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Why Corporate Greed Is Backfiring on Businesses in the AI Era, According to Science

Meta's new Forum app for i Phones takes Facebook Groups and moves them to a dedicated app with a dedicated AI chatbot to go with it, like an AI revamp of the ill-fated Groups app Facebook shut down in 2017. Rather than going to ChatGPT or tacking "Reddit" onto the end of a Google search, Forum […]

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What happened New research finds that the compulsive drive for gains brings no benefit to society and poses long-term risks to human happiness and even organizational success.
The headline split One side frames it as "Exclusive: Departing Meta Staffer Posts Biting Anti-AI Video Internally Amid Mass Layoffs". The other frames it as "AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share".
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Left / center-leftMeta’s Forum is part Reddit, part Facebook, and part Google AI Overview

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CenterWhy Corporate Greed Is Backfiring on Businesses in the AI Era, According to Science

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The VergeNews report · May 22, 5:27 PM

Meta’s Forum is part Reddit, part Facebook, and part Google AI Overview

Meta's new Forum app for i Phones takes Facebook Groups and moves them to a dedicated app with a dedicated AI chatbot to go with it, like an AI revamp of the ill-fated Groups app Facebook s...

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CBS NewsNews report · May 23, 3:17 AM

AI is driving more job cuts and weighing on hiring, economists say

Economists say AI is reshaping the U. S. labor market by suppressing hiring even as overall job losses remain limited.

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TechCrunchNews report · May 22, 11:03 PM

AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots

People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access to its docket system.

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Business InsiderNews report · May 22, 10:33 PM

Google 'disregard' right now if you want to see where AI overviews fall short

Google's AI Overview is coming up with strange, chatbot-like responses to single-word searches instead of surfacing definitions.

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Inc.News report · May 22, 8:53 PM

Why Corporate Greed Is Backfiring on Businesses in the AI Era, According to Science

New research finds that the compulsive drive for gains brings no benefit to society and poses long-term risks to human happiness and even organizational success.

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EngadgetNews report · May 22, 8:29 PM

Google is currently struggling to define words like disregard, stop and ignore

The search engine's definitions have been replaced with AI Overviews.

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Mother JonesNews report · May 22, 7:18 PM

Exclusive: Departing Meta Staffer Posts Biting Anti-AI Video Internally Amid Mass Layoffs

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This week, Meta laid off 8,000 employees—10 percent of the company’s staff—and reassigned another 7,000 to train AI models. Fear of the layoffs had been building around the company for week...

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NPR NationalNews report · May 22, 7:05 PM

Ask AI or just Google it? Google makes a big change to a little search box

The search giant is updating its famously minimalist homepage. But what looks like a tiny design change is a very big deal.

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FortuneNews report · May 22, 6:55 PM

Barnes & Noble CEO clarifies the bookseller’s stance on AI-written books after refusing to ban them: ‘This is a straightforward rejection of AI books’

James Daunt told Fortune the responsibility to decide on what AI-generated means lies with the publisher, not the seller.

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CNETNews report · May 22, 6:12 PM

Forum Is Meta's Dedicated App for Bringing Your Facebook Groups Together in One Feed

The company quietly launched the app on Friday, and some say it looks a lot like Reddit.

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Rest of WorldNews report · May 22, 2:48 PM

AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share

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The Samsung labor showdown in South Korea reflects global concerns about who benefits from the AI industry, and how the wealth being created should be shared.

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