Mark Zuckerberg is facing a wave of outrage within his own ranks. Meta’s team is accusing management of unprecedented surveillance, tracking every click, screenshot, and mouse movement. These tools are being used to train artificial intelligence designed to automate company processes shortly before a planned wave of thousands of layoffs.
The rise of AI has handed cybercriminals the ultimate manipulation tool. Experts are sounding the alarm over a drastic spike in scams across Michigan. Criminals are successfully leveraging deepfake technology and audio cloning to impersonate loved ones and extort money from victims.
The CEO of OpenAI believes a user’s age brutally dictates how they use artificial intelligence. While older generations treat ChatGPT merely as a modern Google replacement, young adults and college students entrust the algorithms with critical life decisions, treating the bot as their digital operating system.
A US court has rejected Nvidia’s motion to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit. The tech giant tried to convince the judge it wasn’t liable for downloading over 197,000 pirated books. The ruling sparked a heated debate online, with netizens calling out the company’s hypocrisy and demands for special treatment.
German startup DeepL, widely considered the global leader in high-precision machine translation, has announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services. Experts and competitors warn that handing digital infrastructure over to American corporations poses a severe threat to the independence of Europe’s tech sector.
To comply with new laws banning minors from social media, Meta is rolling out unprecedented verification measures. Artificial intelligence on Facebook and Instagram will scan users’ photos and videos, biometrically analyzing their bone structure, facial shape, and height, among other features.
Over two decades, the IT sector has evolved from a standalone services market into one of the key drivers of macroeconomic stability. It’s still often described as a volatile and contradictory space — dotcoms, bubbles, AI hype, promises the market doesn’t always have time to put to the test. But something else has been unfolding in parallel. The digital industry is turning into a source of innovation, foreign currency earnings, high-skilled employment, tax revenue, services exports, and the technological modernization of other sectors.
Richard Dawkins, one of the most prominent evolutionary biologists and a leading critic of religion, has publicly suggested that artificial intelligence models might possess consciousness. After days of testing Anthropic’s Claude algorithm, the British researcher admitted that during their conversations, he completely forgets he is dealing with a machine.
In January 2024, an employee at the Hong Kong office of an international company received an email supposedly from the chief financial officer of the company’s UK headquarters. Then came what looked like an ordinary internal meeting: a closed video conference, several colleagues on screen, the calm voice of a senior executive, and instructions for confidential transfers. The people looked familiar. The voice sounded right. The transfer went through — and the money ended up in the hands of scammers.
In the first quarter of 2026 alone, tech giants laid off over 80,000 employees, most often blaming these cuts on the advancement of artificial intelligence. However, one of Silicon Valley’s most influential investors, Marc Andreessen, argues that corporations are simply using this to mask their own management mistakes and massive overstaffing.