Meta layoffs, Google's AI makeover, and a campus chorus of ‘boo’ on AI
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WIRED's Uncanny Valley episode examines Meta’s latest round of layoffs amid booming AI spending and shaken morale, Elon Musk’s loss to OpenAI, Google I/O’s ambitious AI-driven search revamp (including Gemini Spark and agentic search), and a growing AI backlash—from booing at commencements to the phenomenon of the “sad wives of AI”—highlighting concerns about jobs, data centers, and how AI will reshape publishing and everyday life.
- Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates WIRED
- Advice for 2026 commencement speakers: Don't bring up AI NPR
- Why new grads are booing commencement speakers: There's an 'ambient anxiety that AI is going to make things dramatically worse' CNBC
- Ro Khanna blames 'clueless' boomers for Gen Z booing AI: They handed over a ‘broken economy' Fortune
- Greetings, Class of 2026! Have You Heard About AI? Wait, Why Are You Booing? The Atlantic
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