Amazon will reportedly cut 30,000 jobs in biggest mass layoff ever

Amazon is reportedly planning to cut up to 30,000 jobs this week. It will be the largest mass layoff in the company's history. [...]

Can our climate be saved by vacuuming carbon out of the skies

Imagine: A switch is flicked and, in a heartbeat, every process spewing deadly pollution into the heavens is replaced with something clean and sustainable. Sadly, even then, the Earth would still tip [...]

Upwork study shows AI agents excel with human partners but fail independently

Artificial intelligence agents powered by the world's most advanced language models routinely fail to complete even straightforward professional tasks on their own, according to groundbreaking re [...]

The Dow swings wildly and the S&P 500 touches bear market territory as trade war fallout continues

The S&P 500 touched bear market territory and the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed as much as 1,700 points early Monday — before gaining more than 700 points and then turning negative again. Th [...]

Dow futures jump 500 points after Trump walks back E.U. trade threats

U.S. stock futures soared Tuesday morning, with the S&P 500 rising about 1.3%, Nasdaq futures gaining 1.4%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbing 495 points, or 1.2%, in a rebound from las [...]

OpenAI strikes a deal with the Defense Department to deploy its AI models

OpenAI has reached an agreement with the Defense Department to deploy its models in the agency’s network, company chief Sam Altman has revealed on X. In his post, he said two of OpenAI’s most imp [...]

Block introduces Managerbot, a proactive Square AI agent and the clearest proof point yet for Jack Dorsey’s AI bet

Block today announced Managerbot, a new AI agent embedded in the Square platform that proactively monitors a seller's business, identifies emerging problems, and proposes actionable solutions — [...]

Apple plans to invest $500 billion in the US over the next four years

Apple plans to ramp up its US hiring and investments. On Monday, the company said it will hire around 20,000 workers and spend over $500 billion in the US over the next four years.<br /> In 2021 [...]

How Pinterest's firing of two layoff-tracking engineers became a corporate morality play

Pinterest's firing of layoff-tracking engineers flies in the face of the CEO's public positioning of the platform. But there's even more to the story [...]