Gen Z's excitement about AI has plummeted 14% since 2025, with anger rising and nearly half of working Gen Zers now believing AI's workforce risks outweigh its benefits, even as most acknowledge the technology will define their futures.
Nearly 80,000 tech workers are losing their jobs in Q1 2026, with AI and automation blamed for nearly half the cuts as companies slash their workforces and funnel the savings directly into AI investments, raising alarms about the future of white-collar and entry-level employment.
Google launches 'Notebooks' in the Gemini app, giving subscribers a unified workspace to organize chats, files, and custom instructions that syncs seamlessly with NotebookLM for streamlined project management across both platforms.
Perplexity surges 50% in a single month to hit $450M ARR, powered by a bold pivot from AI search to autonomous AI agents, while boasting 100 million monthly users — though it still trails rivals like OpenAI at $20B and Anthropic at $19B in annual revenue.
Poke AI surges to a $300M valuation as its no-download personal assistant lets users manage calendars, health, and smart home devices directly through iMessage, SMS, and Telegram, growing 10x in users in just a few months.
Anthropic launches Claude Managed Agents in public beta, a powerful suite of composable APIs enabling developers to build and deploy cloud-hosted AI agents up to 10x faster, with major companies like Notion, Asana, and Atlassian already shipping production-ready agents in days instead of months.
A shocking new survey of 2,400 C-suite leaders reveals 60% of companies plan to fire AI-resistant employees while creating an 'AI elite' class, even as only 29% report significant gains from generative AI — raising urgent questions about whether mass layoffs are a desperate financial shortcut rather than a genuine …
Investors are now demanding full AI-driven operational overhauls before funding companies, shifting focus from surface-level AI features to evidence that entire business models are being rebuilt around artificial intelligence as foundational infrastructure.
Anthropic's revenue explodes past $19 billion annually, fueled by surging demand for its Claude Code AI tool, but the company now faces a potentially devastating blow as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designates it a supply-chain risk, threatening to cut off all US government sales.
Anthropic cuts third-party tool access for Claude Code subscribers starting April 4, 2026, forcing separate pay-as-you-go payments, while OpenClaw's creator accuses the company of copying open-source features into its own closed tool before locking out competitors — a charge Anthropic denies, calling it a sustainability decision.