Sam Altman Says Companies 'AI Wash' Layoffs While Under 1% of Job Losses Trace to AI
OpenAI's Altman accuses firms of 'AI washing' layoffs. Under 1% of 2025 job cuts traced to AI. Entry-level workers face real impact.
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OpenAI's Altman accuses firms of 'AI washing' layoffs. Under 1% of 2025 job cuts traced to AI. Entry-level workers face real impact.
JFrog lost 25% after Anthropic launched Claude Code Security. The deeper threat targets AI-native startups building the middleware between code generation and production.
Phison CEO Pua Khein-Seng warns consumer electronics companies could go bankrupt by end of 2026 as AI data centers consume the global memory supply.
OpenAI is closing in on the largest private funding round in history. Amazon, SoftBank, Nvidia and Microsoft could commit nearly $100 billion.
Tesla removed Autopilot from California marketing, settling a DMV case filed in 2021. California accounts for nearly a third of Tesla's U.S. sales.
AlphaGo creator David Silver is raising $1B for Ineffable Intelligence, a London AI lab. Sequoia leads at a $4B valuation.
More than 100 researchers propose Biosecurity Data Levels to control which pathogen datasets can train AI models. Only new data would be restricted.
India expects $200 billion in AI investment over two years, anchored by Adani's $100 billion data center pledge and Anthropic's first India office.
Pentagon preparing to label Anthropic a supply chain risk over Claude military restrictions, threatening to cut ties after months of failed negotiations.
Sitegeist raised €4M to deploy autonomous concrete repair robots on German infrastructure. The machines work up to 10x faster than manual crews.
SpaceX and xAI are competing in a secret $100M Pentagon contest to build autonomous drone swarm software, Bloomberg reports. Musk signed a 2015 letter opposing such weapons.
Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 activates 17 billion of 397 billion parameters per query. The company claims it beats GPT-5.2 on vision benchmarks at 60% lower cost.
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