An AI System Just Published Research in Nature After Passing Peer Review
Sakana AI's 'AI Scientist' generated a paper that scored higher than 55% of human submissions at ICLR 2025
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CFOs Quietly Admit AI Layoffs Will Be 9x Higher This Year
A new survey reveals corporate finance chiefs expect 500,000 AI-driven job cuts in 2026—but that's still only 0.4% of the workforce
Amazon Buys Two Robotics Companies in One Week: From Delivery Dogs to Humanoid Helpers
In the span of five days, Amazon acquired both RIVR (quadruped delivery robots) and Fauna Robotics (humanoid robots). The message: the future of Amazon involves a lot more robots.
AI Job Market: 45,000 Tech Layoffs in Q1, One in Five Blames AI Directly
Crypto.com joins the wave of companies citing AI as they cut staff. Entry-level positions continue evaporating while senior AI roles go unfilled.
Bezos Wants $100 Billion to Buy Factories and Fill Them With AI
Amazon founder seeks biggest buyout fund ever to acquire chipmakers, defense contractors, aerospace firms — then automate them with his Prometheus AI
AI Job Market: 93% of Jobs Exposed, Entry-Level Hiring Collapses, But IBM Swims Against the Tide
Cognizant says AI disruption is six years ahead of schedule. Anthropic's data shows hiring is slowing for young workers. IBM responds by tripling entry-level jobs.
Ex-Datadog President Raises $49M to Automate Enterprise IT
Amit Agarwal launches Standard Template Labs to replace IT service desks with AI agents that actually resolve tickets, not just track them
The AI Layoff Acceleration: 45,000 Tech Jobs Gone, Women Hit Hardest
Meta, Block, and Atlassian lead a surge in AI-justified workforce cuts, but critics warn companies are 'AI washing' routine cost-cutting as technological progress.
'What Will Our Kids Do?' Wall Street's Biggest AI Conference Grapples With the Unemployment Question
At Morgan Stanley's TMT Conference, the dominant question wasn't about returns - it was whether there will be any jobs left. A survey of 1,000 executives reveals workforce reductions are already underway.
Luma's AI Agents Just Replaced a $15 Million Ad Campaign With 40 Hours of Robot Work
The startup's new Unified Intelligence platform coordinates multiple AI models to produce complete creative campaigns. Agencies are celebrating the efficiency gains. The people who used to do that work are not.
GPT-5.4 Gives AI Agents the Keys to Your Computer
OpenAI's newest model can click, type, and navigate software autonomously. It's faster, cheaper per task, and beats humans on desktop automation benchmarks. Here's what that means.
Companies Are Blaming AI for Layoffs. The Numbers Tell a Different Story.
55,000 jobs were cut citing AI in 2025 - but only 2% of executives report making reductions based on actual AI performance. Welcome to the era of AI washing.
The 184-Year-Old Newspaper Using AI to Write Its Stories
Cleveland's Plain Dealer hired an 'AI rewrite specialist' to turn reporter notes into articles. Traffic is up, morale is down, and the journalism industry is watching.
DOE Launches $10M Agentic AI System to Discover Energy Materials
FORUM-AI will autonomously run experiments, simulations, and validate discoveries across national labs. The AI plans its own research.
Perplexity Computer: A $200/Month AI That Orchestrates 19 Models to Do Your Job
Perplexity's new 'digital worker' coordinates Claude, Gemini, GPT-5, Grok, and more to run autonomous projects for hours or months. The search company just became something much bigger.
Microsoft Copilot Tasks Spins Up Its Own Cloud PC to Do Your Work
Microsoft's new agentic AI feature creates a virtual computer in the cloud to execute multi-step tasks while you do other things. It's impressive - and raises familiar questions.
AI Agent Teams Are Running Biomedical Research Autonomously
Nature Biotechnology paper describes 'in silico team science' where AI agent collectives handle literature review, hypothesis generation, and data analysis
Agentic AI's Reality Check: 39% Are Experimenting, 11% Are Actually Using It
Enterprise adoption of AI agents is stalled by legacy systems, governance gaps, and a fundamental problem: companies keep automating broken processes instead of redesigning them.
AutoDiscovery: AI That Asks Its Own Scientific Questions
Allen Institute for AI launches an autonomous research system that generates hypotheses, writes code, and runs experiments - no human prompts required.