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AI fatigue won’t hit everyone the same way, AI researcher Gary Marcus said.”In some domains, AI might actually make a person’s job more fun,” Marcus told Business Insider.Software engineers are increasingly discussing how AI is draining them. Siddhant Khare, who builds AI tools, recently wrote about how he’s experiencing AI fatigue.”If someone who builds agent infrastructure full-time can burn out on AI, it can happen to anyone,” Khare wrote.Marcus said that not all industries are set to be disrupted in the same way AI has upended programming and engineering. “If somebody needs to do some artistic work and they don’t…

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% this year after declining 3% in 2024, according to reporting this past week by the San Francisco Chronicle. Even as overall college enrollment climbed 2% nationally — according to January data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center — students are bailing on traditional CS degrees. The one exception is UC San Diego — the only UC campus that added a dedicated AI major this fall. This all might look like a temporary blip…

If you daydream about getting a break from work, you might picture two weeks of vacation or a long weekend getaway. But some people dare to imagine something bigger and find ways to get a substantial breather from stress or their day-to-day routines.Mini-sabbaticals. Adult gap years. Micro-retirement. Extended career breaks go by many names and take many forms, from using the time between jobs to explore or taking an employer-approved leave to becoming a digital nomad or saving up for a monthslong adventure. Creating space for a reset, whether mental, physical or spiritual, is the common thread.Cost, personal responsibilities and…

Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more unhinged,” according to a former employee who spoke to The Verge about recent departures from Musk’s AI company. This week, following the announcement that Musk’s SpaceX is acquiring xAI (which previously acquired his social media company X), at least 11 engineers and two co-founders said they’re leaving the company. Some said they’re departing to start something new, and Musk himself suggested this is part of an effort to organize xAI more effectively. But two sources who left the company (at least one of them before the current wave) reportedly…

Hollywood organizations are pushing back against a new AI video model called Seedance 2.0, which they say has quickly become a tool for “blatant” copyright infringement. ByteDance, the Chinese company that recently finalized a deal to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations (it retains a stake in the new joint venture), launched Seedance 2.0 earlier this week.  According to the Wall Street Journal, the updated model is currently available to Chinese users of ByteDance’s Jianying app, and the company says it will soon be available to global users of its CapCut app. Similar to tools such as OpenAI’s Sora, Seedance allows users…

India has cleared a $1.1 billion state-backed venture capital program that will channel government money into startups through private investors, doubling down on its effort to finance high-risk areas such as artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing and other sectors broadly referred to by the industry as deep tech. First outlined in the January 2025 budget speech by India’s finance minister, the ₹100 billion fund won cabinet approval this week (more than a year after the speech), allowing the government to move ahead with deployment. A previous iteration of the program, launched in 2016, committed ₹100 billion to 145 private funds that…

When I helped my mom sort through boxes she inherited when my grandparents passed away, one box was labeled – either ironically or genuinely – “toothpick holders and other treasures.” Inside were many keepsakes from moments now lost to history – although we found no toothpick holders.My favorite of the items we sorted through was a solitary puzzle piece, an artifact reflecting my late grandmother’s penchant for hiding the final piece to a jigsaw puzzle just to swoop in at the last moment and finish it.After several hours of reminiscing, my mom and I threw away 90% of what we…

A relationship was in the cards for Tim and Emily Leary, but the Louisiana-based couple couldn’t predict the challenges they’d face over nearly two decades of marriage.The pair started their relationship in 2001 while living 1,400 miles apart — Tim in New Jersey and Emily in Louisiana, and later faced three cancer diagnoses.”We are well prepared for whatever life has in store for us,” Emily said. “Each day is a gift and we cherish every moment.”While it’s not that unusual for both people in a couple to be diagnosed with cancer, the Learys’ situation is unique. They were both diagnosed…

If the Lucid Gravity were an Olympic figure skater, it would go for the quadruple axel — flashy, ambitious, and a little audacious.The Gravity blends beauty with physical prowess: striking design, blistering speed, and enough battery range to get from New York to Boston and halfway back on a single charge.Beyond the showmanship, this SUV carries serious stakes for Lucid. It’s the money-losing automaker’s first SUV, giving the company a foothold in America’s most popular vehicle segment.I tested the Gravity in New York City to see whether Lucid’s big bet sticks the landing.My verdict: It earns a spot on the…

Coders who don’t write code have never been as productive as they are now.Spotify CEO Gustav Söderström said this week that some of the company’s most senior developers haven’t written any code in weeks — and that a positive development.”When I speak to my most senior engineers — the best developers we have — they actually say that they haven’t written a single line of code since December,” he said. “They actually only generate code and supervise it.”Söderström shared the revelation during Spotify’s fourth-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, telling investors that advancing AI is a matter of when, not if.Söderström…