6-30-26 AI jobs debate deepens as tech shifts

6/30/26

AI jobs, telecom plan changes, chip spending, chatbot safety, and web development shifts dominated today’s tech news.

  1. The AI jobs debate just got messier

A new report finds "high-intensity AI adopters” saw headcount increase 10.2%.

  1. T-Mobile is booting customers from its oldest plans

Earlier today, T-Mobile started notifying customers that it will be retiring many legacy plans and moving subscribers onto one of its current rate plans.

  1. South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and

South Korea targets physical AI lead and commercial humanoid robots by 2028.

  1. Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About

Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT would respond to high-risk subjects, WIRED.

  1. The Shifting Line Between CSS States and JavaScript Events

CSS has always had pseudo-classes that style things when baed on user interactions.

  1. Vibe coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups

Wix-owned vibe coding platform Base44 has started rolling out its own AI model - with hopes that it will eventually outperform frontier models.