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Young job seekers frequently turn to social media to compare themselves with peers and make sense of career possibilities. However, passive feed browsing creates a paradox: the authentic peer content that provides emotional grounding also triggers potentially detrimental upward social comparison and cognitive overload. Previous work has either structured online user-generated content to reduce noise without changing the passive browsing modality, or built AI-powered career exploration systems th

Uniform Norms For Social Media The IT ministry is crafting uniform standards for all messaging apps. But the timing is…

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Through this notice, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Office of Indian Services (OIS), Division of Workforce Development (DWD), Job Placement and Training announces a forthcoming FY 2026 Job Placement and Training discretionary grant pilot program titled, "Native American Technology and Manufacturing Grant Pilot Program-- (IGNITE: Indigenous Growth in New & Innovative Trade Employment)" Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for Tribal workforce development strategies preparing Tribal participa

Semi-automated driving systems promise to reduce crashes by assisting with perception and control, yet they simultaneously introduce additional human factors challenges by requiring drivers to monitor automation and rapidly resume control when failures occur. Prolonged passive monitoring can degrade vigilance, delay reactions, and increase takeover risk, but the extent to which distraction, hazard context, and drivers' underlying cognitive and physiological states jointly shape takeover performa

In the eight-plus months since Amazon announced its most expansive job cuts ever, laid off workers have been thrust into an increasingly saturated labor market.

Large language models (LLMs) are shifting game generation from offline automation toward play-driven modification through natural language interaction. In this work, we present a play-driven game editing system that enables players to modify a retro Space Invaders - style arcade game through voice-based natural-language commands during play. Spoken instructions are interpreted by an LLM and translated into structured updates of internal configuration parameters, allowing iterative play - edit -

Recent advances in LLMs and existing work on programming by demonstration have made it possible for end users to create automations by explicitly demonstrating their behavior to LLMs. However, these approaches rely on the assumption that users know what to automate and what is capable of being automated. Additionally, automation via LLM agents is often expensive compared with programs. We introduce Motif, a system that passively observes everyday browser activity to discover recurring interactio

Here at the National Academy of Sciences, it seems that my first job is to serve on the selection committee for the prestigious Michael and Sheila Held Prize in combinatorial and discrete optimization and related areas. The committee chair, my former MIT colleague Madhu Sudan (now at Harvard), invited me to share the following message […]

Across a range of fast growing urban markets, private developers are constructing a version of the smart city that operates largely outside the purview of municipal government, often at the explicit invitation of city officials seeking to shift the cost and complexity of digital infrastructure onto private capital. Gated residential and mixed use developments are increasingly marketed not merely on the basis of security and amenity, but on their smartness: integrated home automation, app mediate

Anthony Albanese will deliver a landmark speech on AI this week as MPs are torn between attracting datacentre investment and protecting the rights of creatives Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates When Anna Funder stood before a pack of journalists at Parliament House this month, she presented herself not just as a writer but also a “victim of crime”. The Stasiland author was using the analogy to illustrate how technology companies have flagrantly “hoovered up” her literary wor

ChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a job posting.

Experts say there will still be opportunities ahead in everything from teaching to hotels and the law Entering the world of work often brings some uncertainty, but now there is another question: how can I AI-proof my career? We asked people from across various industries what they think the impact of AI will be on careers, and which jobs may be less affected. While it is still early days for the tech, many had ideas about how you can best prepare yourself for a successful career in this new

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La marque à la pomme accuse l’entreprise d’intelligence artificielle d’avoir élaboré une « stratégie » destinée à « extraire des informations confidentielles » provenant d’Apple, dans une plainte déposée devant un tribunal fédéral.

The process of securing that job starts before law school even starts. The post Biglaw Summer Associateships Are Hugely Important To Your Legal Career appeared first on Above the Law .

Pew said in a recent paper that states have multiple avenues for shoring up their workforces ahead of BEAD

The agency’s Bureau of Labor Statistics opened a two-month comment period ahead of its January 2027 launch of a survey on public adoption of and time spent on AI. The post Labor seeks public feedback ahead of nationwide AI survey launch appeared first on FedScoop .

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Download the final report here. Artificial Intelligence is showing enormous promise for improving our daily life. Countless applications in many sectors of the economy are already being developed and ...

Agentic systems usually have two jobs: Build context, then use that context to produce an answer or action. Many failures The post Why retrieval quality is becoming the defining challenge in AI agent architecture appeared first on The New Stack .

A look ahead at the key events leading the news agenda this week, from the team at Foresight News. The post News diary 13-19 July: World Cup final, Labour expected to confirm Burnham as PM, BBC Proms appeared first on Press Gazette .

Agentic testing is an AI-driven approach to end-to-end test automation introduced by Slack engineering. It uses AI agents that execute workflows based on intent rather than fixed scripts, adapting to UI and system changes at runtime. The approach aims to reduce brittle tests in distributed systems while complementing deterministic unit, integration, and E2E testing strategies. By Leela Kumili

AI coding tools cost $19-$200/month/user, but security scanning, remediation, and false positives add hidden costs. Are the productivity gains worth it?

Refutes suggestion that the jobs are going overseas.

EAP's exports now face higher trade restrictions, elevated policy uncertainty, and slowing global growth. And its workers must cope with the growing use of robots, AI, and digital platforms. Download ...

AI creative workflows are reshaping how teams create, moving beyond content generation to editable, collaborative experiences that boost productivity. At the same time, enterprises are demanding trusted AI solutions that balance ease of use with security and compliance. With all that in mind, Canva Pty Ltd. is working to address enterprise concerns about generative AI […] The post Canva targets enterprise creativity with trusted AI creative workflows appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This program helps to ensure that requested data can be provided in the desired format, reporting burden (time and financial resources) is minimized, collecti

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Meta Platforms Inc. today launched a new flagship large language model optimized to power multi-agent automation workflows. Muse Spark 1.1 is available in the company’s Meta AI chatbot service and via an application programming interface. The Meta Model API, as it’s aptly called, will enable developers to embed the LLM in their custom software. The […] The post Meta launches flagship Muse Spark 1.1 model with multi-agent upgrades appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

Silicon Valley is making a show of helping prepare the country for AI layoffs.

Searching for work sucks; AI combs the internet and sucks it all up. Combine the two and let 'er rip with this Python project

This year’s boom includes the most spent on global deal-making in a six-month period in a decade. But questions persist about whether it can continue.

European marketers are rapidly adopting AI, but most applications remain focused on efficiency rather than customer value. New research reveals a growing gap between AI adoption and customer impact, highlighting the need to move beyond productivity gains and use AI to create differentiated customer experiences and competitive advantage.

How AI-powered platforms move defense agencies from reactive staffing to predictive workforce planning and improved readiness. The post Turning defense workforce data into mission readiness appeared first on FedScoop .

How AI-powered platforms move defense agencies from reactive staffing to predictive workforce planning and improved readiness. The post Turning defense workforce data into mission readiness appeared first on DefenseScoop .

Chinese tech industry experts say the rapidly increasing use of AI tokens is giving rise to a token-based economy, with the tiny units underpinning artificial intelligence services evolving beyond a technical metric and into the basis for delivering and pricing AI services. “The [Chinese] digital economy has gone through the stages of the data economy and the computing economy. Today, the token economy is emerging,” Yin Hao, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said on Wednesday...

Chris Gash/theispot.com The Research The authors synthesized findings from four studies spanning short-story writing, circular-economy solutions, humor caption contests, and collaborative storytelling. Across all four studies, AI assistance improved individual output quality, but it reduced collective diversity, resulting in more similar, convergent ideas across groups. AI had the greatest positive effect on individuals with lower […]

David Paffenholz, CEO of AI recruitment platform Juicebox, reflects on the pros and cons of the new world of job seeking.