AI
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says AI won’t kill entry-level jobs. He’s hiring 1,000 new grads to prove it
The big question in corporate America today is to what extent AI will upend the entry-level white collar workforce. Some have warned a full obliteration of the entry-level workforce; others say those fears are overblown. And if the likes of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are right, we can see half of all those positions eliminated
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AI smart glasses are helping visually impaired runners take on the London Marathon
Running past Buckingham Palace during training, Tilly Dowler is closing in on a goal she once thought out of reach. Dowler, who has Stargardt disease and says she has about 10% useful vision, only began running last year, starting with a couch to 5K program before building up to marathon distance. She is now preparing
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Cohere’s European push highlights the rise of AI’s middle powers beyond the US and China
As the U.S. and China vie for dominance in AI, a new geopolitical dynamic is emerging among a group of so-called “middle powers.” From Canada, France, and Germany to Japan, South Korea, Israel, and the UAE, countries are attempting to build so-called “sovereign AI” systems designed to offer alternatives to technology from the U.S. and
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Anthropic says engineering missteps were behind Claude Code’s month-long decline after weeks of user backlash
Anthropic, the AI lab valued at $380 billion, has acknowledged that a series of engineering misstepswere behind a widely-experienced decline in the performance of its Claude Code tool that sparked a user revolt over the past month. The latest admission, which came after weeks in which Anthropic had initially implied in its communications that nothing
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Your shareholder letter sounds like ChatGPT wrote it. This is the four-word phrase giving CEOs away
If you ever catch us using the following phrasing, trust that it was written by a human who was just tired that day: Experts say the sentence structure “it’s not X, it’s Y” is a classic indicator of AI-generated writing, and its usage in corporate communications has spiked, Barron’s recently reported. For example, “Our ship
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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 amid a shift to rapid-fire AI updates
OpenAI on Thursday released its newest AI model, GPT-5.5, to its paid subscribers. The release, coming just six weeks after the company debuted GPT-5.4, is an extremely fast turnaround that underscores how fiercely frontier AI labs are competing for enterprise customers, and how their models are increasingly evolving through continuous, incremental updates. The company also
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Goldman tackles AI’s missing link: the ‘world model’ that every AI godfather is racing to figure out
They are the people who made artificial intelligence what it is. They built the datasets, designed the architectures, and trained the systems that now write our emails, generate our code, and pass the bar exam. And increasingly, quietly, they are all working on the same problem—a problem that implies today’s most powerful AI, for all
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Cursor’s 25-year-old CEO is a former Google intern who just inked a $60 billion deal with SpaceX
Cursor’s 25-year-old CEO Michael Truell helped take the AI coding company from a college passion project to a potential $60 billion acquisition by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. On Tuesday, SpaceX announced in a post on X that Cursor gave SpaceX the right to acquire the company later this year for $60 billion. If SpaceX doesn’t buy
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The AI boom is singlehandedly carrying the U.S. import market—and adding $200 billion to the trade deficit, Fed study finds
When President Donald Trump returned to office last year, he framed his tariff policy as a bid to bring manufacturing of strategic materials and equipment back to U.S. More than a year later, his sweeping trade agenda has indeed forced a crackdown on imports, so much so that a single technological force has grown into
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The AI economy runs on helium. The Iran war just created a $650 billion problem
The hyperscalers building the infrastructure of the AI economy have a $650 billion problem hiding in plain sight — and it doesn’t involve tariffs, talent, or chip export bans. It involves helium. A new report from Moody’s Ratings warns that helium supply disruptions stemming from the Middle East conflict are now threatening the semiconductor supply