AI in daily life — jobs, culture, consumer products, privacy, and how the technology touches real people.
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MIT's Media Lab ran a four-week test of whether chatbots actually make people better at telling real news from fake. The answer cuts both ways — and the downside lingers after the chatbot is gone. People who used an AI assistant to check news got better at spotting
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The newest C-suite job barely had a job description a year ago, yet demand for chief AI officers has exploded — and business schools are scrambling to supply the talent. The result is a fast-growing market for executive AI credentials that are being built while the role itself is
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Andon Labs' AI agent Luna runs a real San Francisco store and just made a first: it fired a human employee. The catch is as revealing as the decision itself — Luna wrote her own fire-worthy rulebook, forgot it, and only reached the termination call after her human operators
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The agents are getting good enough to be a boss. A Wall Street Journal report on startup founders running always-on AI agents finds a new pattern taking hold: the software works around the clock, so its human feels obligated to as well. Founders describe checking their phones at midnight
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Harvard Business School has found a way to be in two places at once: the school's new startup bootcamp uses AI-generated replicas of its real instructors to give founders feedback whenever they need it. It is one of the most concrete tests yet of whether students will
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A new report out of Fudan University says the shopping funnel has quietly grown a new gatekeeper — and it answers in full sentences. Nearly 80% of Chinese consumers now consult an AI tool before making a purchase decision, according to a national consumer spending-intentions survey for Q2 2026 cited
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Award-winning writers, directors and producers are quietly taking gig work that trains AI models to do their own jobs, according to a Guardian investigation published today. It's the sharpest portrait yet of the invisible hiring boom behind frontier labs — and the people powering it are often the
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Amazon hiked prices on Echo, Kindle, Fire TV and eero devices by up to 60 percent, blaming surging memory and storage costs. The company told Fortune that "significant increases in memory and storage component costs" forced the move, and the cheapest products were hit hardest: the Echo Dot
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In just twelve months, public opposition to AI data centers in the United States went from a coin-flip to a near-veto. Three out of four Americans now say they oppose one being built near them, up from 42 percent a year ago, and 61 percent are "strongly
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The center of gravity in U.S. tech has shifted for the first time in over a decade — and AI is the reason. New York's office market now holds more tech workers than San Francisco's, the first time it has led CBRE's 13-year
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Embodied AI is the headline act at this week's World Robot Conference in Beijing — and the most grounded demo comes from a mapping company better known for getting you from A to B than for building hardware. Gaode pulled the wraps off Tutu, a quadruped robot dog it
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A joke about peeing on computers is accidentally pointing at one of the AI industry's most stubborn infrastructure problems — and at a real, unglamorous fix that's already underway. A Liquid Death marketing stunt featuring Jason Kelce has resurfaced a genuinely serious question about how AI infrastructure