3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (615+ words) Asha Sharma believes Xbox can return to its winning ways by refocusing on its core gaming principles. That has been a top priority for Sharma since taking over as chief executive of Xbox in February, an appointment that surprised some…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago   (396+ words) The doomsday forecasts have been building for years: AI will hollow out the white-collar workforce, destroy entry-level jobs, and create a permanent underclass of technologically displaced workers. Now, one of Silicon Valley’s most influential firms has published a detailed rebuttal…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (510+ words) For most of last year, Dario Amodei was one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent doomsayers on AI and employment. The Anthropic CEO said publicly and repeatedly that AI could eliminate half of entry-level, white-collar knowledge work within years — the kind…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1043+ words) The doomsday crowd may want to check its history books. The bank’s central argument is simple: 60% of the jobs that exist in the United States today didn’t exist in 1940. Data scientists, social media managers, and cloud developers “barely existed 20 years…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (603+ words) Regardless of whether AI will lead to a “job apocalypse” or make work optional, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) is warning “the battle of our time will be AI”—and he predicts it’ll be particularly difficult for new grads entering the…...

6+ mon, 1+ day ago   (713+ words) Fortune Sam Altman admits AI is killing the labor-capital balance—and says nobody knows what to do about it Speaking at the BlackRock Infrastructure Summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tackled the growing public skepticism surrounding artificial intelligence, acknowledging the warning…...

6+ mon, 3+ day ago   (358+ words) Good morning. Is AI really killing U.S. jobs? Brad Conger doesn’t think so. As the chief investment officer of Hirtle Callaghan asserts to my colleague Shawn Tully, “AI’s not replacing jobs, but job cuts are funding AI expenditures.” Conger has a…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (527+ words) The invention of electricity made menial jobs like the lamplighter, the elevator operator, and the knocker-up, the human equivalent to the modern alarm clock, irrelevant. The computer rendered the data entry clerk, the switchboard operator, and file clerks obsolete. In…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (695+ words) The artificial intelligence boom has fueled grand promises: Cures for cancer, self-driving metropolises, and even interplanetary travel. It’s also powered a stock market surge that’s padded plenty of retirement accounts. But beneath the optimism, entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Andrew…...

7+ mon, 2+ day ago   (496+ words) In 1997, IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov. In 2023, ChatGPT passed the bar exam. And last year, Google DeepMind clinched gold at the International Math Olympiad. These milestones are only expected to accelerate, with some…...