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These are the application keywords that will bring in top creative talent

An analysis of thousands of job postings and experiments with job seekers shows employers are using the wrong recruitment language to hire creatives.

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LinkedIn is the ‘most AI-saturated platform,’ new study suggests

Data reveals that some of the most popular social media sites are full of AI-generated writing—with LinkedIn leading the charge.

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Walmart is latest grocer to cut prices amid high inflation and grocery costs

The country’s largest retailer joins Costco, Target, and others in reducing prices on items like household essentials, seasonal summer items, and...

09.07.2026 1

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What Microsoft is offering laid-off employees in severance

The company is providing up to 39 weeks of base pay to U.S. employees after cutting 4,800 jobs earlier this week.

08.07.2026 1

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An Xbox VP who spent 37 years at Microsoft was among those laid off yesterday

The gaming division terminated 1,600 staffers on Monday and plans to let go of an additional 1,600 by July 2027.

07.07.2026 7

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Target joins a rank of companies using a points system to track employee attendance

Other large businesses have implemented similar attendance-tracking systems for employees in recent years.

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Microsoft layoffs: Read the email Xbox CEO Asha Sharma sent employees

The gaming division was hit the hardest, with 1,600 roles eliminated today and 3,200 more to be impacted throughout the next year.

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Leaders weigh in on how AI is changing creativity at their businesses

During a TIME100 Talks panel, execs from Nespresso, Luma AI, PMI, and Publicis Sapient discussed how AI is shaping creativity at work.

04.07.2026 7

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Mark Zuckerberg pushes back against AI job loss fears after Meta’s own layoffs

During a recent live interview with Complex, the Meta CEO pushed back against the idea that mass AI job displacement is inevitable.

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JPMorgan names 2 co-presidents in its CEO succession contest

As the search for the next CEO of JPMorgan stretches on, experts weigh in on whether naming a pair of contenders will make the final call easier—or...

29.06.2026 10

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Meta reverses decision to reassign employees to AI training roles

The mandatory reassignments are now up ‘to each individual’s choice,’ says an internal memo from the company.

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California launches a statewide tracker to monitor AI-related job loss

The tracker and its accompanying report found no evidence of a statewide surge in layoffs among those working in highly AI-exposed jobs.

25.06.2026 7

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GameStop CEO says goodbye to $35 billion pay package to focus on eBay bid

Ryan Cohen won’t receive a potential performance reward from GameStop to concentrate on plans to acquire eBay, even after the commerce giant...

24.06.2026 9

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Meta hits pause on tracking employee keystrokes to train AI after internal leak

The company said it was investigating the incident after a screenshot obtained by Business Insider showed that employees’ data was exposed.

23.06.2026 4

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Domino’s gets a new CEO amid slowing sales—but is it enough to save pizza chains?

With steep competition from delivery services and rising operational costs, Big Pizza has struggled to maintain its hold on the American masses.

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Google DeepMind CEO says these are the skills that will set humans apart from AI

Demis Hassabis predicts artificial general intelligence will be achieved by 2030. These are the human skills that will be increasingly valuable.

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Meta CTO: Company morale is among the ‘worst it’s ever been’ after layoffs

After 10% of Meta’s workforce was laid off, Andrew Bosworth said the tech giant is working toward improving employee morale, according to reports...

18.06.2026 10

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Google AI leader Noam Shazeer leaves company for OpenAI

His decision is the latest example of top tech talent being poached to work at AI companies.

18.06.2026 10

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Robinhood lays off 10% of staff to flatten its organizational structure

‘Robinhood’s business has never been stronger,’ CEO Vlad Tenev said in a memo to employees. ‘But to achieve the massive scale of our mission,...

16.06.2026 10

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Jeff Bezos says AI will cause “labor scarcity,” not job loss

The Amazon and Prometheus founder believes that AI productivity gains will lead to more demand for human labor than there is.

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Xbox plans layoffs, even after Microsoft CEO said company is ‘long on gaming’

Xbox is “planning major job cuts” in July after Asha Sharma stepped in as CEO, according to Bloomberg.

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Conan O’Brien joins the fight against corporate AI scam attacks

The comedian partnered with an OpenAI-backed security firm on a 15-part cybersecurity training video series.

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The ‘AI boomerang’: Why some companies are rehiring employees they laid off due to AI

Managers are realizing the rapidly evolving technology can’t completely replace humans after all, research suggests.

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Uber lays off 23% of its HR and recruiting team that became ‘too complex and fragmented’

The company is cutting staffers from its People and Places division while confirming a cap on employee AI spend.

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How Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang treats employees of the world’s most valuable company

‘You can’t show me something without me giving you some criticism,’ Huang said in a recent interview with Channel News Asia. ‘I’m always...

02.06.2026 8

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New internal Microsoft memo shows shifting employee sentiment

According to Microsoft’s biannual “Employee Signals” survey, employees feel energized to do meaningful work but worse about coaching and...

02.06.2026 6

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Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins: “A bad decision that is reversed is better than a delayed decision”

In a recent Semafor interview, Robbins talked about his decision-making strategy and company culture as the leader of the $475 billion technology...

01.06.2026 10

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120,000 people applied for this very NSFW “hottest vacancy in AI right now”

No coding skills are required for this new AI consultant job posting that went viral on X.

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Costco CEO Ron Vachris: ‘I don’t see AI making choices’ for the retailer

The chief executive staunchly believes that human employees are Costco’s biggest competitive edge. He’s using AI to elevate them, not eliminate them.

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Nearly half of CEOs plan upskilling, reskilling initiatives for workers to keep up with AI

A new EY-Parthenon survey shows how leaders are thinking about the future of employees, new hires, and their companies at large.

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Why the CEO of Box says CEOs are more prone to AI psychosis

Leaders who only see ‘the happy path results’ of AI are ‘uniquely prone to AI psychosis,’ Aaron Levie wrote in a post on X.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls AI a ‘lazy’ excuse for layoffs

In an interview with Channel News Asia, Huang gave his advice to people who are worried about losing their jobs to artificial intelligence.

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Being a CEO “is not that complicated,” says Google CEO Sundar Pichai

In a recent interview with The Verge, Pichai said that AI is “very, very helpful in terms of decision-making” for CEOs—and only getting better.

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Stephen Colbert’s decade-old lesson on navigating uncertainty is more relevant than ever

As the late-night host signs off from CBS, his 2015 Wake Forest University commencement speech feels especially timely for the class of 2026.

22.05.2026 10

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says he’ll hire fewer bankers, more ‘AI people’

The billionaire banker told Bloomberg that AI will reduce certain roles at JPMorgan, which already has a $20 billion technology fund.

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This sentence about AI got Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak applause—not boos—for his commencement speech

New grads keep booing speakers for their comments on AI. But Wozniak told them something they actually wanted to hear.

20.05.2026 10

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Bolt CEO says firing his HR team made the company’s problems disappear

“We had an HR team, and that HR team was creating problems that didn’t exist,” Ryan Breslow said at Fortune’s Workforce Innovation Summit....

20.05.2026 10

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Delta CEO used AI to write his commencement speech, then trashed it

‘Taking a shortcut or pushing the easy button can sometimes be quite tempting,’ Ed Bastian said. ‘But they never yield an enduring result …’

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Dropbox chief people officer: The hybrid work model is ‘the worst of all worlds’

While other companies roll out RTO mandates, Dropbox is embracing a ‘virtual-first’ model for its workforce.

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Martha Stewart’s new AI startup: A good thing?

Her new home management AI platform received $10 million in funding and will launch this summer.

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Google, Box CEOs say this is the ‘most in-demand’ job in tech

Google is planning to fill hundreds of these positions, while Anthropic and OpenAI are also expanding their use of the role.

13.05.2026 10

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How new BuzzFeed CEO Byron Allen turned the ‘worst thing that ever happened’ into success

In an interview with radio host Charlamagne tha God, the comedian-turned-business leader revealed what he considers his ‘greatest currency.’

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to new grads: ‘Run, don’t walk’ toward AI

During a commencement speech at Carnegie Mellon University, Huang said that now is the best time to start a career.

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Poppi cofounder Allison Ellsworth says you have to sacrifice work-life balance to succeed

The cofounder and her husband sold Poppi to Pepsi for $2 billion last year—now they’re navigating life as centimillionaires.

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Naomi Osaka says this is the one myth about success she used to believe

‘People ask what I did to get here,’ the tennis star wrote in a piece for Fortune. ‘But the truest answer might be this.’

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Chili’s CEO: The ‘secret sauce’ to the chain’s huge comeback was this

The casual dining eatery’s CEO, Kevin Hochman, attributed Chili’s consecutive growth to two things in a recent Business Insider interview.

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‘I’m selling stuff on eBay to pay for eBay,’ GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen posts following combative interview

After offering to buy eBay, the billionaire CEO avoided questions on CNBC this week about how the company would fill its $16 billion gap in funding.

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Salesforce says it will hire 1,000 ‘AI-native’ new grads

Amid a brutal entry-level job market, the company is fast-tracking young talent familiar with AI into new roles.

06.05.2026 10

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80% of CEOs worry their job is at risk if AI fails this year, survey shows

A new survey of 900 CEOs reveal that they’re feeling the pressure from their boards to prove AI ROI, and that they worry about over-investing in the...

06.05.2026 10

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Read the email Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong sent when he laid off 14% of his staff

He said the company will reduce management layers and downsize teams to just one person in its push for an ‘AI-native’ workforce.

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