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Freshworks CEO says AI now writes more than half the company's code as the firm lays off 500 employees — one of the clearest admissions of AI-driven headcount reduction in software.
Anthropic is rolling out roughly 10 pre-built AI agents for banking and finance, targeting pitchbooks, credit memos, KYC compliance, underwriting, and insurance claims.
New Gallup data finds 18% of U.S. workers believe their job could be eliminated by AI within five years — and the number is higher, not lower, among workers whose companies have already deployed AI tools.
Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Alabama, and Missouri are advancing bills to require AI literacy coursework as a condition for high school graduation — the first coordinated wave of mandatory AI education policy in the U.S.
AI-powered building management is producing 20–30% energy savings in commercial properties, and buildings are beginning to connect into city-scale intelligence networks that create new revenue streams for property owners.
Vodafone cut 5G site power consumption 33% with AI. Agentic AI handles 60% of industry customer care. In 2026, telecom's AI-native transition is operational, not theoretical.
A February 2026 Gallup survey of 23,717 employees confirms AI has crossed the 50% adoption threshold in the U.S. workplace — and finds that workers closest to AI are the most anxious about it.
89% of telecom executives plan to increase AI spending over the next 12 months, but power costs, specialized hardware, and uncertain short-term ROI are delaying full AI-native network deployments.
Goldman Sachs projects AI will displace 6–7% of the U.S. workforce over 10 years — roughly 10 million workers — with white-collar earners under $80,000 most exposed.
Legal AI platform Legora has reached a $5.6 billion valuation in its latest funding round, intensifying its rivalry with Harvey AI as institutional law firms commit serious capital to AI-assisted legal work.
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its latest flagship model, with significant improvements to multi-step reasoning and agentic workflow execution—the ability to plan and complete complex tasks autonomously across connected systems.
Huawei unveiled AgenticCore, an architecture embedding agentic AI simultaneously across mobile data, voice, operations, and telco cloud — the most aggressive AI integration in telecom infrastructure announced to date, with explicit 6G ambitions.
New York City parents packed a seven-hour school board session demanding a two-year pause on AI in classrooms — as the NYC DOE's AI guidance framework awaits final public comment through May 8.
BMW has put the AEON humanoid robot to work at its Leipzig plant for material delivery — the first humanoid deployment in a BMW German production facility, marking a shift from demo to actual manufacturing integration.
Three in four large organizations now have a Chief AI Officer — up from 26% just a year ago. IBM's survey of 2,000 CEOs across 33 countries reveals how fast the C-suite is being restructured for AI.
UNICEF Innocenti research finds women hold 86% of jobs most exposed to AI-driven displacement — concentrated in administrative, clerical, and customer-service roles that prior automation waves left untouched.
AI can complete most conventional homework in seconds. Now schools are being forced to confront whether those assignments were ever measuring actual learning — and what they should be doing instead.
Mobile World Congress 2026 marked a decisive shift: telecom operators are done extracting value from 5G and are pivoting to AI-native networks and 6G as their primary long-term investment thesis.
A Washington Post analysis maps AI automation risk across the U.S. job market — and finds white-collar workers face steeper disruption than factory workers, with women comprising 86% of the most exposed segment.
Google DeepMind announced an AI co-clinician system built to provide real-time diagnostic support during patient encounters — moving AI from back-office documentation into clinical decision-making.