Over 1,100 AI Workers Ask White House to Slow Automated AI Research
More than 1,100 staff from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and other firms signed a declaration urging the US to pace self-improving AI, warning that systems helping build the next generation could outrun human oversight. The plea follows Dario Amodei's September essay on "pacing" the frontier, which Sam Altman and Elon Musk endorsed. Critics note the alarm coincides with looming IPOs and lets the labs frame their own rules.
Read full story →NICE Cuts 500 Jobs, Citing Shift to AI Customer-Service Agents
The call-centre software maker NICE is laying off about 500 people, roughly 5% of staff, and tied the cuts directly to autonomous AI agents reshaping its market. It is one of the clearest cases yet of an AI-linked layoff, where the tool and the threat are the same product. Disney is separately weighing cuts affecting thousands, with AI listed among several cost pressures.
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