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Gregg Bayes-Brown helped develop the AI policies at a former job in biotech research, but even as a rule maker, he says he couldn’t afford to not be a rule breaker. Though he understood the technology and its risks, he used an unapproved personal enterprise Google account for work, to access NotebookLM to organize large chunks of information that would typically require lots of back and forth between customer service and other departments. He estimates the shortcut crunched 150 hours of work to 30 minutes.As his IT department debated how to regulate AI tools for months, Bayes-Brown says, the pressure…

Recess isn’t just a fun break for grade schoolers. It’s crucial to good health and good grades for kids of all ages.That’s the message from a leading pediatricians group, which just released the first new guidance in 13 years about this unstructured time at school and how it needs to be protected.The updated policy statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics comes after years of shrinking recesses and worsening children’s health.The group “has always supported play – free play for kids – but it’s been increasingly threatened over time,” partly by the drive for higher test scores, said Dr. Robert…

Even as companies like Cloudflare and Snap cite AI as they lay off thousands of employees, Jensen Huang told graduates on Sunday that there’s no better time to “begin your life’s work.” Loading audio narration… Speaking at Carnegie Mellon University’s 2026 Commencement, the Nvidia CEO made his case that AI will be a net positive for humanity, including for those newly starting their careers.”Now it’s your time to realize your dreams, and the timing could not be more perfect,” he said.The 61-year-old tech mogul — who now has an estimated net worth of nearly $186 billion — graduated from Oregon State University with…

How will work setups change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers? A recent feature in the Wall Street Journal looks at the rising popularity of dictation apps like Wispr, especially now that they can be connected to vibe coding tools, and what that might mean for office etiquette. One VC said that visiting startup offices now feels like stepping into a high-end call center. And Gusto co-founder Edward Kim is apparently telling his team that in the future, offices will sound “more like a sales floor.” (As someone still scarred from the time his desk…

Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic. Last year, the company said that during pre-release tests involving a fictional company, Claude Opus 4 would often try to blackmail engineers to avoid being replaced by another system. Anthropic later published research suggesting that models from other companies had similar issues with “agentic misalignment.” Apparently Anthropic has done more work around that behavior, claiming in a post on X, “We believe the original source of the behavior was internet text that portrays AI as evil and interested in self-preservation.” The company went into…

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince doesn’t like the name of his own company. Loading audio narration… Responding to an X user who said the name Cloudflare is “not good” and “not aspirational,” Prince agreed.”I’d add: too long, hard for English speakers to say Cluh and Fluh next to each other so becomes Cloudfare, multiple ways to spell flare/flair,” he wrote.He said it’s better than his original idea, however. Prince said he considered “Project Web Wall,” which he joked would be a “nightmare” for the late broadcast journalist Barbara Walters, who had a distinctive speech impediment.Cloudflare is one of the companies that…

Anthropic and xAI announced a big partnership this week, with Anthropic buying all the compute capacity at xAI’s Colossus 1 data center in Tennessee. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed what the deal might mean for xAI’s parent company SpaceX, as SpaceX prepares to go public and apparently plans to dissolve xAI as a separate organization. Kirsten did her best to offer “a positive view” on the partnership — after all, it’s a new way for xAI to make money. But she also noted that this also suggests xAI isn’t doing…

I spent a recent Friday afternoon doing something incredibly important for humanity: making an AI-generated rap about data centers. I’d logged into Google’s Gemini for actual work, but got sidetracked by a shiny new music feature and, well, priorities shifted. Loading audio narration… The workflow was peak 2026: I needed to check who rapped “Baby Got Back” for a story. ChatGPT told me (Sir Mix-a-Lot), and I was gripped by a creative urge.”Recreate this famous rap, but make it about big data centers (and AI bubble concerns), rather than big butts,” I wrote.Chat delivered lyrics in a few seconds. Then,…

There’s a certain irony to being a middle manager right now. Loading audio narration… We’ve been chronicling how vulnerable managers have become in the AI era. Companies are flattening org charts to boost efficiency. Coinbase is eliminating “pure managers” as part of its AI-driven job cuts. Block has rebranded them as “player-coaches.” Meta and Snap have made similar proclamations.And yet, many of these same managers are tasked with pushing their colleagues to embrace the very technology that poses such a threat to them. As my colleague Emily Stewart writes, people are becoming inadvertent job executioners.Disney, JPMorgan, and KPMG are among…

He used to drive a New York City cab. Now, he’s in court going head-to-head with the world’s richest man. Loading audio narration… William Savitt has been spending the last couple of weeks in an Oakland, California courtroom representing Sam Altman and OpenAI in a blockbuster trial brought by Elon Musk.As the co-chair of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s executive committee and its litigation practice, he’s the elite Wall Street firm’s top enforcer.Before his 25-year career at Wachtell, Savitt had an unusual career path. A Philadelphia native, he drove cabs and played in a series of rock bands before going…