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[ad_1] AI companies are battling to dominate the industry, but sometimes they’re also battling in Pokémon gyms. As Google and Anthropic both study how their latest AI models navigate early Pokémon games, the results can be as amusing as they are enlightening — and this time, Google DeepMind has written in a report that Gemini 2.5 Pro resorts to panic when its Pokémon are close to death. This can cause the AI’s performance to experience “qualitatively observable degradation in the model’s reasoning capability,” according to the report. AI benchmarking — or, the process of comparing the performance of different AI…

[ad_1] New York CNN  —  Amazon is warning its employees that artificial intelligence will help the company have a smaller workforce in the future. In a blog post Tuesday that was sent out earlier to employees, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that efficiency gains from AI would allow the company to eventually have a reduced human workforce. “As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done. We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs,” he wrote.…

[ad_1] Meta is working on a pair of AI smart glasses with the Italian high fashion brand, Prada, according to a report from CNBC on Tuesday. It’s unclear at this time when Meta’s Prada smart glasses will be publicly announced. The reported Prada collaboration signifies that Meta aims to bring its AI smart glasses technology to more fashion companies outside of its relationship with eyewear giant EssilorLuxottica. Until now, Meta has collaborated closely with EssilorLuxottica and its numerous brands. Prada is not owned by EssilorLuxottica, although the fashion brand has relied on the company to help build its eyewear for…

[ad_1] School might be out for summer, but Jamie Dimon thinks there’s work to be done on America’s education system.When asked how companies can address the labor shortage at the Business Roundtable’s CEO Workplace Forum on Tuesday, the JPMorgan Chase CEO identified a different problem that can be at least partially solved in the classroom.”What you’re really short is the skills you need,” Dimon said. He said the business community needs cyber, coding, programming, financial management, and project management skills, among other things, and that investing in schools can help close the gap.”It’s getting out and going directly into the…

[ad_1] CNN  —  A Salvadoran journalist who built a big social media following by documenting immigration raids may be facing deportation. Federal authorities have requested an immigration “detainer” for Mario Guevara, who was arrested during a “No Kings” protest near Atlanta last Saturday, his lawyer said. The Committee to Protect Journalists expressed outrage about Guevara’s continued detention on Tuesday. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer request, “which could lead to Guevara’s deportation, is a crude form of censorship,” said Katherine Jacobsen, the committee’s US, Canada and Caribbean program coordinator. Get Reliable Sources newsletter Guevara entered the United States in 2004…

[ad_1] CNN  —  Hackers have tried to break into the email accounts of a select number of Washington Post journalists, according to an internal Washington Post memo obtained by CNN. The Post discovered the “possible targeted” hack of its email system last Thursday, prompting the newspaper to reset login credentials for all its employees on Friday, Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray said in a memo Sunday to employees. “Although our investigation is ongoing, we believe the incident affected a limited number of Post journalists accounts, and we have contacted those whose accounts have been impacted,” Murray said. “We do…

[ad_1] Updated 2025-06-17T19:22:40Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Companies such as UPS, Meta, Microsoft, BlackRock, and Intel are conducting layoffs. Artificial intelligence is reshaping some workforces. See the list of companies letting workers go in 2025. Layoffs and other workforce reductions are continuing in 2025, following two years of significant job cuts across tech, media, finance, manufacturing, retail,…

[ad_1] Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has a blunt new message about AI: It is going to “reduce” the company’s workforce in the next few years.”As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done,” Jassy said in a memo posted to the Amazon website. “We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs.””It’s hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate…

[ad_1] A new Vanguard fund is aimed at investors who are hungry for income and willing to take a bit more risk to get it. The firm launched the Vanguard Multi-Sector Income Bond ETF (VGMS) last week. The actively-managed fund will focus in large part on riskier parts of the fixed income universe, including high yield corporate credit. That strategy may meet some skepticism given concerns about an economic slowdown, but the multi-sector area is one where active management is often seen as a positive. “We still view this strategy as one that investors will want to invest in even…

[ad_1] American shoppers are starting to step on the brakes.President Donald Trump’s seesaw sentiment on tariffs led many Americans to stock up on goods. The latest retail sales data shows this may be slowing. The Census Bureau reported Tuesday morning that retail and food services sales were down 0.9% over the month in May, a larger drop than economists expected.”Consumers tightened their purse strings in May after rushing to beat tariff-fueled price increases in March and April,” Bill Adams, Chief Economist for Comerica Bank, said regarding the release. “But consumers didn’t just pull back on durable goods categories like cars,…