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Corporate America and Silicon Valley have been taught a new lesson: don’t praise AI during a commencement speech unless you’re OK with getting booed at by students. Loading audio narration… AI anxiety is growing and, in some cases, it’s boiling over into public backlash. The 2026 graduation season has seen speakers at commencement ceremonies, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Big Machine Records CEO Scott Borchetta, get booed when they mention AI. This backlash is highlighting a gulf between people who feel technology offers new opportunities and the Gen Z audience, which is growing increasingly anxious about what AI…
As artificial intelligence casts a shadow over career prospects, it is becoming an unwelcome subject at this season’s college commencements. At several campuses, graduates have interrupted speakers with stadium-wide boos when the topic turned to AI.Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt faced repeated jeers over the weekend during his keynote address to about 10,000 University of Arizona graduates on the rise of AI. “It will touch every profession, every classroom, every hospital, every laboratory, every person and every relationship you have,” Schmidt said, as booing began to build in the audience.“I know what many of you are feeling about that. I…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Charles Broomfield, a 25-year-old engineering analyst at Google, based in Washington, D.C. His employment and identity have been confirmed by Business Insider. This story has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I graduated from a tiny liberal arts college called Knox College. The downside is to that that there is a much smaller alumni network. The benefit is that I suspect the likelihood of them being willing to help out is much higher.I was a computer science tutor there. That ended up being an advantage because I got…
Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick said he’s embracing AI to help make video games more efficiently. He just doesn’t think the technology can create the next “Grand Theft Auto” from scratch. Loading audio narration… On David Senra’s podcast, posted on Sunday, Zelnick said he was “all in” on AI — but he pushed back on the idea that it can create the originality and surprise needed to create a blockbuster hit.”Remember what AI is, despite the fact that there are people in Silicon Valley who don’t want you to believe this,” he said. “It’s big data sets, lots of compute,…
The first time I interviewed at Amazon, I was still on maternity leave. Loading audio narration… I remember feeling prepared but nervous about the whiteboard exercise. I worried that when I stood up to draw boxes and arrows, my shirt might ride up and expose the elastic waistband of my maternity pants, revealing how recently I’d had a baby.When I joined Amazon as a senior user experience designer in April 2019, my daughter was 5 months old, though I sometimes padded her age to colleagues to make her seem less like a liability. I dropped her off at day care…
In the first round of human vs. humanoid, the human emerged victorious — barely. Loading audio narration… For nearly a week, the $39 billion robotics startup Figure AI has been livestreaming its robots placing packages barcode-side down on a conveyor belt at its San Jose headquarters. Millions have tuned in to watch the strangely compelling display of robotic drudgery.This weekend, Figure raised the stakes. The company brought in an intern to compete against one of its robots in a 10-hour package-sorting contest. The intern, Aimé Gérard, works as a visualization specialist, according to LinkedIn.Gérard had the upper hand until biology…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billie Jean King raised her right arm in triumph. Not for another victory on the tennis court. This time, she was celebrating earning a college degree 65 years after she first took classes.The 82-year-old sports and equality icon received her bachelor’s of art in history from Cal State Los Angeles on Monday, walking across the stage in hot pink glasses and royal blue sneakers at the Shrine Auditorium with about 6,000 others in the Class of 2026.“It’s never too late, whatever age you are, whatever your abilities are, go for it if you want it,” she…
The world’s richest man says his fight against OpenAI and Sam Altman isn’t over. Loading audio narration… “Regarding the OpenAI case, the judge & jury never actually ruled on the merits of the case, just on a calendar technicality,” Elon Musk wrote on X, adding he would be appealing the decision to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.On Monday, a jury in Oakland, California, handed a major victory to OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, by ruling that Musk waited too long to bring his lawsuit, which alleged that the Tesla CEO had been scammed out of his early investment…
Drug discovery is one of the most expensive failures in modern industry. Finding a single viable molecule can take a decade and cost billions, and most candidates still don’t make it. A generation of AI startups has promised to fix that — most have made the problem less painful for researchers, who are already technically sophisticated enough to use the tools. But SandboxAQ thinks the bottleneck isn’t the models. It’s the interface. The company has teamed up with Anthropic to integrate its scientific AI models directly into Claude — putting powerful drug discovery and materials science tools behind a conversational…
As Meta prepares to cut 10% of its workforce on Wednesday, it’s trying to provide some clarity to employees who are stuck in layoff limbo. Loading audio narration… Meta HR chief Janelle Gale posted a memo on Monday to an employee resource group outlining what employees should expect on Wednesday, according to two employees who viewed the note.Gale said notifications of layoffs, which are expected to eliminate around 8,000 roles, will be sent in three waves at 4 a.m. local time across different regions.She also said that managerial positions would be cut across the company to create flatter organizational structures.”We’re…