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
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
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.
The generation that grew up on algorithms is no longer impressed by them. Gen Z isn’t rejecting artificial intelligence. They’re interrogating it—and increasingly, they don’t like the answers. What the tech industry framed as a
Artificial intelligence hasn’t taken over the world.It’s done something quieter. It has started thinking for us. Not in the sci-fi sense. No sentient machines. No red eyes staring back at humanity. Just a steady stream