Mike Diverde – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:08:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla predicts AI will replace 80% of jobs by 2030—and take much of the Fortune 500 with it https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/silicon-valley-investor-vinod-khosla-predicts-ai-will-replace-80-of-jobs-by-2030-and-take-much-of-the-fortune-500-with-it https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/silicon-valley-investor-vinod-khosla-predicts-ai-will-replace-80-of-jobs-by-2030-and-take-much-of-the-fortune-500-with-it#respond Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:08:25 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/07/silicon-valley-investor-vinod-khosla-predicts-ai-will-replace-80-of-jobs-by-2030-and-take-much-of-the-fortune-500-with-it

Tech entrepreneur and investor Vinod Khosla’s prediction of AI automating 80% of high-value jobs by 2030 coincides with a reckoning for Fortune 500 companies.

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DARPA’s DRACO nuclear propulsion project ROARs no more https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/darpas-draco-nuclear-propulsion-project-roars-no-more https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/darpas-draco-nuclear-propulsion-project-roars-no-more#respond Sun, 29 Jun 2025 18:04:11 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/darpas-draco-nuclear-propulsion-project-roars-no-more

DRACO began life in 2020 with the moniker “Reactor on a Rocket,” or ROAR — a name agency scientists later decided might garner negative attention.

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PwC cuts 1,500 jobs overnight— Proof that automation, not recession, is driving the layoffs https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/pwc-cuts-1500-jobs-overnight-proof-that-automation-not-recession-is-driving-the-layoffs https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/pwc-cuts-1500-jobs-overnight-proof-that-automation-not-recession-is-driving-the-layoffs#respond Tue, 17 Jun 2025 09:24:49 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/pwc-cuts-1500-jobs-overnight-proof-that-automation-not-recession-is-driving-the-layoffs

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) told 1,500 U.S. employees on Monday that their roles were eliminated with immediate effect—about 2 percent of its national headcount. In the company-wide e-mail obtained by industry blog Going Concern, leadership cited “historically low attrition” and a need to “align the firm for the future.” Publicly, a spokesperson framed the move as a […]

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Vibe Coding Is Coming for Engineering Jobs https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/vibe-coding-is-coming-for-engineering-jobs https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/vibe-coding-is-coming-for-engineering-jobs#respond Sun, 15 Jun 2025 14:03:45 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/vibe-coding-is-coming-for-engineering-jobs

Engineering was once the most stable and lucrative job in tech. Then AI learned to code.

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We’ve Reached the End of the Job Market https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/weve-reached-the-end-of-the-job-market https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/weve-reached-the-end-of-the-job-market#respond Fri, 13 Jun 2025 23:06:17 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/weve-reached-the-end-of-the-job-market

A friend of mine applied to all the jobs—literally every job she is qualified for—and this is what she learned.

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Resilience spacecraft likely crashed into the moon, Ispace confirms https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/resilience-spacecraft-likely-crashed-into-the-moon-ispace-confirms https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/resilience-spacecraft-likely-crashed-into-the-moon-ispace-confirms#respond Sat, 07 Jun 2025 02:03:22 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/resilience-spacecraft-likely-crashed-into-the-moon-ispace-confirms

Resilience, a spacecraft built by Japan-based company Ispace, crashed while attempting to touch down on the moon. If successful, it would have been the first private-sector lunar lander built outside of the US to land safely on the moon.

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Big tech promised developers productivity gains with AI tools — now they’re being rendered obsolete https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/big-tech-promised-developers-productivity-gains-with-ai-tools-now-theyre-being-rendered-obsolete https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/big-tech-promised-developers-productivity-gains-with-ai-tools-now-theyre-being-rendered-obsolete#respond Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:02:25 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/big-tech-promised-developers-productivity-gains-with-ai-tools-now-theyre-being-rendered-obsolete

From claims of a golden age of productivity to workforce cuts, it’s been a whirlwind two years for software developers

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New data confirms it: AI is taking human jobs https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/new-data-confirms-it-ai-is-taking-human-jobs https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/new-data-confirms-it-ai-is-taking-human-jobs#respond Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:02:52 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/new-data-confirms-it-ai-is-taking-human-jobs

Most people assume it will take years for AI to reshape the job landscape. But tasks that chatbots can do are already vanishing from job postings.

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“Learn to Code” Backfires Spectacularly as Comp-Sci Majors Suddenly Have Sky-High Unemployment https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/learn-to-code-backfires-spectacularly-as-comp-sci-majors-suddenly-have-sky-high-unemployment https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/learn-to-code-backfires-spectacularly-as-comp-sci-majors-suddenly-have-sky-high-unemployment#respond Tue, 03 Jun 2025 07:05:02 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/learn-to-code-backfires-spectacularly-as-comp-sci-majors-suddenly-have-sky-high-unemployment

It looks like the “learn to code” push is backfiring spectacularly for those who majored in computer science in college.

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Business Insider goes ‘all-in on AI,’ laying off 21% of staff https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/business-insider-goes-all-in-on-ai-laying-off-21-of-staff https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/business-insider-goes-all-in-on-ai-laying-off-21-of-staff#respond Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:03:55 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/business-insider-goes-all-in-on-ai-laying-off-21-of-staff

Business Insider laid off about one fifth of its workforce Thursday, a sweeping round of cuts that affected every department and drew swift criticism.

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