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Microsoft workers: We were fired after 50th anniversary protest over Israel contract
Microsoft has fired two employees who interrupted the company’s 50th anniversary celebration to protest its work supplying artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli military, according to a ...ABC News - Apr. 7 -
Microsoft’s Recall AI Tool Is Making an Unwelcome Return
Microsoft held off on releasing the privacy-unfriendly feature after a swell of pushback last year. Now it’s trying again, with a few improvements that skeptics say still aren't enough.Wired - 2d -
Israel insists on keeping troops in Gaza buffer zones after any peace
Defence minister Israel Katz says military ‘is not evacuating areas that have been cleared and seized’Financial Times - 5h -
Microsoft says it's 'slowing or pausing' some AI data center projects
Microsoft says it's “slowing or pausing” some of data center construction, including a $1 billion project in OhioABC News - Apr. 9 -
Kore.ai teams with G42’s Inception to develop AI-powered products for the enterprise
Kore.ai announced a strategic partnership with Inception, a division of UAE-based G42, to jointly develop AI-powered products for the enterprise.VentureBeat - 1d -
AI Is Changing Work Forever—and Employees Are Leading the Way
Gen AI is supercharging individual productivity, and the best companies encourage it.Inc. - 16h -
When AI reasoning goes wrong: Microsoft Research shows more tokens can mean more problems
Not all AI scaling strategies are equal. Longer reasoning chains are not sign of higher intelligence. More compute isn't always the answer.VentureBeat - 1d -
‘Keeping people alive’: Gaza’s last working bakery forced by Israel to keep on moving
World Central Kitchen mobile bakery’s production limited by flour shortage as result of Israel’s blockade. Palestinians witnessed a large white trailer being laboriously towed through the ...The Guardian - 13h -
OpenAI Really Might Be Coming for Your Coding Job
AI tools quickly found applications in coding, and now a prominent developer is doubling down with an AI agent that does most of the work of a real human software developer.Inc. - 1d -
Why This MIT Professor Says We Need to Act Fast to Keep AI From Stealing Our Jobs
The AI revolution keeps steamrolling ahead—disrupting industries, delivering newer, smarter tools every day, propelled by billion-dollar investments. But there are real risks AI could upend the ...Inc. - 10h -
Neuroscience Says Music Is an Emotion Regulation Machine. Here’s What to Play for Happiness, Productivity, or Deep Thinking
Neuroscience shows music has big effects on our productivity, performance, and state of mind. Use that to your advantage.Inc. - 18h -
Moveworks joins AI agent library craze
Moveworks said its AI Agent Marketplace will make it easier for organizations to think of new agentic use cases.VentureBeat - 1d -
OpenAI launches o3 and o4-mini, AI models that ‘think with images’ and use tools autonomously
OpenAI launches groundbreaking o3 and o4-mini AI models that can manipulate and reason with images, representing a major advance in visual problem-solving and tool-using artificial intelligence.VentureBeat - 7h -
There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now. Here’s How to Use It
AI tools have arrived in two of the most basic and long-serving Windows utilities. Here’s what they do and how you can turn them off if you prefer.Wired - 1d -
US House panel probes whether DeepSeek used restricted Nvidia chips
Lawmakers say the Chinese AI group is a ‘profound threat’ to national securityFinancial Times - 2h -
A machine using ultrasound and AI can gauge the fattiness of a tuna fish
Seafood lovers know the fatty marbling is what makes tuna sashimi and sushi so tasty, so for the industry, it’s the fish’s level of fattiness that’s used to judge its quality and pricingABC News - 6d -
Trump’s tariffs put Fed’s jobs and inflation goals at risk, says Powell
US central bank chair says ‘without price stability, we cannot achieve long periods of strong labour market conditions’Financial Times - 7h -
Nobody Wants Factory Jobs
Americans are all for getting factory jobs back to the U.S., but they’re less enthusiastic about taking those jobs. Will an automation push follow?Inc. - 7h -
The Former C.I.A. Officer Capitalizing On Europe’s Military Spending Boom
Eric Slesinger made a career shift from the spy agency to venture capital, championing military start-ups as Europe beefed up its defenses amid an uncertain relationship with the United States.The New York Times - 2d -
Protesters tased and arrested at Marjorie Taylor Greene town hall
Protests erupted at town halls held by Republican lawmakers, including one for Trump ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene where police say they tased two people and arrested three. Demonstrators were ...NBC News - 14h -
She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her
President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.The New York Times - 5d -
‘Who is going to face Mr Trump’: Canada leaders’ debate dominated by US crisis
Mark Carney’s Liberals have surged in the polls since Donald Trump’s attacks on Canada, scuppering Conservative calls for change after Trudeau era. Prime Minister Mark Carney said the key question ...The Guardian - 55m -
Members of British Jewish body condemn Israel's Gaza offensive
Thirty-six members of the largest body representing Jews in the UK warn "Israel's soul is being ripped out".BBC News - 6h -
3 shady tactics used during the 2008 housing crisis could be making a comeback
Risky financial products and scams could see a resurgence as the Trump administration hollows out the federal government’s consumer watchdog, advocates warned.MarketWatch - 3h -
Nvidia to take $5.5bn hit as US clamps down on AI chip sales to China
Trump administration’s curbs send chipmaker’s shares slidingFinancial Times - 11h -
Postmortems of rescue workers killed in Gaza show ‘gunshots to head and torso’
Findings likely to increase pressure on Israel to give a full account of incident amid accusations of war crime. The Gaza paramedic killings: a visual timeline The doctor who carried out the ...The Guardian - 4h -
Meta says it will resume AI training with public content from European users
Social media company Meta says that it will start using publicly available content from European users to train its artificial intelligence models, resuming work put on hold last year after privacy ...ABC News - 2d -
Trevor Noah’s Day Zero Productions unveils Solarpunk Jam with Anima Interactive
Day Zero Productions, the Los Angeles-based production company founded by Trevor Noah, is launching a new game jam with Anima Interactive.VentureBeat - 1d -
To Fight Federal Job Cuts, Energy Experts and States Try a New Argument
In letters to multiple agencies, the focus is on how job reductions at E.P.A., Interior and other agencies would hurt President Trump’s “energy dominance” agenda.The New York Times - 2d -
Meet The AI Agent With Multiple Personalities
A new AI agent from the startup Simular switches between different AI models depending on the task at hand.Wired - 9h -
National Weather Service no longer translating products for non-English speakers
The National Weather Service is no longer providing translations of its products after its contract with an artificial intelligence company was allowed to lapseABC News - Apr. 7 -
Los Angeles continues to see decline in film and TV production, report says
The news of decreasing film production in Los Angeles comes as lawmakers continue pushing for a revamped film and TV tax incentive program.Los Angeles Times - 2d -
China appoints a new trade negotiator during tariff fight with the US
China has appointed a new trade negotiator during its tariff fight with the U.S. The government said Wednesday that Li Chenggang has been appointed to replace Wang Shouwen, who participated in the ...ABC News - 17h -
China’s Halt of Critical Minerals Poses Risk for U.S. Military Programs
The Pentagon and defense contractors are heavily reliant on magnets and rare earth minerals mined or processed in China, which has suspended exports of the materials in an escalating trade war.The New York Times - 2d -
Infinite Reality will acquire agentic AI firm Touchcast for $500M
Infinite Reality is paying $500 million for Touchcast, an agentic AI startup with 70 people. That's the AI boom for ya.VentureBeat - 14h -
Scale AI working with Qatar to develop AI agents for education, health care and transportation
Scale AI's partnership with Qatar's government includes developing AI tools for education, health care and transportation, according to a list viewed by CNBC.CNBC - 10h -
US senator says El Salvador denied request to meet Kilmar Ábrego García
Chris Van Hollen condemns ‘unjust situation’ and says vice-president blocked access to wrongly deported man. Who is Kilmar Ábrego García, the man wrongly deported to El Salvador? Maryland’s ...The Guardian - 7h -
This Startup Just Promoted an AI to CEO
An agentic AI called Astra has taken the reins at website builder HeyBoss, begging the question: What does a CEO do, exactly?Inc. - 1d
