Pope Leo XIV asks the AI industry to 'cultivate moral discernment'

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Pope Leo XIV during the General Audience on November 5, 2025, in St. Peter's Square.
Pope Leo XIV has thoughts about AI.

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They got laid off from the Microsoft country club and dumped into a brutal job market

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I felt pure happiness when I was laid off from Microsoft after 14 years. It was the green light I needed to start my own business.

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Tatiana Teppoeva.

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I worked at Baidu, ByteDance, and Microsoft. Now, I've raised millions to build robotic pets.

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He Jiabin is now building AI-powered robotic pets in Beijing.
He Jiabin left jobs in Big Tech and is now building AI-powered robotic pets.

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I left a VP-level role in Big Tech and now I work with startups. It's more unpredictable, but startup life is invigorating.

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Robert E Williams left a career in Big Tech after 15 years to work with startups.

Robert E. Williams

A laid-off Microsoft manager shares why he's ready to say goodbye to Big Tech after 2 decades

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Joe Friend
Joe Friend

Joe Friend

I designed a custom GPT that helped me land 7 interviews and a job offer from PayPal — here's how

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Amar Saurabh
Amar Saurabh says building a custom GPT for his job search only took about an hour and a half.

Amar Saurabh

I built a Big Tech career without a tech degree. Looking back, some well-meaning career advice was actually holding me back.

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Aria Kim pivoted into Big Tech after graduating with a biology degree.

Mori Wang

The real danger of AI in education isn't cheating — it's dependency on Big Tech algorithms, a business professor warns

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Kimberley Hardcastle
Kimberley Hardcastle said generative AI is quietly shifting knowledge and critical thinking from humans to Big Tech's algorithms.

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I was laid off by LinkedIn, so I spent 3 months writing a 112k-word novel. I don't regret it, but now I'm struggling to find work.

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Oscar Cecena Fujigaki
Oscar Cecena Fujigaki decided to finish his science fiction novel after being laid off by LinkedIn in May.

Oscar Cecena Fujigaki

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