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新闻 1: European small businesses rush into AI without basic digital tools, study shows

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新闻 2: Why AI matters for every veteran

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新闻 3: Amazon’s Ring plans to scan everyone’s face at the door

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新闻 4: Líderes de APEC inician cumbre económica en Corea del Sur

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新闻 5: AI is automating technical skills. Here are the soft skills you need.

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• This post originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter.
• Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here. If hard skills are increasingly being automated, employers are shifting focus to what AI can't replicate: creativity, empathy, critical thinking, and other essential soft skills. For years, technical abilities were king, but the tide may be turning. Indeed's Hiring Lab took a look at job postings and analyzed which soft skills were listed. The top were communication, leadership, and organizational prowess. Forty-three percent of all job listings had at least one soft skill advertised. Soft skills show up in job postings across industries, but maybe not where you'd expect: In a world where machines can write code and analyze spreadsheets, the need for human insight, emotional intelligence, and creativity has never been more critical. Employers don't just want workers who can do the job; they want people who can collaborate, innovate, and lead. Sign up for BI's Tech Memo newsletter here. Reach out to me via email at abarr@businessinsider.com.

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新闻 6: Why Aziz Ansari doesn't use a smartphone or email

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• Aziz Ansari says he still uses a flip phone, doesn't have email, and is wary of ChatGPT.
• "It's outsourcing critical thinking. It's making everyone's opinions kind of the same," Ansari said of ChatGPT.
• It's not just Hollywood: More people are turning to dumb phones or DIY landlines to cut screen time. In a world glued to screens, Aziz Ansari is choosing the analog life. During an appearance on Tuesday's episode of the "Good Hang with Amy Poehler" podcast, the comedian spoke about his Luddite ways and why he isn't a fan of ChatGPT. "I don't have email. I haven't had email for, like, 10 years. But I have an assistant," Ansari told podcast host Amy Poehler. And it's not just his inbox that he's abandoned. "I have a flip phone. If I get really lost, I've got to either ask people or just call my wife and be like 'Hey.' I've had to do that before, like, call my wife, and to the point where she's kind of used to it," Ansari said. Instead of using an app to call for an Uber, Ansari says he hails a taxi. If there isn't one, he'll call, he added. Living a low-tech lifestyle has its benefits, Ansari said. "It just gives me more space to think. I mean, I heard something about, like, Tarantino doesn't even have a phone. Chris Nolan doesn't have a phone. I was like, 'Whoa, those guys are able to get a lot of stuff done. Maybe there's something to it,'" he said. The comedian says he is also wary of ChatGPT. "It's outsourcing critical thinking. It's making everyone's opinions kind of the same," Ansari said. Not only is AI prone to making mistakes, it reinforces what people already think, he added. The comedian said he once saw a commercial in which someone asked ChatGPT how to make dinner for a date. "I would rather call someone and ask someone, or maybe have some sort of conversation, a human thing. It just seems like it's like outsourcing thinking, and it's like killing some bit of humanity," Ansari said. Speaking to People in September, Ansari said he knows that his ability to live offline comes with a certain level of privilege and isn't realistic for everyone. "But for me, it helps me keep a clear head to help me write and do what's more important for my job," he said. A representative for Ansari did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by Business Insider outside regular hours. Ansari isn't the only celebrity who has spoken about preferring an analog lifestyle. In July 2023, Christopher Nolan said he doesn't carry a smartphone or use email. The filmmaker said he writes scripts on a computer without the internet. "If I'm generating my material and writing my own scripts, being on a smartphone all day wouldn't be very useful for me," Nolan told The Hollywood Reporter. Dolly Parton said during an October 2023 appearance on "The View" that she still prefers communicating via fax because otherwise, she'd be overwhelmed by all the messages she gets. "So I never did get into getting involved in all that because it'll take up too much of my time if I talked to everybody who is trying to get in touch with me," Parton said. In January, Christopher Walken told The Wall Street Journal that his relationship with technology is nearly nonexistent. "I only have a satellite dish on my house. So I've seen 'Severance' on DVDs that they're good enough to send me. I don't have a cellphone. I've never emailed or, what do you call it, Twittered," Walken said. It's not just Hollywood: In a May story, regular people told Business Insider that they swapped smartphones for dumb phones to wean themselves off their screens and social media. Some Gen Zs are even chaining their smartphones to a wall — creating a makeshift landline —and freeing themselves from the urge to scroll.

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新闻 7: Howard Schultz said he's Worried — 'with a big W' — about AI

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• Howard Schultz said he was worried about AI and the speed at which it is progressing.
• The former Starbucks CEO drew parallels to social media, saying regulation lagged behind.
• He urged Big Tech leaders to remember that they have a moral responsibility that should not be forgotten. Howard Schultz said he's — capital W — Worried about AI. Speaking in an interview with LinkedIn's editor in chief, Daniel Roth, the former Starbucks CEO brought up the topic of AI, saying it was something he wanted to talk about. He drew parallels between the speed at which social media progressed, how regulation around social media lagged behind, and warned that AI is on the same trajectory. "If we look back on the last 10, 15 years on social media, I think we'd be hard pressed to say that the velocity and the impact and the adverse effect of social media is equal to, or more than, the benefits that have occurred," he said. "And one of the reasons is the fact that there wasn't regulation, and the regulation that has come is too late." He said AI is progressing so fast and "the regulators are so far behind, they don't even know what the questions are because of the speed of this thing." Schultz said as well that he does support AI adoption, but is voicing his concerns "as a private citizen." "I worry, with a big W, about the impact this could have, that could be adverse," he said to Roth. He then urged the leaders of Big Tech companies, like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Reid Hoffman, and Bill Gates, to "come together and understand collectively" that they have a moral responsibility that should not be forgotten in the pursuit of winning. Schultz was the company's CEO from 1987 to 2000 and returned in 2008 to revive the chain after the financial crisis. He also briefly served as the interim CEO from 2022 to 2023. He now runs a philanthropic organization, the Schultz Family Foundation. Starbucks has been investing in its people, rather than AI and automation, to boost its performance, unlike chains such as Chipotle and Wendy's. However, in June, it partnered with OpenAI to develop an AI-powered tool, Green Dot Assist, which acts as a virtual assistant for its baristas. Schultz's interview with LinkedIn comes less than a month after Starbucks announced that it would be closing more than 100 locations across North America and laying off 900 non-retail staff. Representatives for Starbucks and the Schultz Family Foundation did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.

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新闻 8: Cook County, which includes Chicago, has made its basic income program permanent

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• Cook County, which includes Chicago, ran a two-year basic income experiment in 2022.
• During the pilot, thousands of residents received $500 a month to spend however they wanted.
• The county has now made that basic income program permanent in its 2026 budget. Many American cities and counties have been experimenting with a novel concept: Giving financially vulnerable residents free money every month without expecting anything in return. The goal is to let those people decide for themselves how best to spend the extra cash, rather than requiring them to spend it on certain kinds of food or other necessities. When those programs end, many report largely positive results. Few, however, are ever made permanent. Cook County in Illinois, which includes Chicago, is now an exception. The Cook County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved its 2026 budget proposal on Thursday, and it includes $7.5 million for a guaranteed basic income program. Cook County had earlier run a basic income experiment for two years. It provided $500 a month to 3,200 households during that time. The last payment went out in January. "The County will invest $7.5 million to continue supporting the Guaranteed Income program, providing direct unconditional monetary support to help residents live healthier and more stable lives," the county's now-approved budget proposal says. A guaranteed basic income is a social safety net program in which a government provides certain residents with recurring, no-strings-attached cash payments for a set period. Often, the eligible recipients fit specific criteria, such as having a household income near the poverty line. A guaranteed basic income differs from a universal basic income, which is when a government provides all individuals in a population with recurring, no-strings-attached cash payments, regardless of their socioeconomic status. AI leaders, such as Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, have publicly advocated for basic income programs to mitigate the potential impact of AI on human jobs. Governments worldwide have toyed with basic income programs. Ireland recently made its basic income for artists permanent, and South Korea is poised to launch one of the world's largest programs. Cook County released survey findings based on responses from those who received cash payments between 2022 and 2025. The majority said the payments made them more financially secure, reduced their stress, and improved their mental health. The top reported uses for the payments were food, rent, utilities, and transportation.

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新闻 9: Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?

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新闻 10: Parents will be able to block Meta bots from talking to their children under new safeguards

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新闻 11: Remarks by Dr. Califf to the 2024 Biannual Conference of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine Working Group on Compassionate Use and Preapproval Access

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新闻 12: AI-focused developers help fuel New York City life, city agency chief says

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新闻 13: Computer maker HP to cut up to 6,000 jobs by 2028 as it turns more to AI

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新闻 14: Trump's education plan leaves kids, parents to suffer at the mercy of the market | Opinion

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新闻 15: AI meeting notes are recording your private conversations

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新闻 16: My Father Keeps Forwarding Me Misinformation. How Often Do I Correct Him?

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新闻 17: Apparent Luigi Mangione supporter claims she's 'married' to his 'AI' at courthouse rally

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新闻 18: Don’t let AIs fool you – they can’t ‘suffer’

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新闻 19: The ad industry's new pitch: being human is its superpower

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• The ad industry is playing up its "human" credentials in the AI era.
• Tech brands like OpenAI are using traditional ads on TV to showcase their everyday appeal.
• As AI automates many aspects of advertising, agencies are reconfiguring to become more consultative. When OpenAI launched its first global brand campaign last month, it didn't lean on Sora or an AI influencer. Instead, it hired an ad agency — despite CEO Sam Altman recently saying AI would replace 95% of ad agency work. The spots, shot on 35mm film with a custom lens, aired across TV, streaming, billboards, and social media. They show everyday reasons people use ChatGPT, from cooking to planning a fitness regimen. "We wanted this work to feel tactile, grounded, and to play differently in the space, so using more traditional methods, including shooting on 35mm, made sense," Toby Treyer-Evans, founder and chief creative officer of Isle of Any, the agency that helped create the campaign, told Business Insider. An OpenAI spokesperson said ChatGPT was "a behind-the-scenes co-creator" in the creative process, helping to brainstorm ideas and provide the answers featured in the ads, but the campaign was very much human-created. "That balance — human imagination supported by technology — is at the heart of what this campaign celebrates," they said. The human-AI balance was a core theme of Advertising Week New York this month, where more than 20,000 attendees gathered at the annual industry conference. Session titles included: "Making marketing more human in the age of AI," "Human over hype: The power of niche creators, collaboration and real connections," and "AI needs a human layer." Anxiety hangs over the ad industry right now. Some marketers are growing cautious about spending on new projects. Giants like Meta and Salesforce are building AI-powered tools that threaten to automate big swaths of agency work. The large agency landscape is contracting: Research firm Forrester predicts 15% of agency jobs will be eliminated in 2026 due to "automation, redundancies, and efficiency." There are glimmers of hope. Gartner data shows that while global marketing budgets are relatively flat year-over-year, paid media budgets as a percentage of marketing spend have been increasing since 2023. That's good news for anyone in the business of creating and placing brand campaigns. "We know we need to reach people, and our first-party data and direct marketing are not as effective at acquiring new customers," Andrew Frank, a Gartner vice president and analyst who focuses on the marketing industry, told Business Insider in an interview. "There's still a sense that awareness is important and building brand trust is important in a low-trust world." Focusing on real people to stand out AI slop may be filling our social feeds, but marketers want to stay clear of dystopian vibes. Just ask the startup Friend AI, whose $1 million billboard campaign about its AI companion wearable device was defaced with anti-AI graffiti. Desire for authenticity is driving more brand partnerships with creators. US brands are predicted to spend more than $10 billion on influencer marketing in 2025, up 23.7% from last year, according to EMARKETER. Creator marketing, Forrester analysts predict, will shift "from a media agency tactic to a creative agency strategy." "As creators take on more ideation and production responsibilities, creative agencies will act more like orchestrators of tech and creator access," Forrester's analysts wrote in a September report. At Advertising Week, TikTok creator Tiffany Baira described working for brands like DeBeers and Ulta Beauty to interview people about their experiences with products. "Now, more than ever, when you're thinking about an ad campaign, think less about that product, and more about the people and how they're going to be using it and how they're going to feel unique and special while they're using it," Baira said. Agencies are shifting to adapt to the AI era The shape of ad firms is changing. Talent, which has traditionally been siloed, is collaborating more — the data whiz, for example, is working more closely with the creative strategists. The industry is also consolidating: Omnicom's acquisition of IPG, WPP's merging of several ad agencies, Havas and Horizon Media's recent joint venture. The ultimate aim — besides the inevitable cost reductions — is to provide a one-stop shop to service a marketer's every need. The sector's star performer, Publicis Groupe, this week credited its strong financial performance this quarter to its ability to connect paid advertising with commerce, influencer marketing, and AI for its clients. "AI is redefining the role of agencies," said Laura Desmond, CEO of the adtech platform Smartly and advertising agency veteran. "The ones that will endure are those evolving into ideas-driven consultancies, blending human creativity with AI-powered technology to unlock new possibilities for brands. It's about creativity moving at the speed of technology." At Advertising Week, Mark Kirkham, chief marketing officer of PepsiCo US Beverages, and Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of the marketing agency VaynerMedia, publicly discussed how their partnership has evolved over 15 years — from social media management to a deeper collaboration in brand strategy and production. VaynerMedia's team now embeds with Kirkham's in-house marketing team and operates like a joint venture with shared goals, they said. (PepsiCo still works with other agencies in more traditional setups across its portfolio of beverage brands.) "It's OK if you blow shit up, Kirkham said. "It's OK if you look at things differently. It's OK if you realize that this model might actually work better if you actually partner."

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新闻 20: Want to feel better? Stop trying to be happy and do this instead.

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新闻 21: Work Advice: How to avoid ‘workslop’ and other AI pitfalls

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新闻 22: Are students and workers ready for AI?

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] KINDER: So our top line is if you look at the period of time since Chat GPT was launched, it was actually three years ago this this past month, we looked at whether or not the labor market, when you zoom out and look at the labor market as a whole, are we really seeing disruption yet? I’m going to emphasize yet. Our answer is actually “no.” We are not yet seeing a discernible impact at a really macro scale. Now, that doesn’t mean there aren’t individual jobs or individual people that have been impacted. We’re really looking at is the house on fire? And you might expect it to be given the headlines in the newspaper. And our answer, at least for now, is a reassuring one. There were some exceptions. We did see greater disruption for the youngest workers entering the job market. Not yet clear if that’s from Chat GPT or that predates its launch. But that is an area that we’re keeping a very close eye on. DEWS: Can you unpack that a little bit more? Why the youngest workers entering the job market, which dovetails with the conversation I’m having with Rebecca Winthrop about educating young people to enter the labor market. So they seem to be perhaps the most exposed to AI. [2] KINDER: Well, first I would say the data is noisy. We know that young people, you know, 25 and under particularly those coming out of college, are facing very high unemployment compared to recent years. It’s a terrible job market to be someone coming out of college. Lots of factors are probably contributing to that. Interest rates were raised a few years ago. There’s an uncertain macro environment. There was some over hiring in tech. AI though is likely playing some part, unclear yet exactly what. And I think the reason why we think AI could be contributing is AI is getting pretty darn good at doing the kind of tasks you do at a computer when you first start in a lot of white collar jobs. So desk research, synthesizing, analysis, drafting. These are the kinds of things a lot of white collar employees start their careers doing. And increasingly they’re becoming more susceptible to AI. I’m particularly more concerned about what this could look like in the coming years than today as AI agents get better and can do longer sequences of tasks. But it is something I think we have to start reckoning with, which is, is AI going to radically reshape what entry level work early in the professional career ladder looks like? DEWS: Yeah. I wanted to follow up on that last point about the future, because I think it relates to the piece of the title of your research, “[em dash] for now.” Can you unpack that a little bit? [3] KINDER: Sure. We were very clear that what we were trying to do was a data-driven, rigorous temperature check of how has the labor market been impacted just in this period of time since Chat GPT was launched. And we interestingly we compared it to those early years after the internet and the computer– similar multipurpose, general purpose technologies. And the headline there is we’re really consistent with the pace of previous years. Now, it is important to note that because our findings feel a little reassuring now, that does not mean that this technology won’t have potentially dramatic impacts on the labor market. Three years is not a lot of time. Even though it feels like the pace of change, every day there seems to be some new technological breakthrough, there’s often a fairly substantial lag for how long it takes for workplaces to really change as a result. So we are very clear that in the first just shy of three years that we looked at since Chat GPT’s is released, we are not seeing evidence of a jobs apocalypse. We are not forecasting the future. Some of my other research I’ve done at Brookings with colleagues Mark Muro and Xav Briggs suggest a lot of white collar jobs could potentially be disrupted. It just isn’t going to happen overnight. DEWS: Well, coming up on this episode, I do talk with Rebecca Winthrop, as mentioned, about how parents and educators can prepare students for a world of AI. But what about people who are currently in the workforce, maybe those junior career people you talked about, or even people who are later on in their career, like myself, what can they do to adapt to ongoing developments in artificial intelligence? [5] KINDER: Well, I think the first thing that is important to note is it’s likely that most white collar workplaces they’re going to change substantially because of this technology. It’s not all doom and gloom. There’s lots of ways that AI makes us more productive, allows us to be more creative and brainstorm and do work better and faster. But there are some folks where their skillset that they might have spent a long time improving, investing in expertise may find that suddenly AI is quite capable at some of the things they’re doing. I think the most important thing people can do today is to get familiar with this technology, get good at it. There’s really very few jobs that are in front of a computer that can’t take advantage of this technology. So I think it’s less scary once you use it. I know I use it all the time, even though my job is also to worry about the macro effects. It is also a phenomenal tool. DEWS: Well Molly, every time I talk to you about AI on this podcast, like we had a conversation in the spring about your visit to the Vatican looking at AI and the moral issues, it always feels very personal. How do you use AI in your own work? [6] KINDER: You know, I use AI all the time in my personal life as a mother and as someone who cooks in my house. And I had a post the other day on LinkedIn about how I started a fairy club for my daughter. And it taught me how how much teachers can really benefit from this. And then in my work, I use AI all the time as a thought partner, a deep research partner, a sort of a force multiplier. I find this topic of how AI is impacting work and workers fascinating. I’m passionate about my job. There are so many questions I’m wrestling with. And, importantly, my job is not just to study how it’s impacting workers, it’s to come up with really brilliant ideas for what we can do to make sure workers benefit and they avoid harm. AI for me has been an incredible partner, both to help me accelerate my research. It’s almost like I have a bigger team because I’m able to ask deeper questions and go off and sort of have deep research, you know, noodle on a question that I’m really wrestling with. And then I’ve actually found it to be a terrific brainstorming partner as I’m coming up with what I think are quite novel solutions that are not yet existing. I like to talk out loud and sort of use Claude or Chat GPT as a, as a thought partner. It certainly doesn’t replace anyone at Brookings, or it doesn’t replace what I bring to the table. I find it very complimentary. I find it helps me do more work, more thoughtful work. And I would say probably more creative work. DEWS: I invite listeners as always to check out your research on the Brookings website, but also to visit you on LinkedIn, where I know that you spent a lot of time writing about and thinking about AI and its implications. So LinkedIn, Molly Kinder. To get to that question of what policy can be implemented, are there specific steps that policymakers can make to either mitigate any of the negative impacts or to facilitate some of the beneficial impacts of AI on work, on workers, to help Americans better navigate the intersection of AI and work? [8] KINDER: I mean, I think there is so many areas where policymakers can really lead to help workers in America navigate this change. If you compare America to Europe, we have far fewer institutional mechanisms that are going to help our workers navigate these changes. We spend a tiny fraction of what other countries spend on workforce training. So we spend a lot as a country on higher education. But once you come out of school, the sort of resources available to help you navigate a career change or study later are very, very small. That’s an obvious low hanging fruit where, you know, more resources and more, frankly, more ingenuity to think about what would be the types of resources and training that workers will need. We also have a very weak safety net. The American public is wary. About 50% of people polled by Pew felt more negative than positive about AI. It can feel sometimes like Russian roulette: is my occupation or livelihood going to be one that I’m going to wake up one day and some AI breakthrough is going to make vulnerable? And I think that’s magnified in this country because we don’t really have much of a safety net at all if you happen to find yourself in that situation. And then I’m, I’m really excited to be exploring some novel new ideas, both with governors and with folks in Washington on how do we think specifically about AI? And something I’ve been coming up with some new thinking on is, how might we think about a new way of training young talent when AI can do more of the automatable work? So I have a piece I’ve been working on with the New York Times for several months that’s going to flesh out a bold new idea for this. So there’s lots of ways I think policymakers can be really meeting workers, recognizing there are both risks and opportunities. And importantly, making sure workers don’t feel they’re left alone. And the last thing I would say is, right now, not a lot of workers in America feel they have agency in this. It feels like it’s happening to them. And that’s in part because, you know, we’re mostly just hearing headlines, and this is all happening in Silicon Valley, and these things are coming and we hear all these predictions. But there aren’t really good institutional mechanisms in America for individual employees or workers to feel that they have some voice or some say in this. And, you know, again, when we look at Europe, there are countries like Germany where every workplace has something called a Works Council. So these mechanisms by which workers and management together try to come up with a positive way of deploying this technology. I’d love to see the United States figure out ways to really put workers in the driver’s seat and give them more of a say in this future. DEWS: Molly, it’s fascinating to talk to you about this topic all the time. Looking forward to the next time, and thanks for sharing your time and expertise with me today. KINDER: Great, thanks Fred. I really appreciate it. [11] DEWS: And now Rebecca Winthrop, director of the Center for Universal Education at Brookings and co-author with Jenny Anderson of The Disengaged Teen: helping kids learn better, feel better, and live better. Rebecca, welcome to The Current for the first time! WINTHROP: Great to be here. DEWS: So we just heard from Molly Kinder about the jobs that are being impacted by artificial intelligence. Is our education system, the pipeline, up to the task of preparing our young people for an AI future? [12] WINTHROP: Well, whatever people are talking about in the boardroom among companies around the talent pipeline and the workforce they need, they have to be paying attention to what’s happening in the classroom. Because whatever we’ve got going in the classroom and at home, where kids learn a lot, is what’s going to show up in the workforce. And I would say that the answer currently is “no,” kids are not being prepared. And there’s a couple ways to think about this. One is to use AI well and to be a really great, highly sort of sought after worker, you have to be able to think, you have to be able to manage AI really well, and you have to be in charge of it to carry out your objectives in the workplace. Now, that takes a lot of skill and we need kids to be able to read well, even in an age of AI because reading and writing is actually a critical thinking process. It’s how kids develop critical thinking and analysis. And that is actually the skill we need young people to be able to develop when they’re in the classroom, again, or outside of the classroom where they’re learning all the time. And at the moment we have a pretty big literacy crisis. We have a pretty big disengagement crisis. And the vast majority of students are in what my coauthor and I call “passenger mode,” which is basically they’re coasting, doing the bare minimum. Now, AI comes along, can do their homework for them, can do their math problem sets for them. I’m worried that if we don’t really shift up what we do in education, it could make a lot more kids in passenger mode. And when you’re in passenger mode, you’re not having the learning experiences you need that are going to make you a really good employee in the future. DEWS: But it’s, it’s not just an instrumental approach, right? We’re not teaching kids how to deal with, handle, engage with AI because they can be better workers. We want to teach kids other skills that help them to be better people, better citizens. [13] WINTHROP: Absolutely. So education, if you think about it, and we learned this in COVID, does a lot of things. Education helps kids master academic content and that’s what most people think about when they think of schools and education. But it does so much else. It is the one institution in our country, virtually in every community, where young people have to get to know and work with people who are not like themselves, not in their immediate family or immediate neighborhood. That ability to sort of learn that other people are different, to learn to work together, to collaborate, to try to communicate your ideas, to try to be understood. All of those skills that education does do, whether it’s on the playground or in discussion in in the classroom, lead into the workforce as the competencies that are much sought after by employers. People that can figure things out, can work with other people, can manage conflict, can be creative. Schools are really training grounds for that. DEWS: And you wrote, and I’ll quote, “we cannot wait until AI is part of students’ everyday lives to create norms that will lead to healthy and productive use of this technology.” What did you mean by that? [15] WINTHROP: So one of the things that we are worried about at Brookings and through our Brookings Global Task Force on AI in Education work is making the same mistakes that we’ve made with social media when it comes to kids’ learning and development. When social media rolled out, educators really weren’t at the table, parents weren’t at the table, coaches, people who work with children. And we knew at the time that social media was rolling out that things like social comparisons for adolescents is a really bad thing and can and will harm their wellbeing. We already knew that. So we know a lot about children’s learning and development. And so now that AI is being rolled out around the world, we need to be at the forefront. We need to be at the table and say, how can we make sure that AI is used for good? That it will extend not replace learning. That it will spur better interactions with people, not actually de-socialize young people. So that’s what I mean. I think of it like this. Imagine you and I, Fred are a hundred years ago perhaps, and we’re in the, you know, horse and buggy era. And then we wake up and one day there’s an automobile. That’s where we’re at. Like, it took a long time to make sure, first of all, that, you know, seven year olds aren’t driving the automobile. There’s speed limits, there’s airbags, there’s seat belts, there’s driving licenses, there’s age, you know, limits, et cetera. So we’re in an era where, you know, AI is a technology that we don’t want to become embedded in kids’ lives– I’m really focused on kids– and have the norms ossify. What we need is to put sufficient guardrails on it. We need the AI equivalent of seat belts, airbags, driver’s license, speed limits that cars had. DEWS: If you were to offer some advice to, say, high school students or even college students and their parents about the intersection of learning and AI, what would you say? [17] WINTHROP: Well, one thing that I think is really important is to note that kids are using AI whether we like it or not. And so when I talk to families and parents and school leaders, I note that, look, 90% of teenagers in the U.S. use AI in their personal life. Two, it’s almost impossible to get away from. Generative AI is a software. You don’t have to download an app, you don’t have to buy a device. It’s embedded in everything. I had a high school student tell me recently, yeah, my school banned Chat GPT. But no worries, we use Deep Seek and actually I go on Snapchat, and I use my AI friend because there’s these AI companions. And what can my AI friend do? Yeah, it can talk to you, you can have a relationship but can also do your homework for you. So kids are accessing it all over the place. And I would, you know, really tell families that they have to be wide awake to it and partner with their kids’ schools, because the risk is that AI replaces learning and de-socializes kids. And kids’ brains develop the way they’re used. So if they are not practicing those social skills, they are not going to be able to be great teammates in the workforce in a couple years. And we already know that AI companions, these idea of AI friends that a third of teens in the U.S. say that they prefer talking to AI companions equally or more than other human beings. DEWS: Well, now shifting to the policymaker side, what can policymakers do, if anything, to create the systems, rules, or frameworks to help students and their parents navigate today’s AI world to help them best prepare to thrive in the AI present? [18] WINTHROP: So I think one of the main thing that Congress can do is really set up safeguards around children’s AI use, particularly with AI companions or AI friends. There’s a number of bills on the Hill at the moment. And anything that restricts young kids from using AI companions, for example, Common Sense Media says no kids under 18 should be using them right now. And I would agree with that. Because again, it’s the equivalent of a car showing up in a horse and buggy era. They don’t have seat belts. They don’t have airbags, there’s no driver’s license, there’s no speed limits. You know, we shouldn’t just let kids use it until we know it’s safe. At the moment, the reverse seems to be true. Everybody go and use it and let’s see if it’s safe. I think we need to to flip that. So anything that safeguards kids’ use, particularly around AI companions, is I think a really smart thing. DEWS: Okay. Well, it’s super important work, and as a parent myself I’m glad that you and and Molly are working on this. And thank you for your time and expertise today. WINTHROP: My pleasure. DEWS: You can learn more about all of the AI related research that Brookings scholars are doing on our website, Brookings dot edu. [music]

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新闻 23: Why companies are laying off so many workers and slowing hiring

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新闻 24: Top Korean Companies to Invest $550 Billion at Home

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• Donald Trump hit India with 50% tariffs in August, the highest in Asia, partly as punishment for its trade ties with Russia. He soon followed with a $100,000 fee on new H-1B applications, a visa program widely used by tech firms to bring skilled Indian workers into the US.
• The move is already pushing some talented Indians to return home as global giants from Microsoft and Amazon to JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs build massive capability centers in India and offer lucrative roles.
• It is also shifting hiring patterns for Wall Street, which is speeding up India recruitment and tapping finance specialists in hubs like Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
• The trend is also reflected in US college applications, which have dropped 14% among Indian students since Trump’s return to the White House, according to Common App, a college application platform. Opinion A UN report warned that Japan’s storied animation sector was on the brink, Catherine Thorbecke writes, but the cause wasn’t AI. It was low pay, excessive hours and weak intellectual property protections. AI’s threat gives Tokyo a second chance to support workers behind a $21 billion industry or risk letting Silicon Valley set the rules. More Opinions Play Alphadots! Our daily word puzzle with a plot twist. Today’s clue is: Person looking to get in and out of a building, fast? Before You Go From boom to bust. The euphoria surrounding Pop Mart’s Labubu figurines is beginning to resemble the collapse that hit Beanie Babies in the 199os—a red flag for investors, a bearish analyst warns. The frenzy around the sharp-fanged monster dolls is close to its peak, and doubts over what will drive the next wave of sales for Pop Mart suggest its shares have limited upside. A Couple More Bloomberg.com subscribers are invited to a special live taping of the Bloomberg Businessweek podcast “Everybody’s Business,” hosted by Max Chafkin and Stacey Vanek Smith, alongside Businessweek editor Brad Stone and technology features reporter Ellen Huet on Dec. 4. More From Bloomberg Enjoying Morning Briefing? Check out these newsletters:
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新闻 25: Fraud, AI slop and huge profits: is science publishing broken? – podcast

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新闻 26: Microsoft introduces new Copilot features such as collaboration, Google integration

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新闻 27: Here's why everyone's talking about a 'K-shaped' economy

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新闻 28: Global shares advance after the Dow hits a fresh record

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新闻 29: UK faces years of ‘anaemic’ growth amid tax and regulation burden, says Next

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新闻 30: Atlassian's CEO explains why the company is planning for more engineers, not fewer

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• Atlassian CEO says more engineers are needed as demand for tech grows.
• He emphasized that new tech will require more human engineers, despite vibe coding tools' explosion.
• He said Atlassian is hiring more new grads this year compared to previous years. Vibe coding isn't replacing engineering jobs at one tech giant. In an episode of the "20VC" podcast released Monday, Atlassian's cofounder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said companies would need more software developers because more and better technology will be created over time. "Five years from now, we'll have more engineers working for our company than we do today," Cannon-Brookes said. He added: "They will be more efficient, but technology creation is not output-bound." This is because people will keep coming up with new ideas for the technology they want, and engineers will be needed to build it, he said. "Maybe crap ideas, maybe good ideas," he said. "I like to be an optimist and think we will end up with far more technology, firstly, and secondly, far better technology." Cannon-Brookes cofounded the Australian-American software company in 2002. Atlassian is best known for Jira, an issue- and project-tracking software. According to regulatory filings, the company had 13,813 full-time employees as of June — about 14% more than the year before. The CEO's optimism extends to new computer science graduates. He said that Atlassian is hiring more new graduates this year than last year and 2023 because it needs more staff for its research and development and engineering teams. "There's a good chance that those graduates come in with a different view on what it means to be a software developer and shake up the existing world of talent in a positive way for my business," he said. Cannon-Brookes said that just because some finance or marketing professionals are using vibe coding tools to build applications or create websites doesn't mean there is less for "core technologists to do." A representative of Atlassian told Business Insider that the company hired 95 new grads in its February 2025 intake and has hired 108 grads to start in February 2026. The Atlassian CEO joins several other tech leaders who say that vibe coding, a term meaning AI-assisted coding, isn't all doom and gloom for software engineers. In April, Windsurf's then-CEO Varun Mohan said vibe coding doesn't mean companies should hire fewer engineers. "Engineers spend more time than just writing code. They review code, test code, debug code, design code, deploy code, right?" the cofounder of the vibe coding startup said in a podcast interview. On a June podcast, Bob McGrew, the former chief research officer at OpenAI, said professional software engineers are not going to lose their jobs to vibe coding just yet. "If you are given a code base that you don't understand — this is a classic software engineering question — is that a liability or is it an asset?" McGrew said of software made with vibe coding. "And the classic answer is that it's a liability."

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新闻 31: Democratic US Sen. Mark Warner launches bid for reelection

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新闻 32: Oracle’s AI-Fueled Cash Crunch Sets Stage for Major Job Cuts

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新闻 33: OpenAI's Sam Altman and the father of quantum computing just agreed on a Turing Test 2.0

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• Sam Altman and physicist David Deutsch proposed a new test for artificial general intelligence.
• Deutsch argued that current models can mimic but don't possess intuition or create knowledge.
• Altman asked if future models could could explain quantum gravity, would that count? Deutsch agreed. For decades, experts have debated how to tell when machines cross into true intelligence. On Wednesday in Berlin, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and British physicist David Deutsch agreed on a new benchmark: If an AI could crack quantum gravity — and explain why — that might be enough to call it human-level smart. Altman stopped at Axel Springer's headquarters on Wednesday to meet with tech leaders and collect an award. That night, in a fireside chat, publisher Mathias Döpfner asked about Altman's favorite book — Deutsch's "The Beginning of Infinity" — and then promptly beamed the author onto a screen, to Altman's obvious delight. Altman, the builder betting on scale and iteration to achieve AGI, was suddenly face-to-face with on-screen Deutsch, the British physicist known as the father of quantum computing and a philosopher of science who doubts that brute-force training will ever produce true minds. The exchange played less like a debate than a meeting of the mutual admiration society. Deutsch said he once thought no computer could hold an open-ended conversation without being an AGI. "ChatGPT proved me wrong," Deutsch told Altman. "It's not an AGI, and it can converse." Deutsch, however, drew a hard line between chatty software and real intelligence. Large language models can talk endlessly because they are trained on huge bodies of knowledge, he said. In his mind, genuine intelligence is the ability to create knowledge — spot a problem, invent a solution, test it, and improve it as humans do. He called upon Einstein's theory of relativity. "Some people have fun questioning whether Einstein really created the theory of relativity," Deutsch said, "or only assembled it mechanically from a smorgasbord of existing ideas. We know he created it because we know his story, what problems he was addressing, and why." Deutsch extended the point to Altman. "Without having to write any code, [he] brought ChatGPT into existence as a product and a phenomenon by having the intuition and the gumption to know that this was the right thing for humanity to try next." "Nothing can program a computer to have such intuition — yet," he quipped. Then Altman pushed a hypothetical. If a future model "figured out quantum gravity and could tell you its story" — the problems it chose, the reasons it pursued them — "would that be enough to convince you?" he asked. "I think it would, yes," Deutsch replied. Altman smiled. "I agree to that as the test." You can watch the full interview here.

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新闻 34: Businesses are increasingly finding themselves in the middle of culture wars

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• This post originally appeared in the Business Insider Today newsletter.
• You can sign up for Business Insider's daily newsletter here. Welcome back! Did you already get a lift in today? On Wall Street, chasing gains at the office is becoming the new norm. Here's how gyms at five top firms stack up. In today's big story, people are obsessed with reading into every corporate rebrand as the next big political statement. It's not that serious. What's on deck: Markets: The interview questions Wall Street hiring managers use to spot talent. Tech: Inside Silicon Valley's "youthquake." Business: Hyundai has for decades poured billions into America's South. Then ICE rattled its biggest US project yet. But first, we're switching things up. If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. The big story New brand, big problems Is that a new ad campaign or Nazi propaganda? Did you redesign your logo or abandon traditional values? As wild as those accusations sound, that's the minefield companies increasingly encounter when undergoing corporate rebrands. Businesses trying to drum up attention and sell more products are finding themselves in the middle of culture wars, writes BI's Emily Stewart. Ironically, these firestorms happen as most companies try to avoid taking political stances. After years of leaning into the discourse, most businesses prefer keeping things down the middle. But our country's hyperpolarization hasn't left much space between the sides, forcing companies to thread an impossibly small needle. Sometimes, the blowback is so strong a company reverses course, as was the case with Cracker Barrel and its logo-gone-wrong incident. The end result is that the attackers feel vindicated by their critique, emboldening them for the next potential target. But the reality is that most of what you're seeing from companies isn't politically coded. As Emily smartly puts it, what's really behind most of these campaigns is that "a brand would just like to sell you things and remind you that it's there." That won't stop companies from trying to switch things up, though. (After all, what are ad agencies and consultants for?) Last week, a company flipped one of the business world's most iconic slogans. Nike launched a new campaign Thursday, updating its classic "Just do it" to "Why do it?" The idea was to appeal to and challenge a "hesitant generation," connecting with athletes "who are growing up in a world where trying, and failing, can feel daunting," according to a press release announcing the news. Now, if I were to put on my tinfoil hat, I might say this is another example of companies coddling young people. There is already too much apathy in the world. People don't even want to show up to the office! America would be a lot better off if people "Just do it" instead of asking why!! Nike even has a track record of poking the bear, most notably in its ad campaign featuring former NFL star and political lightning rod Colin Kaepernick. But… Nike isn't in a position of power. The sneaker giant has had a tough few years as old rivals (Adidas) and new ones (Hoka) have gained traction among the younger generation. It switched up its CEO last year, and while Nike is making progress, it's still staring down the barrel of some serious impacts from tariffs. So yes, while it might be fun to claim Nike is just going "woke" again, the reality could be that switching up its iconic phrase might be its latest bid to get back into the mainstream. 3 things in markets

• The big bets top Wall Street minds are most confident about. BI asked four top market strategists to share their strongest investment ideas that can be explained in a single chart. From the upside in the UK market to value stocks being extremely cheap, here's what they're watching. Check out the charts.
• Don't call it a comeback. Andrew Left says his short-selling days are long over, but Palantir's stock has been down 17% in the weeks after he called it "overvalued." The ex-short-seller told BI he's now going long on companies he believes have high upside and strong fundamentals. He's also bullish on one Palantir rival.
• Wall Street hiring managers share their talent-spotting questions. When hiring for high-stakes Wall Street roles, it's all about asking the right questions. BI spoke to three finance leaders who shared their go-to interview questions. 3 things in tech
• Meta's worldwide tour to create authentic AI. Meta is paying US-based contractors fluent in Hindi, Indonesian, Spanish, and Portuguese $55 an hour to help shape character-driven chatbots tailored to local contexts outside the US, BI's Pranav Dixit exclusively reports. It shows how the company's trying to create authentic personalities.
• Breaking down the seating chart at Trump's dinner for the Big Tech CEOs. Meta's Mark Zuckerberg had prime placement right next to the president, while Microsoft's Satya Nadella was way down the table. Meanwhile, Apple's Tim Cook and OpenAI's Sam Altman were rubbing shoulders. But what does it all mean? Katie Notopoulos and Peter Kafka broke it all down.
• There's a "youthquake" happening in Silicon Valley. From Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, young leaders have long been icons — and Gen Z's no different. This is especially true for a generation opting out of college. Building a startup is no longer for the chosen few. In the golden age of AI, it's becoming a rite of passage. 3 things in business
• The ICE raid on a Hyundai plant is reverberating far beyond the rural Georgia town where it took place. The operation, called by one US official the "largest single-site enforcement operation" in history, detained nearly 500 workers, most of them South Korean. After the raid, President Donald Trump said all foreign companies need to "please respect our nation's immigration laws."
• The latest wearable status symbol is tiny, permanent. A less ostentatious form of consumption, tiny tattoos are just expensive enough to signal you have the disposable income to drop on some forever ink and the whimsy to spring for a cute little design.
• Can AI replace CEOs? Futurist Michael Tchong thinks so. He told BI that AI will eventually infiltrate the C-suite as it challenges traditional executive functions and investors demand more efficiency. That means that instead of human CEOs, you'll have tireless bots who can send round-the-clock emails and never take PTO. (Not everyone agrees with Tchong, though.) In other news

• 'Mini-stagflation is brewing': 5 fresh signs that the economy's worst-case scenario could be inching closer.
• It's official: RTO mandates are driving more workers to leave their jobs.
• A second-time founder graduated from Y Combinator with a new AI financial services startup. Read her pitch deck.
• Worried about a market crash with stocks at all-time highs? History says don't be.
• I toured an $85 million Hamptons mansion and learned something about the economy.
• Lyft salaries revealed: How much tech workers at the ride-hailing company get paid. What's happening today
• Jury trial for Ryan Routh, man charged with attempted assassination of Trump on Florida golf course. Dan DeFrancesco, deputy editor and anchor, in New York. Hallam Bullock, senior editor, in London. Akin Oyedele, deputy editor, in New York. Grace Lett, editor, in New York. Amanda Yen, associate editor, in New York.

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新闻 35: One in four unconcerned by sexual deepfakes created without consent, survey finds

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新闻 36: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ask families to join fight against predatory social media policies

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新闻 37: F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls

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新闻 38: The 'Godmother of AI' says your college diploma is losing power — here's what she looks for instead

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• Fei-Fei Li, founder of World Labs, says degrees matter far less now than AI expertise.
• The Stanford computer science professor says she hires for AI tool fluency and adaptability.
• Silicon Valley companies are increasingly hiring candidates based on their AI skills. Don't count on a college degree to land your dream job in Silicon Valley. Increasingly, founders and tech companies are judging talent by how quickly someone can learn, adapt, and build — not on how long they spent in a lecture hall — reshaping traditional pathways into the workforce. Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford computer science professor widely known as the "Godmother of AI," is one example of this. In an interview on "The Tim Ferriss Show" this week, she spoke about the value of a degree when it comes to hiring for her AI startup, World Labs. "When we interview a software engineer, I personally feel the degree they have matters less to us now," Li said. "Now, it's more about what have you learned, what tools do you use, how quickly can you superpower yourself in using these tools — and a lot of these are AI tools," she said. "What's your mindset toward using these tools matter more to me." Her hiring bar has become even clearer: she won't hire software engineers who resist AI. "At this point in 2025 — hiring at World Labs — I would not hire any software engineer who does not embrace AI collaborative software tools," Li said. It's not about automating humans out of the equation, she added — it's about identifying people who can grow as fast as the technology around them. "If you're able to use these tools, you're able to learn. You can superpower yourself better," she said. AI is rewriting the rules Li's stance is part of a broader shift playing out across Silicon Valley, where more founders and even major tech firms are openly questioning the value of higher education. Palantir's CEO, Alex Karp, has openly challenged the value of a college education, urging young entrepreneurs to skip the lecture hall and learn by doing instead — a view echoed by LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky, who has said that adaptability and AI fluency now matter far more than the "fanciest degrees." "AI makes skill sets based on years of education irrelevant," Dan Rhoton, CEO of Hopeworks, told Business Insider. Hopeworks is a tech-training nonprofit that prepares underrepresented talent for AI-enabled jobs. After 13 years of preparing unemployed young adults ages 17 to 26 in Camden, New Jersey, and Philadelphia for tech careers, Rhoton said he has watched firsthand how AI is upending the value of a college degree. "We're seeing more and more employers coming to us, saying, 'We used to require a bachelor's degree in this, but we don't understand why.'" Instead, he said, employers now want a "value proposition," which he said any job seeker can achieve by showing an AI-generated solution to a company's specific problems. "This is the age of: I'm someone who's going to deliver business value," Rhoton said. "Not: I have the right degree."

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新闻 39: Preparing students for a world shaped by artificial intelligence

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) is very gettable in this way. All that their degree certificate will guarantee is that they handed over nearly £30,000. That being so, you might wonder why we don’t cut out the middleman and just hand out degree certificates immediately after payment. And that might well be an option favoured by some university administrators, who then wouldn’t need to worry about such pesky things as having to pay their teaching staff. But for those of us who care about both the quality of higher education and the cultural role of universities, the current situation regarding AI is a disaster.Prof Mark JagoUniversity of Nottingham

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新闻 40: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says AI innovation is 'far exceeding' customer adoption

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• Marc Benioff said that AI innovation is "far exceeding" client adoption.
• Salesforce's stock has dropped around 34% in comparison to its peak in December 2024.
• Benioff said that people don't understand that the Agentforce AI is at the core of the company's products. Marc Benioff doesn't think enough companies have figured out how to adopt AI. "Customers are getting their head around how to deploy AI," Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, told CNBC host Jim Cramer on Tuesday. Earlier on Tuesday, Benoiff kicked off the Dreamforce conference at San Francisco's Moscone Center with a keynote, where he touted how clients such as Williams-Sonoma and Dutch jewelry maker Pandora have adopted Salesforce's AI products. "The speed of innovation is far exceeding the speed of customer adoption," said Benioff to Cramer. "These customers have to go back and modify massive architectures they have and systems they're running." The comments on AI adoption come as Salesforce shares are down more than 28% compared to the same time last year and around 34% compared to their peak in December 2024. The company said in August that it cut its support staff from 9,000 to 5,000 employees, thanks to the adoption of AI agents. When asked about the stock decline, Benioff said that the Agentforce platform has rapidly grown since the company first introduced it a little over a year ago, but there is little understanding of how the company is using autonomous bots to drive efficiency. "People don't understand that Agentforce is part and parcel of Salesforce," said Benioff. "It is the core of every product we make now, it is the platform." The Dreamforce conference is set to bring tens of thousands of guests to San Francisco this week as Benoiff attempts to sell software like Tableau and Slack, powered by AI. Tickets typically run from $999 to $2,299. Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Dario Amodei, CEO of AI lab Anthropic, are both scheduled to have chat sessions with Benoiff throughout the week, topped off with music performances from Metallica and Benson Boone.

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新闻 41: Klarna stock surges 30% as investors flock to another hot tech debut

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• Klarna stock popped more than 30% in its trading debut on Wednesday.
• The Swedish fintech company is the latest hot tech IPO to draw a
• The oversubscribed IPO raised $1.37 billion. The parade of red-hot tech stocks to surge in their first day of trading continued on Wednesday. Klarna shares spiked more than 30% to about $52 a share in their debut after the Swedish fintech company priced its initial public offering at $40 per share on Tuesday, the high end of its expected range. Anticipation for the Klarna IPO was high, as investors prepared for the next blockbuster tech debut. The oversubscribed offering raised $1.37 billion for the company and its early backers. Klarna, a titan in the buy now, pay later space, had delayed its offering earlier this year amid the market chaos induced by Donald Trump's tariff announcements. The strong debut is the latest in a string of post-IPO surges this year as the market for initial offerings thaws for high-profile tech firms. Figma, CoreWeave, and Circle Internet Group are among the companies that have seen their stocks rally to dizzying heights in the wake of their IPOs. "Klarna's two decades of growth demonstrate how the steady migration toward online shopping, digital payments, and new credit models creates sustainable momentum," Niklas Zennström, CEO and Founder of European VC firm, Atomico, said. Phil Haslett, chief strategy officer at private company investment platform EquityZen, said that interest in the Klarna IPO was extremely high, with a large spike in interest among investors looking to gain exposure ahead of the debut. Haslett highlighted Klarna's potential to scale operations via artificial intelligence tools. However, he also noted that Klarna recently reduced its workforce but then hired them back when some AI tools failed to deliver. Business Insider reports that Klarna has claimed to be losing its top talent to companies with strong in-office cultures. Despite these concerns, interest in the Klarna IPO remains extremely high as investors pile into the newest tech IPO, continuing a season of popular tech companies enjoying successful trading debuts.

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新闻 42: AI is changing the physics of collective intelligence—how do we respond?

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新闻 43: AI for therapy? Some therapists are fine with it — and use it themselves.

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新闻 44: AI safety tool sparks student backlash after flagging art as porn, deleting emails

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新闻 45: AI won’t replace your rabbis — but it might save them

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新闻 47: Meta put virtual-reality profit over kids' safety, whistleblowers tell US Congress

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新闻 48: Fake videos of dead celebrities are going viral. Many of their families are horrified.

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• 2Cat Zakrzewski,Cate Cadell,Dan DiamondandEva DouTrump announces new 100 percent tariffs on China
• 3Dan DiamondTrump eyes a triumphal arch to mark America’s 250th anniversary
• 4Andrew JeongWhy Qatar is building an air force training facility at a U.S. military base
• 5Nitasha Tiku,Elizabeth DwoskinandGerrit De VynckInside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

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新闻 49: Meta to give teen parents more control after criticism over flirty AI chatbots

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新闻 50: Five key questions about GLP-1 weight loss medicines

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• 1Mariana AlfaroandHannah NatansonTrump administration prepares to fire worker for TV interview about SNAP
• 2OpinionDavid IgnatiusThis rising House Democrat is a voice for the angry middle
• 3Jeremy B. Merrill,Szu Yu ChenandEmma KumerWhat are the clues that ChatGPT wrote something? We analyzed its style.
• 4Isaac ArnsdorfandMatthew ChoiEpstein wrote that Trump knew of sexual abuse but didn’t participate
• 5Anumita KaurU.S. WWII cemetery in the Netherlands removes displays about Black troops

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新闻 51: 13-year-old arrested after asking asked ChatGPT how to kill friend

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新闻 52: Micro dramas viewed on phones took over China. Now they're coming for the US.

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• Vertical dramas have taken off in the US, challenging Peacock and HBO.
• These soapy, low-cost movies, which first became popular in China, are viewed in bite-sized episodes.
• Fox and others in Hollywood are moving to capitalize on the hits viewed mostly on phones. Sam Nejad was an aspiring filmmaker who was making Instagram skits when he got introduced to microdramas. He's since starred in nine films this year, starting with "The Billionaire's Accidental Bride," for Pocket FM, where he played a rich guy who finds himself at the center of a payback scheme, before moving on to roles for other apps. The pace is fast; shoots typically happen over nine days, and actors may only get one take for a scene. But for Nejad, a non-union actor in California, he's living the dream. "I've played every character you can imagine," he said. "Right now it's soap operas, but it'll take over comedy. And action's coming." Hollywood has looked with morbid curiosity on these micro dramas, the made-for-mobile movies that first became popular in China and now have exploded in the US. Chopped into one- to two-minute episodes and consumed on mobile apps like ReelShort and DramaBox that operate outside traditional Hollywood, they're low-budget and cheesy. With titles like "Fake Married to My Billionaire CEO" and "Divorced at the Wedding Day," they can be problematic, with lots of violence against women, and have been criticized for their lack of racial diversity on screen. They're also comfortable using AI in their production, which many traditional filmmakers are still uneasy with. They're also eating up real time and money at a time when traditional Hollywood streamers are fighting to defend their market share from a growing YouTube. The short-drama apps mostly operate on a freemium model, where people are prompted to pay up, often $10 and more per movie, after watching a certain number of episodes, or subscribe for unlimited viewing. They're on track to generate $3 billion in revenue this year globally, excluding China, nearly triple their haul last year, per streaming consulting firm Owl & Co., suggesting there's a real marketplace for short-form scripted video. Put another way, users spend more time per day on DramaBox — which, like the other players with momentum in the US, are privately held — than on Comcast's Peacock and Warner Bros. Discovery's HBO Max, at least on mobile, Bernstein analysts wrote in a new report. "Short-form remains the elephant in the room — a structural threat to the longform model and a wake-up call for platforms that still believe engagement begins and ends with the TV screen," Bernstein analysts wrote, calling for traditional streamers to adapt to the format or risk becoming "the next generation of 'legacy' media." The past couple of weeks brought two big developments in the space. In the first big bet by a Hollywood studio, Fox Corp.'s Fox Entertainment invested in Holywater, a Ukrainian company behind the micro drama app My Drama. Separately, the actors' union, SAG-AFTRA, joined the Writers Guild of America in saying its members could work on the projects, welcome news for a work-starved industry. And in August, Hollywood veteran Lloyd Braun and other media heavies launched MicroCo with backing from tech-driven entertainment company Cineverse to capitalize on the formula. Fox Entertainment sees the format's potential to test out ideas for new shows as well as extend existing ones. It's already producing scripted vertical series that'll live on My Drama while talking to its established talent and exploring adapting the micro drama to true crime and animated fare. Fox Entertainment CEO Rob Wade acknowledged there's a "knee-jerk" tendency in Hollywood to dismiss new formats, but that making a hit micro drama is its own skill set, with the need to retain audiences from one bite-sized episode to the next. "For us to come in there and say we have a legacy of storytelling, I think, is pretty arrogant." Wade argued that with a finite amount of opportunity in Hollywood for distribution, every studio should be racing toward micro dramas. "There's an opportunity here to go out and tell stories that you otherwise couldn't sell or make," he said. "And if they're successful, there's the option to take them to different formats. Everyone should embrace this as an opportunity for more business." MicroCo's plan is to elevate the format by using union as well as non-union labor and AI tools to keep production costs down and improve content recommendations. "We're going to be trying a lot of things others haven't done," said Erick Opeka, Cineverse's president and chief strategy officer. "And we're going to be very, very focused on discovery." Still, Hollywood has its doubts Skeptics have serious questions about whether the model can work for Hollywood. Aside from the cringe factor — micro dramas are often of low production quality and heavily reliant on non-union actors playing mafiosos and werewolves — there are good reasons for the prestige crowd to be skeptical. Hollywood makes its money from big-budget films shown on the big screen — take Disney's 2025 blockbuster remake of "Lilo & Stitch," which cost roughly $200 million, including marketing, and raked in $1 billion. Verticals are a fraction of that, costing about $100,000 to $300,000 for an entire full-length movie. "It's very hard to make the economics work in the current Hollywood industrial model," Opeka said. The revenue potential is even less worthwhile for tech behemoths like YouTube, when you consider it made $36 billion in ad revenue alone in 2024, not counting subscriptions. Soapy melodramas are the most popular form of vertical series, but success in other genres such as reality TV, docs, and true crime is unproven. It's also easy to dismiss the phenomenon as another Quibi — the expensive pandemic-era short-form video experiment that crashed and burned in six months. There are key differences, though:
• Timing: TikTok wasn't the force it is now when Quibi hit; since then, people have grown glued to short mobile videos on TikTok as well as YouTube and Instagram, which quickly copied the format.
• Format: Quibi presented its TV shows and movies in three- to five-minute chunks, but didn't apply the cliffhanger approach that micro dramas use to hook viewers in a way that's often compared to gaming.
• Cost: The cost structure is vastly different. Quibi's top productions resembled Hollywood budgets, costing as much as $125,000 a minute, or $7.5 million an episode, Digiday has reported. Its leader, Jeffrey Katzenberg, cited HBO, the epitome of prestige TV, as a model. Micro dramas cost a fraction of that. Skepticism aside, everyone in Hollywood has vertical shorts on their radar to some extent. Another early mover is TelevisaUnivision, which is planning to debut 40 telenovela-style minidramas on ViX, its streaming platform, and expand to other genres like docs and comedy. Disney has invested, giving DramaBox a spot in its selective accelerator program. Others like Lionsgate and Hallmark have taken a look. The platform world is taking note, too. Meta's Instagram is testing the format in India with a series. TikTok is widely used as a marketing channel for these short firms, but it's also nudged users to watch entire films on the app, with a "series" button. The argument for micro dramas is, they're taking a greater share of viewers' wallets and watch time. Micro dramas mostly make money through a mix of tokens people use to unlock future episodes or subscriptions, with advertising making up the rest. Leading app ReelShort has said users typically pay $5 to $10 a week. China offers a scenario for how micro dramas could play out in the US. Research firm Omdia estimated that three out of five internet users watch micro dramas. Revenues from micro dramas in the country are expected to exceed the box office this year, according to a report from Media Partners Asia. "There is a scenario where getting to 10% to 15% of consumption time in four or five years is not an unlikely scenario," Opeka said. "I think it'll be an ecosystem of reality, scripted, game, talk shows. It'll have everything." Micro dramas are providing needed work in Hollywood There's another big reason some people are rooting for the format to succeed: It's creating needed jobs and suggesting a path for growth for a stagnating Hollywood. Scripted TV orders are down 25% from their peak in 2022, when studios were spending with abandon to catch up to Netflix. As a result, TV writing jobs fell 42% from the peak to the 2023-2024 season, per the Writers Guild of America. These days, roles in vertical dramas make up roughly half of the listings actors see on the popular casting website Actors Access, job seekers say. Hollywood is also at risk of losing younger generations who increasingly get their entertainment from YouTube creators over traditional TV shows and movies. The leading streamers Netflix and Disney+'s share of TV viewing and engagement per subscriber has stayed roughly even while YouTube has widened its lead, according to Nielsen and Parrot Analytics data. Verticals have provided opportunities for aspiring and established actors and filmmakers. Nejad, the actor, said he's earned upward of $60,000 already this year working in micro dramas and knows of others who are making six figures. He credits verticals for helping him land a cameo in a feature film. "No one can tell you you're not a serious actor because I have the demos to back it up," he said. "My experience from being on set makes me very confident I can be a lead or major supporting role for a feature film." Scott Brown is a writer and director who worked for YouTube star MrBeast before returning to LA in search of scripted work. He found it in vertical dramas. His first film, "The Diamond Rose," about a ballet teacher who seeks work at a strip club to help pay her father's debt, got 20 million views on the first day it was released in 2024 on My Drama, according to the app. He's about to shoot his second one and now has a scripted agent. "It has changed my life in the most positive way," he said of his vertical drama work. "I find myself sought after." @my_drama_series Is it really worth holding on to someone from your past?🥺 Watch “The Diamond Rose” only on My Drama via the link in bio! #verticals #relationship #heartbreak #dramaseries #romance ♬ original sound - My Drama | Amazing Episodes - My Drama | Amazing Episodes Erik Heintz is a former Disney creative marketing producer who found a new career making micro dramas after a layoff a couple of years ago. At first, he had his misgivings, hearing about the tight budgets and arduous schedules, but seeing all the other Hollywood expats on set changed his mind. "It's such a blessing," he said. "I could be driving an Uber, but luckily I'm doing what I love." The shoots are fast and nimble — for one movie, an airplane toilet seat substituted for an airplane window when the original location fell through, and no one was the wiser — but he's also seen the spending and quality improve over time. How the format could work in Hollywood One thing all agree on is that verticals will evolve in a few ways. First, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of apps, and consolidation seems inevitable. The format may stick around, but the distribution might change, with people watching them on platforms like TikTok and Instagram, where they're already spending a lot of time. Some producers are trying to differentiate by moving up the quality ladder. The labor unions' recognition of verticals should help elevate them by opening the door to more experienced talent. Independent creators will likely play a part in shaping the space. Top YouTuber Dhar Mann, who is early as a creator in making scripted series, has been making the rounds with the micro drama apps. DramaBox and ReelShort are in various stages of working with social-media influencers. Producers are also looking beyond the rom-com to see how far the format will stretch beyond the core female viewer. ReelShort has moved into dating shows, starting with "Love Bombing," and is testing thrillers. A new LA-based company, Bitz Films, just raised $1.5 million in pre-seed money, Business Insider learned, to make more elevated verticals in areas like comedy and horror. Its first title, an Elon Musk biopic, is expected to stream on ReelShort. "I think bridging the gap between traditional Hollywood film and trying to elevate what micro drama audiences are consuming is important," Bitz executive producer Serena Jiang said. @reelshortapp That's psycho ▶️ 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝘽𝙤𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙣𝙜 is streaming on #reelshort ! Click the link in my bio to enjoy the FULL SERIES! #shortdrama #verticals #mustwatch #fyp #love #realityshow ♬ original sound - ReelShort - ReelShort New funding models may develop. Apps are trying to get people to subscribe for unlimited viewing rather than making micro payments. Advertisers may jump on board as the audience grows. DramaBox is pursuing letting brands play for product placement, and at least one advertiser is looking at verticals as a form of branded content. Ultimately, some insiders and analysts see a future where micro dramas supplement or complement Hollywood. Bernstein imagines traditional entertainment companies using the format to make stand-alone series or short, trailer-like clips in a spin on the conventional trailer. They could develop series for mobile viewing, aimed at viewers who mainly watch stuff on their phones, capturing more viewing time. Or they could use the format to tease a show on mobile devices and get people to watch the full version on their TV. Fox said it plans to use the vertical format as a sort of R&D lab to see what new projects could go wider, signaling a path forward for other studios. Some see studios using verticals as companions to big franchise films or shows to keep superfans engaged between releases or seasons — grabbing people's time when they're on the go. "We'll still watch movies," Jiang said. "We'll still sit down on the sofa and watch Netflix and watch these as we wait on line."

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新闻 53: AI training unicorn Snorkel AI just laid off 13% of its workforce

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• Snorkel AI, a $1.3 billion Silicon Valley unicorn, cut 31 of 240 employees on Wednesday.
• The cuts affected software engineers the hardest, while most AI-focused roles were spared.
• Snorkel AI told Business Insider it's "deprioritizing some legacy areas of our business." Snorkel AI, a $1.3 billion startup spun out of Stanford that connects artificial intelligence companies to human "experts," laid off about 13% of its employees this week, it confirmed to Business Insider. Snorkel AI is part of a boom in startups like Scale AI that help tech companies train their latest AI models, thanks in large part to human gig workers. Based in Silicon Valley, Snorkel announced it raised a $100 million Series D round this May at a $1.3 billion valuation and touts partners like Google and Anthropic on its website. 31 out of 240 employees were cut on Wednesday, Snorkel AI told Business Insider. The startup attributed the cuts to a shift toward its "data-as-a-service" business, which has meant "deprioritizing some legacy areas of our business." "This, unfortunately, also means saying goodbye to some talented colleagues in these areas," Snorkel AI said. "We are grateful for their contributions and are supporting them through this transition. These changes allow us to focus our energy on the areas where we can have the greatest impact and better serve the evolving needs of our customers." Snorkel AI publicly launched in 2020, promising to automate away the data labeling process, which can be expensive because it requires so much human labor. As AI labs race to release better models, they need more human expertise to review and refine datasets — a service that Snorkel AI offers. The latest cuts appear to have avoided most AI-focused roles, the documents obtained by Business Insider show. Snorkel AI's software engineering team was the hardest hit, with 13 of its employees terminated. In contrast, none of the company's applied AI engineers or research scientists were let go. Overall, of the 25 people with "AI" in their job titles at Snorkel AI, only three were let go. Some senior-level people were terminated as well, including Snorkel AI's global head of business development and its director of AI solutions engineering. It's the latest major layoff to hit the highly competitive data labeling industry after Scale AI, one of the largest and best-known players, laid off 14% of its workforce and 500 contractors in July. Scale AI's layoff came after Meta bought 49% of the company and hired its CEO, triggering major customers like Google to leave. In an email explaining the decision, Scale AI blamed overhiring and market forces and also disclosed that it was unprofitable. Earlier this month, Scale AI terminated a dozen contractors on a key team tasked with probing AI models for potential harms. Have a tip? Contact this reporter via email at crollet@insider.com or on Signal and WhatsApp at 628-282-2811. Use a personal email address, a nonwork WiFi network, and a nonwork device; here's our guide to sharing information securely.

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新闻 54: Entrepreneurship is a bright spot as hiring cools

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• Ege Aksu, an economist at Revelio Labs, looked at data on transitions into entrepreneurship.
• Hiring has cooled from a 2022 peak, while moves into entrepreneurship have risen.
• People looking to run a business should think about their finances and skills. Instead of sending out résumés and job applications during the Great Freeze, it could be a good time to get a business plan in order. Ege Aksu, an economist at workforce intelligence company Revelio Labs, analyzed shifts in US entrepreneurship and hiring over the past few years, using data from public professional profiles on platforms like LinkedIn posted between 2019 and this past June. Clear patterns emerged: when hiring fell, the share of job switchers transitioning into entrepreneurship tended to heat up. Aksu told Business Insider that people may be starting businesses out of necessity. Despite better-than-expected job growth in September, job gains were pretty concentrated, and Indeed Hiring Lab economist Cory Stahle said the US still has a cooling job market. Job-search platform ZipRecruiter described the labor market's prolonged period of both employers and employees staying put as a "Great Freeze." Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed that quits, layoffs, and hiring have remained low. "We're seeing employers and job seekers both trying to wait out any of the uncertainty," Nicole Bachaud, labor economist at ZipRecruiter, previously told Business Insider. Self-employment in many different forms is on the rise. ADP Research found that the number of independent contractors — which can include a range of workers, from delivery work to gig economy freelancers — surged by 50% between 2019 and 2024. "This growth accelerated in the second half of 2020 and first half of 2021, driven by pandemic-driven labor shifts, remote work, and the expansion of online platform-based services," economist Łukasz Below wrote. Aksu expects the share of job switchers transitioning into entrepreneurship to continue increasing because she doesn't expect the hiring slowdown to quickly fade next year. Aksu expects more graduates to turn to business ventures because of the tough job market, too. What to do before starting a business or pursuing self-employment Sharon Miller, president of Business Banking at Bank of America, said aspiring business owners should consider whether their idea matches their skills and passion, and if there's demand for it. She suggested researching the potential competition and identifying the target audience. She said they also need to be ready to resolve problems, pivot when need be, and already have a business plan. "What is your operation going to look like? What is the competition? What is your mission of the company? All of those things are important to lay out," Miller said. "You've got to revisit those often because things do change, whether it be the economy or trends." You could give your idea a go as a side hustle, depending on your workplace's rules. "You have to be careful that you're not doing anything competitive or anything that would concern your primary employer," Ted Rossman, senior industry analyst at Bankrate, previously told Business Insider. Meghan Lim, who pivoted from a financial analyst job to self-employment, previously told Business Insider that people should start with just one side hustle. She also suggested having an emergency fund and waiting until your side earnings exceed your day job's income for a few consecutive months. "It's also important to ask yourself why you're doing it. Are you fulfilled with doing it? And do you see yourself doing this for the next few years?" Lim said. Aksu said it may be easier for people to start their own businesses than in the past, with the help of AI tools and flexible work options. "It's maybe speaking to work culture and autonomy, flexibility that are more talked about in today's job market," Aksu said. Did you make a career pivot into starting your own business? Reach out to this reporter to share at mhoff@businessinsider.com.

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新闻 55: Nvidia CEO told employees to use AI for 'every task that is possible'

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• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a meeting that he wants employees to use AI whenever possible.
• Huang said the company plans to continue hiring aggressively.
• Nvidia isn't alone as tech companies stress the importance of AI adoption for employees. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wants employees to use AI whenever they can — and he insists they shouldn't worry about losing their jobs in the process. In an all-hands meeting on Thursday, the day after the chipmaker reported record earnings, Huang responded to a question about managers instructing employees to use AI less. "My understanding is Nvidia has some managers who are telling their people to use less AI," he said at the meeting, which Business Insider listened to. "Are you insane?" Huang said he strongly disapproved. "I want every task that is possible to be automated with artificial intelligence to be automated with artificial intelligence," he said. "I promise you, you will have work to do." Nvidia did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. Nvidia isn't alone, as tech giants have taken measures to push employees to incorporate more AI into their day-to-day work. Both Microsoft and Meta plan to evaluate employees based on their AI usage, and Google told engineers to use AI for coding, Business Insider reported. Amazon was in talks to adopt the AI coding assistant Cursor after employees requested it, according to Business Insider's reporting. Huang also said Nvidia's software engineers use Cursor. And if AI does not work for a specific task, "use it until it does," he added. "Jump in and help make it better, because we have the power to do so." Though fear of job loss has been a constant drumbeat amid the rise of AI, Huang suggested Nvidia employees shouldn't worry. He said that while other tech companies have conducted layoffs, Nvidia had hired "several thousand" people last quarter, which he joked was putting a strain on office parking spaces. He added that hiring is still ramping up. "Frankly, I think we're probably still about 10,000 short," Huang said, "but the pace at which we hire should be consistent with the pace at which we can integrate and harmonize the new employees." Nvidia has significantly expanded its workforce, increasing from 29,600 employees at the end of fiscal 2024 to 36,000 employees at the end of fiscal 2025. As Nvidia grows, its physical footprint is expanding. Huang said at the meeting that the company has recently moved into new offices in Taipei and Shanghai and is constructing two additional sites in the US. Nvidia has become the world's most valuable company, with a market cap of over $4 trillion. The company reported last Wednesday that it generated $57.01 billion in revenue in the last quarter, up 62% from the same period last year. Recently, investor Michael Burry of "The Big Short" has been taking aim at Nvidia, voicing skepticism about the AI boom. Nvidia pushed back on these criticisms in a memo to Wall Street analysts, Business Insider reported Monday. Have a tip? Contact this reporter via email at gweiss@businessinsider.com or Signal at @geoffweiss.25. Use a personal email address and a nonwork device; here's our guide to sharing information securely.

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新闻 56: Famed software developer Martin Fowler says his field is in a 'depression.' Here's his advice for junior engineers.

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• Martin Fowler said software engineering is in a 'depression' due to a lack of investment.
• Fowler advises junior engineers to seek mentorship from senior developers.
• He said developers starting out should also be wary of the outputs when working with AI. One of the most influential software engineers has hope for junior developers amid the industry-wide uncertainty caused by artificial intelligence. Martin Fowler sat down on a November 19 episode of "The Pragmatic Engineer" podcast to discuss the state of the software engineering world in 2025 — a year when major tech companies aren't holding back when it comes to job cuts. Layoffs.ai has tracked around 114,000 tech employee layoffs so far in 2025, compared with nearly 153,000 in all of 2024. The 62-year-old, who has written several books about software development and is the chief scientist at software company Thoughtworks, said the massive job layoffs in the tech world are one sign that the software development world is in a "depression." In this current era of "great uncertainty," he said, businesses aren't investing in software. And, while the tech world is pouring money into artificial intelligence, that growth seems to be a "separate thing" that's "clearly bubbly." "While businesses aren't investing, it's hard to make much progress in the software world," Fowler said. "And so we have this weird mix of no investment, pretty much depression in the software industry, with an AI bubble going on." The "unpredictable" AI bubble presents challenges and uncertainty for junior software engineers, in particular. "The thing with bubbles is you never know how big they're going to grow," Fowler said. "You don't know how long it's going to take before they pop, and you don't know what's going to be after the pop." When asked about his advice for junior software engineers, Fowler didn't discourage them from using AI for coding. However, he said, newer developers can't always identify if the output of large language models, or LLMs for short, is useful. That's where the knowledge of a more experienced coder comes in handy. He said the best way for junior developers to learn is to find a senior engineer to mentor them. A good experienced mentor is "worth their weight in gold," he said. Fowler is widely regarded as a pioneer in the field of software engineering. He was one of 17 authors of the 2001 "Agile Manifesto," which redefined how software is built collaboratively by teams. He seemed confident in his industry to persevere. Although he said the timing for software engineers starting out in tech may not be as great as it was 20 years ago, Fowler said there's "plenty of potential in the future" since the core skills required of a good software engineer remain the same today. "I don't think AI is going to wipe out software development," Fowler said.

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新闻 57: Amazon reports strongest cloud growth since 2022 after major outage

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新闻 58: How AI's spiraling power demands could slow consumer spending

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• Companies are rushing to build data centers as demand for AI infrastructure skyrockets.
• Bank of America analysts say this is spiking the cost of power, leading to higher energy bills.
• This trend could negatively impact consumer spending for already cash-strapped Americans, BofA said. The AI boom is picking up momentum, and the sprawling buildout of data center infrastructure has created an enormous demand for power. Bank of America thinks that could weigh on consumers, as energy bills jump amid the huge increase in energy usage. Companies have doubled down on AI infrastructure in 2025, building data centers across the US. According to Apollo data, America's data center buildout has far outpaced that of other countries. BofA said that the data center rush has caused a surge in energy costs, and higher utility bills for lower-income Americans could be a rising headwind to consumer spending. Bank of America Institute senior economist David Tinsley wrote that in some communities, the cracks are already starting to show, and the massive costs of data centers are spiking the cost of utilities for everyday Americans. "Electricity and gas prices, as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) consumer price index, show YoY price increases of 6% and 14%, respectively, in August," he noted. "So, in our view, consumers may again feel the pressure on their utility bills in the coming months, particularly if the winter is a cold one." The possibility of higher utility bills could prompt consumers to scale back spending as the labor market slows and economic uncertainty rises. "While lower-income households with incomes below $50K have average utility bills around 80% of the US average, households with incomes above $150K have bills around 134% of the US average," Tinsley added. "So, while higher-income households pay more for utilities, the rise is not proportional to their income." AI's energy demands are likely to keep rising, too. OpenAI's Stargate project, which comprises five facilities across multiple US states, is expected to require enough energy to keep a whole city running. "More broadly, rising utility bills could be a headwind to overall consumer discretionary spending if rises are significant and persistent," Tinsley noted.

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新闻 59: Europe’s PE-Owned Staffing Firms Are Getting Squeezed in Multiple Ways

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新闻 60: An AI startup powering Meta and OpenAI cut thousands of workers — then offered them a similar project for less money

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• Mercor ended a major AI training project for Meta, cutting thousands of contract data labelers.
• Contractors who were cut loose said they were then offered similar work on another project for lower pay.
• The data labeling industry has faced widespread cuts, with pay rates dropping across major AI firms. Mercor, a startup that helps some of the biggest tech companies train their AI models, told thousands of its contract workers this week that they would no longer be working on a large project for Meta. On Tuesday, people working on the project, codenamed Musen, were told it was ending due to "project scope changes," according to an email seen by Business Insider. Soon after, contractors were offered work on a similar new project named Nova, which would pay $16 an hour — $5 less than the hourly rate for Musen. Mercor, which was founded by three Thiel fellows and recently valued at $10 billion, is part of an industry of data-labeling companies that are powering the AI boom. Companies such as Meta and OpenAI hire these firms, which use humans to tag and categorize data such as text and videos to improve the reliability of AI models and chatbots. More than 5,000 people were working on the Musen project at its peak, according to two people who worked on it. The news came as a surprise because they had recently been told the Musen project would run until the end of the year, according to several contractors who worked on the project. A Mercor spokesperson said the information was "inaccurate," but declined to comment on what details the company objected to. A spokesperson for Meta declined to comment. "We are transparent throughout the duration of the opportunity (role descriptions, onboarding materials, etc.) that this is temporary, project-based work," the Mercor spokesperson added. Project end 'took everyone by surprise' After Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI earlier this year and hired its CEO, Mercor and other labeling companies scooped up more business from clients that cut their ties with Scale. In June, Mercor's head of product, Osvald Nitski, told Business Insider that it works with six of the "Magnificent Seven" tech companies and is picking up projects from clients leaving Scale. Mercor also said last month that it manages over 30,000 contractors and pays over $1.5 million a day to its workforce of human trainers. Contractors working on the Meta project carried out a variety of tasks, including evaluating prompts between models to rank which was better. One of them told Business Insider the Musen project had been running for several months but was often paused and restarted to accommodate contractors working in different time zones. "They kept stressing how happy the client was and how it got extended until the end of the year," that person said. "So to then do this major switch up before the holidays took everyone by surprise." The scrapped Mercor project was first reported by Forbes. Two people who were given the Nova offer said the work appeared similar to what they were doing on Musen. An email sent out to workers said the new project would have "steadier task volumes across multimedia content" and "higher hour caps, enabling greater weekly engagement." It said the new $16 rate was chosen to "offer greater earning stability and consistent access to work, rather than fluctuating opportunities." One contractor who worked on Musen and has since joined Nova told Business Insider the two projects had the same tasks "but for $5 less an hour." "It sounds like most of us are in the same boat," they added. "We wanted to boycott this but are not in a financial place to do so. We needed to have the guaranteed income, even if it's demoralizing." Three Mercor workers told Business Insider that $16 was particularly low, with some contractors having previously earned as much as $60 an hour for different projects for the company. Another said a different previous project was shut down and replaced with a similar one that offered $10 less per hour. In a September podcast appearance, Mercor's CEO, Brendan Foody, said that the most important aspect of the business was quality and "having phenomenal people that you treat incredibly well." He added that Mercor's average pay rate is $95 an hour, while he said rivals like Scale and Surge pay about $30 an hour. There have been cuts across the data labelling industry in recent months. Scale AI slashed a team of contractors focused on "generalist" work last month. In September, Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, eliminated more than 500 data labellers as a part of a strategic shift to prioritize higher-paid specialist roles.

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新闻 61: Thursday briefing: How Taylor Swift, the ​ultimate pop ​star, ​turned ​her story into our own

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新闻 62: Banks Wonder If ‘AI Slop’ Epithet Applies to AI Debt, Too

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新闻 63: OpenAI says it's working to tell if a user is under 18 and will send them to an 'age-appropriate' ChatGPT

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• OpenAI said that it has long-term plans to verify the ages of its users.
• By the end of the month, OpenAI will also roll out parental controls for ChatGPT.
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that teen safety will trump concerns over privacy or freedom. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says minors "need significant protection" when using AI, which is why the company is building an age-detection system. "We prioritize safety ahead of privacy and freedom for teens; this is a new and powerful technology, and we believe minors need significant protection," Altman said in a statement accompanying the announcement, adding that the company is "building an age-prediction system to estimate age based on how people use ChatGPT." OpenAI said that when ChatGPT detects a user is under 18, it will automatically direct them to a version of the chatbot with "age-appropriate policies, including blocking graphic sexual content and, in rare cases of acute distress, potentially involving law enforcement to ensure safety." "If there is doubt, we'll play it safe and default to the under-18 experience," he wrote. Altman said that the safeguards will come with some tradeoffs, namely that "in some cases or countries," OpenAI may ask users to provide ID to prove their age. "We know this is a privacy compromise for adults but believe it is a worthy tradeoff," he wrote. While the age-verification system is a long-term goal, OpenAI said it will roll out parental controls by the end of the month. Those controls would allow parents to link their teens' accounts to their own, "help guide how ChatGPT responds to their teens," and set blackout hours when the chatbot would be inaccessible. (OpenAI's terms of service require users to be at least 13.) Parents would also be able to sign up for a notification "when the system detects their teen is in a moment of acute distress." In some instances, if OpenAI could not reach a parent, the company said it "may involve law enforcement as a next step." The announcement comes amid concerns that ChatGPT may have contributed to deaths by suicide. Last month, the parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine sued OpenAI and Sam Altman, stating that ChatGPT had "actively helped" their son explore suicide methods before his death. An OpenAI spokesperson previously told Business Insider that it was saddened by Raine's death and that ChatGPT includes safeguards like directing users to crisis helplines. In a post last month, OpenAI acknowledged that sometimes its safeguards "can fall short." The statement, which did not acknowledge the suit, also said OpenAI was exploring parental controls and safeguards that "recognize teens' unique developmental needs." Congress is also monitoring the situation. Sen. Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, launched an investigation into Meta after a report that its AI chatbot was allowed to engage in "sensual" conversations with children. Meta later said it made changes to provide teens with more "age-appropriate AI experiences." Altman outlined some tradeoffs where adults should be allowed more freedom than teens. He said ChatGPT will have a default to "not lead to much flirtatious talk," but adults should be able to request it. He also said that if an adult were writing "a fictional story that depicts a suicide, the model should help with that request." "'Treat our adult users like adults' is how we talk about this internally, extending freedom as far as possible without causing harm or undermining anyone else's freedom," he wrote.

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新闻 64: AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

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新闻 65: Far more authors use AI to write science papers than admit it, publisher reports

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新闻 66: AI tool labels more than 1000 journals for ‘questionable,’ possibly shady practices

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新闻 67: Amazon to cut corporate workforce by about 14,000

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新闻 68: New VAWG strategy will leave offenders with nowhere to hide

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新闻 69: Salesforce forecasts weak current-quarter revenue, shares fall

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新闻 70: People are talking with 'AI Jesus.' But do they have a prayer?

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新闻 71: CEOs are feeling slightly more confident about the economy — but that doesn't mean more hiring

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• The Business Roundtable's CEO Economic Outlook Index improved in Q4, but remained below average.
• The uptick in plans to invest and hire follows a sharp drop mid-year.
• Executives cite AI investment, tariff volatility, and regulatory pressure as key influences. US CEOs are heading into 2026 with a bit more confidence, even as their outlook remains softer than usual. Business Roundtable's CEO Economic Outlook Index, a measure of their intent to invest, spend, and sell, rose four points in the fourth quarter from the prior three months to 80, just under its historical average of 83. The survey gathered responses from 164 CEOs between November 21 and December 5. Expectations for sales improved the most, while plans for capital investment inched higher. Hiring intentions also ticked up compared to the previous quarter, though more CEOs still expect to reduce head count, rather than grow it, over the next six months. Chuck Robbins, the group's chair and Cisco's CEO, said the index reflects a cautious but resilient corporate outlook. In the report, he pointed to this year's business-friendly tax changes and regulatory shifts as factors that helped stabilize conditions. Easing permitting for energy and tech infrastructure could boost investment more, he added. The latest results come after a turbulent stretch. CEO sentiment plunged in the second quarter of 2025, with the index dropping 15 points to 69 — its lowest reading since 2020. Executives at the time cited an unpredictable trade environment and tariff swings that complicated planning and raised costs. In early 2024, the index had briefly climbed above its long-run average for the first time in two years, signaling a short-lived surge of optimism. Labor and tariffs remain pressure points. The fourth quarter marked the third straight period in which top executives said they expect more job cuts than hiring. "CEOs' softening hiring plans reflect an uncertain economic environment in which AI is driving sizeable capex growth and productivity gains while tariff volatility is increasing costs, particularly for tariff-exposed companies, including small businesses," Joshua Bolten, Business Roundtable's CEO, said. "We continue to urge our trading partners and the Administration to stabilize the system and bring tariffs down." The quarterly survey also asked CEOs to identify their biggest cost pressures. Labor topped the list for the ninth time, though by a smaller margin than last year. Material and healthcare costs tied for second, followed by supply chain expenses — an area especially affected by tariff volatility. This story was written using Business Insider's AI tools and edited by a Business Insider editor.

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新闻 72: I trusted AI instead of an agent to buy a home. I saved around $7,000 in fees.

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• Vicki Lynn used AI platform Homa to buy a home without an agent in Florida.
• Lynn was dissatisfied with traditional agents due to slow communication and high fees.
• AI allowed Lynn to quickly write a contract , and she got the home she wanted. This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Vicki Lynn, 67, a physical therapist assistant who relocated from California to Florida and used AI-powered platform Homa to draw up her contract without the help of an agent. Homa charges a flat rate of $1,995 for transactions with a selling agent. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. I like being a part of new ideas and more innovative ways of doing things. Thinking outside the box, so to speak, and brainstorming "how can we do this better?" I felt the same when it came to buying a home, which I did in November with the help of AI. It was more important for me to be in control of the purchase, versus being afraid to use AI. Everything is online anyway, so why be afraid now? I had already dealt with a buyer's agent, and I wasn't satisfied, so we decided to part ways. I felt it would be easier for me just to buy my home myself if I could actually take more control of the situation. Using an agent took too much time for me and involved too many added expenses I was aware that most sellers pay the buyer agent's commission, so that was even more incentive to go out on my own, so I could potentially reap the financial benefits of not having an agent and get credit on closing costs. My agent told me about the NAR settlement after I signed three contracts with an agent in less than six months. The first was in June 2025, when I flew to Florida quickly to look at some homes while I was still living in California. It stated that I would be liable for 3% of the purchase price — although it's typically paid by the seller — and there were some fees, like $300 and $400 fees built in there for whatever agent fees and paperwork fees they throw in. There was almost $800 total in just fees for her being a buyer's agent. I wasn't crazy about that. I signed an agreement that said she would show me two homes. Then I signed another contract once I moved to Florida. Then, right before I was going to view three properties on a weekend, she said, after changes with her company, I needed to sign a contract for all of Florida, not just certain counties. I said, "I don't like the idea of that. Can I just keep the contract for this neighborhood?" She said she wouldn't be able to show me the properties if I didn't sign the contract. At that time, I just wanted to find a house. I didn't care — I just signed it and said, "If I don't find a home by December, I'm going to stop looking." I was going to let the contract run out and start searching on my own. I was skeptical to have AI write up my contract, but it worked out When I found out about Homa, I had already found a home that I wanted. I knew the area I wanted to live in, and I knew what the prices were, so I had already done a lot of the work prior to Homa. I was a buyer who was ready to buy, and I was going to act quickly. If something checked all the boxes, then I was going to act on it with an offer quickly. Homa helped me with the writeup of the contract. I was able to just go online and easily make an offer, put a closing date, and get all the information on the offer, and get the ball rolling quickly. The listing price of the home I wanted to buy was $316,000, and there was a lot of competition — I knew that. Because I'd done my research, I knew it was worth it, and that if I undercut them too much on the asking price, I probably wouldn't get the house. I offered what they were asking, and then I asked them for the 2.5% that they were going to pay the agent — it came to $7,900 — as a credit on the home instead. So that was also an incentive not to use an agent. I possibly could have lost this sale had I been with the agent because the time it was taking for them to show me things was around a week, and I didn't like the wait — I felt like I was losing. With Homa, I was able to act very quickly. I was a little skeptical during the process. After I got in the middle of it, I thought, "How much do I really know about this? This is a contract, and who has access to it?" But the contract seemed to be thoroughly researched and I felt very comfortable with it. I read through it and the addendums that were my options, and everything was really clearly stated, and I just didn't see any glitches. I think anyone who's comfortable using computers — which most people are these days — can do this. I would rather have the control, and when I see something, I act on it quickly without having to go through two agents and a seller. I felt like it made everything so much simpler than the alternative.

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新闻 73: Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot ranks him as world history’s greatest human

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新闻 74: OpenAI Unveils Web Browser Built for Artificial Intelligence

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新闻 75: Missed Warnings in Hong Kong’s Fire Stir Outrage

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Missed Warnings in Hong Kong’s Fire Stir Outrage Get caught up. Hong Kong is racing to find those accountable for the city’s deadliest fire in nearly eight decades. With more than 150 people dead, outrage over the catastrophe now threatens to rekindle dissent the Communist Party has devoted the past six years to eradicating. Authorities have blamed the styrofoam boards, substandard netting that encased the towers and inoperable fire alarms for contributing to the high death toll — all factors generating public outrage unseen since Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law in 2020. Now, a Bloomberg investigation — including a review of project documents and interviews with residents — shows a series of missed opportunities to prevent the tragedy. These include several incidents that have been previously unreported, such as misleading statements by the contractor and an appeal in early 2024 for the Independent Commission Against Corruption — Hong Kong’s anti-graft agency — to investigate the company. That’s on top of moves by residents to replace the homeowners’ committee that oversaw the bidding process, seek action from the Labour Department and alert local media about their concerns. All this means Chief Executive John Lee is under pressure to deliver justice while also preventing the kind of mass street protests that erupted back in 2019. What You Need to Know Today The crash Tuesday in the crypto miner American Bitcoin was instantaneous: a 26-minute, 51% wipeout that deepened the Trumps’ crypto woes. American Bitcoin quickly became the symbol of not just the crypto market wipeout of late 2025 but also the collapse of the myriad ventures that the Trump family has been promoting in the digital-currency world over the past year. For as much as broader crypto markets have sunk these past two months — roughly 25% in the case of bellwether Bitcoin — projects that are tied to the Trump family are down far, far more. Meanwhile, Bitcoin extended a tentative rebound on Wednesday, hitting a two-week high as the wider crypto market seeks a sustained recovery from a weeks-long selloff. HSBC unexpectedly appointed Brendan Nelson as its next chair, replacing hard-charging financier Mark Tucker who has led Europe’s largest lender for much of the last decade. Nelson, 76, who had been serving as interim group chair since Oct. 1, takes the reins after the lender struggled to find a suitable external candidate following a shortlist of names that included former politicians and financiers such as Goldman’s Kevin Sneader and Richard Gnodde among others. In other people moves: Binance appointed its co-founder Yi He as co-CEO alongside Richard Teng, according to a post on X by the world’s biggest crypto exchange. It’s the biggest change to its top leadership since Changpeng Zhao stepped down from running the exchange two years ago. And Singapore’s DBS — among Asia’s largest wealth managers — has hired Sarah Tsao from UBS in a senior role, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Singapore had an IPO win on Wednesday. UltraGreen.ai’s shares jumped as much as 12% in their trading debut after an initial public offering that was the biggest in Singapore since 2017 outside real estate investment trusts. The company, which provides fluorescence technology used in surgical imaging, had priced shares at $1.45 apiece and raised $400 million in its debut. The listing stands out in a market known for REITs, which make up around 10% of the Singapore exchange’s market capitalization, according to the REIT Association of Singapore. It also comes at a time when the city-state is looking to boost its fundraising activity, after years of a dearth in IPOs. India’s rupee slipped past the key psychological level of 90 per dollar, as delays in concluding a crucial trade deal with the US continue to dent sentiment. The currency weakened as much as 0.5% to a fresh record low of 90.2950 per dollar. It pared some losses after the Reserve Bank of India sold dollars in small amounts, according to people familiar with the transactions. The pessimism spilled over into the equity market, with the benchmark NSE Nifty 50 Index declining as much as 0.5%. Meanwhile, BSE CEO Sundararaman Ramamurthy speaks to Haslinda Amin about IPOs and India’s economy. A partially reusable Chinese rocket crash-landed after launch, according to state media, illustrating the challenges the country faces as it chases the technology mastered by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The Zhuque-3 took off from the Dongfeng Commercial Aerospace Innovation Test Zone launch site in northwest China on Wednesday, according to Xinhua. But an “abnormal burn” occurred, meaning the first stage of the rocket was unable to achieve a soft landing on the recovery site, according to Beijing-based startup LandSpace Technology, which helmed China’s attempt to recover a first-stage booster. US President Donald Trump signed into law a measure forcing the US State Department to review guidelines for the country’s engagement with Taiwan, according to the White House, amid escalating concerns that China could move against the self-governing island. The measure requires periodic State Department reviews to explain how the guidelines deepen the relationship between the US and Taiwan. The assessments, required at least every five years, also must identify and detail opportunities to lift self-imposed limitations on US-Taiwan engagement. What You’ll Need to Know Tomorrow

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新闻 76: Trump calls on GOP to play their 'Trump card' as government shutdown drags on and more top headlines

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• Trump calls on GOP to play their 'Trump card' in shutdown standoff
• GOP candidate reveals which far-left policy he will eliminate first as governor
• Halloween threat puts kids in danger as drug-laced sweets spook parents, trick-or-treaters 'TOUGH QUESTIONS' – Ex-Biden spin doctor makes stunning admission after touting his sharpness for years. Continue reading … TRICK OR TREAT – Trump repeats viral candy move at White House Halloween event. Continue reading … FOR CHARLIE – Erika Kirk doubles down to defend Charlie Kirk’s legacy: ‘I’m not afraid.' Continue reading … ROARING RETURN – Ravens star silences Miami crowd as Dolphins fans unleash fury on Tua Tagovailoa. Continue reading … ‘NOT AN ACCIDENT’ – Father-to-be wakes from coma, makes damning statement to police before dying. Continue reading … -- 'DEEPLY TROUBLING' – Sen. Warner blasts Trump admin for excluding Democrats from briefings on boat strikes. Continue reading … ‘I DARE YOU’ – Dem lawmaker accused of secretly filming two critics in bed to try to silence them. Continue reading … RED WAVE – Trump-backed Ciattarelli tells Hannity early voting surge puts his campaign in ‘really good position.’ Continue reading … FUNDING FIGHT – Trump vows to reclaim over $1B misused by blue states for illegal immigrant healthcare. Continue reading … Click here for more cartoons… PARTY REVOLT – Ilhan Omar calls out Sen Schumer for not endorsing Mamdani in NYC mayoral race. Continue reading … DETHRONED – Major TV shakeup looms as Gayle King prepares to exit morning program after a decade. Continue reading … TELL ALL – Harris claims Biden was 'talked into' disastrous debate that sank his re-election bid. Continue reading … GENDER REVEAL – JK Rowling slams Glamour UK's women of the year cover featuring nine trans women. Continue reading … RYAN WALTERS – Teachers union boss 'panicking' as government shutdown exposes education system truth. Continue reading … YEMISI EGBEWOLE – Democrats torn between progressive fire and centrist caution as November elections loom. Continue reading … -- 'ROGUE' RELATIVE – King Charles' stunning Prince Andrew exile may be 'too little, too late' as royals cling to reputation. Continue reading … CHATBOT CRACKDOWN – Leading AI company to ban kids from chatbots after lawsuit blames app for child's death. Continue reading … DIGITAL'S NEWS QUIZ – How did the FBI target this table-flipper? How did this nominee's hearing hit a snag? Take the quiz here … MIAMI MELTDOWN – Dolphins rookie furious after being called for questionable penalty vs Ravens. Continue reading … TRICK OR TREAT– The president and first lady welcomed ghost and goblins to the White House. See video … MIKE JOHNSON – Democrats are prolonging the hardship of Americans for political purposes. See video … TOM COTTON – Trump has rightly pushed forward with the Golden Dome. See video … Tune in to the FOX NEWS RUNDOWN PODCAST as experts warn of rising cancer rates and explore how diet, pollution, and lifestyle may be driving the trend. Check it out ... What's it looking like in your neighborhood? Continue reading…

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新闻 77: Rich people are spending. Everyone else is cutting corners.

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新闻 78: Aston Martin Stalls Again

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新闻 79: Lawmakers float a nationwide basic income experiment that would cover the cost of a 2-bedroom apartment

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• A New Jersey lawmaker is proposing a nationwide pilot program for a guaranteed basic income.
• The 3-year experiment would give 10,000 Americans a monthly basic income.
• The payments would cover the local cost of a two-bedroom apartment. A group of Democratic lawmakers wants to test a new kind of social safety net: a monthly paycheck provided by the federal government to spend however you want. New Jersey Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman said she is reintroducing a bill to establish a three-year guaranteed basic income pilot program that would offer a cohort of Americans across the country a no-strings-attached monthly payment — enough to cover rent for a two-bedroom home. "Events like the Coronavirus Pandemic, economic fluctuations, and increasing automation and job losses threaten to wipe out what little savings they have, to finally push them to homelessness, to reinforce the fact that in the wealthiest nation in the world, too many families are just a single mishap away from financial devastation," Watson Coleman said in a press release. The legislation is called the Guaranteed Income Pilot Program Act of 2025. A guaranteed basic income is when the government distributes recurring and unrestricted payments to a certain demographic. It differs from a universal basic income, which would provide payments to an entire population. Many US cities have already experimented with guaranteed basic income programs to varying degrees of success. According to the bill, which is co-sponsored by nine other lawmakers, the pilot program would involve 20,000 people between 18 and 65 years old. Of that group, 10,000 would receive monthly payments equal to the "fair market" rent on a two-bedroom home where they live, or a similar amount to be determined by Health and Human Services. The other half would be the control group. The lawmakers said the proposed basic income would not only insulate Americans from economic instability but also from the potential impact of the AI revolution. "Increasing automation and advancing AI have the potential to expand human flourishing. However, the concentration of control of those technologies into the hands of a few billionaires may mean the eventual loss of the livelihoods of millions of Americans," the lawmakers said in the press release. AI leaders such as Tesla CEO Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have long supported the idea of a universal basic income in response to AI. Altman helped fund a large basic income study that ended last year. Passing such legislation would be a major lift in today's political climate. While Democrats generally support a basic income, some Republicans have criticized the cost of running the programs and raised concerns that it could discourage Americans from working. Some state legislators controlled by Republicans have sought to prevent basic income experiments in their states. Representatives for Rep. Watson Coleman did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

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新闻 80: The Youth Crisis Is Really About the Rise of the NEETs

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新闻 81: AI Gains for Big Banks Pose a Competition Headache

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新闻 82: DeepSeek’s Jobpocalypse Warning Is Bad News for Beijing

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新闻 83: Garuda’s Fleet Growth at Risk as Danantara Trims Funding

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新闻 84: Walmart's chief people officer uses AI to do everything from identifying job candidates to sourcing art

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• Walmart's chief people officer, Donna Morris, said she has used AI to identify candidates.
• She said there's a "speed and ease" to using AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity.
• Morris also highlighted AI's broader uses in her personal life, from dining ideas to medical queries. AI is often associated with certain aspects of hiring, like reviewing résumés. But Walmart's chief people officer, Donna Morris, has used it for another part of the process: identifying potential candidates. Morris often interviews leaders looking to join Walmart or transition within the company, such as tech and HR executives. She said she has used AI tools like Perplexity and ChatGPT to ask very specific queries about who might have the right background for a particular role when she's "kicking off" a key search. "You'll be surprised at how close the actual sources that they come up with align with people who we've actually considered," Morris said. How Walmart uses AI in hiring A Walmart spokesperson told Business Insider that Morris's example isn't part of a broader companywide approach to source candidates, or a practice that Morris uses in all of her searches. Morris, who oversees the largest private workforce in the US, found it useful in an instance where she had a specific leadership role to fill. The executive said AI tools are a great way to find insights on people in general. While she's a "big LinkedIn fan," she said there's an "ease and speed" to using tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity. The executive's comments come as Walmart has made large investments in AI, including in tools to help its associates improve. In June, the company announced an AI Interview Coach pilot. The tool simulates a Walmart interview by asking candidates up to 10 questions and providing them with scores along with feedback on areas like clarity and structure, the company said. Earlier this month, the retail giant also announced plans to launch a tailored version of OpenAI's Certification Program through Walmart Academy. OpenAI recently said it would start to offer certifications for varying levels of "AI fluency," with plans to certify 10 million Americans by 2030. AI in daily life Morris also uses AI in her everyday life, she told Business Insider. She said it's a great source for finding recommendations for restaurants or places to go. She's also used it for design inspiration. She said she was recently at a restaurant with an art piece on the wall that she liked, so she used AI to figure out where to find a similar picture. She also said she was recently FaceTiming her father, who had some spots on his skin. By doing a quick search with AI, she was able to find out that it was actually bruising due to a recent medication change. While she could have used WebMD or another website, she said AI provides the ability to get data quickly. Morris said she started her career when people still had to go to a library to conduct research. "Now, the access to information is phenomenal," Morris said. "I think it's a real advantage for our current generation and generations ahead in terms of your ability to get knowledge and insights."

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新闻 85: AI Won’t End Entry-Level Work

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p.m. on Friday, Sept. 19. How People Actually Use AI Two studies released this week offer a window into what people actually use AI for. One, from economists at Harvard, Duke and OpenAI analyzed messages from 130,000 ChatGPT users. The other, from researchers at Anthropic, looked at its chatbot Claude. Both are skewed by who uses these services, but both add new detail to our understanding of how chatbots fit into people’s lives. Here are a few of the most interesting findings: Women now make up half of active ChatGPT users, compared to just 20% in the months after it was first released. (p. 25) 70% of ChatGPT queries were not work-related as of July 2025, and they’re growing faster than work-related ones. (p. 1-2) ChatGPT messages could eclipse Google searches: “If ChatGPT message volume continues on its current growth path (a big if), it would equal the number of current Google searches in just over a year,” estimates Harvard economist David Deming, one of the study’s authors. Relationships and companionship are a small share of messages: “Only 1.9% of ChatGPT messages are on the topic of Relationships and Personal Reflection and 0.4% are related to Games and Role Play.” (p. 2-3) “Automation” messages — where users ask AI to complete a task — are now slightly more common than those where the bot collaborates with the user, according to Anthropic. In previous reports, it was the reverse. The US is by far the biggest Claude user. Adjusted for population, it’s Israel. California has the highest Claude usage among US states; adjusted for population, Utah wins by a mile. — Walter Frick, Bloomberg Weekend Monday: China’s banks are expected to keep loan prime rates unchanged; the Eurozone reports consumer confidence. Tuesday: The UN General Assembly begins in New York; the OECD releases its interim economic outlook; Sweden’s Riksbank is expected to cut rates by a quarter point; Nigeria’s central bank is expected to cut half a point. Wednesday: Australia reports CPI; the US reports new home sales. Thursday: Mexico’s central bank is expected to cut a quarter point and Switzerland’s to hold. Friday: The US reports PCE and personal income; the University of Michigan publishes its consumer sentiment index; Japan reports Tokyo CPI. The AI Pioneer Who Wants to Replace Teachers With Algorithms ‘I Want My Inheritance Now’: Older People are Losing Their Life Savings to Family Members Have a great Sunday and a productive week. — Walter Frick and Katherine Bell, Bloomberg Weekend Bloomberg Women, Money & Power: Join us in London on Oct. 1 as we bring together the most influential voices from across the global finance industry to discuss how women are controlling a greater share of wealth and making more key financial decisions. Register your interest in attending this exclusive event here. Enjoying The Forecast? Check out these newsletters: Explore all newsletters at Bloomberg.com.

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新闻 86: Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan's $2 billion AI investment is already paying off

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• Jamie Dimon said JPMorgan's $2 billion AI investment has already matched its cost in savings.
• "It's the tip of the iceberg," Dimon said of JPMorgan's AI gains.
• His comments come as investors question if massive AI bets will really pay off. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said the bank's multibillion-dollar push into AI is already delivering results — and could just be the beginning. Dimon said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Tuesday that the bank spends about $2 billion a year on AI and is seeing about the same amount in direct benefits. "We have shown that for $2 billion of expense, we have about $2 billion of benefit," Dimon said. "We did this, we reduced headcount, we saved this time and money." "We know about $2 billion of actual cost saves," he added. "It's the tip of the iceberg." JPMorgan has been working with AI since 2012. It's now embedded across nearly every part of the bank, from risk and fraud detection to marketing, customer service, and idea generation, Dimon said. He also said JPMorgan's in-house large language model, trained on internal data, is used by about 150,000 people each week. "It's quite productive," he said. "Our managers and leaders have to do it." But the CEO didn't sugarcoat the potential impact of AI on the workforce. "People shouldn't put their head in the sand. It is going to affect jobs," Dimon said, adding that AI will enhance some aspects of work, but also eliminate some jobs. "But you're better off being way ahead of the curve and retraining people," he said. Dimon said the bank is focused on retraining and redeploying employees whose roles change due to automation. "We'll have more jobs, but there'll probably be less jobs in certain functions," he added. Dimon and JPMorgan did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. Big AI bets are under scrutiny Dimon's comments come amid growing doubts over whether the massive corporate spending spree on AI is actually paying off. Executives at Meta say they expect to spend $600 billion on AI infrastructure, including massive data centers, through 2028. OpenAI and Oracle have announced plans to put $500 billion into a data center project dubbed Stargate. The staggering scale of those investments has fueled talk of an AI bubble and the potential for a pop that could bring the stock market crashing down from record highs. A Goldman Sachs report published in June said that many firms pouring billions into AI have yet to see measurable gains, thanks to high infrastructure and compute costs. "AI technology is exceptionally expensive, and to justify those costs, the technology must be able to solve complex problems, which it isn't designed to do," Jim Covello, the head of global equity research at Goldman Sachs, said in the report. "The starting point for costs is also so high that even if costs decline, they would have to do so dramatically to make automating tasks with AI affordable," he added. "In our experience, even basic summarization tasks often yield illegible and nonsensical results."

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新闻 87: Anthropic CEO says 90% of code written by teams at the company is done by AI — but he's not replacing engineers just yet

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• AI writes 90% of code for many of Anthropic's teams, the CEO said, but engineers remain crucial.
• AI coding tools are affecting entry-level jobs, reducing opportunities for young developers.
• Experienced developers are less affected by AI, maintaining job security despite tech advances. AI that can code is not replacing engineers at Anthropic just yet. In a conversation on Wednesday with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at the annual Dreamforce conference, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told Benioff that even though Claude AI is now writing 90% of code for most teams at the company, humans are still essential. "I made this prediction that, you know, in six months, 90% of code would be written by AI models," Amodei said. "Some people think that prediction is wrong, but within Anthropic and within a number of companies that we work with, that is absolutely true now." Benioff followed up by asking when that percentage will rise, and if that means Anthropic will now need fewer engineers. Amodei said people shouldn't "misinterpret" Claude's ability to write features and help solve long-running bugs. "If Claude is writing 90% of the code, what that means, usually, is, you need just as many software engineers. You might need more, because they can then be more leverage," said Amodei. "They can focus on the 10% that's editing the code or writing the 10% that's the hardest, or supervising a group of AI models. And so what happens is, you know, you just end up being 10 times more productive," Amodei added. Amodei said it was about "rebalancing" rather than replacing. Anthropic teams are not alone in coding with AI. In March, Garry Tan, the president and CEO of the startup incubator Y Combinator, said in an X post that about a quarter of the founders in the company's 2025 winter batch are generating up to 95% of their code with AI. A recent study from Stanford found that the rise of AI coding tools is already impacting entry-level software engineering jobs, which could deter young job seekers from the field and result in a broken talent pipeline. The Stanford researchers found that as of July 2025, employment for developers between 22 and 25 years old had fallen by nearly 20% compared to its peak in late 2022, which coincided with the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. Workers with more experience, however, are much less susceptible to the impacts of AI coding tools.

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新闻 88: At this small buyout firm, talking about AI for cost-cutting is off-limits

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• Much of the AI-discussion, both hopes and fears, centers on efficiency and cost-cutting.
• At buyout firm Tide Rock, there's a "mandate" to not use AI resources to cut costs, says its CEO.
• Ryan Peddycord walked Business Insider through how the firm uses AI to grow businesses. Most fears and hopes surrounding AI center on its ability to save on labor costs. Whether it's Jamie Dimon predicting a three-and-a-half-day workweek, the chorus of CEOs saying that AI will help its workers get more done, or the research predicting potentially catastrophic white-collar job cuts, the focus is on efficiency. But at one investing firm, cost-cutting is practically a forbidden word. "The mandate across the company is don't talk about using our resources in AI or tech to cut costs or create efficiencies," Tide Rock CEO Ryan Peddycord told Business Insider. The firm has had AI engineers for two years, but they're aimed at growing business, not cutting, said Peddycord. The San Diego and New York-based firm, which invests in smaller businesses than your typical private-equity giants, does not use debt to finance its acquisitions. It manages $1 billion, including its current investments and dry powder. It has done over 50 acquisitions, with growth, not just financial engineering, as its goal. "Our foundation is, and our principle is, that we are focused on being growth engines for these businesses, and that's where we want to focus our resources," Peddycord said. Peddycord spoke to Business Insider about how the firm's use of AI fits into its business model and gave some real-world examples of where it has made an impact. Tide Rock's model The company buys founder-run businesses when founders have "a catalyst to change," like their own looming retirement or an illness in their family, which means they're much more protective of the asset they're selling than your typical financial investor. They then focus on growing those companies, which means Tide Rock hires chief marketing officers and chief revenue officers "who know how to run businesses" instead of your typical private equity partners, Peddycord said. The firm's companies have seen organic revenue growth of 24% a year since Tide Rock was launched 13 years ago, said Peddycord. (He also said the firm has only lost money on one deal over that time period.) They're looking for a way to monetize what they built over time, but really just as important to them is for their brand and their legacy and their employees to be able to kind of continue on without them," Peddycord said. For founders like this, the story of growth is an essential reason they'd choose to sell to Tide Rock. As such, any discussion of using AI to cut employees or costs is anathema to their sales pitch, whereas AI for growth is a selling point. AI is becoming an integral part of the firm's strategy, but they've been doing this for years before the advent of LLMs some operational best practices in a library of over 100 videos and 500 pages of documentation. "A CEO of a portfolio company has access to certain information, a controller has access to a different set of information, a VP of sales has access to information," Peddycord said. AI tools have become another operational best practice that the firm shares across the companies it manages, which it tracks in a library of 100 videos and 500 pages of documentation. The firm also has other centralized resources in-house, "as a bridge" to get the businesses to a place where they can operate on their own, including a centralized talent acquisition team and centralized chief marketing and revenue officers. This has led to a world where the firm has, for example, been able to integrate a customer relationship management system in "30 to 45 days" instead of "12 to 18 months," said Peddycord. How does AI fit in The company is happy to use third-party applications that can cut costs, but it's a waste of their own resources, said Peddycord. "I have a belief that everybody's so focused on cost-cutting that third parties are going to pick off all the low-hanging fruit there," Peddycord said. "So us trying to invest our dollars to go create things that other people are creating and probably investing more dollars to do isn't the right place to spend our money." The first tool they invested in was finding companies to purchase. The data on platforms like Pitchbook and Crunchbase is "very, very incomplete" at the sub-$10 million EBITDA level the firm invests in, said Peddycord, so the firm first invested "heavily" in ways to find these companies and start pitching them. Soon, the firm realized that this ability to find a lot of "non-public information" about companies and then reach out to them would also be "super relevant" for their portfolio companies when they're looking for new customers, Peddycord said. Peddycord provided the example of identifying potential customers for its manufacturing portfolio companies that sell to the government, aerospace, or defense industries. "When Blue Origin wins a large contract, there is some public information that we are able to gather to identify what it is that they won the contract for, and we can even reverse engineer what sub-component parts and services are going to be necessary to then go create that," Peddycord said. From there, the firm's portfolio companies could "get in the door earlier" to offer their sub-component manufacturing help, Peddycord said. "In those high-growth areas like aerospace and defense, they are working as hard to find new qualified suppliers as we are to find new customers," Peddycord said.

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新闻 89: AI seems everywhere, but regional readiness is uneven

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新闻 90: Soaring electricity bills help flip state elections

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• 1Ian Duncan,Emmanuel MartinezandDylan MoriartyThe deadliest roads in America
• 2OpinionEditorial Board‘Things happen’
• 3Perry Stein,Jeremy RoebuckandTheodoric MeyerDespite congressional action, quick release of Epstein files is in doubt
• 4Lori RozsaDeSantis’s makeover of ‘left-wing’ Florida college has been costly
• 5Amy B WangandMariana AlfaroHouse Republicans fail in bid to censure Plaskett over Epstein texts

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新闻 91: Poverty spikes in the land of the tech billionaires

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新闻 92: Germany's Lufthansa airline to cut thousands of jobs in AI boost

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新闻 93: The list of major companies laying off staff this year includes Oracle, Kroger, Nike, Scale AI, and more

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• Companies such as Nike, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, BlackRock, and UPS have trimmed staff this year.
• In some cases, artificial intelligence is reshaping workforces.
• See the list of companies letting workers go in 2025. The list of companies laying off employees this year is growing. Layoffs and other workforce reductions have continued in 2025, following two years of significant job cuts in tech, media, finance, manufacturing, retail, and energy. While the reasons for slimming staff vary, the cost-cutting measures are coming amid technological change. A World Economic Forum survey found that some 41% of companies worldwide expect to reduce their workforces over the next five years because of the rise of artificial intelligence. Companies such as Oracle, CNN, Dropbox, and Block have previously announced job cuts related to AI. Though Amazon has not announced job cuts this year, CEO Andy Jassy told employees in June that the company will need "fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today" in the coming years as it expands its use of generative AI and agents. Meanwhile, tech jobs in big data, fintech, and AI are expected to double by 2030, according to the WEF. Here are the companies with job cuts planned or already underway in 2025 so far, in alphabetical order. Adidas plans to cut up to 500 jobs in Germany. Adidas said in January that it would reduce the size of its workforce at its headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Germany, affecting up to 500 jobs, CNBC reported. If fully executed, it amounts to a reduction of nearly 9% at the company headquarters, which employs about 5,800 employees, according to the Adidas website. The news came shortly after the company announced it had outperformed its profit expectations at the end of 2024, touting "better-than-expected" results in the fourth quarter. An Adidas spokesperson said the company had grown "too complex because of our current operating model." "To set adidas up for long-term success, we are now starting to look at how we align our operating model with the reality of how we work. This may have an impact on the organizational structure and number of roles based at our HQ in Herzogenaurach." The company said it is not a cost-cutting measure and could not confirm concrete numbers. Ally is cutting less than 5% of workers. The digital-financial-services company Ally is laying off roughly 500 of its 11,000 employees, a spokesperson confirmed to BI. "As we continue to right-size our company, we made the difficult decision to selectively reduce our workforce in some areas, while continuing to hire in our other areas of our business," the spokesperson said. The spokesperson also said the company was offering severance, outplacement support, and the opportunity to apply for openings at Ally. Ally made a similar level of cuts in October 2023, the Charlotte Observer reported. Automattic, Tumblr's parent, cuts 16% of staff Automattic, the parent company of Tumblr and WordPress, said in April it is cutting 16% of its staff globally. The company's website said it has nearly 1,500 employees. Automattic's CEO, Matt Mullenweg, said in a note to employees posted online that the company has reached an "important crossroads." "While our revenue continues to grow, Automattic operates in a highly competitive market, and technology is evolving at unprecedented levels," the note read. The company is restructuring to improve its "productivity, profitability, and capacity to invest," it added. The company said it was offering severance and job placement resources to affected employees. BlackRock is cutting 1% of its workforce. BlackRock told employees it was planning to cut about 200 people of its 21,000-strong workforce, Bloomberg reported in January. The reductions were more than offset by some 3,750 workers who were added last year and another 2,000 expected to be added in 2025. BlackRock's president, Rob Kapito, and its chief operating officer, Rob Goldstein, said the cuts would help realign the firm's resources with its strategy, Bloomberg reported. Block to lay off nearly 1,000 workers Jack Dorsey's fintech company, Block, is laying off nearly 1,000 employees, according to TechCrunch and The Guardian, in its second major workforce reduction in just over a year. The company, which operates Square, Afterpay, CashApp, and Tidal, is transitioning nearly 200 managers into non-management roles and closing almost 800 open positions, according to an email obtained by TechCrunch. Dorsey, who co-founded Block in 2009 after previously leading Twitter, announced the layoffs in March in an internal email titled "smaller block." The restructuring is part of a broader effort to streamline operations, though Block maintains the changes are not driven by financial targets or AI replacements. Bloomberg is making cuts in an overhaul of its newsroom Bloomberg is cutting some editorial staff as the company reorganizes its newsroom, according to a memo viewed by BI. The larger strategy aims to have a larger headcount by the end of this year, however. The newsroom currently employs around 2,700 people, and the changes will merge some smaller teams into larger units, the memo said. Blue Origin is laying off one-tenth of its workforce Jeff Bezos's rocket company, Blue Origin, is laying off about 10% of its workforce, a move that could affect more than 1,000 employees. In a memo sent to staff in February and obtained by Business Insider, David Limp, the CEO of Blue Origin, said the company's priority going forward was "to scale our manufacturing output and launch cadence with speed, decisiveness and efficiency for our customers." Limp specifically identified roles in engineering, research and development, and management as targets. "We grew and hired incredibly fast in the last few years, and with that growth came more bureaucracy and less focus than we needed," Limp wrote. "It also became clear that the makeup of our organization must change to ensure our roles are best aligned with executing these priorities." The news comes after January's debut launch of the company's partially reusable rocket — New Glenn. Boeing cut 400 roles from its moon rocket program Boeing announced on February 8 that it plans to cut 400 roles from its moon rocket program amid delays and rising costs related to NASA's Artemis moon exploration missions. Artemis 2, a crewed flight to orbit the moon on Boeing's space launch system, has been rescheduled from late 2024 to September 2025. Artemis 3, intended to be the first astronaut moon landing in the program, was delayed from late 2025 and is now planned for September 2026. "To align with revisions to the Artemis program and cost expectations, we informed our Space Launch Systems team of the potential for approximately 400 fewer positions by April 2025," a Boeing spokesperson told Business Insider. "We are working with our customer and seeking opportunities to redeploy employees across our company to minimize job losses and retain our talented teammates." The company will issue 60-day notices of involuntary layoff to impacted employees "in coming weeks," the spokesperson said. Boeing cut 10% of its workforce last year. BP slashed 7,700 staff and contractor positions worldwide BP told Business Insider in January that it planned to cut 4,700 staff and 3,000 contractors, amounting to about 5% of its global workforce. The cuts were part of a program to "simplify and focus" BP that began last year. "We are strengthening our competitiveness and building in resilience as we lower our costs, drive performance improvement and play to our distinctive capabilities," the company said. Bridgewater cut about 90 staff Bridgewater Associates cut 7% of its staff in January in an effort to stay lean, a person familiar with the matter told Business Insider. The layoffs at the world's largest hedge fund bring its head count back to where it was in 2023, the person said. The company's founder, Ray Dalio, said in a 2019 interview that about 30% of new employees were leaving the firm within 18 months. Bumble said it intends to cut 30% of its workforce. In a June 23 securities filing, Bumble said it plans to slash 240 roles, about 30% of its workforce. The dating app company said the cuts will result in charges between $13 million and $18 million in its third and fourth quarters. "We recently made some difficult decisions to adjust our team structure in order to align with our strategic priorities," a Bumble spokesperson said. They told BI that the decision to lay off over 200 employees wasn't "made lightly." Burberry says it plans on cutting 1,700 jobs Burberry announced 1,700 job cuts in May, or about 18% of its global workforce, as part of plans to cut costs by about £100 million ($130 million) by 2027. It plans to end night shifts at its Yorkshire raincoat factory due to production over-capacity. The British company sunk to an operating loss of £3 million for the year to the end of March, compared with a £418 million profit for the previous 12 months. Chevron is slashing up to 20% of its global head count Oil giant Chevron plans to cull 15% to 20% of its global workforce by the end of 2026, the company said in a statement to Business Insider in February. Chevron employed 45,600 people as of December 2023, which means the layoff could cut 9,000 jobs. The move aims to reduce costs and simplify the company's business as it completes its acquisition of oil producer Hess, which is held up in legal limbo. It is expected to save the company $2 billion to $3 billion by the end of 2026, the company said. "Chevron is taking action to simplify our organizational structure, execute faster and more effectively, and position the company for stronger long-term competitiveness," a Chevron spokesperson said in a statement. The cuts follow a series of layoffs at other oil and gas companies, including BP and natural gas producer EQT. CNN plans to cut 200 jobs Cable news giant CNN cut about 200 television-focused roles as part of a digital pivot. The cuts amounted to about 6% of the company's workforce. In a memo sent to staff on January 23, CNN's CEO Mark Thompson said he aimed to "shift CNN's gravity towards the platforms and products where the audience themselves are shifting and, by doing that, to secure CNN's future as one of the world's greatest news organizations." ConocoPhillips is cutting up to 25% of its workforce The third-largest oil producer in the US, ConocoPhillips plans to cut 20-25% of its global workforce as part of a broad restructuring, a company spokesperson said in an emailed statement to Reuters on September 3. The company employed about 11,800 people at the end of 2024, per a regulatory filing, which means up to 2,950 jobs could be cut. ConocoPhillips' stock fell 4.4% on Wednesday. Other oil giants, including Chevron and BP, have also slashed headcount this year because of falling oil prices. Coty is cutting about 700 jobs Coty, which sells cosmetics and fragrances under brands such as Kylie Cosmetics, Calvin Klein, and Burberry, is cutting about 700 jobs. The company said on April 24 it aimed to cut costs by $130 million a year. Sue Nabi, the CEO, said it aimed to build a "stronger, more resilient Coty that is well-positioned for sustainable growth." CrowdStrike is cutting about 500 jobs CrowdStrike, the Texas-headquartered cybersecurity firm, is cutting about 500 jobs, or 5% of its global workforce, as part of a strategic plan to "yield greater efficiencies." It expects the layoffs to cost between $36 million and $53 million. CrowdStrike is aiming to generate $10 billion in annual recurring revenue. The company reported worse-than-expected annual results in March, signaling that it was yet to fully recover from a widespread tech outage linked to CrowdStrike in July 2024. Disney says it's laying off several hundred employees Disney confirmed to BI on June 2 that it was laying off several hundred employees globally. Most of the cuts were to roles in marketing for films and TV under the Disney Entertainment division. Other roles affected included employees in publicity, casting, and development, as well as corporate finance. In March, the company also cut around 200 people from its ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks. In 2024, the company also had several rounds of layoffs. Shortly after Bob Iger returned to the company as CEO in 2022, he said 7,000 jobs at Disney would be cut as part of a reorganization. Estée Lauder will cut as many as 7,000 jobs Cosmetics giant Estée Lauder said in its second-quarter earnings release on February 4 that it will cut between 5,800 and 7,000 jobs as the company restructures over the next two years. The cuts will focus on "rightsizing" certain teams, and it will look to outsource certain services. The company says it expects annual gross benefits of between $0.8 billion and $1.0 billion before tax. Geico has axed tens of thousands of workers Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chair of Insurance Operations Ajit Jain says Geico has reduced its workforce from about 50,000 to about 20,000. Jain revealed the reductions during Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting on May 3 but did not detail over what time frame they took place. Berkshire Hathaway is one of Geico's parent companies. Warren Buffett's company reported its 2025 first-quarter earnings on during the May 3 meeting, saying Geico earned nearly $2.2 billion in pre-tax underwriting. GrubHub announced 500 job cuts Grubhub CEO Howard Migdal announced 500 job cuts on February 28 after selling the company to Wonder Group for $650 million. With more than 2,200 full time employees, the number of cuts will affect more than 20% of Grubhub's previous workforce. According to Reuters, Just Eat Takeaway, an Amsterdam-listed company, sold Grubhub at a steep loss compared to the billions it paid a few years prior after grappling with slowing growth and high taxes. HPE is laying off 2,500 employees Hewlett Packard Enterprise is cutting 2,500 jobs, or 5% of its employee base, CEO Antonio Neri said on an earnings call on March 6. The cuts are expected take to take place over the next 12 to 18 months. "Doing so will better align our cost structure to our business mix and long-term strategy," Neri said. The company expects to save $350 million by 2027 because of the reduction. HPE plummeted about 20% after hours on March 6 after it said business would be affected by recent tariffs, slow server and cloud sales, and "execution issues." Intel to cut at least 15% of its factory workers Chipmaker Intel is laying off more than 5,000 employees across four US states, according to a July 16 government filing. Most of the cuts are happening in California and Oregon, while others are in Texas and Arizona, per updated Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, filings. Intel began laying off employees in July as part of planned job cuts, the company said in a regulatory filing. The company told staff on June 14 to expect 15% to 20% of employees in its Foundry division to be laid off this summer, according to a memo reported by The Oregonian. Intel confirmed the authenticity of the memo to BI but declined to comment on its contents. As of December 2024, Intel employed about 108,900 people. In its annual report, the company told investors that it would reduce its "core Intel workforce" by about 15% in early 2025. "Removing organizational complexity and empowering our engineers will enable us to better serve the needs of our customers and strengthen our execution," an Intel spokesperson told BI. Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University will cut over 2,000 jobs after losing $800 million in funding from USAID. "This is a difficult day for our entire community," a spokesperson told BI. "The termination of more than $800 million in USAID funding is now forcing us to wind down critical work here in Baltimore and internationally." The news comes after the Trump administration slashed USAID personnel down from over 10,000 to around 300. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently confirmed that 83% of the agency's programs are now dead. "We can confirm that the elimination of foreign aid funding has led to the loss of 1,975 positions in 44 countries internationally and 247 in the United States in the affected programs," the Johns Hopkins spokesperson said. "An additional 29 international and 78 domestic employees will be furloughed with a reduced schedule." The layoffs at Johns Hopkins represent the "largest" in the university's history, CNN reported. They'll primarily affect the schools of medicine and public health, along with the Center for Communication Programs and Jhpiego, a nonprofit with a focus on preventing diseases and bolstering women's health, according to the report. Kohl's is reducing about 10% of its roles Department store Kohl's announced on January 28 that it reduced about 10% of its corporate roles to "increase efficiencies" and "improve profitability for the long-term health and benefit of the business," a spokesperson told BI. "Kohl's reduced approximately 10 percent of the roles that report into its corporate offices," the spokesperson said. "More than half of the total reduction will come from closing open positions while the remainder of the positions were currently held by our associates." Less than 200 existing employees of the company would be impacted, she added. This follows the company's announcement on January 9 that it would shutter 27 underperforming stores across 15 states by April. The retailer has been struggling with declining sales, reporting an 8.8% decline in net sales in the third quarter of 2024. Its previous CEO, Tom Kingsbury, stepped down on January 15. The company's board appointed Ashley Buchanan, a retail veteran who had held top jobs in The Michaels Companies, Macy's, and Walmart, as the new CEO. Kroger is cutting 1,000 corporate workers Kroger Co. is cutting nearly 1,000 corporate jobs as part of a cost-trimming effort following the collapse of its proposed merger with Albertsons, a spokesperson told BI. In an internal memo viewed by Business Insider, interim CEO Ron Sargent told employees on August 26 that "thoughtful, yet difficult, choices are necessary" for the organization to continue to succeed. The grocer also plans to reinvest savings into lowering prices, opening new stores, and creating jobs at the store level. The shake-up comes as Kroger navigates leadership changes after former CEO Rodney McMullen resigned earlier this year amid a board investigation into his conduct. As of February, Kroger employed more than 409,000 people, mostly in retail roles. The layoff would not affect workers in stores, manufacturing facilities, or distribution centers. Microsoft has made several rounds of cuts this year Microsoft cut an unspecified number of jobs in January based on employees' performance. Workers were told that they wouldn't receive severance and that their benefits, such as medical insurance, would stop immediately, BI reported. The company also laid off some employees in January at divisions including gaming and sales. A Microsoft spokesperson declined to say how many jobs were cut on the affected teams. In May, the company announced layoffs affecting about 6,000 workers. Another round of layoffs in July will affect less than 4% of its total workforce, or roughly 9,000 employees, based on its head count of around 220,000. Meta is cutting 5% of its workforce Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff he "decided to raise the bar on performance management" and will act quickly to "move out low-performers," according to an internal memo seen by BI in January. Those cuts started in February, according to records obtained by BI. Teams overseeing Facebook, the Horizon virtual reality platform, as well as logistics were among the hardest hit. In April, Meta also laid off an undisclosed number of employees on the Reality Labs virtual reality division. Previously, the company had laid off more than 21,000 workers since 2022. Microchip Technology is slashing 2,000 jobs Microchip Technology is cutting its head count across the company by around 2,000 employees, the semiconductor company said on March 3. The company estimated that it would incur between $30 million and $40 million in costs, including severance, severance benefits, and other restructuring costs. The cuts would be communicated to employees in the March quarter and fully implemented by the end of the June quarter. Last year, Microchip announced it was closing its Tempe, Arizona, facility because of slower-than-anticipated orders. The closure begins in May 2025 and is expected to affect 500 jobs. Microchip's stock had fallen over 33% in the past year. Morgan Stanley plans cuts for the end of March Morgan Stanley is set to initiate a round of layoffs beginning at the end of March. The firm is eyeing cuts to about 2% to 3% of its global workforce, which would equate to between 1,600 to 2,400 jobs, according to a person familiar with the matter who confirmed the reductions to BI. The firm's cuts are driven by several imperatives, the person said, pointing to considerations like operational efficiency, evolving business priorities, and individual employees' performance. The person said the cuts are not related to broader market conditions, such as the recent slowdown in mergers and acquisitions that's arrested momentum on Wall Street. Some MS staffers will be excluded from the cuts, however — namely, the bank's battalion of financial advisors — though some who assist them, such as administrative personnel in its wealth-management unit, could be affected by the layoffs, the person added. Nextdoor is slashing 12% of its staff Neighborhood social networking company Nextdoor is cutting 12% of its staff, or 67 jobs, it said on August 7 in its second-quarter earnings report. The move is part of CEO Nirav Tolia's plan to achieve profitability and reorganize the struggling company. The layoffs are expected to reduce operating expenses by about $30 million, it said in the earnings report. The company reported a net loss of $15 million, compared to $43 million year-over-year. Nike is planning to lay off less than 1% of its corporate employees. Nike's turnaround plan is in full swing. It's reducing its corporate staff by 1% as part of its efforts, the company confirmed to Business Insider on August 28. It's unclear how many jobs will be affected, but CNBC reported that Nike sent employees a memo about the change in August. "As we shared in Q4 earnings, Nike, Inc. is in the midst of a realignment," the company said in a statement. "The moves we're making are about setting ourselves up to win and create the next great chapter for Nike." Nike said in June, when it reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings, that it would "evaluate corporate cost reduction as appropriate." CEO Elliott Hill also told analysts at the time that the company would realign its teams as it shifts away from a men's, women's, and kids' structure. Nike also cut jobs in 2024 amid broader cost cutting. Nissan says it will cut 20,000 jobs by 2027 Japanese car giant Nissan is cutting 20,000 jobs by 2027 and reducing the number of factories it operates from 17 to 10 as it struggles with a dire financial situation. The job losses include the 9,000 layoffs announced late last year, and come as the automaker faces headwinds from US tariffs on imported vehicles and collapsing sales in China. Nissan reported a net loss of 671 billion yen ($4.5 billion) for the 2024 financial year, and said it would not issue an operating profit forecast for 2025 because of tariff uncertainty. Oracle is reportedly cutting jobs from its cloud division. Oracle is cutting jobs in its cloud unit, Bloomberg reported. The cuts come as the company works to curb costs amid spending on AI infrastructure. Sources familiar with the cuts told Bloomberg that some of the cuts were related to performance issues. Oracle did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. Panasonic is cutting 10,000 jobs Panasonic, the Japanese-headquartered multinational electronics manufacturer, plans to cut 10,000 jobs this financial year, which ends in March 2026. The cuts will affect 5,000 roles in Japan and 5,000 overseas. In a statement on May 9, the company said it planned to "thoroughly review operational efficiency … mainly in sales and indirect departments, and reevaluate the numbers of organisations and personnel actually needed." "Through these measures, the company will optimize our personnel on a global scale," the statement added. Paramount is cutting 3.5% of its US workforce Paramount told employees it would be laying off 3.5% of US-based staff based in the US, per a memo reported by CNBC on June 10, citing industry-wide declines and a challenging macroeconomic environment. The move comes after the media company cut 15% of jobs last year to cut costs. Paramount had 18,600 employees at the end of 2024. It is awaiting regulatory approval of its merger with Skydance Media. Peloton is looking for $100 million in run-rate savings by next year Peloton said in its August earnings report that it would cut its global headcount as part of an effort to find $100 million in run-rate cost savings by the end of the next fiscal year. "As of today, we will have actioned about roughly half of the run rate savings through the reductions in our workforce and we expect to achieve the remainder throughout the balance of the year," CFO Elizabeth Coddington told investors on the earnings call. The company employed about 2,900 people last year, and approximately 6% of the workforce will be affected by the reductions, Reuters reported. Porsche is cutting 3,900 jobs over the next few years Porsche said on March 12 that it plans to cut 3,900 jobs in the coming years. About 2,000 of the reductions will come with the expiration of fixed-term contractor positions, the German automaker said. The company will make the other 1,900 reductions by 2029 through natural attrition and limiting hiring, it said. Porsche said it also plans to discuss more potential changes with labor leaders in the second half of the year. "This will also make Porsche even more efficient in the medium and long term," the company said. PwC is laying off approximately 2% of its US workforce The Big Four accounting firm said it's cutting roughly 1,500 jobs in the US because its low attrition rates mean not enough people are leaving by choice. PwC's layoffs began on May 5 and mostly affect the firm's audit and tax lines, a person familiar with the matter told Business Insider. "This was a difficult decision, and we made it with care, thoughtfulness, and a deep awareness of its impact on our people, appreciating that historically low levels of attrition over consecutive years have made it necessary to take this step," a PwC spokesperson said. Salesforce is cutting more than 1,000 jobs Bloomberg reported in February that Salesforce, a cloud-based customer management software company, will slash more than 1,000 jobs from its nearly 73,000-strong workforce. Affected employees will be eligible to apply to open internal roles, the outlet reported. The company is hiring salespeople focused on the company's new AI-powered products. The cuts come despite Salesforce reporting a strong financial performance during its third-quarter earnings in December. Salesforce did not respond to a request for comment. Scale AI is cutting 14% of its workforce On July 16, Scale AI laid off about 200 full-time employees and 500 contractors, according to the company. The 200 full-time cuts make up 14% of the data labeling startup's 1,400-person workforce. The company is restructuring its generative AI group, according to an email from Scale's interim CEO, Jason Droege, obtained by Business Insider. The cuts follow Meta's $14 billion investment in Scale AI in June as part of a blockbuster deal. The deal included the hiring of Scale's ex-CEO, Alexandr Wang, and the purchase of equity in almost half of the startup. Sonos cuts about 200 jobs Sonos, a California-based audio equipment company, said in a February 5 release that it's cutting about 200 roles. The announcement came nearly a month after Sonos CEO Patrick Spence stepped down following a disastrous app rollout. Interim CEO Tom Conrad said in the statement that the layoffs were part of an effort to create a "simpler organization." Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan announced in February that the company is laying off 15% of its corporate staff, or about 1,750 employees. He said affected workers will keep their pay, benefits, and bonuses through late April, when the separations will take effect. The company told investors the cuts would save about $210 million this year and $300 million in 2026. The move comes as Southwest tries to cut costs amid profitability problems. Jordan said this is the first significant layoff the company has had in its 53-year history. An activist hedge fund took a stake in Southwest in June and has since helped restructure its board and change its business model to keep up with a changing industry. For example, it plans to end its long-standing open-seating policy to generate more seating revenue. In recent months, the company has also reduced flight crew positions in Atlanta to cut costs. Starbucks is laying off 1,100 corporate staff Starbucks planned to notify 1,100 corporate employees that they had been laid off on February 25. CEO Brian Niccol said in a memo that the layoffs will make Starbucks "operate more efficiently, increase accountability, reduce complexity and drive better integration." The layoffs won't affect employees at Starbucks stores, the company said. Niccol told employees that layoffs were on the way in a separate memo in January. The company is trying to improve results after sales slid last year. Stripe laid off 300 employees Payments platform Stripe laid off 300 employees, primarily in product, engineering, and operations, according to a January 20 memo obtained by BI. Chief people officer Rob McIntosh said in the memo that the company still planned on growing its head count to about 10,000 employees by the end of the year. UPS is cutting 20,000 jobs UPS announced on April 29 that it plans to cut 20,000 jobs this year — about 4% of its global workforce — as part of a shift toward automation and a strategic reduction in business with Amazon. "With our action, we will emerge as an even stronger, more nimble UPS," the company's CEO, Carol Tomé, said in a statement. The move follows a sharp 16% drop in Amazon package volume in Q4 and is part of a plan to halve its Amazon business by mid-2026. UPS will also close 73 US buildings by June and automate 400 facilities to reduce labor dependency. The Teamsters union have said they would fight any layoffs affecting its members. The Washington Post cut 4% of its non-newsroom workforce The Washington Post eliminated fewer than 100 employees in an effort to cut costs, Reuters reported in January. A spokesperson told the news agency that the cuts wouldn't affect the newsroom: "The Washington Post is continuing its transformation to meet the needs of the industry, build a more sustainable future and reach audiences where they are." Wayfair laid off 340 tech employees Wayfair announced in an SEC filing on March 7 that it would eliminate its Austin Technology Development Center and lay off around 340 tech workers. The reorg comes as the technology team has accomplished "significant modernization and replatforming milestones," the company said in the filing. Wayfair said it plans to refocus resources and streamline operations to promote its "next phase of growth." "With the foundation of this transformation now in place, our technology needs have shifted," the company said. Wayfair expects to take on $33 to $38 million in costs as a result of the reorganization, consisting of severance, cash employee-related costs, benefits, and transitional costs. Workday cut more than 8% of its workforce Workday, the human-resources software company, said in February that it is cutting 8.5% of its workforce, or around 1,750 employees. The layoffs came as the company focuses more on artificial intelligence. In a note to employees, CEO Carl Eschenbach said that Workday will focus on hiring in areas related to artificial intelligence and work to expand its global presence. "The environment we're operating in today demands a new approach, particularly given our size and scale," Eschenbach wrote. He said that affected employees will get at least 12 weeks of pay. Novo Nordisk reduces workforce by 11% Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk said in a statement on September 10 that it was cutting 9,000 jobs, or about 11%, of its workforce. It added that around 5,000 of the cuts would take place in Denmark. Novo Nordisk's president and CEO, Mike Doustdar, said the cuts were needed because the market for obesity drugs was becoming "more competitive and consumer-driven." Novo Nordisk is the producer of the hit weight loss drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy. "Our company must evolve as well. This means instilling an increased performance-based culture, deploying our resources ever more effectively, and prioritising investment where it will have the most impact — behind our leading therapy areas," he added. Is your company conducting layoffs? Got a tip? Have a tip? Contact Dominick Reuter via email or text/call/Signal at 646.768.4750. Use a personal email address, a nonwork WiFi network, and a nonwork device; here's our guide to sharing information securely.

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新闻 94: Mark Cuban says he tells his college kids 2 things about getting a job amid AI's rise

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• Mark Cuban has three children, two of whom are in college.
• The "Shark Tank" star says he has been advising them on how to tackle the job market in the AI age.
• He said graduates should consider working at smaller companies because they need more help with AI. If your dad is "Shark Tank" star Mark Cuban, you'll get some free tips on navigating the job market in the AI age. "So, I got two kids in college, and what I tell them is if you were looking for a job at a big company, you're not going to get it," Cuban said. Cuban was speaking at a joint interview at the All-In Summit with former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson when they were asked if AI could displace jobs. The All-In Summit took place in Los Angeles from September 7 to September 9. A video recording of Cuban's interview was uploaded to the "All-In Podcast" YouTube channel on Monday. Cuban said it would be tough for a graduate to land a job at a big company now because those companies don't need their help implementing AI into their workflows. Large companies can do that on their own in the short term, he added. "The small to middle-sized companies need all the help they can get from AI natives. Because walking in and understanding AI and being able to implement for that company is a huge step forward to them. So I think that's one way we will adjust," he continued. Cuban said the second thing he told his children was to make full use of the resources they have available to them, thanks to technology. "There's no better time to be in college or just graduating than right now, because you have more resources available to you in your phone than anybody in the history of everything," Cuban said. "If you want to be an entrepreneur, if you want to do whatever it is, you have every expert that's right there available to you," he added. Cuban did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. Cuban and other business leaders have been pushing the message that young people should use their familiarity with AI tools to their advantage when looking for jobs. Reid Hoffman, the cofounder of LinkedIn, said in a YouTube video published in June that young people need to embrace the fact that they are "generation AI" and are "AI native." "Bringing the fact that you have AI in your tool set is one of the things that makes you enormously attractive," Hoffman said. "Look, on this side, it's transforming the workspace, entry-level work, employers' confusion. But on this side, it's making you able to show your unique capabilities. That, you know, in an environment with a bunch of older people, you might be able to help them out," he added.

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新闻 95: AI Data Centers Use a Lot of Energy. You May Be Paying for It

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新闻 96: How can lawyers stop AI's hallucinations? More AI, of course.

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• Law firms can't stop lawyers from tinkering with chatbots, so they're adding hallucination detectors.
• Tools like Clearbrief scan legal drafts for the fake cases and facts that AI tools sometimes invent.
• Courts are catching more bogus citations in legal filings every day. Law firm Cozen O'Connor has a rule against using publicly available chatbots to draft legal filings. But after a judge penalized two of its lawyers for citing fake cases, the firm is adding some extra protection: an AI hallucination detector. Cozen O'Connor is now testing software, made by a startup called Clearbrief, that scans legal briefs for made-up facts and produces a report. Think spell-check, except instead of flagging typos, it spots the fictional cases and citations that generative tools sometimes invent. "You have to be pragmatic," said Kristina Bakardjiev, the Cozen O'Connor partner tasked with harnessing technology to serve lawyers and their clients. She said lawyers will play around with chatbots whether the tools are authorized or not. Stung by embarrassing AI hallucinations, the legal field has adopted bans on general-use chatbots and AI assistants. But it's hard to stop a curious associate from pasting a draft into a free, browser-based chatbot like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Now law firms and legal tech companies are scrambling to lower the risk of bogus citations and catch those that sneak through before they land in front of a judge. Two of Cozen O'Connor's defense lawyers in September admitted they had filed a document riddled with fake cases after one of them used ChatGPT to draft it, against firm policy. A Nevada district court judge gave the firm a choice: remove the lawyers from the case and pay $2,500 in sanctions each, or have the pair write to their former law school deans and bar authorities explaining the fiasco and offering to speak in seminars on topics like "professional conduct." Both lawyers went with option No. 2. Cozen also fired the lawyer who had used ChatGPT. Earlier this year, Damien Charlotin, a legal data analyst and consultant, began tracking cases in which a court had discovered hallucinated content in a legal filing. Charlotin tallied 120 cases between April 2023 and May 2025. By December, his count had hit 660, with the rate of new cases accelerating to four or five per day. The number of documented cases remains small relative to the total volume of legal filings, Charlotin said. Most cases in his database involved self-represented litigants or lawyers from small or solo firms. When large firms were involved, the hallucinations often slipped in through the work of junior staff, paralegals, experts, or consultants, or through processes like formatting footnotes, Charlotin said. Hallucinated content is causing headaches in other professions, too. In October, consulting firm Deloitte agreed to pay a partial refund to the Australian government for a $290,000 report after officials found it was peppered with allegedly AI-generated errors. Straying from the walled garden AI hallucinations are hard to eliminate because they're baked into the way chatbots work. Large language models are trained to predict the word that is most likely to come next, given the words before it. Michael Dahn, a senior vice president at Thomson Reuters who leads global product teams for legal-research service Westlaw, says the model makers can't get hallucinations to zero for answering open-ended questions about the world. However, companies can dramatically reduce their risk by forcing a large language model to cite from a specific data set, like a corpus of case law and treatises. The model can still mismatch or overlook content, but wholesale fabrications are far less likely. Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis are selling that promise to customers: that an artificial assistant confined to their walled gardens of vetted material is safer than a chatbot trained on the open internet. Both companies have spent decades and heaps of money building deep repositories of case law and other legal content. More recently, they've bolted on AI-powered tools to help lawyers search and cite their data. They now have to defend their positions against services like ChatGPT and Claude that are creeping into the legal field. LexisNexis has also extended its moat to Harvey, the legal tech startup whose valuation has climbed to $8 billion. Harvey struck a partnership with LexisNexis this year that pipes one of the world's biggest legal databases into Harvey's generative tools. Harvey also works with AI model providers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, to constrain which datasets they're allowed to draw from and layer in Harvey's own proprietary datasets, a spokesperson said. Lawyers can then inspect logs that show how an answer was reached and what data fed into it. An AI fact-checker Clearbrief makes a drafting tool for litigators that works as a Microsoft Word plug-in. Jacqueline Schafer, a former litigator who founded Clearbrief, says its product detects citations using natural language processing, and creates links to the relevant case law or documents from the case. The tool calls out citations and facts that are fabricated or contain typos. The tool also points to places where the underlying source doesn't quite support what the writer claims. Cozen O'Connor has been testing a new Clearbrief feature that lets users generate a cite-check report before passing a draft to a partner or filing it in court. Schafer says partners at large firms trust their junior staff to check citations rather than vetting every case themselves. Still, federal rules hold the partners who sign filings personally responsible for their accuracy. Part of Clearbrief's appeal for Cozen O'Connor is the paper trail. The firm is upgrading its knowledge management system, and Bakardjiev imagines that someday the firm might store cite-check reports alongside drafts and final filings, creating a chain of custody for every brief. If a judge ever asks what a partner did to prevent hallucinated citations, Bakardjiev said, partners can point to a report that shows who ran the check and when. The legal world is likely to live with hallucinations for a long time. The unglamorous part of the solution is training lawyers to treat the chatbot output as a starting point, not the finished work. The other answer: throwing more AI at the AI. Have a tip? Contact this reporter via email at mrussell@businessinsider.com or Signal at @MeliaRussell.01. Use a personal email address and a non-work device; here's our guide to sharing information securely.

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新闻 97: Nvidia staffer called Microsoft's cooling system for Blackwell GPUs 'wasteful,' internal email shows

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• An Nvidia staffer said Microsoft's cooling approach for a Blackwell deployment seemed "wasteful."
• The setup also offered "a lot of flexibility and fault tolerance," per an internal email.
• Microsoft said its system promotes efficient heat dissipation and optimizes power delivery. As Nvidia works to install some of its newest chips in Microsoft data centers, an employee at the GPU giant observed in early fall that Microsoft's cooling approach at one facility seemed "wasteful." Nvidia has been deploying its GB200 Blackwell architecture at Microsoft and other tech giants as demand for compute to train and run AI models surges. Blackwell, announced in March 2024, is roughly twice as powerful as its predecessor, Hopper, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at launch. GB200 is part of an earlier wave of Blackwell deployments, with the GB300 generation now available. In early fall, an internal email sent by a staffer on the Nvidia Infrastructure Specialists (NVIS) team described one Blackwell installation of server racks for OpenAI, which Microsoft supports as its cloud partner and largest investor. The email described the setup of two GB200 NVL72 racks, each of which houses 72 Nvidia GPUs. The setup uses liquid cooling technology, given the heat generated by multiple GPUs operating closely in tandem. The staffer wrote that Microsoft's "cooling system and data center cooling approach for their GB200 deployment seems wasteful due to the size and lack of facility water use, but does provide a lot of flexibility and fault tolerance," according to the memo. While liquid cooling is used for the servers, data centers also use a second, building-level system to expel heat from the facility, according to Shaolei Ren, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California. The Nvidia employee may have been referring to a building-level system that uses air-cooling instead of water, explained Ren, who studies how data centers use water and other resources. "This type of cooling system tends to be using more energy," he said, "but it doesn't use water." A Microsoft spokesperson described a cooling setup consistent with Ren's two-phase explanation. "Microsoft's liquid cooling heat exchanger unit is a closed-loop system that we deploy in existing air-cooled data centers to enhance cooling capacity on first and third-party platforms," the Microsoft spokesperson told Business Insider in a statement. "These systems ensure we maximize our existing global data center footprint for scale while promoting efficient heat dissipation and optimizing power delivery to meet the demands of AI and hyperscale systems," the spokesperson added. "A trade-off" between resources As AI infrastructure expands, energy and water use in data-center cooling have become flashpoints globally, prompting pushback in some regions where new facilities are being built. Ren noted that because data centers can use air cooling, water cooling, or a hybrid system at the building level, "there's a trade-off" between resources. Air cooling requires more energy, but can "address some of the public concerns with water consumption — because water is something people can really see," he said. "These companies are profit-driven," he added, "they weigh in the water cost, the energy cost, and also the publicity cost." Microsoft, for its part, said it intends to be "carbon negative, water positive, and zero waste" by 2030. "We've also announced a zero water cooling design for our next-generation data centers and breakthroughs in on-chip cooling," the spokesperson said. Inside the Blackwell installation The internal email from the Nvidia staffer described some logistical hiccups that occurred during the Blackwell installation in early fall, which can be typical in the early deployment of new data center hardware. "Onsite support for this activity was a necessity," the staffer wrote. "Many hours were spent creating the validation process documentation as well as vetting the steps worked and made sense to those less familiar with how cluster and system validation is usually performed." Additionally, the handover processes between Nvidia and Microsoft "required a lot more solidification than what was performed before arrival." Still, the memo suggested Blackwell's production hardware quality had improved compared to early samples. The email said GB200 NVL72 production hardware "has good quality" compared to the qualified samples sent to customers for early testing. Both racks had a 100% pass rate on certain compute performance tests. An Nvidia spokesperson told Business Insider that its Blackwell systems "deliver exceptional performance, reliability, and energy efficiency for a wide variety of computing applications." "Our customers, including Microsoft, have successfully deployed hundreds of thousands of Blackwell GB200 and GB300 NVL72 systems to meet the world's growing need for artificial intelligence," the spokesperson said.

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新闻 98: ‘996’ Is a Chinese Tech Trend the US Should Skip

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新闻 99: This Democrat from a red state could help his party reclaim the House

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• Epstein is the one issue that persistently splits Trump from his baseKaren TumultyEarlier today
• The fate of dozens of trapped Hamas fighters is hindering Trump’s Gaza planLoveday Morris,Lior SorokaandHeba Farouk Mahfouz3 hours ago
• Trump administration prepares to fire worker for TV interview about SNAPMariana AlfaroandHannah NatansonEarlier today
• 1Isaac ArnsdorfandMatthew ChoiEpstein wrote that Trump knew of sexual abuse but didn’t participate
• 2ColumnCarolyn HaxCarolyn Hax: Is she ‘terrible’ for not wanting to be close to mother-in-law?
• 3Jeremy B. Merrill,Szu Yu ChenandEmma KumerWhat are the clues that ChatGPT wrote something? We analyzed its style.
• 4Amy B WangandMeryl KornfieldWhat does the end of the government shutdown mean for you
• 5Lauren Kaori GurleyandHannah NatansonU.S. visas can be denied for obesity, cancer and diabetes, Rubio says

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新闻 100: Elon Musk's xAI lays off hundreds of workers tasked with training Grok

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• XAI laid off about a third of its data annotation team, reducing staff by about 500 workers.
• The layoffs follow a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles.
• XAI's reorganization included tests to assess workers' strengths and determine future roles. Elon Musk's xAI laid off at least 500 workers on its data annotation team on Friday night. The company sent out emails notifying employees that it was planning to downsize its team of generalist AI tutors, according to multiple messages viewed by Business Insider. "After a thorough review of our Human Data efforts, we've decided to accelerate the expansion and prioritization of our specialist AI tutors, while scaling back our focus on general AI tutor roles. This strategic pivot will take effect immediately," the email read. "As part of this shift in focus, we no longer need most generalist AI tutor positions and your employment with xAI will conclude." Workers were told that they would be paid through either the end of their contract or November 30, but their access to company systems would be terminated the day of the layoff notice. The data annotation team is xAI's largest team. The workers play a key role in developing Grok by teaching the chatbot how to understand the world by contextualizing and categorizing raw data. The main Slack room used by data annotators had more than 1,500 members on Friday afternoon; screenshots viewed by Business Insider Friday evening showed that number down to a little over 1,000, with that number continuing to decline over the course of reporting this story. On Friday night, xAI posted on X that it was hiring for roles and plans to grow its team of specialist AI tutors by "10X." Specialist AI tutors at xAI are adding huge value. We will immediately surge our Specialist AI tutor team by 10x! — xAI (@xai) September 13, 2025 We are hiring across domains like STEM, finance, medicine, safety, and many more. Come join us to help build truth-seeking AGI!https://t.co/htpc2RijLG The layoff notices were sent out only a few days after several senior-level employees, including the team's former head, recently had their Slack accounts deactivated, Business Insider reported earlier this week. In the days that followed, workers were pulled into one-on-ones to review their responsibilities, projects, and achievements, nine workers told Business Insider. They were asked if there were any coworkers they wanted to highlight for their hard work, the workers said. XAI told workers on Thursday night to prepare for a reorganization of the data annotation team. In a team-wide announcement on Thursday night, the company asked some workers to drop everything and focus on a series of tests to determine their roles at the company going forward, asking staff to complete them by Friday morning West Coast time. The tests would be used to sort annotators and their supervisors based on their strengths and interests, according to a screenshot viewed by Business Insider. The notice for tutors to prepare for testing was posted by Diego Pasini, who ten workers said recently became the team's leader. Pasini asked workers to take at least one test by the following morning. The tests covered traditional domains like STEM, coding, finance, and medicine, as well as quirkier specialties like Grok's "personality and model behavior" and "shitposters and doomscrollers." The company also listed tests for workers aiming to improve the chatbot's safety, including by "red teaming" the bot, as well as tests dedicated to audio and video content. Pasini joined xAI in January, according to his LinkedIn profile. He is "on leave" from his undergraduate studies at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, his LinkedIn shows. Pasini and a representative for xAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The announcement said the tests were aimed at supervisors and generalist tutors. XAI divides its teams between STEM, coding, finance, legal, and media specialties, as well as a large pool of generalist tutors who are tasked with a wide range of assignments, from annotating video and audio to writing. Two workers said the STEM and coding tests took place on CodeSignal, a skills assessment platform, while other tests were hosted on Google Forms. More than 200 workers responded to Pasini's message with a green check-mark emoji, and over 100 replied to the post with questions and comments, according to a screenshot viewed by Business Insider. One worker expressed frustration with the short time span that was given for the tests, according to a screenshot viewed by Business Insider. "Doing this after people have gone home for the day is pretty shady," the worker wrote. The worker's Slack account was deactivated shortly after, multiple workers said. Do you work for xAI or have a tip? Contact this reporter via email at gkay@businessinsider.com or Signal at 248-894-6012. Use a personal email address, a nonwork device, and nonwork WiFi; here's our guide to sharing information securely.

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新闻 101: H.R. 3697 (IH) - Rural American Vitalization in Extraterrestrial Space Reporting Act of 2025

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新闻 102: S. 2668 (IS) - Housing Oversight and Mitigating Exploitation Act of 2025

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新闻 103: A teen contemplating suicide turned to a chatbot. Is it liable for her death?

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新闻 104: AI Translation Risks Put Spotlight on Duolingo’s Pricey Multiple

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新闻 105: Tech execs from Morgan Stanley, Citi, and Capital One on how they're prepping their engineers for the AI era

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• Banks are working to reskill developers as they race to adopt AI.
• Efforts include capstone-style courses, video modules, and voluntary initiatives, like hackathons.
• Tech leads said English communication with AI agents is key in the new "continuous learning" era. Not long ago, bank software developers only had to adjust to major technological shifts every few years. Today, those shifts are arriving every other month. Engineers are in "continuous learning mode" as they race to keep up with the rate of change, Trevor Brosnan, Morgan Stanley's global head of technology strategy, architecture, and modernization, told Business Insider. Technologists on Wall Street today are often grinding through capstone-style courses, working on basic communication skills, or watching a bunch of YouTube-style videos as many banks help them upskill to keep pace with AI advancements. "Something you thought you knew about AI three months ago might be out of date by now," Jonathan Lofthouse, the chief information officer at Citi, said. Banks from JPMorgan to Citi are pouring billions into AI to make their workforces more efficient, deliver better client experiences, and ultimately cut costs. They're also scrambling to recruit the talent needed to bring those strategies to life. The engineers who do best at these banks will be those who learn how to use AI effectively — and the banks are going to great lengths to help them learn fast, according to Alexandra Mousavizadeh, the cofounder and co-CEO of Evident, which tracks AI use in the financial industry. And when it comes to recruiting new talent, a willingness to take advantage of the "continuous learning" is crucial. "We are hiring for potential upskilling," Nish Rana, the senior director of Enterprise Data at Capital One, said of his hiring for the bank's AI and machine learning capabilities. Business Insider spoke with technology leaders at Citi, Morgan Stanley, and Capital One about their strategies for upskilling their engineering ranks. Citi and Morgan Stanley respectively employ 30,000 and 15,000 developers, and Capital One has around 15,000 engineers. "It's a lot of time spent now on helping accelerate developers' adoption, so that they can become more aware of these and give back some of their capacity," Dov Katz, a distinguished engineer at Morgan Stanley, said. Communication is key One key part of that upskilling involves learning how to talk to agents, much as they would with another engineer. Developers need to communicate with the newest generation of generative AI tools in English, not in code, "and not everybody in technology has a reputation for being an excellent communicator," Katz said. As Citi's Lofthouse put it, most developers' second language is Java. "And actually, Java is sometimes a bit easier to express problems in than a first language," he said, especially when it comes to describing the complexities of the financial markets. It's important to give an AI agent as much guidance as possible on the task to perform and the desired output, said Brosnan. "That is a shift from, 'Okay, I'm the person writing all the code, but have a little assistance,' to now, I'm giving much bigger tasks and delegating them to an agent," Brosnan said. Everyone he works with is learning that skill in real time to use the tools most effectively. It is, he said, a "fundamental shift" in what it means to work as a developer. That's not to say that coding is irrelevant — all of the technology leads said it's still important to know foundational coding languages, especially since humans have to check all of the code that AI agents write. Banks are creating in-house AI courses Capital One has developed its own AI Academies, Rana said, which are "considered a one-stop solution to grasping fundamentals, all the way up to advanced learning." The courses cover tech initiatives within the bank, including AI/ML Foundations, ML Modeling, and Research & Prototyping. "New engineers who are coming into our company don't necessarily need to have an extensive background," Rana said. "We have formal training that can bring them up to speed in a very consolidated and accelerated way." Morgan Stanley also offers a mix of outsourced and in-house courses, and Citi recently ran a "Techflix" series, where anyone on the technology and business enablement team could watch videos and participate in associated challenges, some of which related to AI. Each of the banks Business Insider spoke to said they offer engineers video modules to master emerging AI skills. Brosnan said they can be as short as five minutes. He added that many employees learn a lot from YouTube, whether for work or personal interests, and that videos have proven to be a powerful tool. Older educational efforts continue Beyond their AI-specific upskilling efforts, the banks Business Insider spoke with have continued with older programs, like hackathons and technology all-hands meetings. Opt-in programs are hugely popular, Brosnan and Lofthouse said, and have proven to be crucial educational architecture as the pace of learning continues to accelerate. Learning opportunities aside, the rate of change is a source of anxiety for many engineers, as some worry the shine of a computer science degree is fading in a world where bots can spit out code at record speed. Yet the tech leaders said that AI will ultimately let their engineers, equipped with the right skills, focus on higher-order thinking and higher-impact work. "There's anxiety about the change, but it's balanced by how exciting it's going to be," Lofthouse said. Rana said that some veteran engineers are anxious about keeping pace with the rapid shifts in AI. Everything his team is doing — from AI academies to online videos to tech talks — is aimed at giving engineers not only the tools to succeed, but the "psychological safety net" of learning in a comfortable corporate sandbox.

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新闻 106: The return of 'YOLO': The 2010s meme is back and shaping the AI industry

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• "YOLO" is making a comeback. This time, it's shaping the AI industry.
• The term has been used to describe huge investments and fast-moving AI development.
• That YOLO culture presents a risk for a technology that can have far-reaching implications. The term "YOLO" was cool once, made so in 2011 by Drake in his hit song, "The Motto." Then it slipped into the domain of the unhip and out-of-touch. Well, it's now back. This time, it's being used by the AI vanguard to describe the state of the industry, which is a tad worrying to those concerned about AI's far-reaching implications for the world. Last week, at The New York Times DealBook Summit, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei took a dig at his competitors, like OpenAI and Meta, when he said, "There are some players who are YOLO-ing, who pull the risk dial too far, and I'm very concerned." In other words, their approach to developing AI models is more reckless than rigorous. Anthropic, he said, is trying to manage its growth as "responsibly as we can." The term is being used by AI researchers, too. Jason Wei, a researcher at Meta, wrote on X that one of the great skills he's seen is "yolo runs" — a sort of instinctive flow state where a researcher or developer throws caution to the wind. In a "yolo run," he said, a researcher "directly implements an ambitious new model without extensively de-risking individual components. The researcher doing the yolo run relies primarily on intuition to set hyperparameter values, decide what parts of the model matter, and anticipate potential problems. These choices are non-obvious to everyone else on the team." This approach contrasts with the traditional research approach to carefully change one thing at a time, he added. During a discussion at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center, which seeks to understand the impacts of technology, Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain used the term to describe the AI industry's current approach. Zittrain said the "YOLO model" is driven by founders and VCs who will try anything quickly: Launch an idea, see if it sticks, and if the company collapses, just move on to the next startup. If it succeeds, he said, they cash in. The resurgence of the term highlights a growing tension between the AI industry's full-throttle race to build ever-larger and smarter models and the more safety-minded voices urging caution. On the one hand, competition is fierce in the AI industry, with tech giants issuing "code reds" to their teams every time a competitor launches a successful new model. And the money is flowing. Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft all logged record-breaking capital expenditures on AI chips, servers, and data centers this quarter. The scale of AI spending pushed the S&P 500 and Nasdaq to record highs in recent weeks. At the same time, others warn this sort of YOLO culture ignores AI's potential threats — anything from misuse by bad actors to unintended AI model behavior. AI "godfather" Geoffrey Hinton said in a conversation with Sen. Bernie Sanders at Georgetown University last month that the rapid development of AI could spark mass unemployment, deepen inequality, and even change the nature of human relationships. An analysis conducted by AlphaSense found that 418 publicly traded companies valued at more than $1 billion have cited AI as a risk to their reputations and security in reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Many companies have also been slow to implement AI ethics officers and governance experts in their rush to make productivity gains. As the "YOLO" mindset takes root in the AI industry, Zittrain asked: "Is that an OK model of development for this possibly transformative tech?"

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新闻 107: RBA Seen Holding Rates as Easing Cycle Falters

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• RBA seen holding rates
• Home prices surge
• Westpac profit dips What’s happening now Expectations for Australia’s central bank meeting this week are straightforward: policymakers will leave interest rates unchanged, and Governor Michele Bullock will steer clear of any guidance as the outlook grows murkier. Economists unanimously expect the Reserve Bank will keep rates at 3.6% at its Nov. 3-4 meeting, a Bloomberg survey showed. Australian home prices climbed at the fastest pace in more than two years in October, underscoring the risk that a resurgent property market could complicate the Reserve Bank’s efforts to rein in inflation pressures. The Home Value Index jumped 1.1% in October, property consultancy Cotality said Monday. Perth led the increases at 1.9%, followed by Brisbane at 1.8% and Darwin at 1.6%. Bellwether Sydney advanced 0.7%. Westpac Banking Corp.’s profit was in line with estimates as momentum in home loans buoyed the Australian lender. Net income dipped 1% to A$6.9 billion ($4.5 billion) in the 12 months ended Sept. 30 from a year earlier, the bank said Monday. Australia’s sovereign wealth fund recorded a 13.7% return for the 12 months through September, supported by equities and alternative assets. The Future Fund’s assets climbed to A$261 billion ($171 billion) as of Sept. 30. Chief Executive Officer Raphael Arndt said the fund will “continue to focus on building resilience against a range of scenarios into the portfolio.” Shares of Steadfast Group Ltd. plunged after the Australian insurance broker said its chief executive officer, Robert Kelly, will take temporary leave amid an investigation of a workplace complaint made against him. The stock tumbled as much as 19% on Friday. No claims against Kelly have been substantiated so far, the company said, without giving details about the complaint. What happened overnight Here’s what my colleague, market strategist Mike “Willo” Wilson says happened while we were sleeping… The Aussie and Kiwi eased against a broadly stronger US dollar on Friday as a couple of Federal Reserve officials pushed back on their own interest rate cut of last week. US stocks finish higher, again with the help of company earnings which are drawing to a close. This week’s highlights are Tuesday’s RBA interest rate decision and New Zealand’s third-quarter jobs report on Wednesday. Both should be market-moving. Some second-tier data kills time between now and then. ASX futures point to a quiet start in local stocks. OPEC+ will pause output increases during the first quarter — after making another modest hike next month — as the group balances its push for market share against signs of an emerging surplus. Key members led by Saudi Arabia agreed Sunday to revive 137,000 barrels a day next month, matching increases scheduled for October and November, then take a January-to-March hiatus. China will effectively suspend implementation of additional export controls on rare earth metals and terminate investigations targeting US companies in the semiconductor supply chain, the White House announced. Under the deal, China will issue general licenses valid for exports of rare earths, gallium, germanium, antimony and graphite “for the benefit of U.S. end users and their suppliers around the world,” the White House said. Nvidia Corp. is worth $5 trillion. Here’s what it means for the market. The chipmaker at the heart of the artificial intelligence revolution is not only by far the biggest company on the planet, it also may be the most influential stock in Wall Street history. President Donald Trump threatened possible US military action against Islamist militants in Nigeria if the country’s government doesn’t halt the groups’ “killing of Christians.” In a post Saturday on Truth Social, Trump said he’s instructing the Pentagon “to prepare for possible action” and threatened an immediate cutoff in aid to Nigeria, an OPEC member and Africa’s most populous country. Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s cash pile soared to $381.7 billion in the third quarter, a fresh record, and operating earnings surged 34% at Chief Executive Officer Warren Buffett’s conglomerate. What to watch All times Sydney • Melbourne Institute inflation 11am • Household spending 11.30am • Building approvals 11
  One more thing... Amazon.com Inc.’s latest global layoffs should come as a singular warning to India, writes Bloomberg Opinion columnist Andy Mukherjee. For policymakers dealing with the world’s largest youth population, AI suddenly poses a very real risk to jobs, wages, and a white-collar future. — With assistance from Michael G Wilson

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新闻 108: China to Suspend Some Rare Earth Curbs After Trade Deal

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• The surge is fueled by data center energy demand and China’s low-carbon push, which venture capitalists say has left key Western sectors uninvestable.
• Some investors are shrugging off Trump’s escalating attacks on green energy, even as his administration has created hurdles for US wind and solar developments.
• But not everyone is convinced. Some warn that the rally may be tied to speculative interest in AI and that some clean-tech stocks may be overvalued.
• Analysts predict a bubble as the largest technology companies, including Meta and Microsoft, are spending heavily on data center construction and other gear to support AI services. Opinion Amazon’s latest global layoffs should come as a singular warning to India, Andy Mukherjee writes. Generative AI is affecting occupations beyond entry-level computer programming, including finance, marketing, human resources and tech. More Opinions Play Alphadots! Our daily word puzzle with a plot twist. Today’s clue is: Flexible work arrangement? Before You Go Ancient treasures get a new stage. Fireworks lit up Cairo as Egypt opened the $1 billion Grand Museum—a “gift from Egypt to the world” housing over 100,000 artifacts. President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi described it as a “living testament to the genius of the Egyptian individual.” A Couple More

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新闻 109: CEOs Have So Much Faith in AI, They’re Ignoring Everything Else

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新闻 110: The most iconic horror-movie villains of all time, from Pennywise to Aunt Gladys

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• Horror-film villains become nightmare fuel for kids for decades.
• Some villains like Freddy, Jason, and Ghostface have multiple films to get under your skin.
• Others, like Annie from "Misery" or Jack from "The Shining," only needed one movie. At a time when the box office can be hit-or-miss (see: nearly every film released this month), there's one genre that almost never lets Hollywood down: horror. It's been nearly 100 years since audiences were introduced to characters like Frankenstein's monster and Dracula on screen. Since then, some horror movie franchises have lasted for up to a dozen films, like "Friday the 13th," raking in hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office. Creating an iconic horror movie villain doesn't just mean sequels and huge profit margins at the box office, though. Think about how many kids in Ghostface masks or Pennywise costumes you see on Halloween every year — these enduring characters ensure revenue long after their movies' releases. These are some of the most iconic horror movie villains of all time. A recent addition to this list is Remmick from "Sinners." "Sinners" is easily one of the movies of 2025, and while much praise has (rightfully) been laid upon Michael B. Jordan, Miles Caton, Wunmi Mosaku, Delroy Lindo, Jayme Lawson, Hailee Steinfeld, and Omar Benson Miller, we've gotta talk about Jack O'Connell as the film's main protagonist, Remmick. Can't you just hear him saying "Sammie!" Remmick is an interesting one. Of course, he's a vampire who decimates an entire community … but he only does it because he wants a community! He loves music! Just look at him sharing his Irish folk music with the patrons of the juke joint! He's disgusted at the idea of him being a member of the KKK! We kid, we kid, but Remmick is just one of the many compelling characters brought to life in "Sinners." It wouldn't be the same without him. So is Aunt Gladys from "Weapons." If I don't see at least three Aunt Gladys costumes this Halloween, I'll be shocked. It's not clear exactly what Gladys, as played by Amy Madigan in "Weapons," is. Is she an immortal demon? Is she a really old witch? Is she even Alex's aunt? What we do know is terrifying — and some of the film's most horrifying jump scares are just Gladys appearing in places she's not meant to be. "Longlegs" was only released last year, but the titular Longlegs will be haunting us for years to come. "Longlegs" almost immediately became a phenomenon upon its release in July 2024 and was called one of the scariest movies of the year, largely due to the performance of a nearly unrecognizable Nicolas Cage as serial killer Longlegs. In the film, Longlegs is a devil worshiper who has convinced fathers across Oregon to kill their families and then themselves. He's being pursued by an FBI agent played by Maika Monroe, who has her own connection to the murders and Longlegs himself. A strong marketing campaign and tons of memes helped "Longlegs" gross $127.96 million at the box office, making it distributor Neon's highest-grossing film ever domestically. After Jason Voorhees made his debut in "Friday the 13th Part II," hockey masks were never the same. Though the legend of Jason and Camp Silver Lake is first explored in 1980's "Friday the 13th," Jason himself doesn't appear until the sequel, and he doesn't even wear his iconic hockey mask until 1982's "Friday the 13th Part III." In total, there have been 12 movies about Jason and his unyielding quest for vengeance on teens having sex, and the titles become more and more ludicrous as time goes on (see: "Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan" and "Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday.") The most recent movie was the 2009 reboot, "Friday the 13th." While Jason and his films may err on the side of camp these days, the first three films are genuinely frightening, and his hockey mask has provided many a kid with a Halloween costume. Second only to Jason's hockey mask is Ghostface's ghoulish mask in "Scream." We won't ruin "Scream's" twist for you if you haven't seen it — but if you haven't seen screenwriter Kevin Williamson's 1996 masterful horror satire: Run, don't walk. Any fan of horror or teen movies will be delighted by Sidney Prescott and her friends' quest to stay alive, all while commenting on the "rules" of horror movies. "Scream" was followed by five sequels. In each movie (except the latest), Neve Campbell's Sidney tries to escape Ghostface (the mantle is taken up by different killers in each movie): 1997's "Scream 2," 2000's "Scream 3," 2011's "Scream 4," and 2022's "Scream," aka "Scream 5." Sidney skips out on 2023's "Scream VI," though other characters from the franchise's history return, including true-crime reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) and horror fan/former Ghostface victim Kirby from "Scream 4" (Hayden Panettiere). A seventh film is in the works, confirmed by The Wrap — and this time, Campbell is returning and Williamson is directing for the first time in the series. It's set to release in 2026. "Scream" was also turned into an MTV anthology horror series, which followed two more groups of teens trying to escape Ghostface. It aired for three seasons from 2015 to 2019. Freddy Krueger, of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series, has been making kids everywhere afraid to sleep for decades. We all know the song, right? "One, two, Freddy's coming for you, three, four, better lock the door," and so on. Beginning with Wes Craven's legendary 1984 film "A Nightmare on Elm Street," viewers have been afraid to fall asleep, just in case Freddy and his razor-claw glove are there to kill them in their sleep. Freddy's been the star of nine films, as played by Robert Englund: "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984), "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge" (1985), "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors" (1987), "A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master" (1988), "A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child" (1989), "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" (1991), "Wes Craven's New Nightmare" (1994), "Freddy vs. Jason" (2003), and the 2010 reboot "A Nightmare on Elm Street." Annabelle, the demonic doll, plays a small part in "The Conjuring," but proved so frightening that she earned her own spin-off series. What is it about creepy Victorian-era dolls? Annabelle first appeared in 2013's "The Conjuring" as part of Ed and Lorraine Warren's creepy collection of possessed objects — and she's so powerfully evil that she has to be blessed regularly in order to keep her at bay. Obviously, she breaks free and causes some sheer terror in the Warren household before getting shut back in. However, she made such an impression that Annabelle has been the center of three of her own films: 2014's "Annabelle," 2017's "Annabelle: Creation," and 2019's "Annabelle Comes Home." She's also had brief appearances in "The Conjuring 2," "The Curse of La Llorona," "The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It," and "The Conjuring: Last Rites." Before we had Annabelle, there was Chucky, the star of "Child's Play." The first "Child's Play" was released in 1988, and focused on a serial killer, Charles, who is magically transferred into the body of a Good Guy doll — of course, just because he's in a Good Guy doll doesn't make Chucky into a good guy. Chucky fans have watched him wreak havoc on Chicago in eight films: "Child's Play" (1988), "Child's Play 2" (1990), "Child's Play 3" (1991), "Bride of Chucky" (1998), "Seed of Chucky" (2004), "Curse of Chucky" (2013), "Cult of Chucky" (2017), and the 2019 reboot, "Child's Play," which saw Mark Hamill take over as the iconic voice of Chucky. In October 2021, a new series called "Chucky" began airing on SyFy and USA as a continuation of the 2017 film "Cult of Chucky." It was canceled in 2024 after four seasons. Facehuggers, Chestbursters, Xenomorphs — whatever you want to call them, the aliens from the "Alien" franchise are not for the faint of heart. The first "Alien" movie, released in 1979, is a straight-up horror film in a way the rest of the films are not — but no matter what movie they're in, whether it's "Aliens," "Alien3," "Alien Resurrection," "Prometheus," "Alien: Covenant," "Alien: Romulus," "Alien: Earth," or either of the "Alien vs. Predator" movies, the Xenomorphs are guaranteed to elicit a jump or gasp from the bravest person you know. For anyone looking for a little midday scare, nothing beats the first chest-burster scene from "Alien," a true master class in both tension-building and jump scares. The Predator is another very scary, very deadly alien that kills its victims in gruesome ways. The Predator first appears in 1987's "Predator," which follows Arnold Schwarzenegger as Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer, a Special Ops officer who is sent to a Central American jungle to rescue a politician and his aide from a hostage situation. Little did Dutch know that he'd soon be dealing with a preternaturally gifted super-alien with heat vision, a bug-like jaw, and the ability to cloak itself. Predators once again appear in 1997's "Predator 2," 2004's "Alien vs. Predator," 2007's "Alien vs. Predator: Requiem," 2010's "Predators," in which we learn more about their culture, and 2018's "The Predator," which was directed by Shane Black, who had a small part in the original film. A prequel, "Prey," was released in 2022 to glowing reviews, according to Rotten Tomatoes. It takes place in the 1700s and focuses on a young Native American woman, played by Amber Midthunder, going up against a predator. There will be two "Predator" films in 2025. First was the animated anthology film "Predator: Killer of Killers," and then the November film "Predator: Badlands," which will focus on a Predator as the film's main character for the first time. Michael Myers, the seemingly unstoppable killer of the "Halloween" series, has been terrorizing us since 1978. What's so creepy about Michael Myers? Is it his white mask (that's actually an inside-out William Shatner/Captain Kirk mask)? Is it the iconic John Carpenter theme that comes along with him? Is it his obsession with Laurie Strode that makes him unstoppable and seemingly immortal? Most likely, it's a combination of all three. In total, Michael has been the star of 1978's "Halloween," 1981's "Halloween II," 1988's "Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers," 1989's "Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers," 1995's "Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers," 1998's "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later," 2002's "Halloween: Resurrection," 2007's "Halloween," 2009's "Halloween II," and the newest reboot trilogy (which has the return of Curtis), 2018's "Halloween," 2021's "Halloween Kills," and 2022's "Halloween Ends." Yet nothing can dilute the creepiness of the very first film, with Michael walking around in broad daylight stalking Laurie, played by Jamie Lee Curtis. All Leatherface needed was a chainsaw to make his way into the Horror Film Villain Hall of Fame. Leatherface, first seen in 1974's "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," is a serial killer who likes to wear a mask made out of the skin of his victims. Enough said. The slasher genre would not be the same without "Texas Chain Saw Massacre." It established many staples of the genre, like the villainous hitchhiker, cannibals, and the lone creepy gas station, all things that would pop up in "The Hills Have Eyes," released three years later. The chainsaw-wielding murderer would appear again in 1986's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2," 1990's "Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III," 2003's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," 2006's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning," 2013's "Texas Chainsaw 3D," and 2017's "Leatherface." A sequel to the 1974 original, called "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," was released on Netflix in February 2022. Threatening kids with Samara from "The Ring" is the best way to get them to stop watching TV. Be careful: If you watch Samara's video, you'll die in seven days ... at least, according to "The Ring," that's what'll happen. If we had to make a list of the most scarring horror scenes, Samara crawling out of the TV screen in the first American "Ring" film in 2002 would certainly make the cut. Samara, a little girl-turned-VHS demon, debuted in the original Japanese franchise and has been played by Rie Inō, Hinako Saeki, Ayane Miura, Tae Kimura, Yukie Nakama, Ai Hashimoto, Elly Nanami, and Ayaka Minami. In the original Japanese films, her name is Sadako. In the US version, Samara was played by Daveigh Chase in "The Ring " Kelly Stables in "The Ring Two," and Bonnie Morgan in 2017's reboot "Rings." Norman Bates, the villain of "Psycho," has since become shorthand for "sociopath." "Psycho," the classic 1960 horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is so ingrained in our culture that it's easy to take for granted just how groundbreaking (and terrifying) it truly is. The shower scene, with its iconic score, remains one of the most chilling murders in horror movie history, and made more than a few people reluctant to hop in the shower, unable to see if anyone else was joining them in the bathroom. What makes Norman, played by Anthony Perkins, such a good villain is, of course, how subversive he is. He appears to be a meek motel owner who is constantly getting belittled by his mother, but of course, he's actually a twisted killer. "Psycho II," released in 1983, picks up 22 years later after Norman is released from a psychiatric hospital. He once again starred in 1986's "Psycho III." Perkins played Norman one last time in 1990's made-for-TV film "Psycho IV: The Beginning." However, Norman lived on in Gus Van Sant's 1998's shot-for-shot remake, this time played by Vince Vaughn. An A&E prequel series, "Bates Motel," explored Bates' childhood, and he was played by Freddie Highmore. The critically acclaimed show lasted for five seasons from 2013 to 2017. Jack Torrance in "The Shining" will stay with you for a long time after finishing the film. "The Shining" (1980) is the story of one man's descent into madness as he experiences writer's block and an unconquerable case of cabin fever — plus, he's stuck in the notoriously haunted Overlook Hotel, is battling alcoholism, is seeing ghosts, and only has his wife and young son to speak to. Jack's relentless pursuit of his son Danny throughout the frozen maze gives us all nightmares. The film, a Stephen King adaptation, is one of the most analyzed films of all time, culminating with the 2012 documentary "Room 237," which is all about different theories regarding the movie and its meaning. Even though Jack Nicholson doesn't appear in the 2019 sequel "Doctor Sleep" — another actor plays Jack Torrance — it's still just as unsettling. While Regan isn't technically a villain, the demon Pazuzu, who possesses her in "The Exorcist," is enough to give anyone nightmares. "The Exorcist," released in 1973, remains unsettling to this day. It doesn't matter that the special effects haven't aged that well or that it takes a while for things to really get going — by the time Regan's head spins around and she starts cursing out her mother, you've been on edge for so long it feels like you might just snap. Pazuzu, the ancient demon that takes over innocent Regan's body, has one of the most unnerving voices of any horror movie villain, and the way Pazuzu forces Regan to act easily earns its spot on this list. Regan and Pazuzu returned for 1977's "Exorcist II: The Heretic." Pazuzu is also part of "The Exorcist III" in 1990 and "Exorcist: The Beginning" in 2004 — and returned yet again for "The Exorcist: Believer" in 2023, with original stars Ellyn Burstyn and Linda Blair facing off against this demon one more time. Another "Exorcist" film is in the works, this time directed by Mike Flanagan, who told The Hollywood Reporter it will be "the scariest movie I've ever made." After seeing Damien in "The Omen," parents all over the world began taking a closer look at their kids. "Look at me, Damien! It's all for you!" Has there ever been a more iconic beginning to a film? After Damien's babysitter jumped off a roof and hung herself at his birthday party, viewers knew they were in for something different watching 1976's "The Omen." Damien might be the original "Creepy Kid" that now seems to permeate most horror films, but Harvey Spencer Stephens' blank-faced portrayal of Damien, the Antichrist and harbinger of death and destruction, still remains atop our list. Damien appeared in both sequels, 1978's "Damien: Omen II" and 1981's "Omen III: The Final Conflict," though he was played by Jonathan Scott-Taylor and Sam Neill, respectively. He also appeared in the 2006 reboot, played by Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick. An adult Damien was also the focus of a brief TV series on A&E called "Damien" in 2016, played by Bradley James. Before he was a gay icon, Mister Babadook was a character in a mysterious storybook with the power to possess people. "The Babadook," a 2014 Australian horror film, has a glowing 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, proving that it's more than just another scary movie. Something that sets apart Mister Babadook from other horror villains, is that he's barely on-screen — he mainly appears in the storybook that Essie and her son Sam read as a manifestation of their grief for Sam's dad. Almost all of his other hijinks are performed by an unseen presence, save one terrifying nightmarish sequence in which he possesses Essie. Now, for the gay icon bit, as explained by The Daily Dot. It all started in 2016, when a Tumblr user joked that the Babadook is gay. This led to a (doctored) screenshot that showed "The Babadook" on Netflix categorized as an LGBT film. Now, the community has claimed him as an unofficial Pride mascot. One of the most frightening images in modern horror is Billy, a puppet, biking around his warehouse of horrors. James Wan's 2004 instant classic "Saw" introduced us all to the Jigsaw Killer, a man who created horribly violent experiments testing various victims' will to live. One of the main ways that Jigsaw communicates with his prisoners is through Billy, a puppet that Jigsaw originally created as a gift for his unborn son, who died before he was born. Now, Jigsaw uses Billy to unnerve his captors with his creepy face, bull's-eye cheeks, and deep voice. He's a mainstay of the franchise, and has been in "Saw," 2005's "Saw II," 2006's "Saw III," 2007's "Saw IV," 2008's "Saw V," 2009's "Saw VI," 2010's "Saw 3D," 2017's "Jigsaw," and 2023's "Saw X." Pennywise from "It" no doubt sparked a fear of clowns in many of his viewers. Whether you're more partial to Bill Skarsgård's performance in "It" and "It: Chapter Two," or Tim Curry's version of the character in the 1990 ABC miniseries, we can all agree that Pennywise, the clown iteration of It, an ancient evil entity that must eat children to survive and preys upon our fears, is horrifying. Although the end of Stephen King's story shows that standing up to your fears is the only way to truly overcome them, we'd still run the opposite way if we ever saw Pennywise dancing his way toward us. If you've been missing Pennywise, he's set to appear in the 2025 HBO series "It: Welcome to Derry," which premieres on October 26. Annie Wilkes in "Misery" isn't supernatural, but she's chilling all the same. Maybe Annie's lack of demonic possession and supernatural powers make her scarier than anyone else on this list. She's dangerously obsessed with author Paul Sheldon and commits atrocities in order to keep him with her. Kathy Bates even won an Oscar for her portrayal of Annie. The scene in which Annie breaks both of Paul's ankles so he can't escape was even voted one of Bravo's 100 scariest movie moments. Hannibal Lecter of "Silence of the Lambs" has made sure we'll never see Chianti or fava beans the same way ever again. Although Hannibal isn't the only antagonist of 1991's "The Silence of the Lambs," this liver-eating cannibal is the one that sticks with you. His strange monotone voice, his frightening mask, and his genius-level intellect all pull you in, much like they pull in Agent Clarice Starling. For better or worse, Hannibal will be the defining role of Anthony Hopkins' career — it won him an Oscar. He continued to play the character in two more films (2001's "Hannibal" and 2002's "Red Dragon"), before getting replaced in 2007's prequel "Hannibal Rising," in which the cannibal is played by Gaspard Ulliel. In 2013, Mads Mikkelsen began playing him in the NBC series "Hannibal," which lasted for three seasons. The original vampire is, of course, Dracula. Count Dracula first appeared in Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic horror novel, "Dracula." Ever since people have been under the thrall of the vampire and his mythology. The Transylvanian has been the subject of multiple novels, plays, and films, most famously 1931's "Dracula," 1970's "Count Dracula," 1979's "Dracula," 1992's "Bram Stoker's Dracula." He reappeared in the 2020 Netflix/BBC miniseries "Dracula" played by Claes Bang. In 2023, Nicolas Cage showed us all his interpretation of the famed vampire in "Renfield," while a different version of Dracula sailed from Transylvania to London in "The Last Voyage of the Demeter," played by Javier Botet. Arguably, we owe "Nosferatu," "Twilight," "The Vampire Diaries," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," and more to our fascination with Dracula. Frankenstein's monster is a tragic villain, but he's still one of the most recognizable symbols of Halloween. Frankenstein's monster is a tragic figure. He's a reanimated hodge-podge of a person who questions the existence of his reality and his right to happiness. He first appeared in Mary Shelley's classic 1818 novel, "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus," and has since appeared in dozens of other works, including multiple movies, cartoons, TV shows, and books — most famously played by Boris Karloff in the 1930s, Christopher Lee in the 1950s, Robert DeNiro in 1994, and Rory Kinnear in the Showtime series "Penny Dreadful." Frankenstein's monster will terrify us at least twice more in two coming films: in a film directed by Guillermo del Toro starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, with Isaac playing the doctor and Elordi playing the monster; and another directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal starring Christian Bale as the monster and Jessie Buckley as his bride. "Get Out" would not have been the same without the chilling Armitage family. Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Allison Williams, and Caleb Landry Jones all came together for 2017's "Get Out" to play the Armitage family, a family that lures in Black people in order to hypnotize them and steal their bodies for a twisted kind of immortality. From Whitford's seemingly sincere "I'd vote for Obama for a third time if I could" to the chilling way Williams eats her cereal and milk separately, the casual racism and white saviorism of the Armitages would've been horrible enough, but once things kick into high gear and Daniel Kaluuya's character Chris has to start killing them, you'll find yourself cheering. "Get Out" came at a time when mainstream horror was in a slump, and director Jordan Peele's "social thriller" essentially revitalized the genre, establishing him as the modern king of horror. Whatever you do, don't say the Candyman's name five times in a mirror. In many ways, "Get Out" would not have existed if not for 1992's "Candyman," a film focused on racism, social inequality, and poverty. The titular Candyman is an urban legend — the story goes that he is the spirit of the son of an enslaved person who was murdered via bees for his relationship with a white woman. Now, if you say his name five times in a mirror, a man with a hook for a hand will appear and murder you — oh, and he has a rib cage full of bees. "Candyman" spawned two more immediate sequels," 1995's "Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh," and 1999's "Candyman: Day of the Dead." A remake produced by none other than Jordan Peele and directed by Nia DaCosta was released in 2021, with Tony Todd reprising his role yet again — though he sort of shares the role with Yahya Abul Mateen II. Kayako has been holding a grudge since her debut in "The Grudge." Kayako made her (tragic) debut in the 2000 Japanese horror film "Ju-on: The Curse." Kayako began as a lovesick woman obsessively writing about a man who was not her husband in a diary — predictably, when her husband discovers the diary, things go awry and Kayako ends up becoming a vengeful demon with a grudge. Kayako appeared in every sequel to the original Japanese version, and then she made the cut again when the franchise was remade in America, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as the franchise's final girl. Takako Fuji played Kayako in "Ju-on: The Curse," "Ju-on: The Curse 2," "Ju-on: The Grudge," Ju-on: The Grudge 2" in Japan and in the US remakes "The Grudge" and "The Grudge 2." Aiko Horiuchi then took over for "The Grudge 3" in 2009. In the Japanese franchise, Misaki Saisho began playing everyone's favorite vengeful ghost in 2014's "Ju-on: The Beginning of the End." She returned for 2015's "Ju-On: The Final Curse," while Runa Endo played her in 2016's "Sadako vs. Kayako." In the 2020 American reboot, "The Grudge," Kayako was taken over by Junko Bailey. After seeing "Malignant," all anyone could do was rub the back of their head and pray there wasn't a Gabriel there. "Malignant," frankly, is a wild horror film released in 2021. Directed by James Wan, it stars Annabelle Wallis as a woman who was adopted as a child and doesn't remember anything about her past before that. We can't get into the entire plot, but here's the big twist (spoilers): Wallis' character Madison had a twin she absorbed in the womb. Subsequently, the twin became a large teratoma on her back — and even though she had surgery to get rid of him as a kid, the doctors couldn't remove his brain. Due to an accident, he was awoken when Madison was an adult, leading to him possessing her body for hours at a time and murdering people. Yes, this movie is real. Megan, of "M3GAN," was an immediate star upon her debut in 2023. When the trailer for "M3GAN" debuted on the internet, the terrifying AI-powered doll immediately achieved icon status. The memes about Megan were inescapable, from praising her beautiful singing voice to her very TikTok-inspired dance moves. Played by Amie Donald and Jenna Davis as her physical body and voice, respectively, Megan started off as the perfect toy for a grieving child, only to become a homicidal killer toy bent on protecting her owner, Cady, by any means necessary. The less we say about "M3GAN 2.0," though, the better.

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新闻 111: Pupils fear AI is eroding their ability to study, research finds

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新闻 112: An AI startup's viral LinkedIn story and the 'fake it till you make it' approach

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• Two AI startup founders said that they initially pretended to be AI to validate their product idea.
• Their viral LinkedIn post sparked debate over startup practices in Silicon Valley.
• "You can't fake it till you make it forever," said Krish Ramineni, CEO of Fieflies.ai. Sam Udotong said he and Fireflies.ai cofounder Krish Ramineni manually took notes for over 100 meetings while pretending to be an AI bot called Fred. The AI startup's story, posted to LinkedIn by Udotong, raised eyebrows over its "fake it till you make it" approach. Udotong, CTO of Fireflies.ai, which built a product to automate note-taking for online meetings, wrote that the company's first batch of customers in 2017 were getting a human-run Fred. The post soon went viral on LinkedIn, with nearly 3,000 reactions and hundreds of comments. While some applauded the founders for their approach, others raised questions. Fireflies.ai is now valued at $1 billion, largely thanks to the rise of virtual meetings during the pandemic. When Ramineni and Udotong came up with the concept of a meeting notetaker AI, their backs were "against the wall," Ramineni told Business Insider. "So we said, we're down to our last bit of money, let's figure something out, but this time, before we write a line of code, let's make sure that we can actually validate it," said Ramineni, the CEO of Fireflies.ai. "And we had to pay rent, and SF is really expensive." Ramineni was living off savings after a brief stint with Microsoft, and Udotong had never had a full time job. To validate their idea, Ramineni said, they reached out to some friends in the tech space and asked them if they would be willing to pay $100 a month for their meeting notes to be fully taken care of in 2017. Ramineni said that he told those friends that there would be some human involvement and oversight, but did not specify that the process was actually entirely manual. Posing as an AI bot called Fred, the two founders said they joined meetings and took notes by hand, and they usually delivered the notes within a day. "We had just enough money to pay for the rent where Sam was staying, and we found incredible demand," Ramineni told Business Insider. Unlike an AI bot, the founders are humans who could not be omnipresent, and Ramineni said it took about a hundred such sessions for them to grow weary of back-to-back meetings and feel the constant stress about being double-booked. Ramineni said that Fireflies.ai had not approached any investors until they were already working on the fully automated product, and there was no overlap between investment and the founders pretending to be AI. By late 2018, the product development was full steam ahead, and they had stopped manually taking notes for customers. Ramineni said they were kept afloat by small checks from angel investors. At the end of 2019, Fireflies.ai was able to beta test its product and do live demos for institutional investors, allowing them to raise a seed fund of more than $4 million. "We told them, actually, for the first couple of users, we sat down, took notes for them, and it helped us realize and understand what it means to do good notes," said Ramineni of the investors. "And then they were impressed with how we validated the problem first, and then we went and built the product." The 'fake it till you make it' approach Tim Weiss, a professor of management and entrepreneurship at Imperial College London, told Business Insider that Fireflies.ai's approach sounds like "pretotyping," which is a very common but "questionable" practice. "Basically, you pretend you have a product to learn about how people engage with it before you build it," said Weiss. "This is something that is done at the very early stages of a startup to validate an idea, but of course not later on." In other words, Fireflies.ai may have simply said the quiet part out loud. The startup may have skimped on details with early customers, but it did not approach institutional investors until the company had a functioning product to show, the founders said. Kevin Werbach, professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School of Business, told Business Insider that, despite the risks, "fake it till you make it" is a "hallowed element" of tech startup culture. "When done right, it's Steve Jobs' 'reality distortion field' and countless entrepreneurs that fudged on details to get the time or resources needed to make those claims real," said Werbach. "When done wrong, it's Elizabeth Holmes going to jail." "Most situations are in the middle," Werbach added. The "reality distortion field" is a term coined by Steve Jobs, the cofounder of Apple, referring to his ability to convince himself and others that seemingly impossible tasks are achievable through the force of will. According to the "Internet History Podcast," a show that documents the rise of technology that may seem commonplace right now, the iPhone was frequently failing when Jobs made a sleek demonstration of it back in 2007. Engineers determined a specific order of demo actions for Jobs to perform to prevent the phone from crashing, and hard-coded all the demo units to display five bars of cell strength. Facebook's stand-alone personal assistant, called "M," which was shut down in 2018, was also powered by humans to answer the most complex queries, according to The Verge. The goal was that those humans would help train the AI. The product never made it past its private beta stage, The Verge reported. Ramineni said that as of today, the AI in Fireflies has done over 2 billion meeting minutes and has taken notes for 20 million people, which would be about 4,000 years of meetings if calculated by an eight-hour workday. "It's fair to have a lot of skepticism around AI, and I definitely do believe that you have to be transparent in that if you're raising funds, talking to investors, building the product," said Ramineni. "You can't fake it till you make it forever — that's not how it works."

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新闻 113: ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Is Getting an A.I. Glow Up.

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新闻 114: US Senator Sanders challenges Bezos, Amazon on automation's job impacts

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新闻 115: Amazon to cut about 14,000 corporate jobs

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新闻 116: The European Union Intellectual Property Office at Web Summit 2025 in Lisbon

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新闻 117: Tuesday Webinars September 2025

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• explore how AI is currently being used by legal practitioners;
• have a clear overview of how AI is transforming the IP legal landscape;
• see some practical applications of AI in legal practice;
• learn how public institutions like the EUIPO are implementing human-centric AI to boost efficiency, deliver innovative tools, and ensure the responsible use of AI;
• get an overview of the trends likely to influence AI and its future. This webinar is for those IP professionals with previous AI knowledge that wish to have a deeper understanding on how AI is applied in legal practice and are interested in its future evolution. Find out more by joining us on Tuesday 23 September at 10.00 (CEST). See all the exciting webinars coming up during the month of September: | DATE | TITLE | LEVEL | TIME | |---|---|---|---| 23/09/2025 | Intermediate | 10
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新闻 118: Applicant boom drives record first-year law school classes

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新闻 119: What to know about Larry Summers, who has taken leave from Harvard due to Epstein emails

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新闻 120: Amazon cuts jobs at Audible. Read the CEO's to employees.

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• Amazon is laying off Audible staff as part of wider plans to cut 14,000 corporate jobs.
• The layoffs aim to boost "focus and speed" in its key growth areas, Audible's CEO said in a memo.
• Amazon's broader cuts are aimed at making the company leaner in the age of AI, the company said on Tuesday. Amazon is making layoffs at Audible as part of wider plans to cut 14,000 corporate jobs, Business Insider has learned. Bob Carrigan, the CEO of Audible, told employees in a Tuesday email, which was seen by Business Insider, that affected workers have been notified and additional organizational changes would follow. Those changes would "add focus and speed" to the audiobook and podcast division's most critical growth areas, he said. Carrigan added that Audible is "laser-focused on making sure we are organized and resourced for continued strength in the years ahead." The number of affected roles at Audible could not be learned. Amazon declined to comment, referring Business Insider to a Tuesday blog post from Beth Galetti, the company's senior vice president of people experience and technology, announcing the sweeping cuts. The post outlined how Amazon is aiming to be leaner against the backdrop of AI, which she described as the "most transformative technology we've seen since the Internet." Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in June that Amazon's workforce would shrink as a result of AI-driven efficiency gains. The company cut jobs in its cloud division, Amazon Web Services, in July after it froze its hiring budget for the retail unit. Read the full memo below. Important Organizational News All, You've likely seen today's Amazon A to Z post. We've had to make the very difficult decision to eliminate some roles across Audible. Colleagues in the US whose roles were impacted have already been notified; across other global hubs, affected employees are having discussions with their HR teams, following local processes. We are handling all transitions with care and respect. I want to thank all those impacted for their hard work and dedication to Audible and to our customers. We are working on an individual level to ensure all impacted employees are supported. Our HRBP and HRP team are available to you, and we have a licensed counselor available to all 24/7 through our Employee Assistance Program. We will also be making organizational changes to add focus and speed to areas of the business that are critically important to how we attract, engage, and grow our customer base and creator universe. All of these areas require collaboration across Content, Marketing, Product and Tech, so we are streamlining the structure dedicated to each. This will involve shifting a number of roles across those groups in order to bring team members closer to key initiative owners and increase the speed of decision-making. Teams committed to each of these critical areas will report into dedicated Audible leaders, and all team cross-functional org movement will be shared within your respective orgs in the coming days. You can expect communications from Andy, Cynthia, Rachel and Tim highlighting these changes by end of the week. As I've shared in several Allofus meetings, we are laser-focused on making sure we are organized and resourced for continued strength in the years ahead. This strategy is delivering strong results: accelerated catalog growth, expanded global reach, and increased paid listening. We are an ever-meaningful part of our customers' lives, which leads to more opportunities for creators. Your commitment to Audible is deeply appreciated.

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新闻 121: Sweden's Klarna shifts AI focus from cost cuts to growth

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新闻 122: Wednesday briefing: Making sense of the Maccabi Tel Aviv saga, where law and disorder fumbled with fandom

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新闻 123: First Thing: Trump tells Republicans to vote to release Epstein files, in reversal of previous stance

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新闻 124: Why Leadership Can’t Be Automated: Phoebe Tisdale Andrews on the Value of Mentorship in the Digital Era

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新闻 125: I developed AI at IBM. Here's how to not become intellectually dependent on tools.

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• Sol Rashidi has worked in AI for 15 years, scaling capabilities at companies like IBM.
• She said workers have to continue to use their brains to avoid intellectual dependency on AI tools.
• Rashidi uses it for acceleration, not replacement, and advises against copy and pasting responses. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sol Rashidi, a former tech executive at IBM, AWS, and Estée Lauder, who is based in Miami. The following has been edited for length and clarity. In the last 15 years, I have built and scaled AI capabilities, and I have over 200 deployments under my belt. I went from being an individual practitioner to running IBM's enterprise data management practice. I was the chief data officer at Sony Music, the chief analytics officer at Estée Lauder, and the head of technology for AWS's startup division in North America. All my experiences from 2011 on have led me to realize there's a real chance people will develop a codependency on AI. So I'm focused on workforce preparation and educating the masses. Now I have my own company where I'm working on solving the problem of AI in the workforce by teaching enterprises how to prepare their workforce for the future, and how to use AI and automation to amplify the workforce instead of eliminating it. If you're going to use AI in your day-to-day, great — but you have to be conscientious, to outsource tasks and not your critical thinking. You need to avoid intellectual atrophy. Intellectual atrophy is when you lose your cognitive ability to think critically because you're outsourcing that thinking to tech. Just like our muscles atrophy if we don't use them, so does our brain. The big thing that you've got to be careful of is making sure that generative AI doesn't make your thinking become generic, because everyone else is also using ChatGPT. You maintain your edge by using cognitive power. Don't replace your work As an individual, I use six to eight AI tools every day. I use AI a lot for data processing, so I can think about the patterns and insights and, from there, observe and spotlight frameworks and models. But when using the tools, I always ask myself, "Am I using this to accelerate work I have to do, or am I using it to do the work for me?" It needs to accelerate the work so that the thinking is left to me. "This is making me faster, but is it making me more capable? This is making me more productive, but is this making me more valuable?" I use the tools to expedite and facilitate versus doing the work for me. Part of what I do is communication, and I don't ever want to lose that edge. I don't use AI to write emails, keynotes, or personal interactions. It's really important for me to be able to understand whether or not what I'm communicating is being perceived in the way I intended. That takes practice. Anything that comes from the heart or mind has to be sincere, expressive, and communicate the right messaging. It has to be organically generated by me — no exceptions. Don't copy and paste We live in a society right now that values convenience over competition and speed over substance. But the key to keeping up is actually slowing down, because there is no shortage of information coming to us. We're ingesting so many gigabytes of data every day through WhatsApp, Slack, email, LinkedIn, and Instagram. The way we used to handle the workload of the past cannot be replicated to handle the speed of today. So we have to develop our discernment muscles, which is the ability to spot a signal from noise. A large percentage of content worldwide right now is AI-generated, and we have AI-generated content that is being cannibalized to retrain itself. Moving forward, we're going to get to the point of diminishing return. Problem-solving skills are going to be so important, and it will be super important to discern, validate, and verify AI responses. You can use AI to author the first draft, but maybe don't copy and paste the output because it's often inaccurate. Think of it as a first draft always. The last team that I managed was a data science team at a Fortune 500 company. I tasked my junior and senior data scientists to come up with an approach for the CMO for a new product. My junior scientist produced the same deliverable as the senior scientists but it took them less than half the time because they took the word of ChatGPT. It sounded great, but they short-circuited the process of research and verification, so I had to make a new mandate that they cannot use AI to do the work for them, but only to help facilitate and accelerate the research. I told my junior scientists and anyone highly codependent on AI, "I'm paying for your brain and uniqueness. I'm not paying you to copy and paste, because, quite frankly, a license for enterprise API from OpenAI is a lot cheaper than you." It's so easy to ask ChatGPT a question and get an answer that sounds really good. But if you don't use critical thinking and depend on yourself to solve problems, you could be outdated within a few years. How is AI affecting your work? Contact the reporter via email at aaltchek@insider.com or through the secure-messaging app Signal at aalt.19.

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新闻 126: Meta adds parental controls for AI-teen interactions

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新闻 127: As a college student, studying can be difficult and lonely. ChatGPT has become my go-to study buddy.

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• For me, studying in college is an overwhelming and isolating experience.
• I started using ChatGPT's voice feature to upload my study guides and talk through the topics.
• The AI helped me feel less alone and better understand topics. Last year, I began my first year of college. Like many first-year university students, I was excited about the opportunity to socialize, explore a new environment, and engage in campus life. That meant hanging out with friends in the dining hall, going out on weekends, and taking advantage of the university social environment. But things changed around exam season. With final exams sometimes accounting for more than 40% of my grade, my priorities shifted quickly. Socializing took a backseat, and I found myself spending long days alone in the library, reviewing notes and working through problem sets. While study groups helped for some subjects, I often needed targeted focus on topics that others had already moved past. Those two weeks of studying alone in my room with a pile of textbooks were frankly some of the loneliest of my life. When the next semester began in January, I couldn't stop thinking about how lonely that experience had been. Then, one day, while exploring ChatGPT, I noticed a new voice feature that enabled back-and-forth conversation. It completely revolutionized how I study. I set up ChatGPT to be my study buddy In the past, I had always avoided using AI tools for academic work unless explicitly instructed to do so by my professor, but this felt different. It made me wonder if I could use them not to cheat but to learn and think through material more deeply. Before my next exam, I decided to try studying with it. Instead of rereading notes in silence, I uploaded my course materials and started having conversations with the AI's voice mode. I asked it to explain concepts I was unsure about, brainstorm essay arguments, and help me structure ideas. I chose one of the voice options that sounded almost human, and while I was studying, I not only felt like I was getting the material, but by talking through things in a conversation-like format, I started to feel less lonely. It was surprisingly helpful For two to three hours a day, I used ChatGPT this way for three of my five courses. The other two had unclear academic integrity policies or required more traditional problem-solving, so I stuck with my usual methods. But for the others, ChatGPT became my study partner. It was always available, always patient, and good at helping me build my own understanding. There were some hiccups, like times when I was working through a problem and it tried to give me an answer when I had asked it not to. But more often than not, if I made it clear I did not want an answer, it helped me work through things only when I was stuck, and with tips rather than the solution. This worked well for me, as I have always learned by talking things through. In the past, that meant cornering professors during office hours or finding classmates to bounce ideas off. But during crunch time, that kind of support is not always available. With ChatGPT, I can replicate that process at any time. It felt like having a tutor on call around the clock. What surprised me most was how natural it felt The voice feature made the interaction less robotic and more like an honest dialogue. It was not human, and I always knew that, but it was helpful. Just getting to talk to someone at times when I was alone, studying for hours on end, was strangely comforting. AI did not write my exams or magically give me answers. Nor would I have wanted it to, as I value the skills gained from learning the material more than my final mark. What it did was help me learn. It helped me work through ideas in a way that textbooks and silence never could. It made studying feel less like solitary confinement and more like an intellectual conversation. ChatGPT is now crucial to my study habits I still think about those first two weeks of exams and how isolating they felt. Now I have a new tool that not only helps me study more effectively, but also makes the process feel less lonely. And for a first-year student learning how to navigate both academic pressure and personal growth, that has been an enormous help. Many people are rightly concerned about AI and ChatGPT being used to cheat. I learned AI can be used to learn more, not replace learning. For me, AI certainly did not replace studying; rather, it just made it more engaging.

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新闻 128: US weekly jobless claims at seven-month low amid low layoffs

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新闻 129: Why bosses are demanding more — and what it could cost them

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• Some CEOs are enforcing stricter office attendance and performance metrics for workers.
• This shift comes as the labor market tightens, giving employers additional control.
• There are risks for CEOs who push too hard, corporate observers told Business Insider. Jonathan Tobias likes his job in tech, in part because it allows him to work remotely. Signing on from home means it's only a five-minute walk from his Brooklyn apartment to day care pickup. "I'm definitely lucky," he told Business Insider. Tobias, 39, also knows his employer's allowances are increasingly rare. After years of talking up flexibility and work-life balance, leaders across industries are taking a firmer approach — mandating office attendance, tightening performance metrics, and pushing AI-driven productivity. "It's very much an employer-driven market, which allows for businesses to behave like this," said Alex Bouaziz, cofounder and CEO of the HR and payroll platform Deel, referring to measures like return-to-office orders. Yet CEOs reasserting control could risk overstepping, corporate observers warn. Workers might be hugging their jobs now, but prioritizing control over trust could backfire by damaging morale, engagement, and, ultimately, retention, they say. 'This is the new normal' Many CEOs are "demanding more" from workers these days, Rajesh Namboothiry, senior vice president at the staffing firm ManpowerGroup, told Business Insider. That might mean asking people to work longer hours or clock in over the weekend. "They're seeing this efficiency boost as a one-way," he said of CEOs. Leaders know they can "push the envelope" a bit more, he said, because the labor market is tighter than only a few years ago, when both corporate veterans and job-hoppers could win big pay hikes. Now, Namboothiry said, some CEOs are saying, "'OK, this is the new normal.'" It makes sense that in a tighter labor market, CEOs can enact stricter rules. Yet Namboothiry said that driving too hard could further erode worker engagement, which is at its lowest level in more than a decade in the US, Gallup reports. Beyond that, there's a concern about workers quitting when the job market eventually gets stronger, he said. Regaining predictability Given the widespread economic uncertainty and the impact of AI, some leaders might argue that it's reasonable for CEOs to exert more control over their workforce, said Marlo Lyons, an executive coach and host of the podcast Work Unscripted. "Employers are simply trying to regain predictability in an unpredictable world, using structure and technology as tools for control," she told Business Insider. However, that control can come with a price. Employees who see their employer as "unempathetic" report greater rates of workplace toxicity and mental health issues, reports Businessolver. This can reduce productivity and increase instances of workers calling in sick, according to the employee benefits company. "We tend to have a very strong memory for the things that have happened and the way we've been treated when times are tough," Dion Love, a labor market strategist at the research firm Gartner, told Business Insider. Flipping the script Workers might also remember what their employers didn't do, such as helping train them to use AI. In a recent EY survey of about 400 US executives at large companies, only about one in four respondents said investing in their workers in the next few years was a primary concern. Employers need to educate workers about AI, said Dan Kaplan, managing partner and head of the HR practice at the consulting firm ZRG. Otherwise, he told Business Insider, employees who worry that AI will take their jobs are likely to resist adopting it. "You're afraid this is the enemy," Kaplan said, even as CEOs themselves embrace the technology. Gartner's Love said that bosses who navigate this moment skillfully have a chance to "flip the script" in an employers' market by investing in workers and offering greater opportunities for employees for career development, for example. The workers who still have power While many employees might have little choice but to accept CEOs' stepped-up demands, some workers have a better chance at calling the shots. For in-demand talent, like machine learning specialists, there is still "legit competition," said Matt Martin, CEO and cofounder of Clockwise, which uses AI to optimize workers' calendars. He said that money flowing into AI firms could prompt some workers who are dissatisfied with their bosses' demands to consider joining these growing companies. In-demand employees are also more likely to balk when companies mandate things like RTO — and flee for more flexible employment, Deel's Bouaziz said. That's benefited his remote-first company, he said. When Tobias, the tech worker in Brooklyn, posts about corporate life on social media, he sometimes hears people say that pre-pandemic office norms, such as having little say over where you work, are a thing of the past. Yet as more CEOs tighten the reins, he expects those days are making a comeback — at least at some companies. Workers early in their careers could feel the pressure the most, he suggests. That "could harden them and get them used to the corporate world — or it can eventually backfire," Tobias said. Do you have a story to share about your workplace? Contact Tim Paradis at tparadis@businessinsider.com or Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert at ktl@businessinsider.com.

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新闻 130: BlackRock's head of talent acquisition reveals how AI has changed what he looks for in applicants

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• Nigel Williams, BlackRock's head of talent acquisition, said applicants need to embrace AI.
• He said the investing giant is focusing on both specific AI abilities and interpersonal skills.
• Williams also shared how his office uses AI — and one mistake applicants make with the technology. If you want to work at BlackRock, make sure you're using AI — just not too much. Nigel Williams, BlackRock's global head of talent acquisition, said that AI is shifting his hiring priorities, and that fluency with the technology is now key to any strong application. However, he warns against depending on it in the interview process. "We want to hire people that are curious, that understand that AI is here," he told Business Insider, especially because it's embedded in functions across the world's biggest asset manager. The strongest applicants can demonstrate that they are both digitally native and comfortable with various AI tools, and that they're curious about future capabilities. Young talent is "upskilling itself to meet the moment," Williams said, since applicants without a computer science background often demonstrate AI proficiency. Everyone, he added, will need to have a basic understanding of prompt engineering and how to question AI outputs. "In this age of AI, the talent skills that I think we need more than ever are people that are curious, have a questioning mindset, and are willing to not just trust what the model puts out there, but also make sure we're continuing to pressure test that," he said. Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills are also becoming even more important, he said. Williams said that his team is figuring out how to assess applicants' AI abilities and is mindful of making sure people without tech backgrounds don't feel intimidated. He's interested in how people use the technology in their personal, academic, or work lives, and said his team is still fine-tuning how to assess that in the interview process. Despite Williams' new focus on how applicants engage with AI, he's not using it to screen candidates. As of now, he uses AI to schedule interviews. There's such a thing as too much AI in the application process, though. Williams said recruiters and hiring managers have told people ahead of an interview not to use an AI tool, sometimes to little avail. "It is quite common. You will sometimes see people looking to the left or the right. Our interviewing teams, if they're in the middle of doing that, will pick up on that and be able to say, 'Hey, we do want to make sure that you're staying focused,'" Williams said. BlackRock employs around 24,600 people in more than 30 countries, according to a November 5 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Some 21,100 people worked at the firm as of the end of 2024, according to that year's annual report. BlackRock has launched Asimov, an agentic AI platform for its equity business. At the annual New York Times DealBook Summit this week, its CEO, Larry Fink, said that there will be "some huge winners and huge failures" with the technology.

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新闻 131: AI tools churn out ‘workslop’ for many US employees, but ‘the buck’ should stop with the boss

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新闻 132: ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app

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新闻 133: The web is becoming a sprawling hive mind of AI agents, and Vercel wants to build a cloud to host them

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• Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch says the internet will be full of AI agents, and they must be hosted somewhere.
• He said Vercel is building what he calls an "AI cloud" to do just that.
• Software now runs and thinks for hours, and Vercel wants to power that shift, Rauch said. The internet is starting to fill up with AI agents, and they'll need to be hosted somewhere, says CEO Guillermo Rauch. The CEO of the cloud-based platform said in an interview published on TBPN Monday that "the world is going from pages to agents." To prepare for that shift, Rauch said Vercel is building what he calls "the AI cloud." That refers to infrastructure designed to host autonomous agents that can plan, reason, and act independently. "Every type of software will become AI native software, and the new primitive of the cloud will be the agent," he said. Vercel is building new frameworks and developer tools to support this next wave of AI software, Rauch said. The company, which powers millions of web apps, raised $300 million at a $9.3 billion valuation in September to fuel that push. Many companies will bypass the digital transformation playbook and move directly to AI agents, Rauch said. He added that these agents are already changing how online infrastructure works. "Software is running for a lot longer, which is fascinating from a compute standpoint," he said. "We're seeing all of these new types of software that are just running, like thinking and producing, obviously demanding tokens, but running for minutes, hours, days." Vercel's chief operating officer, Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, told Business Insider in a report on Monday that the company is training AI agents on the work of its top performers. Grosser said Vercel's "lead agent" handles the work that used to require multiple sales development reps, allowing the company to cut a 10-person team to just one person and a bot. Rauch did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. The era of the agentic internet AI agents are poised to reshape the internet, automating everything from bookings to payments. The foundations for this new agentic web are being built as tech companies race to claim and establish the early infrastructure. OpenAI launched its ChatGPT-powered browser, Atlas, last week. The browser merges internet navigation with the capabilities of agentic AI, and can do basic tasks for users like booking appointments and filling grocery carts. In April, Google launched Agent2Agent, a protocol designed to let AI agents talk to one another, share data securely, and coordinate actions across different business systems. Anthropic, the maker of Claude, rolled out its Model Context Protocol, or MCP, last November. It links agents to backend systems like databases, pricing engines, and workflows, and replaces the patchwork of APIs and integrations that power most commerce online. Last month, Cloudflare said it plans to introduce NET Dollar, a US dollar-backed stablecoin meant to support secure transactions for the emerging agentic web.

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新闻 134: With Rental Registries, Cities Seek to Close Data Gap With Landlords

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新闻 135: Latam GPT will process more than 1 billion documents ahead of debut

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新闻 136: OpenAI's latest Sora apology is actually a strategy: Ask for forgiveness, not permission

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• Everyone makes mistakes.
• OpenAI wants you to think its mistakes are just a product of a young company moving fast.
• That may be part of it. But it's also beginning to look like a strategy: Asking forgiveness instead of permission. OpenAI says it's sorry it used someone's intellectual property without their permission. And it promises to do better in the future. Quiz time! Are we talking about: OpenAI's announcement on Thursday night that it had "paused" the ability for Sora users to make videos using the likeness of Martin Luther King Jr., after King's estate complained? Or are we talking about OpenAI's announcement earlier this month, when it said it would make it harder for Sora users to make videos using the likeness of Hollywood characters, after Hollywood complained? Or are we talking about OpenAI's announcement last year, when it said it would stop using a computer-generated voice that sounded a lot like Scarlett Johansson — after Johansson complained, and said she'd turned down OpenAI's offer to pay her for her voice? You can see where we're going here. Let's spell it out: OpenAI is building a track record of using stuff it may not have the rights to use — and only backtracking once it hears from rights owners and their lawyers. Which leaves us two ways to think about that track record:
• It's possible that OpenAI is a $500 billion company but is also a clumsy startup that moves fast and makes mistakes, and it's going to keep doing that.
• It's also possible that when it comes to intellectual property — whether we're talking about the stuff it hoovers up to train and power its artificial intelligence engine, or the output those engines create — OpenAI is intentionally ignoring concerns about who owns and controls that intellectual property. My hunch: It's a bit of both. Which is what OpenAI and its leadership have said at various times. "Please expect a very high rate of change from us," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote earlier this month, when he announced he was softening what had been a very aggressive stance toward Hollywood. "We will make some good decisions and some missteps, but we will take feedback and try to fix the missteps very quickly." But a day before, OpenAI executive Varun Shetty had made it clear that OpenAI's stance toward Hollywood and copyright wasn't an accident, but a conscious choice. Sora had launched with minimal restrictions because other AI-powered media-makers did the same thing. "We're also in a competitive landscape where we see other companies also allowing these same sorts of generations," Shetty told journalist Eric Newcomer. "We don't want it to be at a competitive disadvantage." All of which means we should expect OpenAI to keep following the same pattern: Use something it may not have the rights to use, and figure out the details later. Whether it's doing that intentionally or mistakenly is almost beside the point. And all of this certainly will get worked out over time, as OpenAI and its competitors strike rights deals with some companies (Disclosure: OpenAI has a commercial deal with publisher Axel Springer, which owns Business Insider) and fight others in court. But let's zoom out. Should you, a normal person, care about the way OpenAI works — or fights —with intellectual property owners? Look: I'm flattered and pleased that you're reading this story. But it's probably not going to impact your life that much. On the other hand: OpenAI certainly seems like it's going to be one of the leading AI companies that is going to reshape a lot of our lives. But in order for that to work, it's going to need to interact with lots of different companies and industries. And that "agentic future" OpenAI and others talk about — the one where AI bots perform all kinds of tasks for you — will only work if everyone involved trusts the rules won't keep changing. Asking for forgiveness instead of permission has worked for OpenAI so far. At some point, it won't.

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新闻 137: Amazon backs AI startup that lets you make TV shows

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新闻 138: Pope Leo XIV announces two new saints, including first canonized millennial

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新闻 139: Cancer Stole Her Voice. She Used AI, Curse Words, and Kids’ Books To Get It Back.

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新闻 140: ChatGPT Is Just Too Dangerous for Teenagers

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