A new NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters finds only 26% of Americans view AI positively, with 46% viewing it negatively amid surging anxiety over job loss, privacy risks, and rising energy costs driven by data center expansion.
AI is flooding the market with polished prototypes, but real software engineering expertise — covering reliability, security, and scalability — is becoming more valuable than ever as the gap between a demo and a truly engineered system remains as wide as ever.
Renowned Irish novelist Colm Tóibín sounds the alarm on generative AI, warning that machines can now replicate human literary style and sensibility, threatening to make novelists obsolete while serving corporate interests, deskilling writers, and carrying devastating environmental costs.
Companies are falsely blaming AI for mass layoffs when the real culprits are tariffs and economic fears, as executives make preemptive cuts based on inflated productivity projections that AI has yet to actually deliver.
DoorDash is overhauling its Dasher onboarding system in 2025 with a unified, composable workflow platform that replaces fragmented, country-specific legacy architecture, rolling out across the US, Australia, Canada, Puerto Rico, and New Zealand with plans for dynamic configuration and regional flexibility without code deployments.
AI is supercharging developer productivity, but at a steep cost — longer hours, a 19.6% surge in after-hours coding, rising software instability, and a growing skills gap as junior developers score 17% lower on knowledge tests when relying on AI tools.
GitHub and Andela are partnering to deliver structured AI training to 3,000 engineers across Africa and Latin America, embedding GitHub Copilot into real production workflows to close the AI skills gap and boost developer productivity by up to 50%.
Anthropic launches an early-warning index to track AI-driven job displacement before it hits crisis levels, identifying computer programmers, customer service reps, and data entry workers as most at risk, while economists warn the full labor market disruption could take years to appear in official data.
Oracle is planning to cut thousands of jobs across multiple divisions as soon as this month, driven by a cash crunch stemming from its massive AI data center expansion, with some roles being eliminated due to AI advancements reducing the need for certain positions.
A new ECB survey of 5,000 European firms finds AI is boosting hiring at small businesses in the short term, with AI-intensive firms 4% more likely to add staff, but experts warn the long-term employment impact remains uncertain as the technology has yet to fundamentally reshape core production processes.