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ZDNET’s key takeaways * AI is playing a bigger role in hiring and firing decisions. * New California legislation protects workers from fully automated personnel decisions. * It could set the tone for other state or national legislation. AI use at work is up, touching everything from everyday tasks to hiring and
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Vice President J.D. Vance speaking during an update on the federal investigation into the fraud and abuse of the H-1B visa program. Gettyimages.com/ALEX WROBLEWSKI / Contributor ByNick Wakeman, Editor-in-Chief, Washington Technology October 8, 2026 01:03 PM ET Vice President J.D. calls Microsoft the "biggest abuser&
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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. The Trump administration is suspending some tech companies, including Microsoft, from an immigration program that lets an employer hire foreign workers that can reside permanently in the
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Anthropic is making changes to its usage policy for the first time in over a year to reflect new and high-risk cases of misuse — including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and health and financial uses. But one of the most significant changes prohibits “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior”
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PsiQuantum has received a conditional commitment for a loan of up to $150 million from the US Department of War’s Office of Strategic Capital. The quantum computing company announced the commitment on Thursday. It is the second conditional loan from the same Pentagon office in two days. On Wednesday,
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Google’s new Gemini agent gives each coworker agent its own Workspace account, email address, calendar and entry in the company directory, and runs work for days after the laptop closes. Every action is logged to the agent rather than to a person, which is the part European regulators have
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Odyssey has launched Odyssey-3, a world model that the Palo Alto AI lab says can control robot arms and humanoids, drive a car, fly drones and play video games. A research preview is available now, the company said on Thursday. World models learn from large amounts of visual data to
