Last month, Meta laid off 10% of its workforce to counter AI spending, and reassigned another 10% of staffers to a mandatory AI teams to train its models. Now, the company’s chief technology officer, Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, said that morale at Meta is “probably one of the worst it’s ever been.” According to Business Insider, during a June 2 internal meeting called “Tuesdays with Boz,” Bosworth said morale is “maybe not the worst it’s ever been in 20 years here, but it’s probably up there. It’s definitely up there.” “I can think Cambridge Analytica was probably the worst,” Bosworth added,…
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The Instagram carousel feature, which allows users to post up to 20 photos or videos in a single post, is one of the app’s most popular engagement formats.Now it’s getting a major upgrade.As of Thursday morning, users can add captions to individual slides on a carousel post. Previously, the only caption option was the traditional one that would be seen on the bottom of the post. That caption would remain the same for all slides. Users would have to manually edit text onto individual slides if they wanted to write something specific, or write in the caption what each slide…
The number of Americans applying for jobless aid fell modestly last week as layoffs remained in the same historically low range of recent years.U.S. applications for unemployment benefits in the week ending June 13 dropped by 4,000 to 226,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s in line with the 225,000 new applications forecast by analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet.Weekly filings for unemployment benefits are considered representative of U.S. layoffs and are close to a real-time indicator of the health of the job market.Despite concerns that the conflict in the Middle East would further squeeze a flagging labor market,…
I’m not a fan of AI used for actual creative work, but the new agents for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Premiere are a completely new twist to Adobe’s approach to AI. And it’s that every creative person can get behind because it is truly focused on fully automating the most tedious tasks of their work. I found myself in awe as I watched someone using an agent to set up a Premiere project. It did everything starting from a pile of randomly named video, audio, and graphic files to creating a project structure. I watched as it renamed and tagged…
Shares of Sleep Number Corporation will no longer be publicly traded after next week. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Committee (SEC), the embattled mattress and bedding company confirmed that its stock (Nasdaq: SNBR) will be delisted from the Nasdaq after it had received written notice from the exchange’s listings qualifications staff. The company’s stock will be delisted when the market opens on Tuesday, June 23. The news follows Sleep Number’s Friday, June 12, voluntary filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In its delisting announcement, Sleep Number stated, “Nasdaq’s determination was based on the filing of the Chapter 11…
In the volatile world of manufacturing, one factor is emerging as the ultimate differentiator in 2026: speed, and in particular, operational velocity. This is the ability to sense market changes, make decisions quickly and decisively, and recover swiftly across the entire value chain. Persistent uncertainties are the new normal right now, ranging from shifting tariffs and supply chain disruptions to labor shortages and rapid demand changes. These factors make traditional, slow-moving operations a liability. Automation is vital. Additionally, companies that can compress their response times from weeks or months down to minutes or seconds are poised to thrive. OPERATIONAL AND…
CVS is cutting down on single-use plastic with a new, fully recyclable aluminum bottle for some of its pharmacy’s most common generic over-the-counter products. The pharmacy’s aluminum bottles are being rolled out first with value-sized CVS brand allergy and pain relief products. Shiny and silver, the bottles are designed not just to be environmentally friendly, but also to look more premium, although the price itself is unchanged. Brightly colored tops are paired with color-corresponding sticker labels that show actual size images of the pills inside, as well as callouts for product comparisons and the text “Infinitely Recyclable Aluminum.” CVS collaborated…
Below, Joanna Stern shares five key insights from her new book, I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything. Joanna is an Emmy-winning tech journalist. She is the founder of New Things and NBC News’ chief tech analyst. She spent 12 years at The Wall Street Journal, has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and was a technology editor at ABC News and The Verge. To write this book, she spent a year letting AI and robots take over nearly every part of her life—or at least as much as she could without losing her mind, marriage, or job.…
Financial crises rarely appear overnight. The warning signs are already there, hidden in mountainous volumes of data that regulators—or really any human—struggle to interpret. Before the 2008 global financial crisis, underwriting standards were slipping, leverage was rising, and subprime mortgages kept growing. In 2023, Silicon Valley Bank showed how quickly risk unravels when deposits are concentrated and confidence disappears. Even outside traditional banking, the collapse of FTX exposed what happens when transparency and governance break down behind rapid growth. In each case, the risks weren’t hidden. They were scattered across balance sheets, regulatory filings, market signals, and internal data that…
Anthropic recently posted a job opening for a Head of GTM Narrative. Not a content lead. Not a brand director. A go-to-market narrative strategist. The company that has spent years building some of the most capable AI in the world decided that the thing it needed a human to own was the story. Anthropic isn’t alone. According to The Wall Street Journal, LinkedIn job postings mentioning the term “storyteller” doubled in 2025, reaching roughly 70,000 roles across marketing and communications. Companies including Google, Microsoft, and Notion have all created or restructured teams around narrative and storytelling. Executives mentioned “storytelling” on…