The latest wave of tech layoffs looks very different from the massive workforce cuts that hit Silicon Valley during 2022 and 2023. Earlier layoffs were largely driven by pandemic overhiring, slowing ad markets and fears of an economic downturn. But in 2025, many companies are restructuring for a different reason: artificial intelligence. Instead of broad-based…
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Credit: Matheus Bertelli from Pexels The rise of generative AI has sparked widespread concern about job security and the future of human work. In his doctoral dissertation at the University of Vaasa, Finland, Zhe Zhu reveals that when employees trust the system and see it as a helpful partner rather than a threat, AI can…
An AI voice generator can help you streamline audio production as a creator, educator, or business owner. Highlighting this rapid shift, the global market for AI-powered voice agents was valued at $2.4 billion in 2024 and is projected to skyrocket to $47.5 billion by 2034. Here are the best AI voice generators to compare by…
UC Berkeley Law School is implementing a stricter AI policy. The general policy is that students can no longer use AI for activities such as brainstorming. UC Berkeley Law School professor Chris Hoofnagle said it’s about making sure students learn fundamental skills. UC Berkeley Law School’s stricter AI policy forbids students from using it for…
Welcome to the week’s Pulse: This week’s updates touch rankings, the Search interface, AI Mode behavior, and Google’s guidance around AI agents. Google launched a core update, announced what it called the biggest upgrade to the Search box in over 25 years, released first-party AI Mode usage data, and sent mixed signals on llms.txt from…
Spotify announced on Thursday that it has partnered with Universal Music Group to allow fans to use generative AI to create covers and remixes of their favorite songs. The tool will be launched as a paid add-on available to Spotify’s Premium subscribers. It will also offer a revenue share with participating artists for the AI-generated…
SINGAPORE, May 22, 2026 As generative AI fundamentally reshapes the global search landscape, businesses face a critical new challenge: ensuring their brands are visible inside AI-generated answers. To address this paradigm shift, GEOKey recently officially launched as a pioneering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for the AI search…
29 (OSV News) — As Pope Leo XIV releases “Magnifica Humanitas,” his new encyclical on artificial intelligence, an AI ethics scholar told OSV News that a key challenge lies in emergent misalignment, which renders AI models as human adversaries. “These sorts of misaligned behaviors, where the thing is obviously not behaving the way it’s supposed to,…
By Zoila Palma: The Cabinet has endorsed the National Digital Agenda 2026-2030 as the main policy framework to guide all government digital initiatives in Belize. The decision was made during Cabinet’s meeting held on May 19, 2026. The agenda outlines a strategic roadmap aimed at improving citizens’ access to government services, strengthening coordination of digital…
