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Work
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News Work & careers
California bars employers from firing on an AI system's say-so alone, and from AI that reads workers' emotions
Four workplace bills signed on 30 September also add AI to layoff notices and ban surveillance in workplace bathrooms. The human-review rule starts on 1 July 2027.
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News Work & careers
AI chip company Blaize cuts about 26% of its staff to save up to $8.4 million a year
The Nasdaq-listed maker of processors for AI inference filed the cuts with the SEC. It employed 254 people at the end of 2025; the filing gives no number.
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News AI
The best AI agent got 18 of 24 right when a company's key facts were never written down
A preprint, not yet peer-reviewed, tested 12 agents on an invented company. The top score came with the authors' own agent program.
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News Work & careers
Cambium Networks cuts 260 jobs, 53.6% of its staff, with no severance, as its UK arm enters administration
The maker of wireless broadband and Wi-Fi equipment filed the cuts with the SEC. Administrators will try to sell some or all of its business lines.
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News AI
49% of US adults now use AI chatbots, up from 33% in 2024, and 38% of workers use them for work, Pew finds
About a quarter use chatbots daily. Searching for information and work tasks are the commonest uses; one in ten use them for emotional support.