⏳ 200 economists sign a warning on AI and jobs

⚖️ Meta sued for letting AI pick who got laid off

🖼️ Google Images just copied Pinterest's whole thing

🍎 Apple releases iOS 27 public beta with new Siri

🧠 China bets on wearable brain tech instead of surgery

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More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, signed "We Must Act Now," a Stanford-organized statement urging governments to prepare for an economic shift bigger than the Industrial Revolution.

The statement makes three claims: AI could grow radically more powerful within a decade, reshape the economy far faster than past revolutions, and demands new guardrails and institutions right now.

Signatories range from Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, so gathering big names behind one warning looks a lot easier than getting slow-moving governments to act on it.

Twenty-six former Meta employees sued the company in California federal court, alleging its internal AI tools scored and ranked staff for layoffs without accounting for workers on protected medical, family, or disability leave.

The suit names tools like Metamate and AI-token-usage dashboards, and says leave-related dips in performance metrics dragged workers' scores down. All 26 plaintiffs took or requested protected leave within the past two years.

Meta says people made the calls, not AI, and calls the claims meritless. The May cuts hit roughly 8,000 jobs. It is not Meta's first bias suit either, following an age-discrimination case earlier this year.

Google is rebuilding Google Images into a browsable, Pinterest-style gallery for its 25th anniversary. Signed-in users get a "For You" feed that updates in real time, plus collections they can save as tabs.

Google is also adding image generation to AI Overviews in Search, using its Nano Banana model to turn a text prompt into a custom image or reimagine a room in a new color.

The pitch is discovery, but the real play is time and ads. Google wants you browsing and generating inside its walls instead of drifting to Pinterest or ChatGPT when you want to picture something.

Apple released the iOS 27 public beta on Monday, and the headline feature is Siri AI, a conversational assistant that can hold a back-and-forth, read your screen, and take multi-step actions inside apps.

Reviewers call it unusually stable for a first beta, and Apple claims apps launch up to 30% faster. Still, it is unfinished software, so back up your iPhone first and expect the occasional bug.

The catch: the star feature makes you wait. Siri AI sits behind a waitlist, works only in English, and skips the EU, so the beta's big draw is not one everyone can try yet.

BrainCo, a Hangzhou startup and one of the city's "six little dragons," is skipping Neuralink-style brain surgery. Its headbands and caps read brain signals through the scalp, with no implant required.

The strategy proves the tech in medicine, then sells it to consumers. BrainCo makes FDA-approved bionic hands and a sleep-aid wearable, and it just raised about $280 million ahead of a Hong Kong listing.

Wearables lower the surgical risk but raise a different one. Back in 2019, BrainCo's Focus headbands scored schoolkids' attention for teachers until the backlash got a Zhejiang school's trial shut down.

A) Yes - 77% 🏆

B) No - 23%

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