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Will AI Take My Job?

Oracle Layoffs Are Funding a $55.7 Billion Bet Every Competitor Is Also Making

Oracle cut about 21,000 roles, 13% of its workforce, in the same fiscal year it spent $55.7 billion building AI data centers, and Business Insider reports another round is planned before September 1. The capability that money buys will belong to every competitor, and the people it paid for will not come back.

August 13, 2026 · 5 min read

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AI in Education

Purdue Made AI a Graduation Requirement. 331 Degree Programs Had to Change.

Purdue made AI competency a graduation requirement for students arriving in Fall 2026, rewriting 331 plans of study and 22 courses, and built the requirement to expire once working with AI becomes as ordinary as using a calculator.

August 12, 2026

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AI Governance

OpenAI's Own AI Governance Framework Just Paused a Model It Hasn't Released

OpenAI cannot rule out that its unreleased Astra model has crossed into Critical cybersecurity capability, the top tier of its own AI governance framework, and the pause that followed was written by the company rather than required by any law.

August 11, 2026

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AI Governance

South Australia Just Funded Australia's First AI Royal Commission. The Rules That Last Will Be the Ones About People.

South Australia has committed AU$3 million and 3 royal commissioners to Australia's first major government inquiry into AI, opening in October 2026 and reporting in July 2027 on work, education, industry, public health and the arts. The findings that survive to that report date will be the ones written about obligations rather than about what the technology can currently do.

August 10, 2026

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AI Governance

The First AI Agent Cyberattack Was Defended With a Chinese Open Model

Hugging Face fought off the first autonomous AI agent cyberattack using GLM 5.2, an open-source Chinese model, because the American frontier model it tried first had guardrails that refused to examine the attackers' payloads.

August 8, 2026

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Will AI Take My Job?

AI Layoffs Just Hit a 5-Month High. Total Layoffs Just Hit a 2-Year Low.

AI layoffs made up 33% of all US job cuts in July 2026, the 5th month running AI led every stated reason, in the same month total layoffs fell to a 2-year low.

August 7, 2026

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AI Governance

A 1986 Law Just Decided Who Is Responsible When an AI Agent Shops for You

On August 4, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that when Perplexity's Comet assistant shops on Amazon.com for you, the user is the one accessing Amazon's computers under the CFAA, a federal statute written in 1986. The AI agent is the tool, and that single distinction decides who carries the liability every time an agent acts on a company's systems.

August 6, 2026

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