Unemployed young people to join AI boot camps to get job-ready

Also: Google executives jump ship in race for AI dominance Hello, TechScape readers! Danielle Abril, editor of the Guardian’s Reworked series on AI and the future of work, filling in for Blake Montgomery this week. Major legal battles against Meta over child safety are playing out in courts across the US – and the tech giant is losing. Recent rulings raise big questions about social media companies’ responsibility to their youngest users. Meanwhile, more key executives have jumped ship from Google as it battles OpenAI and Anthropic in the race for AI dominance, and Meta’s smartglasses face a fearsome backlash. Let’s dig in! ‘I’ve definitely lost followers’: influencers face backlash over Meta ‘pervert glasses’ content This man was secretly snapped by someone with smartglasses. He’s not alone in calling that a violation of privacy Tell us: do you believe you have been filmed by Meta’s smartglasses without your consent? Restaurants, pubs and theatres ban Meta’s ‘spy glasses’ over privacy fears ‘I’m not spying’: how Meta’s smartglasses have divided opinion Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to ‘pause AI development’ in interest of humanity Rising number of UK children report seeing explicit deepfakes of themselves The White House’s plan to vet potentially dangerous AI is cloaked in secrecy ‘This is very real redlining’: outrage in Little Rock as two datacenters loom Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by AI SpaceX beats revenue expectations in first earnings report after IPO crash..

The dangers of AI become clearer every day. Why are we still acting as if we have no choice about our future? Rather than producing jobs, the US economy actually lost 23,000 jobs in July, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released on Friday. In addition, May and June’s job numbers were revised downward, showing a combined 103,000 fewer jobs than previously reported. As if this weren’t bad enough, wage growth has also slowed. Average hourly earnings rose by just 0.1% from June...

Move blocking funds through Medicaid and Chip to make it harder for vulnerable children to get healthcare, experts say The Trump administration finalized a rule on Tuesday to end gender-affirming care through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (Chip), a move that will make it harder for vulnerable children to access healthcare and that eschews evidence to advance an anti-transgender ideology, opponents say. The rule is set to take effect on 13 October – but legal challenges could delay or block it entirely...