A new Gallup poll reveals Gen Z excitement about AI has plummeted 14 points to just 22%, as anxiety and anger surge to 42% and 31% respectively, even as career pressure mounts with 60% of enterprises reportedly planning to lay off employees who refuse to use the technology.
At the HumanX Summit in San Francisco, AI leaders are raising urgent alarms over skyrocketing compute costs forcing startups to raise up to $100 million for basic resources, growing security risks from unregulated AI agents, and widespread pushback against overhyped productivity claims tied to Andrej Karpathy's viral term 'AI psychosis.'
Gen Z's excitement about AI has plummeted 14% since 2025, with anger rising and nearly half of working Gen Zers now believing AI's workforce risks outweigh its benefits, even as most acknowledge the technology will define their futures.
Nearly 80,000 tech workers are losing their jobs in Q1 2026, with AI and automation blamed for nearly half the cuts as companies slash their workforces and funnel the savings directly into AI investments, raising alarms about the future of white-collar and entry-level employment.
A shocking new survey of 2,400 C-suite leaders reveals 60% of companies plan to fire AI-resistant employees while creating an 'AI elite' class, even as only 29% report significant gains from generative AI — raising urgent questions about whether mass layoffs are a desperate financial shortcut rather than a genuine …
Thousands of gig workers in Nigeria, India, and Argentina are strapping iPhones to their foreheads to record household chores, feeding a booming data industry that trains humanoid robots for companies like Tesla — but experts and privacy advocates are sounding alarms over how this intimate footage is stored, shared, and …
A new Gartner study warns that by 2028, more than half of enterprises will abandon AI copilots in favor of autonomous agentic platforms capable of executing workflows directly, signaling a major shift in how businesses deploy artificial intelligence.
OpenAI faces a leadership shakeup as product chief Fidji Simo takes medical leave due to a serious neuroimmune condition, while marketing chief Kate Rouch steps down to battle late-stage breast cancer, prompting major internal restructuring with President Greg Brockman and COO Brad Lightcap absorbing key responsibilities.
AI recruiting giant Mercor, valued at $10 billion and serving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, confirms a major data breach after hacking group TeamPCP planted malicious code in open-source AI library LiteLLM, with notorious extortion group Lapsus$ now claiming to hold 4TB of stolen data including source code, database records, and …
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth urges college students to constantly build projects using AI coding tools and hands-on hardware like Raspberry Pi, stressing that practical experience is essential for breaking into tech as Silicon Valley's talent war for the next generation of AI builders intensifies.