Workers at all stages of their careers — from job hunters to job havers — are increasingly anxious about the lightning-fast deployment of AI.
Why it matters: Their fears come at a particularly fraught moment, with jobs in scarce supply, hiring frozen in many industries and corporate leaders relentlessly pushing this technology as a replacement for humans.
A new book dives into the often misunderstood political life and evolution of Malcolm X — an instrumental figure who helped shape the narrative about people of color in the U.S.
The big picture: Malcolm X has been the subject of many books in recent years amid new questions about his 1965 assassination and the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Tech companies are racing to strike their own deals to leverage their massive troves of proprietary data, the key differentiator in the AI era.
Why it matters: Much of this data is public and easily scrapeable, putting platforms in a similar predicament for copyright infringement as publishers.
The $350 billion global search advertising industry will grow even faster in the AI era, thanks to new capabilities that make search queries more dimensional and multimodal.
Why it matters: The search ad business model of targeting based on keywords and evaluating success based on last-click attribution has barely evolved over the past three decades. It isn't going away, but it is about to get a lot more sophisticated.
OpenAI's ChatGPT is by far the most popular AI chatbot in the world, according to data from Similarweb.
Zoom in: With nearly 6 billion monthly desktop and mobile visits, ChatGPT receives around 8 times more monthly visits than its next closest competitor, Google's Gemini, and around 9 times more than the open-source Chinese app DeepSeek.
Hollywood is suing some AI startups and signing deals with others as the industry navigates both the threat AI poses to intellectual property and the efficiencies it brings to production.
Why it matters: The response to AI will redefine how content gets made and monetized now and in the future.
The U.S. Copyright Office, which is responsible for issuing hundreds of thousands of trademark and patent approvals each year, remains in a state of flux after the Trump administration abruptly fired its longtime director, Shira Perlmutter, earlier this year.
Why it matters: The firing has rattled the publishing and creative communities, which worry her ousting could yield preferential treatment for Big Tech in the AI era.
