24 Jun 2026
Is your job 'AI-resilient'? Find your risk score with our career calculator
(Image credit: Future) The headline-grabbing news that Anthropic is launching a $150 million “Claude Corps” fellowship to pay early-career workers $85,000 to learn AI highlights a massive shift in the labor market. It proves that the biggest hurdle facing tech giants right now is getting real-world organizations to understand how to actually use AI. But beneath the surface of this massive hiring…
Amanda Caswell
2026
24 Jun 2026
‘Who is going to pay us when we’re replaced by robots?’ The Indian factory workers told to film themselves for AI
The first time the factory supervisors handed garment worker Lalita* a head-mounted camera, she burst out laughing. “The way people mount a CCTV camera on a wall, they mounted one on us,” she says. The 32-year-old had been working at the garment factory on the outskirts of Delhi for nearly a year when management asked workers on her line to strap small cameras to their foreheads before starting…
Anuj Behal
2026
23 Jun 2026
DeepMind Chief Demis Hassabis says Google’s still winning AI talent
In an industry where a single breakthrough algorithm or architectural tweak can unlock billions in revenue, individual researchers have attained the kind of leverage and celebrity traditionally reserved for star athletes.
Reed Albergotti
2026
23 Jun 2026
As top talent leaves Google DeepMind, some question if the lab can remain at the forefront of AI development
Welcome to Eye on AI. In today’s issue: Google DeepMind loses top AI talent, raising questions about its status in the AI race
Jeremy Kahn
2026
23 Jun 2026
AI Collapses on a Classic Psychology Test. What It Reveals Could Stall Human-Level AI.
"Attention is all you need." This 2017 breakthrough idea transformed AI. The concept of self-attention became the foundation of today’s chatbots. Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT are all large language models (LLMs), AI systems designed to focus on the matter at hand while filtering out distractions. The results have been remarkable. From brainstorming recipes to generating code, apps, websites, and…
Shelly Fan
2026
23 Jun 2026
Google's Secret Crisis: Why Search Volume Is At An All-Time High But The Company Is Panicking
Caught between ChatGPT’s billion users and a growing anti-AI backlash, Google risks losing ground on both fronts Google has never processed more searches. Sundar Pichai says query volume is at an “all-time high,” according to recent earnings remarks. Yet ChatGPT has reportedly surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, and DuckDuckGo is seeing surging installs for a feature that does the exact…
Al Landes
2026
23 Jun 2026
Google’s online dominance is showing signs of cracking in AI era
Google CEO Sundar Pichai addresses the crowd during Google's annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 20, 2025. Camille Cohen | AFP | Getty Images
Jennifer Elias
2026
23 Jun 2026
Advanced AI models suffer a near-total collapse on classic psychology test as cognitive demands increase
New research provides evidence that while advanced artificial intelligence models process language with remarkable skill, they struggle significantly with tasks requiring the kind of sustained focus and conflict resolution seen in human attention. The study, published in PNAS Nexus, indicates that as cognitive demands increase, these programs experience a complete collapse in their ability to…
Eric Dolan, Eric W. Dolan
2026
22 Jun 2026
Forget Mars, SpaceX Is Becoming a Data Center Company
For all its talk of lunar colonies, missions to Mars, and data centers orbiting Earth, SpaceX’s real focus has been much more grounded.
@_webbwright, Webb Wright
2026
