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Google reportedly expanded its office presence in Miami this year after two of its co-founders purchased houses in South Florida.
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, signed a lease expanding its existing 10,000-square-foot satellite office in Miami's financial district by an additional 45,000 square feet, two people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News. READ MORE
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
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
Last week, SpaceX’s enormous Starship rocket failed to ignite several of its engines, forcing the company to abort its first test launch since its IPO earlier this summer.
The scrub served as the perfect metaphor for the space company’s ongoing struggles to convince investors of CEO Elon Musk’s lofty ambitions — ambitions which have little to no chance of turning into a reality without Starship. READ MORE
In April, someone threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's San Francisco home, and within days a second attack put gunfire into the property. The Wall Street Journal reports that AI executives are hardening personal security as opposition to the industry moves from online posts into the physical world.
Prosecutors say Daniel Moreno-Gama, the 20-year-old accused in the first attack, traveled from Texas to San Francisco intending to kill Altman, and had writings on him about AI's purported risk to humanity. He faces two counts of attempted murder and attempted arson in California state court. Two more suspects were later arrested in connection with the second incident. Around the same time, The Information described Silicon Valley leaning into a new breed of bodyguards for AI leadership. READ MORE
Introverted conference attendee Art Pendelton was torn this morning between participating in a mandatory icebreaker or throwing himself off a bridge.
After the conference leader's enthusiastic announcement that everyone would be having some fun getting to know one another with "Two Truths and a Lie", Pendleton began carefully weighing the pros and cons of talking to strangers or hurling himself into the deep. READ MORE
Local dad Grayson Kenny found his plan to work from home today utterly foiled by the people in his home.
Kenny was about to start responding to emails when his wife, Becca, "needed to talk" for just a minute, which quickly turned into half an hour. A sighing Kenny began working again, only for the internet to go down three minutes later when his toddler unplugged the router. Kenny had nearly fixed the router when his daughter came in, announcing that she had just been bitten by a snapping turtle down at the pond and needed to go to urgent care. READ MORE
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 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
Even as job seekers fret about artificial intelligence and tech behemoths announce massive layoffs, Matt Walsh is finding it surprisingly hard to help technology companies hire certain kinds of workers.
That’s what Walsh’s recruiting firm, Blue Signal, does. And in specialties including semiconductor production, “the unemployment rate is probably negative 20 percent,” the CEO of the Phoenix-based search company said. “It’s ridiculous. There just aren’t enough people.” READ MORE
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
A judge has approved a $1.5 million penalty levied against Elon Musk that will settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit despite having “significant misgivings” about it.
U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan noted that her court would accept the settlement, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, which cited her court opinion. READ MORE
Whether it was caregiving responsibilities, feeling discouraged after a long stretch of unemployment or the realization they’re sitting on a pile of money, many Americans have left the workforce entirely.
Over the past year, about 1 million workers have thrown in the towel. In June alone, 720,000 people left the workforce, the Labor Department estimated. The labor force participation rate, or the percentage of those 16 and older who are working or looking for work, fell to 61.5% in June, marking the lowest reading since March 2021. Excluding the lows seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, it represents the lowest rate in five decades. READ MORE
As AI reshapes how work gets done, some HR leaders say the link between workforce size and business performance is beginning to break down. There is evidence of this from McKinsey, which estimates that generative AI could lift U.S. labor productivity by 0.5%-0.9% a year through 2030, helping companies scale up without proportional hiring.
“For the first time, organizations can increase output, accelerate decision-making and expand market reach without scaling headcount at the same rate,” says Ronni Zehavi, CEO and co-founder of HR technology platform HiBob. He predicts that the organizations that pull ahead will be the ones that can redeploy talent quickly, pair human judgment with machine intelligence and out-adapt their competitors—not necessarily the ones with the largest workforces. READ MORE
The remote job market in 2026 is large. The part that actually serves senior professionals is much smaller, and the criteria for navigating it are different from what most career advice covers.
Most remote job search guidance is built around the assumption that more applications equal more interviews. For professionals with 10 or more years of experience, the opposite tends to be true. The automated screening layer in enterprise hiring was designed for mid-level roles. It evaluates keyword density, not career context. This means a VP with 20 years across four industries often scores lower than a 4-year analyst who holds the exact keyword the job description specifies. READ MORE
Today, sweatshop workers across the Global South are being made to pull double duty: both stitching clothes together, and training robots to put themselves out of work entirely.
New reporting by the Guardian documented this emerging gig taking hold at manufacturing facilities around the world. Outside Delhi, a 32-year-old garment maker identified as Lalita says her factory now requires everyone to strap a GoPro camera to their heads at the start of each shift. READ MORE
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
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
As organizations race to keep up with AI advances, no area of people management is free from disruption. This includes benefits and compensation, as evidenced by the recent waves made by insurance giant State Farm.
The more than 100-year-old insurance firm is requiring all 19,000 independent contractors who work as sales agents to sign a new contract by 2027 that includes significant changes to compensation and benefits, according to The Wall Street Journal, which viewed a video of CEO Jon Farney announcing the changes during a recent Las Vegas sales agent convention. READ MORE
Sometimes we like convenience stores for their charm as much as their actual convenience.
Now, a new one popping up in Hong Kong is hoping to endear customers and crank up the novelty factor by having the whole thing be run by a single humanoid robot. The South China Morning Post reports that it’ll be the first of its kind to open in the bustling city. READ MORE