2026-06-16
Quote of the day by former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki: 'Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution' — commentary on society's relationship with programming
The late technology executive Susan Wojcicki drew strong parallels between the rise of coding and the engineering bloom in the 1800s [...]
2026-06-15
Satya Nadella warns that AI could hollow out entire industries, echoing the damage done by globalization
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a sweeping essay on Sunday laying out what he describes as the defining economic challenge of the AI era: the risk that a handful of frontier models will absorb the expertise of entire industries and commoditize it, leaving businesses stripped of their competitive moats."The last thing any of us want is a world where every company across every sector is c [...]
2026-06-15
YouTube’s AI slop purge is punishing the human creators who never showed their faces
YouTube has a growing AI slop problem, and its efforts to fix it are catching legitimate creators in the crossfire. In January 2026, the platform terminated 16 channels with a combined 35 million subscribers and 4.7 billion lifetime views under its inauthentic content policy, a quiet rename of the old “repetitious content” rules. The channels […]<br /> This story continues at The Next [...]
2026-06-15
Google is spending $50 million on 'growing the next generation of American workers' — but at $166 per worker, surely it's not going to get very far?
The search engine giant has committed to spending at least $50 million on training that it says will impact as many as 300,000 workers across America. [...]