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Microsoft’s Brad Smith says green card curbs could cripple US tech

The White House crackdown on green cards for skilled foreign workers could “cripple” US tech for more than a generation, Microsoft president Brad Smith told Politico. His comments came a week after the US suspended Microsoft and seven other companies from PERM, the Labor Department programme employers use to sponsor foreign staff for permanent residency. Adobe, Cognizant, […]

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Nestlé CEO says workers need more than prompting skills to use AI well

Nestlé chief executive Philipp Navratil says knowing how to write a good prompt is not enough for workers who want to keep up with artificial intelligence. Staff also need to understand their business and change the way they work, he told Business Insider in an interview published this month. Philipp Navratil runs a company of more […]

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PwC survey of 49,000 workers finds most are falling behind on AI skills

Nearly two-thirds of workers have used AI at work in the past year. Yet fewer say they can get the training they need, PwC found in its 2026 Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey. The firm surveyed 49,364 workers across 48 countries and regions in May and June. It published the results on Tuesday. In […]

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UK employers are the most wary of AI in hiring, recruiter’s survey suggests

More than half of UK employers in a new survey by recruitment firm Morgan McKinley said they do not use AI to hire, compared with 36% across all seven markets polled. That makes the UK the most cautious in the group, though its figure rests on a small number of companies. In the third quarter […]

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Nick Clegg dismisses fears that AI could wipe out humanity

Nick Clegg has dismissed fears that artificial intelligence could one day turn on humanity and wipe it out, calling that view hand-wavy. The former UK deputy prime minister, who later ran global affairs at Meta, spoke on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday, as the Guardian reported. Rather than worry about a godlike machine, […]

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Adobe just handed Photoshop to someone who has never run it

Adobe named Anil Chakravarthy president and chief executive from 1 December, with Shantanu Narayen moving to executive chair. Chakravarthy came up through Digital Experience and worldwide field operations, arrived from enterprise data company Informatica, and championed the Workfront and Semrush acquisitions. The argument here is that the board has picked a leader from the side […]

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UNICEF study finds 60% of online child sexual abuse happens on social media

Around 20 million children experienced sexual exploitation or abuse online in a single year across 21 countries, according to a UNICEF study published on Thursday. That is roughly one in five internet-using children aged 12 to 17 in the countries surveyed. The findings come from “Through Children’s Eyes: How Digital Technologies Enable Child Sexual Abuse”, […]

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The economics of a voice agent: what a minute of conversation actually costs

Most voice agent pricing starts with a single number: voice agent cost per minute. However, this figure doesn’t reveal much about the real cost of running a production system. I discovered this firsthand while building and running a voice agent for enterprise use. When you factor in speech recognition, text-to-speech, model usage, telephony, and infrastructure, a […]

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Your next privacy breach might not leak any data at all

For decades, protecting privacy has meant one thing: stop personal data from leaking out. Gartner thinks that idea is about to break. By 2029, most privacy incidents will come not from leaked personal data but from what AI infers about people, the research firm predicted this week. The risk is no longer only the records […]

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A quarter of the S&P now claims measurable AI benefits. Last year it was 14%

Wall Street has spent three years paying for the companies that build AI. It is starting to pay for the companies that use it. The rotation has a number behind it. Morgan Stanley ran a systematic analysis of earnings call transcripts. It found that 25% of S&P 500 members cited measurable benefits from AI adoption […]

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