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ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) — For high school senior Aliyah Pack, getting distracted during school is the norm. Kids in her Pennsylvania school district use iPads starting in kindergarten, switch to Chromebooks in second grade and get their own MacBooks in eighth grade. Aliyah has ADHD, and finds it difficult to concentrate when she’s learning from a screen. She’ll watch Netflix in class on her school laptop, hiding her earbuds behind her long, curly hair. “It’s very hard to get into the mindset of being in school,” Aliyah said.Aliyah’s mother saw her grades were falling and asked the school to take…
After three weeks of testimony that has shed new light on some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names, the Musk v. Altman jury trial is finally coming to a close. Loading audio narration… OpenAI wrapped up its case on Wednesday. Closing arguments are scheduled for Thursday morning, and the jury is expected to start deliberations thereafter. Musk has accused OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of “looting” the charity they founded together in 2015. OpenAI says Musk’s claims are driven by “jealousy” and that he left the company in 2018 after failing to gain control.On Wednesday, OpenAI trotted out a string…
Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao says AI now writes 90% of the company’s code — and it’s changing what white-collar workers do all day. Loading audio narration… Rao, on an episode of Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s “Invest Like the Best” podcast published Wednesday, described a workplace inside Anthropic where AI systems increasingly handle the execution layer of knowledge work — from software engineering to financial reporting — while humans shift toward oversight, judgment, and strategy.”We’ve hired a lot more people because of that,” Rao said, adding that he sees Claude as a productivity “accelerant.””That actually means that we can get a lot more…
Cisco is cutting “fewer than 4,000 jobs” as the networking giant restructures its business to focus more heavily on artificial intelligence, according to a memo from CEO Chuck Robbins published Wednesday. Loading audio narration… The layoffs, which affect less than 5% of Cisco’s workforce, come as the company reported stronger-than-expected quarterly results and raised its sales forecast on growing demand for AI infrastructure.In a regulatory filing on Wednesday, Cisco said the restructuring is expected to cost up to $1 billion, largely due to severance expenses. The company said it expects to record about $450 million of those charges in the…
Productivity software maker Notion is stepping into the agentic era. In a live-streamed product announcement on Wednesday, the company, known best for its collaborative note-taking app, introduced a new developer platform that extends the capabilities of its custom AI agents, connects with external agents, and allows teams to build automated multi-step workflows that can pull in data from any database. By building an orchestration layer — a system that coordinates AI work across multiple tools and data sources — Notion is positioning itself as more than a note-taker with AI features and instead as a hub where people and agents…
Amazon cut more jobs this week, with reductions hitting its Selling Partner Services organization this time, a company spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider. Loading audio narration… The layoffs follow roughly 30,000 job cuts announced across waves in October and January. In March, the company also eliminated a small number of roles in its robotics division.The size of the layoffs this week could not be determined, though the spokesperson described the cuts as affecting a “small number” of employees.”We regularly review our organizations to ensure we’re best set up to deliver on our goals. Following a recent review, we’ve made the…
Elon Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 natural gas turbines at its Mississippi data center, power plants that the state is currently not regulating thanks to a loophole. The power plants are considered “mobile” by the state of Mississippi because they are sitting on flatbed trailers, thus allowing them to dodge to air pollution regulations for one year. The NAACP, which has filed a lawsuit on behalf of residents in the area, says the unchecked emissions from the turbines is worsening air quality in an already polluted region. This week, it asked the court for an injunction against xAI. At…
With the tech industry singularly focused on AI models, Anthropic is having an exceptionally good year. The company may soon pull ahead of its main competitor, as it looks to raise tens of billions of dollars in a funding round that would put its valuation at some $950 billion (OpenAI was valued at $854 billion in its March round), and business customers increasingly express a prefererence for Claude over ChatGPT. A recent report showed Anthropic recently outpaced OpenAI among business customers, quadrupling its market share since May 2025. Cat Wu, Anthropic’s head of product for Claude Code and Cowork, has…
Tensions are high in AI. Loading audio narration… The leaders of AI don’t seem to be on the best of terms. Feuds abound, from Sam Altman and Dario Amodei to Altman and Elon Musk — the latter of which is playing out in court.Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, has his own rivalries. On the “Core Memory” podcast, Wang called any hostilities in the AI industry “unfortunate.””My real hope is that all these animosities subside over time and then people sort of come together and realize we are building this incredibly important technology,” Wang said. “It’s important for all of…
You know AI data centers have an image problem when more people say they’d rather live near a nuclear reactor. Loading audio narration… A new Gallup poll found that 71% of Americans say they don’t want a data center being built where they live, far more than the 53% who would oppose construction of a nearby nuclear power plant.Of those opposed to data center construction, 48% said they were strongly in opposition.The survey, conducted in March, found that data centers are broadly unpopular across the political spectrum.Democrats were more likely to express strong opposition. 56% of Democrats indicated strong opposition to local…