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Eric Schmidt became the latest tech executive to learn a hard lesson at a graduation ceremony this week, getting booed off the stage after bringing up artificial intelligence. Students across the country have grown increasingly vocal about AI's threat to their futures, and commencement speakers keep walking into that room without reading it.
That frustration has a real-world counterpart. Standard Chartered bank announced plans to cut seven thousand jobs as part of an aggressive automation push, with executives describing the eliminated positions as, quote, lower-value human capital. It's a phrase that tells you something about how some institutions view the people doing the work, and it landed about as well as you'd expect.
On the legal front, Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against OpenAI this week, with a jury ruling his claims came too late under the statute of limitations. The case centered on whether OpenAI betrayed its nonprofit founding mission, a question that still has enormous implications for the industry, even if Musk himself won't be the one arguing it in court.
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