CEOs Name AI Expertise A Top Board Recruitment Priority
The Conference Board’s 2026 CEO outlook finds 30 percent of global CEOs now cite AI as the leading factor that could negatively affect their business, while 28 percent of boards…
AI Cited In Roughly 40 Percent Of U.S. Layoffs As Even Profitable Firms Cut Headcount
AI was cited as a factor in 38,579 U.S. job cuts in the most recent tracked month, roughly 40 percent of all layoffs, the highest monthly share since tracking began…
Campaigns Deploy AI Agents To Mass-Produce Synthetic Voters And Pre-Test Messaging Before It Reaches Real People
Political operatives are now running AI agents that generate synthetic voter personas and test campaign messages against them before deployment, while text bots trained to hold hours-long conversations in a…
US Army Tests AI-Fusion Command System, Calls It Ready But Not Done
The Army’s Next Generation Command and Control system was tested at Fort Irwin in a simulated urban battle, integrating AI and digital communications for real-time battlefield coordination. Officials describe the…
Study Links Organizational AI Adoption To Employee Depression
Research published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications found organizational AI adoption was associated with elevated employee depression, with psychological safety acting as a mediating factor. Where psychological safety was…
Autonomous Drones Reportedly Kill In Ukraine Without A Human Trigger-Pull
Fully autonomous drones have reportedly conducted lethal strikes in Ukraine, a threshold UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called “morally repugnant” for machines with independent kill authority. Russia’s upgraded Lancet fleet,…
Robotics Industry Names Labor Displacement Its Central 2026 Theme
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society has designated “Humanoids and the Future of Work” as the defining topic of its December 2026 conference, an explicit acknowledgment that the open question…
Meta And Google Delay Red Sea Subsea Cables On Security Risk, And Gulf Players Step Into The Gap
As Meta and Google delay planned subsea cable projects through the Red Sea over rising security concerns, Qatar’s Ooredoo is pushing forward its Fibre in the Gulf cable system, set…
An Open-Source, Smart-Skin Humanoid Platform Launches For Human Collaboration
Generative Bionics launched Gene.01 this month, described as a smart-skin humanoid robot platform built on an open-source robot model and designed specifically for safe collaboration alongside human workers.Reported by: Skycrumbs…
A Chinese Firm Built AI-Driven Influence Profiles On More Than 2,000 American Public Figures
Vanderbilt University researchers revealed that GoLaxy used AI to build detailed data profiles of at least 117 sitting US lawmakers and over 2,000 public figures, capable of generating persona-based messaging…