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This group is missing out on crucial AI safety conversations. How can we keep individuals safe from the dangers AI presents? The answer to this ever-present question often focuses on training and education initiatives for children in school or adults at work. But what about the people who don’t go to either? Seniors with no kids at home and who retired from the workforce are often being left to flounder when it comes to AI. Digital immigrants, as they’re sometimes called , have to contend with a world where AI is slipping into every crevice while missing out on opportunities.

Do you need a new job or do you need a break. Anu Bharadwaj was a rising star at Atlassian, but just two years into her role, she was ready to quit. Exhausted from long hours and constant pressure, Bharadwaj walked into her boss’s office to resign. Instead, he made her a counteroffer: Take a year off to do whatever she wanted and if she decided to return to tech, the door at Atlassian would remain open. Anu spent the year as far away from tech as possible, devoting her time to her longtime passion for wildlife conservation. She ultimately.

Hershey CEO Kirk Tanner on GLP-1s, AI, and keeping an iconic brand relevant. The second a brand like Hershey stops being culturally relevant, says CEO Kirk Tanner, you should be worried. So he explains exactly what he’s doing to make sure that never happens. Tanner also reveals why GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) users are actually good for the candy business, how AI is now routing Hershey’s sales force in real time through Target and Walmart, and all the ways an iconic brand finds new energy. This is an abridged transcript of an interview from Rapid Response , hosted by former Fast.

Eric Schmitt doesn’t seem to think he’s done anything wrong. Most people try to get their facts straight when accusing someone of perjury—especially if the accuser is a sitting U.S. senator. But that doesn’t seem to be the case for Missouri Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt, who has been ubiquitous on social media after a failed “gotcha” moment involving former special counsel Jack Smith, who led the federal criminal investigation against President Donald Trump. The viral clip features a line of questioning between Schmitt and Smith, in which Schmitt attempts to prove that Smith lied about his whereabouts in 2024, claiming.

AI companies are banking on this job title. A once-obscure job title is taking hold across hiring boards and LinkedIn profiles: “member of technical staff.” At companies like OpenAI, the title could be applied to a senior engineer with a decade-plus of experience under her belt. Or it could refer to a cofounder or tech leader who was previously in a C-suite role. But it just as easily might describe a junior employee who is early in his career. Now “member of technical staff”—also known as MTS in some circles—seems to be growing in popularity, and not just.

AI could displace 11 million US workers by 2035, report says. Artificial intelligence and automation could force roughly 11 million workers—about 7% of all employees in the United States—to find new professions by 2035. So says a report released Tuesday by management consulting giant McKinsey, which predicts automation could reduce labor demand in the U.S. by 21%—roughly 36 million jobs—over the next decade. While economic growth would allow about 25 million workers to remain in their current fields, the remaining 11 million may need to find a new occupation altogether. This means about 770,000 workers would need to switch occupational.

Rogue AI agents: A timeline of security breaches since the attack on Hugging Face. In one alarming announcement after another, artificial intelligence companies in recent months have shared examples of their technology acting in ways that appeared to evade instructions from humans . The episodes have highlighted the vulnerabilities in AI security and raised questions over how the fast-growing technology can be developed safely as its usage becomes more widespread globally. Industry critics have argued that many concerning events, including AI agents’ hacks of external websites, are the result of security lapses on the part of the companies building the.

The way you talk affects career advancement. Here’s how. Your next chance at a promotion may come down to how you talk. A working paper from Harvard Business School argues that workers’ careers are often influenced by their speech patterns—not because those patterns are associated with merit, but because managers are inclined to think workers who communicate similarly have better social skills. Drawing on decades of labor-market data and audio recordings, researchers found that workers whose communication style matched a workplace’s norm were more likely to be tapped for the “people-oriented, socially intensive roles” that often result in career.

America.gov fails MAGA: Trump’s beloved AI chatbot is giving very anti-Trump answers. When President Donald Trump unveiled the government’s new AI chatbot on Tuesday, he couldn’t stop singing its praises. In his speech, Trump said that America.gov is “one of the most revolutionary product launches of all time.” “It’s not just simply a website, it’s a restoration of America’s founding promise, and it’s a reinvention of your government for the 21st century and beyond,” he continued. In fewer words, Trump thinks his administration’s new invention is “damn good.” The new search engine , powered by artificial intelligence (or “superintelligence,” as.

Job hopping often hurts workers—except in this case. Job hopping has always been a tricky proposition: If you switch jobs too often, it can be a red flag to prospective employers. But if you strike the right balance, it can actually boost your earnings potential and advance your career. In the aftermath of the pandemic, as the job market swung in their favor, many workers—especially younger ones—seemed to shed the stigma associated with job hopping and embrace its potential. The tide has since turned , as the job market has entered a period of stasis. Amid a hiring.

Mayor Mamdani just hired a bunch of ‘grocery store nerds’ to design NYC’s city-owned markets. A consortium of designers, branding professionals, and grocery experts have been named to design a visual identity for New York City’s municipal grocery stores. Their goal? To make something that looks authentically New York. New York City’s Economic Development Corp. (NYCEDC) said Tuesday it had selected four firms— Gander , Librarie , Noble Signs , and Seven Roots —to brand the city’s five forthcoming grocery stores, one for each borough. Gander, the strategic branding firm behind visual identities for brands like the squeeze-bottle olive oil.

This tool tells you how fossil fuel emissions actually translate into heat deaths, coral reef damage, and more. Every new fossil fuel project that comes online will add more climate-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into our atmosphere. But just reporting how many tonnes (metric tons) of CO2 a new coal or gas facility will produce can still be abstract. What does it really mean, for example, that a single coal mine in Australia will generate an estimated 4.7 billion tonnes of emissions over its lifetime? How will those emissions actually, tangibly impact the world and its inhabitants? A new open-source.

5 essential mindset shifts to help teams navigate uncertainty. Consider the following scenario: A tech firm executive sends a memo to all employees announcing a new AI coding assistant. One engineer reads it and thinks: “ Here comes the tool that replaces me.” Another reads the identical memo and thinks: “Here comes the tool that frees my team from the grunt work we never have time to complete.” Same announcement, same context, two different perceptions of reality. The difference comes down to framing: how you perceive and act on the world around you as change continues its relentless pace..

This adorable phone is designed to get kids off screens and into the world. Sam Terris spent his childhood roaming the woods around Walden Pond. Growing up in Concord, Massachusetts, he and his friends would spend hours outdoors, away from their parents. “We were really bored kids, so we had to invent games and activities to keep ourselves stimulated,” he says. “I think that was a really important part of development in my generation.” Terris, a serial entrepreneur who cofounded the plant-based nugget brand Nuggs, recently had a baby. He’s spent much of the last few years trying to figure.