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How you should use AI in your job hunt, according to recruiters and career coaches

HR pros say job seekers don't need to hide their AI usage, as long as they can back up the claims they make.

The CEO of the unicorn AI accounting startup, Rillet, says AI is changing who consulting firms hire

Rillet, the AI-powered accounting unicorn, is riding the AI boom and the accountant shortage. CEO Nicolas Kopp says it could change consulting, too.

A struggling Brooklyn bakery was months from closing. Then a Meta engineer made it go viral.

Shuayb Qureshi, a software engineer at Meta, said he lost a lot of his "social flow." Now the 31-year-old Manhattan resident is getting it back.

Why 2026's tech IPO market is shaping up to be another dud

Two mega-IPOs are making 2026 look like a banner year for tech listings. Strip them out, and the IPO market is shaping up to be another dud.

Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

LLMs need vastly more data than children to learn language. Understanding why could help us create more efficient models—and reveal more about developing minds.

The Chinese internet is looking to the country's weirdest viral movie for hints at Ox Alpha's origins

Some people on the Chinese internet think the model's name is a dead giveaway about its origins.

The Internet of Slop

The open web is rife with AI-generated text, according to new data from Pew Research. Older English-language webpages show fewer signs of AI authorship, but over one-third of pages published after ChatGPT was released on November 22nd, 2022, “were likely written or substantially edited by AI.”

Workers in China worry over being replaced as they adapt to the growing impact of AI on jobs

HONG KONG — Computer programmer Fei Zhaojun’s boss asked him if artificial intelligence could soon replace humans in coding jobs. Two weeks later, he was laid off from his job in Beijing, together with about 160 of his colleagues.

Meta hires OpenAI veteran Luke Metz

Metz rejoined OpenAI earlier this year after a stint at Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Labs.

Russia is suffering from a slow-motion bank run as the Kremlin scavenges for war funding—and it may start seizing recruits for the military too

A financial crisis that has long been predicted by Russia experts and Kremlin insiders appears to have finally arrived as banks see depositors scramble to pull out their money amid fears it may be seized.

The Latest Turn in the Data Center Debate.

The Wall Street Journal and New York Times are both reporting on politicians like Greg Abbott and Josh Shapiro suddenly bashing types of projects they once championed. The Washington Post has a chart showing how online posts about data centers from both Democrat and Republican politicians have shifted from being mostly positive in early 2025 to being mostly negative.

Sam Altman says he's worried about AI being controlled by a few powerful players

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that fears about AI going off the rails could lead people to trade liberty for safety.