🖥️ ChatGPT comes to Microsoft PowerPoint

👶 AI pushes companies to cut junior roles

🛡️ California wants to soften AI's blow to workers

💬 Meta launches Forum, a Facebook Groups app

🤖 Bosch partners with Humanoid to scale industrial robots

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OpenAI brought ChatGPT to Microsoft PowerPoint, where it can create, edit, and update slides from natural language prompts or by pulling material from connected services like Gmail, Outlook, and SharePoint.

The feature launched in beta, but most OpenAI users can already use it, including free-tier users and ChatGPT Business subscribers. ChatGPT already runs inside other enterprise tools like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets.

Anthropic's Claude has offered this since September, and Gemini already pairs with Google Slides. With a massive IPO reportedly looming, OpenAI is racing to match every rival feature it can, and PowerPoint was one of the last gaps.

A global Oliver Wyman survey found the share of CEOs planning to cut junior roles over the next two years doubled to 43% from 17%, while 30% said they're shifting hiring toward mid-level workers, up from 10%.

The shift is AI-driven, since current AI best automates the routine tasks early-career workers handle. A New York Fed report flagged a noticeably deteriorating market for 22-to-27-year-olds, and Powell conceded AI is probably a factor.

Only 27% of CEOs say AI returns met expectations, down from 38%. So companies are gutting their entry-level pipeline for gains most of them admit they can't yet measure, which seems like a risky bet on the future workforce.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order directing state agencies to develop worker protection policies around AI-driven job losses, landing one day after Meta cut 8,000 employees to fund AI investments.

The order tasks agencies with exploring severance standards, stock compensation, and worker ownership models, plus a 90-day deadline for an AI job-impact dashboard and 180 days to propose faster layoff alerts.

California hosts 33 of the world's top 50 AI companies, so it makes sense the first state to formally study AI's worker fallout is also the one that helped build the problem.

Meta quietly released Forum, a standalone app for Facebook Groups that functions like Reddit, billing it as a space for deeper discussions and communities you care about. It loads your existing groups after a Facebook sign-in.

Forum centers feeds on group conversations and adds an AI-powered "Ask" tab that compiles answers from discussions across groups, plus an admin assistant that helps moderators manage and moderate their communities.

Zuckerberg reportedly floated building 50 new apps thanks to AI efficiencies. Given that Forum echoes Reddit, Instants echoes BeReal, and Edits echoes CapCut, the strategy looks less like invention and more like cloning at scale.

London-based Humanoid has partnered with Bosch to scale its HMND robot platform across European logistics and manufacturing, following successful factory trials in Germany in March 2026.

Bosch goes beyond manufacturing support here, offering strategic guidance on hardware design, supply chain, and cost optimization, with potential to embed its actuators and sensors into future HMND generations.

Humanoid already has a deal to deploy thousands of robots at Schaeffler's German factories by late 2026. Bosch's backing turns that from a promising pilot into a credible industrial rollout.

A) Yes - 42%

B) No - 58% 🏆