Joshua Coleman

Meta Announces AI Lab Layoffs—600 Staffers Affected

Top line Meta to lay off around 600 employees at its superintelligence labs, according to multiple reports citing an internal memo from the company’s AI leader. The layoffs would reportedly not impact the company’s division developing next-generation AI models. AFP via Getty Images Key facts The reductions, first reported by Axioswould target certain divisions of…

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Rubrik launches Agent Cloud to secure and manage enterprise AI agents

Cloud Data Management and Data Security Company Rubrik inc. today announced the launch of Rubrik Agent Cloud, a new service intended to accelerate enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence agents while managing the risks associated with AI deployments. AI transformation has become mandatory in many organizations, but IT leaders are constrained because agentic AI carries significant…

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California Democrats turn to Trump-friendly crypto sector

California Democrats are reassessing their initially cautious stance on cryptocurrency, concerned about Republican incursions into the multibillion-dollar sector and its investors under the Trump administration. Some state Democrats say their party has lost ground to the GOP on this issue given President Donald Trump’s courtship of the sector, his family diving into the digital assets…

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Ask Your Students Why They Use AI (opinion)

I once had a student who used AI to generate several of his assignments. The first assignment in my class is an ethnographic paper in which students discuss the culture with which they most identify and the language of that community. It’s an assignment for my students to write about the things that are most…

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