The AI Industry Has Acted So Badly That It’s Now Dealing With a Huge Wave of Hatred

The tech overlords pushing the AI boom are quickly wearing out what little welcome they had.

You may have noticed big-name AI labs pushing new commercials lately. Meta's new 60-second ad spot insists that the "future is for everyone," even as CEO Mark Zuckerberg's personal net worth eclipses the GDP of Hungary. Anthropic's new commercial for Claude assures viewers that there's "hope in hard questions," seemingly embracing the discomfort that comes when your software is used to bomb elementary schools in Iran. READ MORE

Nvidia, Microsoft urge US to avoid broad restrictions on open AI models

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta and more than 20 other technology companies are urging U.S. policymakers not to broadly restrict open-weight artificial intelligence (AI) models, saying the technology is critical to maintaining America's leadership in the global AI race.

In a joint letter released Friday, the companies argued that open AI models accelerate innovation, strengthen cybersecurity and help ensure the U.S. remains competitive as countries race to develop increasingly powerful AI systems. READ MORE

Young Americans struggle to land jobs in the new hiring landscape

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the hiring process, but for many recent graduates, it is also creating new frustrations. As employers increasingly rely on automated screening tools to sort through thousands of applications, job seekers say they worry qualified candidates are being filtered out before a hiring manager ever sees their resume.

Marist graduate Samantha Kehler joined FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo on "Mornings with Maria" to discuss how AI has changed her search for work and why she believes automated hiring systems have made breaking into today’s job market even more difficult. READ MORE

AI Is Pushing Older Employees Straight Out of the Workforce

So far, the narrative of AI in the workplace has had a consistent victim: the recent college grad, supposedly first on the chopping block as large language models automate the types of low level tasks that traditionally provided an on-ramp to office careers.

New evidence, however, suggests the tech may be impacting a surprisingly different segment of the workforce: those closest to retirement. READ MORE

Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days

Meta has withdrawn the first image generation product created by its Superintelligence Labs fewer than 72 hours after launch.

The product was called “Muse Image” and Meta launched it on July 8, billing it as “the first AI image generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs.”

That lab is Zuck’s latest big bet and aims to create a “personal superintelligence that knows us deeply, understands our goals, and can help us achieve them.” READ MORE

AI fluency is your top hiring requirement. So, why are bad hires still happening?

The pressure on American companies to demonstrate AI capability has never been more intense. Boards are asking how their organizations are using AI. Investors want to know which teams are AI-enabled. CEOs are leading with it publicly: in earnings calls, at industry events, in the language they use to describe what makes their workforce competitive. Scroll through LinkedIn on any given morning and you can see it reflected back: organizations announcing AI-ready teams, AI-upskilled workforces, commitments to AI fluency as a defining capability.

The urgency behind all of that is legitimate. According to McKinsey’s 2025 State of AI report, nearly nine in 10 organizations now regularly use AI in their operations. The companies that cannot staff for that reality face a competitive disadvantage that builds quietly over time. When that pressure reaches the hiring function, the response is predictable: AI fluency becomes a formal requirement. Ninety-five percent of U.S. organizations have made it one, according to TestGorilla’s State of Hiring for AI Fluency 2026, a survey of 1,928 U.S. and U.K. hiring leaders.

Yet 59% of them still made a bad AI hire last year. READ MORE

Companies are rehiring workers they replaced with AI after automation fell short

Ford $F -0.22%, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and IBM $IBM +4.26% have each moved to bring back human workers after discovering that artificial intelligence systems could not fully replace the roles they had eliminated, according to CNBC.

Ford spent the past three years hiring 350 veteran engineers to address vehicle quality problems that automated systems had failed to catch. Charles Poon, Ford's vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, said the company had wrongly assumed that feeding AI its design requirements would produce a high-quality product without experienced human oversight. The returning engineers have overhauled the AI tools and now lead troubleshooting sessions, and CEO Jim Farley said the effort has generated hundreds of millions of dollars in savings from declining warranty and recall expenses. READ MORE

Are AI Certifications Worth It?

Learning AI skills has emerged as a common piece of career advice as employers increasingly integrate AI into day-to-day work. This has led to the emergence and rapid expansion of new academic degrees, bootcamps, online courses, and professional certifications. Workers have responded en masse, hoping to stay relevant and incorporate the new technology at work. As the market for AI credentials explodes, it is important to ask: Are these AI certifications worth it?

A recent Brookings Institution working paper using Revelio Labs data offers important context. The authors found that non-degree credentials deliver meaningful wage returns – but only when they are relevant to the worker's occupation. The findings from this study set the stage for the current AI certification wave. Are workers pursuing credentials that are genuinely relevant to their jobs, or are they accumulating low-value certifications that signal engagement with AI without delivering meaningful returns? READ MORE

Kevin O'Leary warns China is winning the AI race because U.S. states are slowing data center production

As data center projects continue to get shut down across the country, "Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary and other investors are warning that the facilities are needed to compete with China in the artificial intelligence race.

Data centers are at the forefront of the continued development of AI, serving as the hardware for the large amount of electricity and infrastructure needed to improve response time and data storage. But opponents cite utility costs to local residents and environmental concerns in their efforts to block development of new centers. READ MORE

Workers turn to social media for AI training as employers lag

Most U.S. workers using AI on the job are not getting their training from their employer, according to new research. Instead, they are learning from social media, news articles and conversations with friends.

Nexthink data, drawn from 4.9 million sessions per day across 3.4 million employees, found GenAI users average 10 interactions a day and nearly four hours a week using these tools, and that they save roughly the same amount of time in return. READ MORE

AI sets up white-collar versus blue-collar jobs duel

In the new world of generative artificial intelligence, jobs have become a critical topic. A debate is being held on whether a large number of white-collar employees will find themselves out of work or if the seemingly unquenchable need for new data centers could keep phalanxes of people in skilled trades busy.

The truth is partly there, but the details are messy, according to various experts who spoke with GlobeSt.com. READ MORE

CEO walks back comments about replacing 'lower-value human capital' with AI

Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters on Wednesday walked back comments he made at an investor event Tuesday when he said the bank plans to cut thousands of jobs as it replaces what he called "lower-value human capital" with tech powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

Winters wrote a memo to the bank's employees on Wednesday in which he sought to address concerns that arose following his comments on Tuesday, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. READ MORE

I was rejected for a job 6 minutes after I applied. I told the company that AI was screening out strong candidates.

I started my career at the entry level and worked my way up to essentially running IT companies in the managed-services space, overseeing IT operations for multiple clients. Recently, I found myself on the job market for the first time in 10 years. It's changed a lot.

I got some interviews right away, but I also got a lot of rejections. Nobody likes to be rejected. I've got children, rent, and animals to take care of, and those responsibilities start to weigh on you. READ MORE

Why AI interviews are losing 1 in 3 candidates

Both employers and job seekers are increasingly tapping AI to guide the job interview process, but their strategies are still very much a work in progress.

New research finds real hesitation among job candidates about interviewing for a job with no human present, with concern spiking when transparency isn’t centered in the interview process. At the same time, they are increasingly leveraging AI for real-time assistance during live interviews, highlighting the complexities facing today’s HR and recruiting professionals in an AI-influenced job market. READ MORE