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New McKinsey Report Probes US Manufacturing Vulnerabilities

Passive AI use at work increases feelings of work meaninglessness, study finds

Approximately 88% of organizations around the world implemented artificial intelligence (AI) into at least one business function by the end of 2025, the latest McKinsey Global Survey on the state of AI found. Despite promised productivity gains, passive AI use at work, where employees copy-and-paste AI responses to complete tasks, can make people doubt their skills and find their work meaningless, according to a study co-authored by a faculty member from Penn State's Smeal College of...

Ernst & Young published cybersecurity report full of hallucinations

Earlier this year, an engineer at GPTZero coined the term “vibe citing” to describe the accidental creation of fake references via LLM hallucinations. It turns out that the friction of creating and checking citations is leading many researchers, consultants, lawyers, and public officials to embrace the vibe (if you know what we mean). Among the converts are the authors of a 2025 Ernst & Young report titled Points of Attack: Uncovering Cyber Threats and Fraud in Loyalty Systems.

As layoffs across tech industry cross over a lakh, position for this engineering job has gone up 700%

Technology industry has cut over a lakh jobs in 2026. One engineering role has done the exact opposite—postings are up 729% in a year, and the pay sits between $170,000 and over $200,000. The job is forward-deployed engineer, or FDE, and right now it might be the only safe seat in the industry.

I Think Rutger Bregman and the School for Moral Ambition Are Full of Shit

Disclaimer: I'm just a random person on the internet and this article is my personal opinion. This article was written without AI. The first time I heard from Rutger Bregman was due to his remarks at Davos about taxing the billionaires.

Why your grocery bill is still eye-watering — even though inflation is 'under control'?

Food inflation has fallen sharply from its 2023 peak — but European grocery prices are nearly a third higher than before the pandemic, and the reasons they stay high are structural. Inflation is down, the European Central Bank is (largely) satisfied and the knock-on effects of the Iran war are mostly being kept under control for now. So why does a trip to the supermarket still feel like a small act of financial self-harm?

AI and data sovereignty in Postgres: An answer to the datacenter energy crisis

AI agents get their own phone directory built atop DNS

Commentary: Are we at the start of a new investment super-cycle?

Commentary: Are we at the start of a new investment super-cycle? AI, clean energy and defence spending are reinforcing each other, amplifying potential investment, says Rana Faroohar for the Financial Times. NEW YORK: The week of the largest IPO in history may seem like an odd time to wonder if we need more, rather than less, investment into the US and global economies.

AI Is Slowing Down

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