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AI-related layoffs keep coming. But there’s more to the story

In 2025, employers cited artificial intelligence as the rationale for nearly 55,000 layoffs at companies like Amazon and Microsoft. And with the new year barely underway, we’re already seeing a new crop of AI-related job cuts. Citigroup is cutting over a thousand jobs, according to Bloomberg, and in a memo this week, CEO Jane FraserContinueContinue reading “AI-related layoffs keep coming. But there’s more to the story”

ChatGPT put a weird idea into our heads about how AI should look and act

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy. This week, I’m focusing on how and why AI will grow from something that chats to something that worksContinueContinue reading “ChatGPT put a weird idea into our heads about how AI should look and act”

NASA astronauts return to Earth early after a medical evacuation

An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others on Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA’s first medical evacuation. SpaceX guided the capsule to a middle-of-the-night splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego, less than 11 hours after the astronauts exited the International Space Station. Their first stop was a hospital for anContinueContinue reading “NASA astronauts return to Earth early after a medical evacuation”

This AI Startup Just Landed a Deal That Could Transform Newsrooms

Exclusive: An AI-based journalism platform aims to do it all. Can it deliver the accuracy and productivity it promises? source https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/this-ai-startup-just-landed-a-deal-that-could-transform-newsrooms/91288511

I cloned a ‘digital twin’ of myself with AI. He’s convincing enough to fool my mom

I was born an only child, but now I have a twin. He’s an exact duplicate of me—down to my clothing, my home, my facial expressions, and even my voice. I built him with AI, and I can make him say whatever I want. He’s so convincing that he could fool my own mother. Here’sContinueContinue reading “I cloned a ‘digital twin’ of myself with AI. He’s convincing enough to fool my mom”