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Oracle has started laying off employees globally, with affected workers sharing their experiences on social media. The full extent of the layoffs is still unknown.

Inspiration, intuition, and interrogation are nodes in a living network, each one feeding and refining the others, generating a sort of generative consciousness: the capacity not just to respond to the world, but to reimagine it.

While the Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSEARCA:DIA) has climbed 3.4% year-to-date entering Thursday's trading, three blue-chip giants went the opposite direction. Salesforce (NYSE:CRM), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT | MSFT Price Prediction), and UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) became the index's biggest drags, each shedding double-digit percentages while the broader market marched higher. Beating earnings doesn't guarantee stock gains when investors question the path forward.

It's gonna be something like 10 times the impact of the Industrial Revolution, but happening at 10 times the speed, probably unfolding in a matter of a decade rather than a century,

Bhusri's return to the top job at the human resources software company reflects the belief that only a founder with billions on the line and a personal legacy at stake has the unique vision and authority to steer the ship through difficult waters. And with majority voting control plus operational authority as CEO, Bhusri will have more power to make any difficult changes he sees necessary.

For 40 years I have been a proud valley resident. But I am increasingly appalled by how our tech leaders are shaping our future. And, more recently, embarrassed for the valley. The links to Jeffrey Epstein. The trips to Mar-a-Lago. The donation of millions for monuments to President Trump's ego. The failure to use power and technology to call out the cruelty and lies that are the backbone of the current administration.

For decades, we've treated IQ and EQ as the twin pillars of success. IQ measures how well you think. EQ measures how well you feel. Together, they shaped how we educated children, selected leaders, and decided who had "potential." But after years of working closely with founders, executives, and high performers, I've become convinced that something critical is missing from this picture. I argue that there's a third form of intelligence, one that quietly determines who thrives when life stops following the script.

Amazon is cutting 16,000 corporate jobs, pushing thousands of workers into a job market already crowded with tech talent. Business Insider was all over the news, with scoop after scoop, including internal messages revealing which teams and jobs were affected. The layoffs followed the 14,000 job cuts Amazon announced back in October. And it's not just Amazon.

Four out of five employees believe artificial intelligence will affect their daily work tasks, according to a new global survey by staffing and recruitment company Randstad. The survey found that Generation Z workers are the most concerned group, while baby boomers feel more secure and adaptable, according to Reuters.

Your junior designer spins up a prototype in Lovable before lunch. Your PM shows you a "working" MVP built entirely with Cursor within a day. And your CEO forwards you a LinkedIn post about how AI will replace 80% of UI work by 2026. And it seems like anyone can now make an app to solve a specific problem. Has the graphical interface really died, as Jakob Nielsen provocatively suggests?

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Tailwind, like many startups, has a small head count. In a podcast posted on X, Wathan said that the company had four engineers on staff. Now, there's one. Wathan's post highlights the challenges that startups, which already face tough odds of success, can encounter as AI models grow more capable. The CEO founded the web developer tool in 2017. Tailwind's model is free and open-source, with a paid "pro" tier driving the company's revenue.

As I was wading through the waters of all our predictions, readers painted a picture of possibilities and pressure in the private markets. AI, on one hand, is a force multiplier-on the other, it will be unevenly impactful and the losses as the industry consolidates will be staggering. Liquidity, meanwhile, is making a comeback, albeit with a new normal. Velocity is increasing, but so is fragility.

The colonial Indian government decided the cobra population should be reduced, and decided the solution was to pay a generous bounty for every cobra carcass it received. What the government hadn't anticipated was that some enterprising individuals would start breeding cobras, because cobras were now lucrative. This was bad, but what happened next was worse - the government cancelled the program, and everyone who'd been breeding cobras suddenly had no incentive to keep the snakes, so all the captive cobras were released into the wild.

Not only will they be reeling in sky-high salaries, but Altman says they'll also be "feeling so bad for you and I that we had to do this really boring, old work and everything is just better." "In 2035, that graduating college student, if they still go to college at all, could very well be leaving on a mission to explore the solar system on a spaceship in some completely new, exciting, super well-paid, super interesting job," Altman told video journalist Cleo Abram.

Our work delving into the businesses of independent news publishers through LION's Sustainability Audits has given us a unique window into the operations of more than 500 newsrooms across the country. Each is trying to build a digital business around local news; some are rural, some are urban; some are relatively large with staffs up to a few dozen, but the vast majority are small.

It sounds a little trite. But it's true. True whether we're putting a spotlight on a massive new xAI data center in Memphis or digging into the potential state takeover of our largest public school system or highlighting new restaurants and chefs doing amazing things or telling the stories of immigrants of all backgrounds who've made Memphis their home. It's true in the enterprise reporting we do.

2025's words of the year reflect a generation frustrated with job prospects, AI, and online culture. Platforms have chosen terms like "fatigue," "AI slop," and "rage bait." For the first time, Dictionary.com chose a word that is also a number as its Word of the Year. Everyone is over 2025. Various platforms and dictionaries released their word of the year in December, and the choices widely reflect a sense of inescapable uncertainty, exhaustion, and skepticism of the tech world.

The median base salary for HBS's 2025 graduates rose to $184,500, up from $175,000 the year before. Of the 65% of the class seeking employment, 90% received at least one job offer within three months of graduation, and 84% accepted-both improvements from the classes of 2024 and 2023. Data from PayScale, analyzed by Poets & Quants, estimates the median lifetime income of an HBS graduate at over $8.5 million.

The chief executive has a front-row seat to how AI will shake up the world; last month, Google rolled out its latest model, Gemini 3, and received critical appraise. The innovation-seen as an improvement from Gemini 2.5 released around eight months ago- ignited optimism among investors and analysts, who heralded the chatbot as their "favorite model generally available today." As the technology continues to advance, Pichai emphasized it'll create new opportunities, while also admitting some roles will be phased out.

Many of us have heard of "boomerang employees"-someone who leaves a company and later returns-but there's a newer version showing up in the workplace: the layoff boomerang. Maybe you've seen it yourself. A coworker disappears after a round of cuts, only to show up again a few months later. Same desk. Same job. Sometimes even a bigger paycheck.

The cybersecurity landscape is a dynamic arena in which innovation and threats evolve relentlessly. ISACA's State of Cybersecurity 2025 report - drawing insights from more than 3,800 professionals worldwide - offers a critical snapshot of this environment. It highlights persistent staffing shortages, the transformative impact of AI, rising stress levels and constrained budgets. Together, these findings underscore the delicate balance organizations must strike between technology, talent and well-being.