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My PIP worked. My job still didn’t
The day I got put on my performance improvement plan (or PIP) in my content marketing job, I drove back to an Appalachian folk magic store…
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Ericsson’s organic sales rise 7% as it merges its two Asian units
‘The RAN market is flat,’ Ericsson CEO Per Narvinger said, warning that component costs are a headwind to gross margin next year.
World
RapidCanvas raises $29M to build and run AI apps for enterprises
Austin-based RapidCanvas raised a $29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India to expand its AI engineering teams in the US, Brazil,…
Business
El Niño winter forecast: See a map that shows which U.S. regions will get the most snow and rain
This year’s Super El Niño “looms large” over the winter forecast for the United States, forecasters from the National Oceanic and…
Business
The 3 skills behind executive presence
If you’ve been told you lack “executive presence” when you’re delivering a presentation, you know that something about how you’re coming…
World
OpenAI hands its data centre and compute operation to a former xAI executive
Uday Ruddarraju, who ran infrastructure at xAI, now leads OpenAI's compute and data centre units. Sachin Katti leaves the role and stays…
World
Google will let anyone publish an app to the Play Store, for free
Google will let anyone over 18 publish an Android app built in AI Studio, with no developer fee. Apple spent this year doing the opposite.
Business
AI companies are offering businesses up to $2 million for something their employees create every day
Lest you have any illusions, you have zero privacy at work. But AI is further encroaching on any semblance of privacy you may currently…
Business
How to make sure your return to office policy works
Return-to-office reruns are all too common. In 2024, 38% of employees had been through multiple RTOs and 6% had endured more than five.…
World
US probes Foxconn, Luxshare and 18 others over AI server power patents
The US ITC is investigating 20 firms including Foxconn, Luxshare and Quanta after Vicor alleged their AI server power systems infringe its…
Business
It’s not ‘AI,’ and it’s not ‘superintelligence.’ So, what is it?
When President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations in late September, he said the word “artificial” in “artificial intelligence”…
World
Nobody trusts HR. It’s up to companies to fix it
Earlier this year, I wrote in Fast Company that 2026 could be the year companies finally begin taking employee well-being seriously. I…
World
Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, says space internet service is weeks away
Amazon has built its 1,000th Leo satellite and says service is weeks away. It still has 396 in orbit, because the rockets have not kept up.
Business
‘Parenting hits different when you work in AI’: A San Francisco father is going viral for letting a chatbot read to his baby
According to a new San Francisco father, “parenting hits different when you work in AI.” Alvin Sng, a software engineer at AI company…
World
SpaceX petition on launch spectrum meets opposition from aerospace and healthcare
SpaceX is asking the FCC to scrap the body coordinating launch spectrum. Boeing, Lockheed and GE Healthcare object. Brussels is…
Business
Regulating AI and curbing debt need urgent action around the globe, says IMF chief
Countries both rich and poor must take faster action to cut debt and counter growing inequality as their economies weather a triple whammy…
World
Google, JPMorgan and two governments fixed the same MCP flaw
Google, JPMorgan, Weaviate, France’s DINUM and an Indonesian city fixed the same SSRF flaw in their MCP servers, researcher Syed Anas…
Business
Pete Hegseth’s Department of War backdrop draws comparisons to Nazi imagery on social media
A recent address to the military by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is drawing attention on social media, with users saying the event’s…
Business
Why tech companies are racing to put AI data centers in space
Why on earth do people want to put data centers in space? It’s all about power and cooling. The chips that run AI models require a lot of…
World
Zelensky asked Trump to block Russia’s Starlink rival, FT reports
Zelensky has asked Trump to sanction Russian and Chinese firms building Rassvet, Russia’s answer to Starlink, the FT reported.
Business
Anthropic and Pope Leo are apparently at odds about this controversial AI concept
Even before AI made its way into all of our pockets, tech leaders spent decades warning the world about it. Anthropic has been…
World
AI can’t fix a business system with broken processes
McKinsey found 88% of organizations use AI but only 7% have scaled it. Joint Effort founder Dessy Pavlova argues AI applied to fragmented…
World
Metaview raises $60m to put AI agents across the whole hiring process
Metaview has raised a $60m Series C led by Insight Partners, taking its total to $110m. More than 7,000 companies use its AI recruiting…
Business
Google is taking Elon Musk’s space data center idea seriously
Elon Musk has long proselytized about the potential of space-based data centers. But as of today, he’s no longer alone in touting the idea…