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The New Republic | The Ominous Big Tech Takeover of Our Community College System by J.J. Anselmi The ghouls of privatization have long had their eyes on the community college system. From Devry to ITT Tech, there have been countless versions of the for-profit junior college, and most of them have the same problems. The process to transfer credits from those schools to four-year universities is often a confounding mess for students. Most instructors at for-profit colleges work part-time and are underpaid, forcing them to teach classes at multiple schools to make ends meet, which makes it difficult to give students the time and focus they deserve. More often than not, these schools lure in students who would be better served by their local community college. As if the community college system wasn’t strained enough by these privatization efforts, the tech bros have recently swooped in and are striving to cause further disruption. Community colleges operate with a combination of taxpayer funding, donations, and tuition revenue. But Campus, a predominantly online school that markets itself as a community college, uses a different financial model. The school has been injected with venture capital funding from the likes of Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, and Joe Lonsdale. Thiel, Altman, and Lonsdale are the types of investor who fund enterprises that could serve a role in remaking the world more to their liking. Like virtually every other of these would-be overlords’ ventures, Campus is a play for even more power and control. And it’s a scammy one at that. Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/208667/silicon-valley-disrupt-community-college #artificial-intelligence #big-tech #communitycollege #siliconvalley

undefined | GoPro lays off 23% of its employees as tech job cuts continue to rise in 2026 GoPro announced it will cut about 23 % of its workforce – roughly 145 employees – by the end of 2026. The action‑camera maker said the layoffs are part of a restructuring plan meant to slash costs after a $9 million quarterly loss in 2025. The reductions, slated to start in the second quarter, will cost between $11.5 million and $15 million in severance and healthcare obligations, and are intended to improve profitability while the company leans on its new GP3 processor to revive growth. The cuts at GoPro reflect a wider wave of job losses in the technology sector. In the first quarter of 2026, over 52 000 tech positions were eliminated, a 40 % year‑on‑year increase, and analysts estimate that somewhere between 35 000 and 59 000 tech workers have already been laid off this year across nearly 200 firms. Major players such as Amazon (≈16 000 jobs), Meta, Salesforce, Atlassian, Block and Dell have all announced sizable reductions, signalling that the post‑pandemic correction is far from over. Artificial intelligence is frequently cited as a driver of these layoffs, with about a quarter of March’s cuts directly linked to “AI‑driven restructuring.” Companies claim to be shifting budgets toward automation and AI‑enabled infrastructure, yet critics warn of “AI‑washing,” where the AI narrative simply masks cost‑cutting that would have happened anyway. While AI is creating demand for data‑science and machine‑learning talent, the new roles are not matching the volume or skill‑set of the positions being eliminated, leaving a net employment gap in the tech industry. Read more: undefined #gopro #artificial-intelligence #ai #techindustry

Observer | Edge A.I. Infrastructure and the Limits of Hyperscale Thinking by Neel Khokhani Charlie Munger once told a story about a town that built a single, magnificent grain silo. It reduced costs. It impressed visitors. It eliminated redundancy. For years, it worked perfectly. Then one wet season, moisture entered at the base and the entire harvest spoiled at once. The neighboring town kept five smaller silos spread across different plots. None were impressive or optimal in the spreadsheet sense, but when one developed mold, the others remained intact, containing the damage. The lesson was not that scale is foolish, but that concentration carries a different kind of risk. Efficiency and resilience operate on different axes.  Digital infrastructure has spent the last decade building its own version of that silo. In 2025, Microsoft, Google and Amazon each announced major data center expansion programs, with hyperscale investment reaching record levels globally. At the same time, the CrowdStrike outage of 2024, which took down airlines, hospitals and financial institutions across dozens of countries, offered a real-world demonstration of exactly the systemic fragility that maximum concentration produces. The two developments are related: one is the condition, while the other is the consequence.  A hyperscale data center in the desert. Endless racks. Industrial symmetry. A monument to aggregation. The assumption behind it is straightforward: if computation is valuable, concentrate it; if scale lowers cost, pursue maximum scale; if aggregation improves efficiency, centralize aggressively. For years, this logic produced extraordinary results. Cloud computing declared the end of on-premise infrastructure, the server room became a relic of inefficiency, hardware dissolved into abstraction and geography appeared irrelevant. That narrative was clean, but it left critical constraints unexamined. Read more: https://observer.com/2026/04/edge-ai-infrastructure-hyperscale-limits-compute/ #artificial-intelligence #infrastructure #technology

Observer | Jeff Bezos Is Quietly Building an A.I. Dream Team at Project Prometheus by Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly Jeff Bezos has been keeping a low profile since stepping in as co-CEO of Project Prometheus, the code name for his secretive A.I. startup, last year. But behind the scenes, he’s been busy. The company has been raising fresh capital, pursuing acquisitions and aggressively recruiting top talent across Silicon Valley. One of its newest hires is Kyle Kosic, recruited to join Bezos’s initiative after stints at OpenAI and xAI, according to the Financial Times. Kosic joins a fast-growing team filled with alumni from major tech companies. Like many of Project Prometheus’s recruits, he specializes in A.I. infrastructure. Such skills will be crucial as the company aims to transform engineering and manufacturing through automation powered by A.I. Project Prometheus gives Bezos’s first operational position since stepping down as Amazon’s CEO in 2021. Although he remains the founder of Blue Origin, he’s no longer its chief executive. At Project Prometheus, however, he shares leadership duties with co-founder Vikram Bajaj, a former Google X researcher who also co-founded the life sciences venture Verily and the investment firm Foresite Capital. Since launching in 2025, Project Prometheus has expanded rapidly, filling offices in San Francisco, London and Zurich. Investors have taken notice. The startup raised $6.2 billion last year and now seeks another $6 billion to develop A.I. systems that move beyond large language models (LLMs) toward physical applications in real-world industries. Bezos and Bajaj are also reportedly in talks to raise a separate $100 million fund to acquire manufacturing companies in sectors such as semiconductors, defense and aerospace that could benefit from A.I. automation. Read more: https://observer.com/2026/04/jeff-bezos-project-prometheus-new-hires/ #artificial-intelligence #funding #jeffbezos #startups #projectprometheus

All Content from Business Insider | Fireworks AI CEO explains why AI's infrastructure can't keep up with rampant demand by Alistair Barr Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AIFireworks AI Lin Qiao said Fireworks AI processes 15 trillion tokens daily in 2026.Fireworks AI's CEO cited exponential token growth driven by AI's expanding use.AI infrastructure is struggling to keep up as demand for AI services continues to surge.The AI boom isn't slowing down; it's accelerating. Lin Qiao, a former Meta engineer who helped build PyTorch, now runs Fireworks AI, a $4 billion startup processing 15 trillion AI tokens a day, and she says demand is only just getting started. Why exist?Read the original article on Business Insider Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/fireworks-ai-surge-ceo-lin-qiao-2026-4 #ai #ai-inference #artificial-intelligence #generative-ai

US Top News and Analysis | New college graduates face a tough job market. Here’s why unemployment hits them harder New college graduates face a tough job market: Money moves to help New college graduates face a tough job market: Here’s why unemployment hits them harder Published Mon, Apr 6 2026 8:43 AM EDT Annie Nova BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said at a BlackRock summit in March that 2026 graduates could experience the highest jobless rate in years, due in part to artificial intelligence making more entry-level roles obsolete. Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/06/college-graduates-job-market-unemployment.html #larryfink #collegegraduates #artificial-intelligence #unemploymentbenefits #jobmarket

All Content from Business Insider | In the AI era, revenue-per-employee is the new Big Tech metric by Alistair Barr Mort Zuckerman, middle, in 2007 with then-NYC Mayor Michael BloombergPatrick McMullan via Getty Images A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter.Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here.Revenue-per-employee is back, and it's becoming one of the most telling metrics in tech. Back in my Bloomberg News days, Mike Bloomberg obsessed over this number. The logic was straightforward: how much revenue does each employee generate? Read the original article on Business Insider Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-scorecard-revenue-per-employee-nvidia-microsoft-openai-anthropic-meta-2026-3 #ai #artificial-intelligence-investing #bigtech #businessinsider

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