating seamlessly into daily academic, professional, and social routines. Based on qualitative interviews with 45 regular users, the findings reveal reduced critical thinking, weaker memory retention, and heightened cognitive dependence on AI.
That's AI Slop, You Bot! Studying Accusations, Evidence, and Credibility in Online Discourse Towards LLM-Generated Comments
Native visual reasoning treats visual generation as the medium of reasoning itself: visual states (i.e. images and videos) are not merely inputs to be understood or outputs to be rendered, but first-class substrates for problem solving beyond language. Yet progress remains bottlenecked by the lack of scalable training tasks, reliable feedback, and controlled comparisons across generative substrate
VBVR-Pro: A Scalable and Verifiable Suite for Native Visual Reasoning
Native visual reasoning treats visual generation as the medium of reasoning itself: visual states (i.e. images and videos) are not merely inputs to be understood or outputs to be rendered, but first-class substrates for problem solving beyond language. Yet progress remains bottlenecked by the lack of scalable training tasks, reliable feedback, and controlled comparisons across generative substrate
A Visual Dependence-Aware Framework for Multimodal Unsupervised Continual Post-Training
In this paper, we explore a novel task of Multimodal Unsupervised Continual Post-Training (MU-CPT), enabling deployed MLLMs to continually evolve from streaming unlabeled data. Existing unsupervised post-training methods for MLLMs typically optimize target tokens uniformly, overlooking their heterogeneous visual dependence (VD). However, we reveal that token-level VD is crucial for MU-CPT. Specifi
MyoMechanix: Biomechanically-Grounded Compositional Skilled Activity Understanding and Coaching
Existing action quality assessment (AQA) datasets and methods rely primarily on visual inputs such as RGB and pose, overlooking physiological dynamics such as muscle mechanics and often modeling actions as monolithic patterns. These limitations hinder fine-grained, biomechanically grounded feedback. We introduce MyoMechanix, a multimodal ecosystem for weight-loaded actions that aligns motion with
Planetary Prediction Engine: Autonomous Geospatial Prediction via Intelligent Data Selection and Foundation Model Embeddings
Addressing critical global challenges, from food security and disaster risk to disease outbreaks and socio-economic vulnerability, demands high-fidelity geospatial modeling. However, building predictive planetary models remains bottlenecked by a fragmented data ecosystem, requiring manual data retrieval, multimodal data curation and fusion along with iterative model selection. We present the Plane
TraceML: An Empirical Analysis of Human-Agent Planning in Machine Learning Development
Large language models write correct code for isolated problems but remain far weaker at autonomous machine-learning development, where an agent must revise data pipelines, models, and validation over hours of feedback, and on most competitions still finishes below strong human competitors. Outcome-based benchmarks record this gap but not its cause, because they grade the final submission and disca
ICON Decomposition: Multivariate Concept-Level Explanations of Deep Representations for Model Auditing
Deep neural networks often exploit spurious associations in their training data, a failure known as shortcut learning. Concept-based explainability methods screen for shortcuts by testing whether concepts such as a patient's sex or scanner settings can be decoded from a network layer. Because each concept is evaluated in isolation, these methods can mistake correlations between concepts as evidenc
SwarmWorld: Stigmergic technological evolution in societies of language-model agents
Collective intelligence can emerge when individuals coordinate through a shared environment, allowing local actions to accumulate into durable social organization. Language-model agents offer a new substrate for this process, yet most multi-agent systems rely on direct conversation, predefined roles, or centralized workflows. It remains unclear whether decentralized agents can build functional tec
The Reverse Big Push: Generative AI and Self-Fulfilling Automation
Generative AI relocates the fixed cost of automation. A model provider pays to train a frontier system, while a downstream firm rents capability by usage; the same firm must carry a continuing payroll to supply a human-augmented service. We study this asymmetry in a local service economy with household budgets and a market-clearing wage. Human augmentation earns a larger surplus from an additional
Who Delegates to AI? Evidence from 53,000 Agent Configurations
A growing literature measures how far occupations are exposed to AI, but these measures capture where AI could perform tasks, not whether workers have adopted it. We propose a new layer of exposure, delegated exposure, which records whether a worker has committed a task to AI by building it into a workflow. We operationalize it as the Agentic Adoption Index (AAI), which measures how closely an occ
Adoption of Generative AI in the Workplace: Increasing and Shifting the Balance of Productivity and Communication Activity
Generative AI is transforming the workplace by augmenting and automating cognitive tasks, reshaping how organizations work and innovate while raising questions about workplace inequality and the future of work. Despite rapid adoption, empirical evidence on how these tools alter work practices and generate productivity gains remains limited. We examine how AI use affects the quantity and nature of
MECA: A Mechanism-Centered Agent for Constructing Well-Specified and Valuable Mathematical Conjectures
Automatically constructing well-specified and valuable mathematical conjectures remains a central challenge in AI-assisted mathematical discovery. Many existing open problems and conjectures are often too broad, underspecified, or difficult to connect to plausible proof or refutation strategies. We view a mathematical mechanism as a structure or reasoning principle that connects the assumptions of
Cheaper AI, More Informality? A Dual Labor Market Model for Developing Economies
This paper studies what happens when AI gets cheaper, with emphasis on the labor market outcomes, whether it creates formal jobs or whether it pushes workers into informality. We argue that the answer depends on the elasticity of substitution between imported AI capital and formal labor. We build a small open economy DSGE model with a dual labor market, imported AI capital, and country risk, calib
Evaluating AI Models' Capability to Automate Voice Phishing Attacks
Voice phishing (vishing) attacks have traditionally been limited by the need for human operators. The rapid emergence of high-quality AI voice synthesis and large language models (LLMs) reduces this bottleneck and enables scalable, automated scams. In this paper, we conduct a large-scale survey experiment (N=4100) and qualitative interviews (N=12) to assess U.S. adults' susceptibility to AI-powere
The Economic Benefits and Costs of AI and Policies to Mitigate AI's Impact on Inequality
We examine the economic impact of increasingly productive AI and policies that spread its benefits across the economy. Improvements in AI productivity trigger labor reallocation and changes in absolute and relative wages for different types of labor. Wages of labor that is essential for building AI increase faster than overall GDP. Wages of labor that is substituted for by AI decrease in both abso
PlanSightRAG: A Visual-First Multimodal RAG for Automating Question Answering and Compliance Checking for Civil Standard Plans
Civil infrastructure compliance checking has long relied on engineers manually reading legacy 2D plans; however, OCR-based automation strips away the geometry and layout essential for interpreting these plans. We present a Visual-First Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) framework called PlanSightRAG. It indexes and reasons directly over plan imagery, integrates a ColNomic-3B multi-vec
How AI Impacts Skill Formation
AI-assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively supervise AI remains unclear.
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