Teenagers are turning to AI chatbots for emotional support, reporting they feel more understood and less judged by AI than by real people, prompting researchers to urge policymakers to address teens' unmet emotional needs rather than simply restricting AI access.
Meta's massive $50 billion data center expansion in Richland Parish, Louisiana is transforming the local economy, delivering teacher bonuses up to $50,000, over $1.6 billion in local business contracts, and more than 1,000 jobs as the facility scales to become one of the largest AI infrastructure projects in the world.
The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opens July 4 in Medora, North Dakota, featuring a lifelike AI avatar of Roosevelt and a powerful search tool giving the world access to hundreds of thousands of his historical documents.
Tech giants OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic are funding a $500 million nonprofit initiative called Raise Us to retrain American workers displaced by the very AI technology these companies are deploying, launching pilot programs across four states in a move that acknowledges growing tension between AI-driven layoffs and long-term …
Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and former Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb launch RAISE US, a billion-dollar nonpartisan nonprofit backed by Amazon, Microsoft, and Anthropic, aimed at preparing American workers for an AI-driven economy through state partnerships, employer coalitions, and AI-powered career navigation tools.
A free, open-source GitHub project called LLM Algorithm Practice Lab is giving job seekers and AI practitioners hands-on Jupyter Notebook training in large language model development, covering everything from Python basics to advanced CUDA kernel programming through structured, test-driven exercises.
Microsoft's free 'AI For Beginners' open-source curriculum is taking the world by storm, amassing 48,000 GitHub stars as it delivers 12 weeks of hands-on AI education — covering neural networks, computer vision, and ethics — in over 50 languages to learners worldwide.
AI is reshaping the workforce in a tale of two realities: companies augmenting workers with AI see 52% headcount growth, yet tech layoffs hit a two-year high with 40,000 jobs cut last month, and entry-level positions have plummeted 10% since 2019 as AI-exposed roles increasingly demand senior-level skills.
A top-rated GitHub machine learning repository just surpassed 5,700 stars with a full 2025 update, offering a complete curriculum from NumPy basics to deep learning with TensorFlow, including three hands-on projects covering heart disease classification, bulldozer price prediction, and dog breed recognition.
Google is investing $50 million to train over 300,000 skilled trade workers through 14 labor unions, tackling a looming crisis where 2.1 million trades jobs could go unfilled by 2030, threatening the future of AI infrastructure expansion across the U.S.