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Who doesn’t love a good round of FOMO? From dot-com to Web 2.0, virtual reality to blockchain, the tech industry has had its share of being too afraid to miss out on a trend. The AI bubble is the big daddy of them all. Its first offspring — the rush to lock down power for data centers — is now begetting a mad dash to secure natural gas supplies and equipment. If FOMOs could have babies, then the AI bubble is already having grandkids. Microsoft said on Tuesday that it’s working with Chevron and Engine No. 1 to build a natural…
Charles Rollet has been digging into how tech companies are reorganizing around AI — especially Meta, which is leaning on AI coding tools to ship more product faster. Loading audio narration… There are signs it’s working: Meta ranks pretty high on revenue per employee, a metric Silicon Valley is increasingly focused on.Here’s my chat with Charles, edited for length and clarity:You and other tech team colleagues have written a lot lately about how generative AI and AI coding tools are changing how tech companies operate. This is especially true inside Meta. What’s the big takeaway from this research?There’s no more…
As data centers have grown and proliferated, so too has the backlash. A new Harvard/MIT poll found 40% of people supported the building of a data center in their area, with 32% opposed when asked about the building of different industrial facilities in their neighborhoods. One fun tidbit from the survey, per Axios: More people would rather have an e-commerce warehouse. Two-thirds of respondents in the 1,000-person poll conducted in November were worried that a new data center in their region would nudge electricity prices higher. Interest in jobs and economic growth helped the case for data centers, according to…
The US jobs report on Friday was surprisingly strong. That’s not the only part of the job market that’s doing better than expected. Loading audio narration… Tech job openings have rebounded sharply in 2026, challenging the popular narrative that AI is wiping out engineering roles.Data from TrueUp, a tech hiring analytics firm, shows more than 67,000 software engineering job openings, the highest level in over three years. Listings have roughly doubled since a trough in mid-2023.The most striking number for me: So far this year, the number of open roles has jumped about 30%. TrueUp tracks jobs at tech companies…
Meta’s superintelligence division is building a dedicated hardware team — and hiring a veteran engineer to lead it — as the company pushes deeper into AI-powered devices. Loading audio narration… Meta is already known for the smart glasses and virtual reality headsets made by its Reality Labs division. This newer effort is part of Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), the high-profile AI division announced last year, which hints that Meta is mulling other types of AI devices.The effort, which has not yet been reported, has seen some Reality Labs engineers transition to MSL to prototype the AI division’s software on Reality…
President Donald Trump tried to put some teeth into his latest attempt to save college sports.The threat of cutting funding to cash-starved schools that don’t comply is real, even if the stricter rules that come out of the executive order he signed Friday could take a while to figure out.In the order signed hours before the women’s Final Four tipped off one of the biggest weekends in college sports Trump went after eligibility rules, transfers and the spiraling costs associated with an industry that now pays its players millions of dollars per year.He called on federal agencies to ensure schools…
Sam Altman doesn’t want an iPad kid. Loading audio narration… The OpenAI CEO welcomed a baby in 2025. Since then, he’s shared tips and stories about raising his son, including how he uses AI in his parenting.That doesn’t mean he wants his son growing up with full tech access. On the “Mostly Human” podcast, Altman said that having a child changed his views on algorithmic feeds and the “infinite scroll” model.”When I watch kids just a little bit older than mine that you cannot take the iPad away from,” Altman said, “that I feel very strongly about.”Kids and young people…
A 12-year-old has been arrested in connection with the death of a classmate who was hit in the head with a metal water bottle during an alleged bullying incident at a Los Angeles school, authorities said Friday.The juvenile, whose age and gender have not been made public, was arrested on suspicion of murder on Thursday, Los Angeles Police Officer Charles Miller said. The arrest stems from the Feb. 25 death of 12-year-old Khimberly Zavaleta Chuquipa.The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office, which will be responsible for filing charges, did not immediately comment.Miller said that he couldn’t release any other information…
Dell has told employees not to travel to the Middle East for work until mid-April, and advised staff based in the region to work from home, after Iran threatened to strike US businesses. Loading audio narration… In an internal note uploaded to Dell’s SharePoint on Tuesday, which Business Insider has seen, the company said it was prioritizing team member safety amid the conflict.The tech giant was among the 18 companies named this week by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as potential targets.In a statement published by the IRGC-linked Tasnim News Agency on Tuesday, it warned that the companies could…
When Brett Levenson left Apple in 2019 to lead business integrity at Facebook, the social media giant was in the thick of the Cambridge Analytica fallout. At the time, he thought he could simply fix Facebook’s content moderation problem with better technology. The problem, he quickly learned, ran deeper than technology. Human reviewers were expected to memorize a 40-page policy document that had been machine-translated into their language, he said. Then they had about 30 seconds per piece of flagged content to decide not just whether that content violated the rules, but what to do about it: block it, ban…