The scary (Dystopia) Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI AI Will Destroy Millions of White Collars Jobs in the Coming Months, Andrew Yang Warns, Driving Surge of Personal Bankruptcies Ring cancels Flock deal after dystopian Super Bowl ad prompts mass outrage Amazon and Flock Safety have ended a partnership that would’ve given law enforcement access to a vast web of Ring cameras. The decision came after Amazon faced substantial backlash for airing a Super Bowl ad that was meant to be warm and fuzzy, but instead came across as disturbing and dystopian. Ring’s Founder Knows You Hated That Super Bowl Ad. Since the commercial aired, Jamie Siminoff has been trying to quell an outcry over privacy concerns with his doorbell cameras. Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say MM Anthropic is clashing with the Pentagon over AI use Anthropic’s relationship with the Department of Defense is “under review” as the two sides negotiate over how the company’s AI models can be used. The startup wants assurance that its models will not be used for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance. The DOD wants to use Anthropic’s models “for all lawful use cases” without limitation David Sacks, the venture capitalist serving as the administration’s AI and crypto czar, has accused Anthropic of supporting “woke AI” because of its stance on regulation. Our Big Data Overlords Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push to Advance A.I. Agenda Mark Zuckerberg faces jury in landmark trial over alleged youth harm linked to social media The lawsuit, K.G.M. v. Meta Platforms, Inc., et al., was filed by a 20-year-old California woman identified by her initials. She alleges that Meta and other tech companies deliberately engineered their platforms to hook young users, contributing to her depression and suicidal thoughts, and seeks to hold them accountable. Regarding Instagram’s enforcement efforts, plaintiffs asked whether Meta removed all 4 million under-13 users the company had identified on the platform in 2018. Zuckerberg responded that while the company did not remove all of them, it had implemented tools to detect and address underage accounts and was working to improve those systems. According to reports, Zuckerberg has not directly answered the central question of the case: whether Instagram is addictive. The plaintiff’s attorney, Mark Lanier, asked if people tend to use something more if it’s addictive. “I’m not sure what to say to that,” Zuckerberg said. “I don’t think that applies here.” He said he believes in the “basic assumption” that “if something is valuable, people will use it more because it’s useful to them.” When he was asked about his compensation, Zuckerberg said he has pledged to give “almost all” of his money to charity, focusing on scientific research. Lanier asked him how much money he has pledged to victims impacted by social media, to which Zuckerberg replied, “I disagree with the characterization of your question.” Zuckerberg's courthouse entourage showed up in Meta Ray-Bans Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care MM Apple sued by West Virginia for alleged failure to stop child sexual abuse material on iCloud, iOS devices SpaceX said to weigh dual-class IPO shares to empower Musk Macron Blasts Social Media’s Free Speech Defense as ‘B******t’ The stupid (ESG edition) Goldman Sachs to Drop D.E.I. Criteria for Board Members MM The move would be the Wall Street firm’s latest retreat from diversity mandates that its chief executive, David Solomon, had once made a priority. The decision is a result of a deal that Goldman struck with the National Legal and Policy Center, a conservative nonprofit group that has been pressuring numerous companies to drop diversity, equity and inclusion mandates, the people said. As part of its agreement with Goldman, the National Legal and Policy Center, which has a small investment in the bank, withdrew a shareholder proposal demanding that diversity criteria for the board be dropped. In March 2019, Mr. Solomon, his top deputy John Waldron and the firm’s chief financial officer at the time, Stephen M. Scherr, declared diversity and inclusion “a top priority.” “When we unite around a common goal, we make progress together,” the men wrote in an email to the staff. They said they would “improve each year” toward goals that included a new recruiting class comprising “50 percent women, 11 percent Black professionals and 14 percent Hispanic/Latino professionals in the Americas, and 9 percent Black professionals in the U.K.” The next year, Mr. Solomon said Goldman would no longer take a company public in the United States or Europe unless it had at least one “diverse” board member. By 2021, a company would need at least two diverse board members in order for Goldman to agree to work on its initial public offering. Inspire Investing CEO: Nike’s DEI Is A Legal Liability, Shareholders Coming For Answers Nike’s DEI fight is no longer just a social media "culture war" argument. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is investigating Nike over allegations the company’s DEI practices discriminated against white employees and job applicants. Robert Netzly, CEO of Inspire Investing: "Discrimination, whether it’s black people or white people, gay people or straight people, is discrimination." Robert Netzly is a globally recognized authority in the Biblically Responsible Investing (BRI) movement, author of the book "Biblically Responsible Investing: On Wall Street As It Is In Heaven." Robert holds a B.S. degree in Liberal Studies from an online university. This article was from OutKick, which aims to expose the destructive nature of "woke" activism and is the antidote to the mainstream sports media that often serves an elite, left-leaning minority instead of the American sports fan. OutKick is owned by Fox Sports' parent company Fox Corporation Federal agency sues Coca-Cola bottler over work event that excluded men A Coca-Cola distributor and bottler is being sued for alleged sexual discrimination over a corporate networking event that excluded men, announced the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which filed the lawsuit According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in September 2024, Bedford, N.H.-headquartered Coca-Cola Northeast held a two-day employer-sponsored trip and networking event at the Mohegan Sun Casino and Resort in Connecticut. Coca-Cola Northeast privately invited female employees and then excused the female employees who attended the event from their normal work duties on Sept. 10 and 11, 2024, and paid them their normal salary or wages without requiring them to use vacation or other paid time off. Coca-Cola Northeast did not invite any male employees to the event. Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health US President Donald Trump has reversed a key Obama-era scientific ruling that underpins all federal actions on curbing planet-warming gases. The so-called 2009 "endangerment finding" concluded that a range of greenhouse gases were a threat to public health. It's become the legal bedrock of federal efforts to rein in emissions, especially in vehicles. Bill Maher Eviscerates Donald Trump Over ‘Biggest Dick Move in American History’ The boring (ESG edition) Starbucks' investor group urges shareholders to replace directors over labor row Starbucks faced fresh pressure on Wednesday from a coalition of investors including public-sector pension funds that urged shareholders to vote against the reelection of two directors, citing persistent failure to manage labor relations. The move against Starbucks' lead independent director, Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, and Beth Ford, chair of the board's Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, comes as the company is locked in a prolonged effort to reach a collective agreement with its unionized baristas. Companies are cycling through CEOs—and replacing them with first-timers MM Some 168 new CEOs were appointed in 2025, the highest total since 2010. The defining shift was who got the job. Among incoming CEOs, 84% were serving in their first enterprise CEO role, reversing a multi-year tilt toward leaders with prior public-company experience. As recently as 2024, more than one in five new CEOs had already led a public company. That share fell sharply in 2025. Of the 140 first-time CEOs appointed, 116 had no prior enterprise CEO experience. Two-thirds had never served on a public company board, meaning many are stepping into the role without prior exposure to shareholder oversight or public company governance. CEO hopefuls have a new rival for the top job: their own board directors Appointing board directors as CEOs was once a “break glass in case of emergency” strategy reserved for scandal, illness, or sudden resignation. While it remains a minority path compared with traditional internal promotions, it is no longer an anomaly. New data from Spencer Stuart highlights the shift. Of the 168 new S&P 1500 chief executives appointed in 2025, the highest annual total since 2010, 19 were drawn from their own company boards, the most since 2020. Spencer Stuart classifies directors as outsiders because they lack day-to-day operating responsibility. Even so, more boards are turning to them. Wall Street banks are paying their CEOs like it’s 2006 again Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick's pay rises 32% to $45mln Bank of America Lifts Moynihan’s Pay 17% to $41 Million for 2025 Barclays Ceo Pay Hike: Barclays lifts CEO Venkatakrishnan’s pay to over £15 million as bonus pool rises Citigroup bumps CEO Jane Fraser’s pay to record $59m Bro Culture (The Epstein Edition) Thomas Pritzker, Named in Epstein Files, Retires
