The outsourcing industry just erased 650,000 jobs from its own forecast.
The Philippine outsourcing industry cut up to 650,000 jobs from its own 2028 forecast, Amazon is building a gas plant to feed one AI campus, and Denmark now makes teenagers defend their homework out loud.
BPO cuts 650,000 jobs from its forecast
The industry group IBPAP now expects call centers and back offices here to employ 1.85 to 2.14 million people by 2028, down from the 2.5 million it promised in its earlier roadmap, and it names fast AI adoption as the reason.
Amazon's AI campus gets its own gas plant
Amazon is financing one of the largest gas-fired power plants ever planned in the United States, in Texas, purely to run a new AI data center campus, and reporting on the filings says it would become the country's most polluting power plant.
Denmark makes teens defend their homework
Denmark's Ministry of Education now requires upper-secondary students to explain their at-home written assignments out loud to a teacher, effective immediately, starting with the roughly 9,000 students in its two-year HF program.
Grok's picture tool is now world number two
SpaceXAI switched on Imagine Image 2.0 inside Grok, which draws and edits pictures from a typed request, and in public side-by-side voting it now sits second only to OpenAI's picture tool.
A browser no human can use just shipped
Cloudflare released Kitesurf, a web browser built only for AI helpers to click through sites on your behalf. It has no window to look at, and the company says it uses about 7 times less memory than the engine behind Chrome.