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If prediction markets move inside social platforms, public life becomes something users are trained to wager on, even before money enters the app. Lucas Ropek reported for TechCrunch on June 23 that Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to build a prediction-market app modeled on platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi. The app, internally called Arena, would reportedly start as a standalone smartphone product where users earn…
Software companies are increasingly spending billions to acquire AI capabilities that promise growth without proportional increases in headcount. Reuters reported on June 15 that Salesforce agreed to acquire AI agent company Fin for roughly $3.6 billion, adding another piece to the company’s expanding automation strategy. The deal arrives as Salesforce continues promoting Agentforce, its platform…
On Tuesday, Meta unveiled three new smart glasses. Two models—the Adventurer and Fury—cost $299. The Starfire, marketed as a collaboration with celebrity Kylie Jenner, costs $399. All three contain identical AI functionality, 3K video capture, real-time translation, hands-free calling and messaging. Same hardware. Same AI. Different pricing. The $100 premium is not for additional technology….
Agent-first hardware points to a workplace where software no longer waits for users to open programs. Tom’s Hardware reported from Microsoft’s Build 2026 developer conference that Microsoft introduced Project Solara, a chip-to-cloud platform designed for “agent-first” enterprise devices. The system is built around AI agents rather than traditional apps, with reference devices including a desk-mounted…
When governments compete to attract AI investment, the weakest protections can become the standard everyone else has to live with. Sam Tabahriti reported for Reuters on June 17 that artificial intelligence adoption in Britain has reached a “tipping point,” with companies and government bodies moving from testing AI tools to using them in larger, more complex operations. Maureen…
Flyers calling your own office an “Employee Data Extraction Factory” don’t usually show up on toilet paper dispensers. At Meta, they did, roughly a week before the company began notifying around 8,000 employees caught in a 10% workforce reduction. Reuters reported that the pamphlets, photographed inside Meta’s U.S. offices, protested the company’s new mouse-tracking software,…
Governments, central banks, and businesses are making trillion-dollar decisions before the data can settle one of the decade’s biggest economic questions. In 2020, two economists made a bet. Stanford’s Erik Brynjolfsson wagered that artificial intelligence would push U.S. labor productivity growth above 1.8% annually through 2030. Northwestern’s Robert Gordon took the other side. Six years…
As companies pour billions into AI infrastructure, workforce reductions are increasingly becoming part of the financing equation. Tech-sector employers announced 123,653 job cuts through the first five months of 2026, a 66% increase over the same period last year, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas data reported by Yahoo Finance, with artificial intelligence cited as the…
Anthropic published two policy frameworks on June 10 proposing how the federal government should regulate frontier AI models, taking a direct position on one of Washington’s most contested fights by stating it does not believe “Congress should preempt state law unless it enacts a federal law that is at least as strong as the framework…
Executives talk about scarcity. Employees see replacement. Speaking at the VivaTech conference in Paris on June 17, Jeff Bezos said artificial intelligence will create a labor shortage rather than mass unemployment, directly disputing what he called a fear “that many people have, including many smart people.” Reuters reported that Bezos, appearing alongside Blue Origin CEO…