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FICO, the company behind the credit scoring system that underpins most American lending decisions, has cut fifteen percent of its workforce in what it's calling an AI-driven restructuring. That's a significant reduction at a firm whose algorithms already touch hundreds of millions of people's financial lives. The question worth asking is whether the humans being replaced were the ones keeping those systems accountable.
On a related note of machines displacing careful human judgment, a developer has launched Getrequest, a tool designed to ensure API requests never silently disappear during traffic spikes or outages. The founder built it out of frustration at a startup where lost requests meant lost data and painful manual recovery. It's a small product solving a very real problem — the kind of invisible infrastructure failure that rarely makes headlines but quietly costs companies time and trust.
Stepping back further, a new analysis is examining US-China competition in small modular reactors, the compact nuclear units both nations are racing to commercialize. SMRs represent a genuine fork in the road for energy policy and national security. How that race plays out could shape electricity grids, military logistics, and climate commitments for decades to come.
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