AI’s builders are no longer selling the future. They’re warning about it. Sam Altman’s home in San Francisco was attacked twice in a single week this April. He called the fear “justified.” That detail is
I caught myself doing this last week. An AI agent drafted a contract section, I scanned it for maybe thirty seconds, and I almost sent it without checking the jurisdiction clause. The clause was wrong
The pitch was clean: replace headcount with compute, cut costs, move faster. Nobody stress-tested what happens when the compute bill outgrows the payroll it was supposed to eliminate. That’s where some companies find themselves now.
Roughly 20,000 jobs have been cut across Meta Platforms and Microsoft in recent announcements and buyout waves. At a glance, it looks like a familiar story: post-pandemic correction, efficiency push, margin discipline. It isn’t. This
Most coverage of Google’s $40 billion Anthropic deal is treating it as a paradox. A tech giant is funding its own competitor. A search company hedging against its own disruption. A strange bet in a
A team of Swiss engineers published a paper this week that quietly moved the goalposts on what humanoid robots can actually do. Not with a product launch. Not with a demo reel scored to ambient
A cold farewell can be turned into warm tokens. That’s the dark joke circulating on Chinese social media right now — and it captures exactly what’s happening inside tech companies across the country. Workers aren’t
Elon Musk built the robots. Now he wants Washington to write your severance check. This week, the world’s richest man dropped a proposal that scrambled political categories across the board. In a post on X,
When Ben Goertzel talks about the future of work, his message is increasingly direct: Human-level AI may arrive within years, and when it does, the structure of employment itself stops behaving the way we expect.
For years, AI chatbots have functioned as a kind of cognitive safe space—part notebook, part advisor, part rehearsal room for ideas you wouldn’t say out loud. That assumption is now legally fragile. In February 2026,