Gallup's Q3 2026 workplace poll found just 29% of U.S. employees are engaged in their jobs, down two percentage points from the prior quarter and the lowest reading since 2011. The drop was concentrated among remote and hybrid workers, especially those at companies that have adopted artificial intelligence, according to Gallup. The survey polled 21,648 adults from Aug. 5-19, 2026, with a margin of error of plus or minus 1 percentage point.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-29
Microsoft will post results for the quarter ended Sept. 30 after the market closes Wednesday, with analysts polled by LSEG expecting adjusted earnings of $4.73 per share on revenue of $90.69 billion. The report marks the company's first switch to two operating segments since 1998, replacing its prior three-way split, and the first time it will disclose Azure revenue in dollar terms, with StreetAccount analysts forecasting $32.32 billion, implying growth above 44%.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-28
Costume makers and shoppers are embracing artificial intelligence as a Halloween theme this year, with people dressing as chatbots, AI-generated monsters, and tech-inspired characters alongside traditional vampires, zombies, and ghosts. The trend reflects growing cultural fascination with AI as both a novelty and a source of anxiety.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-28
Healthcare providers are deploying artificial intelligence across a widening range of functions, including patient intake and cancer screening. Reports indicate that in some cases these AI deployments are advancing faster than the cybersecurity measures needed to protect them.
darkreading.com
· 2026-10-28
Emacs, one of the earliest full-screen text editors, began running on video terminals at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1976 and remains in active use today. It grew out of the TECO editing language created by Dan Murphy in 1962 and Carl Mikkelsen's 1971 Control-R extension, which let programmers see live edits on screen rather than reprinting lines. The software was later ported to many operating systems, including a version Apple shipped with Mac OS X.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-10-28
Executive recruiting has changed dramatically over the past decade as artificial intelligence tools now play a major role in sourcing and assessing leadership candidates. At the same time, strong demand for experienced leaders has led some companies to bring retired CEOs back into active roles, altering the competitive landscape for executives seeking new positions.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-28
A commentary piece argues that experience in Hollywood production offers lessons for leading teams through AI-driven disruption. The author cites a forecast that 70% of job skills will change by 2030, with AI as the main driver of that shift.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-28
Wellcome's third Global Monitor survey, released October 10, finds trust in science and researchers has fallen since the COVID-19 pandemic, with notable variation by country and region. The survey, which for the first time asked about artificial intelligence, also found links between people's financial security and their trust in science, and between confidence in local health-care access and trust in science overall.
nature.com
· 2026-10-28
Meta Platforms said it intends to raise as much as $95 billion to support its large-scale investments in artificial-intelligence infrastructure, including efforts tied to what it calls personal superintelligence. The company did not detail the exact financing structure in the announcement.
wsj.com
· 2026-10-26
Anthropic released a statement addressed to investors describing artificial intelligence as one of history's most consequential technologies, capable of accelerating scientific progress, boosting economic growth and curing major diseases if managed responsibly. The company said it wants investors to understand AI's potential, its risks, Anthropic's approach to building the company, and ways its conduct may diverge from a purely profit-driven firm.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-26
The U.S. Treasury Department proposed a rule to tighten restrictions on American investments in high-tech sectors within China, Russia, North Korea, Cuba and Iran. The rule expands coverage to hypersonic systems, supercomputing, biotechnology and artificial intelligence (which Treasury labeled 'superintelligence'), building on a 2023 executive order and a December 2025 law that codified the outbound investment screening program.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-23
American Express has announced layoffs affecting thousands of positions, attributing the cuts to its adoption of artificial intelligence tools. The move follows Barclays' announcement a day earlier that it would cut about 5,000 jobs, roughly 5% of its workforce, as part of a similar AI-driven restructuring.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-23
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