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Microsoft is reportedly preparing a new round of layoffs —up to 2.5% of its 220,000-strong workforce— in sales, consulting and Xbox, just as its spending on AI infrastructure keeps growing. It's not an isolated case: the tech giant already accounts for nearly a third of the sector's layoffs in the U.S. this half-year.
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Anthropic removes from Claude Code a steganography mechanism that, since March, had secretly detected Chinese competitors and unauthorized resellers by cross-referencing time zone and domains. The case exposes how far the war to protect models from 'distillation' goes, and the price of doing so without telling anyone.
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Microsoft is reportedly weighing layoffs that could reach thousands even as its AI investment climbs. It's the clearest snapshot yet of capital being poured into machines while headcount is trimmed.
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The claim that AI "defeats death" by letting us chat with lost loved ones is marketing, not medicine. What's really being built is a new grief technology — powerful, intimate, and largely ungoverned. The question isn't whether it works, but whether it heals or traps.
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A sitting political figure sharing an AI-generated video of himself as a doctor 'treating' critics marks a shift: synthetic media is no longer a fringe curiosity but a mainstream tool of political messaging. The technology is impressive — but the norms around it are missing.
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ESET joins as a Silver member of the Agentic AI Foundation, the consortium under the Linux Foundation where OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft are negotiating interoperability protocols for agentic AI. This isn't a product announcement: it's a fight over who sets the rules for the next digital perimeter.
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Students at Special School No. 501 in Balcarce (Argentina) advance to the regional round with a project on AI and fake news. Their conclusion, as simple as it is accurate, gets to the heart of the debate: the problem isn't the technology, it's how we use it.
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CANIETI warns that today a public app and a few minutes of work are enough to clone anyone's voice, image or video, and that older adults face the greatest risk due to lack of technological knowledge. The warning, backed by data on rising fraud reported in Jalisco, portrays a problem that is no longer hypothetical.
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Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists integrated with NVIDIA's life-sciences tools (BioNeMo), and emphasizes something unflashy but decisive: that every result be auditable and reproducible. It's a seemingly small step, and a big one in what it signals about where AI applied to science is headed.
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A Deutsche Bank analyst warns that OpenAI and Anthropic should not delay their public offerings despite the market's growing caution toward recent IPOs. The warning comes just as OpenAI weighs postponing its own until next year.
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A Dialpad-sponsored piece on Emerj lays out a point that matters beyond the marketing: call centers spend billions on inefficient operations, generative AI was adopted faster than the internet, but it still fails between 17% and 33% of the time in specialized systems. The bottleneck is no longer the model's intelligence, but whether the company has redesigned its processes so a machine can execute them.
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The UN warns of a new generation of AI systems capable of acting autonomously, without direct human intervention at every step. It's a legitimate concern, but the key lies in the details that are yet to be known.
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The U.S. Department of War creates a single office to oversee all its unmanned and autonomous systems, aiming to speed up their deployment against the mass production of adversaries like China. The consolidation accompanies a plan to deliver hundreds of thousands of drones within two years.
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In Medellín, Hotmart unveiled five agentic AI products that already sell, collect payments and tutor for thousands of content creators in Latin America. The case illustrates, in miniature, how automation can scale individual businesses without expanding staff —and which support jobs fall by the wayside.
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AI avatars in white coats and synthetic voices are flooding YouTube in Portuguese with false medical advice aimed at older people. A BBC investigation documents channels with more than 70 million views and cases such as that of an 82-year-old woman who refused a surgery recommended by her ophthalmologist after watching one of these videos.
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A Tampa physician warns that more and more patients arrive at the clinic with a diagnosis already made by an AI, laden with fear and requests for unnecessary tests. The case is anecdotal, but it points to a real friction we'll see grow as medical AI matures.
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Research confirms what many suspected: emotional bonds between people and AI chatbots are real, spreading, and come with documented psychological risks. The headline is brief, but the underlying trend has been accumulating evidence for months.
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Researchers at Stanford and CRPE warn that chatbots can lighten students' 'work of thinking,' but the real risk isn't AI itself, but that marginalized students arrive without practice at a job market that already demands it.
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Nate opens the article with a striking anecdote: in January 2026, a user posting as @Hormold (Nikita) recounted that his OpenClaw agent "accidentally started a fight with Lemonade Insurance" because it misread his response.
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The analyzed link is not a news article, but the general "Roundtables" page, MIT Technology Review's series of monthly virtual events. It's a listing/FAQ page gathering past and upcoming sessions, with recordings available only to subscribers.
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The MIT Technology Review article, written by Dan Garisto, offers a broad and well-documented review of the current state of the search for dark matter, one of the biggest open mysteries in fundamental physics.
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The TheSequence newsletter devotes its "AI of the Week #887" edition to discussing a paper published by Meta the previous week, titled Autodata, available on arXiv (arxiv.org/abs/2606.25996).
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The article, by Richard Steele, a McKinsey partner in New York, starts from a clear premise: traditional change management was already under pressure before AI burst onto the scene, and now the rise of AI has added a further layer of disruption that calls for a complete rethink of the role of leadership.
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The email, sent by Brendan Gaffey and Michael Park, global leaders of McKinsey's Technology, Media and Telecommunications practice, presents a new case study on KPN, the Dutch telecoms company.