AI My Profession

For almost ten years, Unilever has quietly used AI to hire people starting their careers: candidates play short online games, record video answers, and then a person makes the final choice. The question is how this made hiring faster and brought in more kinds of people and where it may still be unfair.

Google is catching up, and OpenAI feels the heat. A leaked "code red" memo reveals the company is shelving fun projects to defend ChatGPT. Sam Altman has cut the distractions, prioritizing basic reliability over shiny new features.

With its latest release, Runway now sits at the top of a major AI video leaderboard. The model holds scenes together for longer, makes movement look more natural, and plugs into existing workflows, raising the stakes for how brands and studios test out AI-generated video.

Online Black Friday sales reached $11.8 billion, even as budgets were tightened. Generative AI shopping tools pulled shoppers toward curated deals that made spending feel informed rather than impulsive buying.

Amazon employees signed an open letter warning that the company's warp-speed AI rollout threatens jobs, climate goals, and democracy. The workers' demands, Amazon's response, and the stakes for the future workplace AI collide in a fight over how fast automation should really move.

Sanctions on Nvidia's chips could have slowed China down, but instead, Alibaba's Qwen3 turned the pressure into an efficiency and open-source advantage. See how Qwen3 made an open-model power play with cost control, and hardware moves.