AI Made Expertise Cheap. Judgment Is The New Competitive Advantage
AI has made polished work abundant and less meaningful. Employers must look beyond outputs and hire for judgment, reasoning and accountability.
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Five things to know about Anthropic ahead of Wall Street debut
Anthropic, the OpenAI rival that bet everything on computer coding, is expected to go public within weeks in a listing that could eclipse SpaceX's record Wal...
AI Will Deflate Value of IT Work by Up to 25%, Hexaware CEO Says
AI could lower the price of routine IT projects by as much as 25%, the head of India’s Hexaware Technologies Ltd. said, highlighting the impact the technolog...
South Korea's Wrtn raises Series C funding at over $722 million valuation
SEOUL, Aug 26 (Reuters) - South Korean AI services platform Wrtn Technologies said on Wednesday it had raised around 100 billion won ($72.2 million) in a Ser...
AI Trade at Risk From US Voter Ire Over Buildout, Barclays Says
The relentless buildout of artificial intelligence infrastructure is drawing bipartisan backlash, which could introduce political risk to the market’s belove...
Anthropic pitches IPO investors on $30 trillion market opportunity
The AI company could aim to raise as much as $100 billion in its offering, targeting a valuation of about $2 trillion
Iran’s attacks on US water systems are just the beginning
Iran isn’t waiting for this war to end before it looks for the next vulnerability, and neither should we.
Why Google Bid $10 Million for a Failed Airline’s Data
The Spirit Airlines deal points to AI companies’ growing ambitions to automate white-collar work.
OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack
The state is investigating whether OpenAI’s ‘inability or unwillingness to ensure the safety of its products’ endangers citizens.
AI Infrastructure Stocks Surge: How Long Can CoreWeave (CRWV) and Super Micro Computer (SMCI) Keep It Up?
Shares of CoreWeave, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) and Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ:SMCI) jumped to their highest levels since June on August 12, 2026, a day afte...
Apple Just Leaked Its AI Future. Investors Have More Reasons to Worry.
Apple's camera-equipped AirPods show where its AI ambitions are headed, but another delay highlights the company's continued struggle to deliver AI on schedu...
Nvidia Isn’t the Only Way to Win the AI Chip Race
Marvell has quietly turned itself into one of the most aggressive bets on AI infrastructure without selling a single GPU, and a surprise $12.2 billion disclo...
Delta CEO Ed Bastian says AI could boost profits by 50% as airline tests AI-set fares on 3% of tickets
Delta CEO Ed Bastian said AI could ultimately improve the airline’s profitability by as much as 50%, but flyers are concerned about their privacy and persona...
The latest turn in the data center debate.
The Wall Street Journal and New York Times are both reporting on politicians like Greg Abbott and Josh Shapiro suddenly bashing types of projects they once championed. The Washington Post has a chart showing how online posts about data centers from both Democrat and Republican politicians have shifted from being mostly positive in early 2025 to being mostly negative. On Sunday, Abbott appeared on ABC’s This Week, saying that by moving too fast, the industry “…basically dug their own grave for the problem that’s been caused for them, and that’s why they got the backlash they deserve.” [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB01hM0v8EU]
Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine on music and AI.
The Beats by Dre pair spoke to the New York Times briefly, with former Interscope head Iovine saying AI companies have terrible communication skills but that “I’m very pro-A.I. in music creation. I don’t see the downside at all. There will be some crappy music. There’s crappy music now.” Dre called anyone against it similar to those who pushed back against drum machines or synthesizers, and said, “I think the only people that see it as a threat are the people who have trouble creating.” [Link: Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Think A.I. Is Good for Music | https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/business/jimmy-iovine-dr-dre-beats-usc.html | New York Times]
Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button
LinkedIn actually announced a “Seems like AI slop” button on July 30th, and the company says “over a million people” have clicked on it.
Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money
Prominent content creators like Matti Haapoja and Sam Kolder are in hot water for promoting AI filmmaking service Higgsfield.
House Democrat: Rein in data centers without losing tech race to China
Democratic Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (Va.), whose district lies in a hotbed of data center activity, pushed to rein them in Thursday, but not enough where the U.S. would lose the technology race to China. “The reality is, if we want to grow and develop some of these emerging technologies like AI and others, we will…