AI will slash Amazon’s white-collar workforce in the years ahead, CEO Andy Jassy wrote in a staff memo last month.
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CHINA IS GAINING ON THE U.S. IN THE GLOBAL AI RACE
A growing number of businesses and universities in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East are adopting DeepSeek and other AI systems from Chinese developers and turning away from U.S. models, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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MAJOR BANK FIELDS SQUADS OF “DIGITAL EMPLOYEES”
The Bank of New York Mellon (BNY) has “hired” dozens of AI bots as “digital employees” who work alongside humans as colleagues, Leigh-Ann Russell, the bank’s CIO, told The Wall Street Journal.
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VIRAL ‘AI’ BAND FORCES QUESTIONS ON THE AI TAKEOVER
A viral music group with an exploding listenership on Spotify, one of the leading music streaming platforms, has become an epicenter of the latest controversy over issues surrounding AI created content.
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TEACHERS UNION TO OPEN AI TRAINING ACADEMY FOR EDUCATORS
Backed by $23 million in donations from AI developers Anthropic, Microsoft, and OpenAI, the American Federation of Teachers union (AFT) is opening the National Academy for AI Instruction, where teachers can learn to use AI themselves and integrate it into their lessons.
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AI RULES FOR THEE
Google is set to begin enforcing new rules that will likely demonetize a significant amount of content on its YouTube video platform created with AI tools.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: OBEY YOUR GENE-EDITING AI-PUSHING MASTERS
The U.S. northeast may soon serve as a petri dish for the latest gene edited experiment, and at least some environmental groups are voicing opposition.
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IS AI MORE EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT THAN HUMANS ARE?
A group of European scientists recently put leading AI models from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI through a battery of commonly used tests of emotional intelligence (EI).
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ZUCKERBERG DISCUSSES DETAILS OF META’S AI PUSH
Last week, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg detailed a restructuring of his company’s AI operations around a push to create an AI "superintelligence" that can outperform humans in virtually all fields.
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TOP EUROPEAN CEO’S ASK EU TO PAUSE LAW GOVERNING AI
The chief executives of 44 major European corporations, including Airbus, BNP Paribas, and Philips, have signed a letter to European Union (EU) president Ursula von der Layen, urging the union to pause for two years its landmark law governing AI set to take effect next month.