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416. Weekly Pulse Check on Automation & AI News
Manage episode 507272791 series 2633287
In this episode, Transform NOW co-hosts Brad Hairston and Michael Marchuk banter about some interesting recent news headlines in the world of automation and AI.
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News stories covered in this episode:
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xAI reportedly lays off 500 workers from data annotation team
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/13/xai-reportedly-lays-off-500-workers-from-data-annotation-team/
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Meta’s Elite AI Unit Sparks Tension With Old Guard
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-superintelligence-hiring-tension-96c9e993st=x4k7mV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink&utm_source=tldrai
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To Help Workers Losing Their Jobs to AI, OpenAI Is Launching a Jobs Platform Run By AI https://futurism.com/openai-launching-ai-jobs-platform
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AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights - https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00462
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Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild Happened –
https://futurism.com/social-network-ai-intervention-echo-chamber
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Manage episode 507272791 series 2633287
In this episode, Transform NOW co-hosts Brad Hairston and Michael Marchuk banter about some interesting recent news headlines in the world of automation and AI.
.
News stories covered in this episode:
.
xAI reportedly lays off 500 workers from data annotation team
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/13/xai-reportedly-lays-off-500-workers-from-data-annotation-team/
.
Meta’s Elite AI Unit Sparks Tension With Old Guard
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-superintelligence-hiring-tension-96c9e993st=x4k7mV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink&utm_source=tldrai
.
To Help Workers Losing Their Jobs to AI, OpenAI Is Launching a Jobs Platform Run By AI https://futurism.com/openai-launching-ai-jobs-platform
.
AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights - https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00462
.
Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild Happened –
https://futurism.com/social-network-ai-intervention-echo-chamber
.
Visit us on our socials:
🦾 Get started with SS&C Blue Prism: https://okt.to/JcMLdU
🧑💻LinkedIn: https://okt.to/k8zIdp
✖️Twitter: https://okt.to/fHyd9G
🙋♀️Facebook: https://okt.to/Vyjfiz
📸Instagram: https://okt.to/5nYvIf
💭Blog: https://okt.to/QuGqVP
🤩Case studies: https://okt.to/ft1AMX
.
To ensure that you never miss an episode of Transform NOW, be sure to subscribe!
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