Student reliance on AI is linked to lower school performance as Google expands classroom tools to more than 170 million students and teachers, with 2025 PISA data showing AI users score 20 points below nonusers and districts unable to disable Search AI Overviews or AI Mode.
New Relic’s 2026 Observability Forecast finds that AI-generated code speeds development but coincides with more incidents for 78% of surveyed teams, while one in four runs AI agents without monitoring them.
Global AI-glasses shipments jump 263% year over year in the first half of 2026, with Meta controlling about 94% of display-less models through new Ray-Ban Meta variants and lower-priced Meta Glasses.
Americans are turning sharply against data centers as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott imposes a statewide moratorium on new facilities, with 54% now calling them mostly bad for the environment and six in 10 uncomfortable with one operating nearby.
Meta’s Muse surges to No. 1 overall on the U.S. App Store, logging 1.8 million iOS downloads in its first 12 days in the U.S. and Canada—outpacing ChatGPT’s 1.3 million at the same stage.
Pew Research Center finds that majorities in 34 of 37 countries expect AI to destroy more jobs than it creates within 20 years, with roughly seven in ten adults in Australia, South Korea and the United States anticipating AI-driven job losses.
A new Pew survey finds global pessimism about AI’s job impact, with 46% of more than 42,000 people in 36 countries expecting it to eliminate jobs and only 9% expecting job creation.
U.S. business AI adoption reaches 56.1% in August, but the biggest spenders cut per-employee outlays from $7,976 to $7,205 as frontier models’ token share slips to 45% and open-source or Chinese options remain used by just 6.4% of AI-buying firms.
A new NBC News poll reveals that fears about artificial intelligence are uniting a deeply divided America, with concerns cutting across age, race, education, and political lines, even as more Americans are actively using the technology.
Indeed's new AI exposure metric reveals tech-heavy cities like San Jose and Seattle face the highest risk of job transformation, as 55% of Gen Z adults grow more concerned than excited about AI's impact on their careers.