Amanda Hoover
@amandahoover.bsky.social
Writing about tech and the ways it reshapes our lives for @BusinessInsider. Past lives @ WIRED, NJ.com, The Boston Globe
AI execs said the tech would take our jobs. Other CEOs followed. Workers got anxious about AI and revolted against data centers. Now, the job guillotine view doesn't serve them. Rosier messaging has arrived — and just in time as they chase historic IPOs. www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-op...
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei's conveniently timed doomer-to-boomer pivot
Silicon Valley's new message: AI may not be the job apocalypse we said it'd be
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Noticed my grandma often calls her dog by my dad's name when she's telling him NOT to do something. Compiling this data point in my research into the family lore.
we have got to stop with the proteinmaxxing
Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 3mo agohello, interpol? i'd like to report a crime
!!!!! "TTEC explicitly linked the benefits retreat to investments in AI — the implication being savings from retirement spend were being partly reallocated to building the company's AI future." www.businessinsider.com/ttec-pauses-...
$2 billion tech firm pauses 401(k) contributions for staff in the latest corporate benefit rollback
TTEC, a mid-size technology customer experience firm, is the latest company found to be cutting a core benefit, Business Insider has learned.
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College students who over-rely on AI risk missing opportunities to develop high-demand skills employers value, such as creativity and critical thinking. Read more from @amandahoover.bsky.social in @businessinsider here: www.businessinsider.com/graduating-c... #AI #AcademicSky #HigherEd
This year's college grads are AI-savvy — and a little brain-rotted
This year's college grads have adapted to AI. That makes them prime job-market candidates — even if they have a little bit of brain rot.
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Someday we will regale the youth with tales of the times when you had to do the actual work of scrutinizing at a profile and deciding to take the laborious action of swiping left or right to find love. The Millennial equivalent of walking uphill both ways. www.axios.com/2026/05/07/b...
Bumble CEO reveals it's killing off the swipe on "The Axios Show"
It's a ripe time for a product overhaul.
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sounds like something someone who's seen a ghost would say!!! www.vulture.com/article/lind...
Lindsey Buckingham Claims He’s Not Haunted by That ‘Silver Springs’ Performance
“What was the buzz? The one where Stevie was staring at me?”
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Lots of talk about AI media these days. I used several AI tools to takeover my job, including interviewing sources and writing. It led to a story that looked like a news article, but upon a closer read, felt like a parody of one. For @businessinsider.com. www.businessinsider.com/built-ai-age...
I built an agent to do my job. Then it hung up on my boss.
Rather than wait to find out if AI will replace me, I built my replacement to report and write this story.
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NEW from me: the FTC appears to be gearing up to focus on penalizing gender-affirming care for minors—and those who speak in favor of it. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-fe...
The FTC Is Ramping Up to Target Transgender Rights
A series of new hires and investigations at the agency appear to focus on penalizing gender-affirming care for minors—and those who speak in favor of it.
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New for @businessinsider.com: the first college class that had access to AI for all four years is about to enter for workforce. Are they a group of cheaters who rotted their brains with AI, or the AI native workers companies are searching for? www.businessinsider.com/graduating-c...
This year's college grads are AI-savvy — and a little brain-rotted
This year's college grads have adapted to AI. That makes them prime job-market candidates — even if they have a little bit of brain rot.
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Stopped by the @11thhourmsnow.bsky.social to chat about AI anxiety — from job market upheaval to community opposition to data centers, bad vibes around AI are on the rise. Big Tech execs have been optimistic on AI, but the average person isn't buying the message. www.usanetwork.com/series/the-1...
New from me: across federal agencies, workers say religion—specifically Christianity—is showing up their workplace. “The vibes are bad and people don’t like it.” @wired.com www.wired.com/story/govern...
Government Workers Say They're Getting Inundated With Religion
“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”
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"Recent research from freelance platform Upwork found that 77% of business leaders say the AI era is increasing their need to hire contract workers with specialized skills." You wouldn't believe how many fractional CMOs at the moment are pretending they prefer to be fractional CMOs at the moment.
Amanda Hoover@amandahoover.bsky.social · 4mo agoCompanies are refilling positions they eliminate due to AI — sometimes with cheaper workers, sometimes with contractors. It's a trend that could help companies save money and strip workers of benefits and job security. And it's very hard to quantify. www.businessinsider.com/sneaky-truth...
Companies are refilling positions they eliminate due to AI — sometimes with cheaper workers, sometimes with contractors. It's a trend that could help companies save money and strip workers of benefits and job security. And it's very hard to quantify. www.businessinsider.com/sneaky-truth...
Tech companies are pulling a classic layoff switcheroo
Tech companies are axing full-time roles. They're hiring some back as contractors.
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"All this policy around keeping kids off the internet is couched in language of protecting them...But there is a piece of it that is inherently rooted in the idea that they have nothing valuable to add to society or that there's no point in listening to them." www.businessinsider.com/kids-parenti...
What adults lose when kids are banned from social media
Banning kids on social media today will hurt tomorrow's internet.
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NEW from me and @leahfeiger.bsky.social: ICE is in the airports as funding for TSA remains frozen. And like I said in an earlier post: if you're at the airport and seeing ICE, @wired.com wants to know. DM me here or on Signal at Vittoria 89.82 www.wired.com/story/ice-in...
ICE Invades Airports Across the US
Agents from ICE are being deployed to over a dozen airports around the country, including New York, Atlanta, and Chicago.
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"Turning nothing into something is the challenge that helps people grow. It leads people to feel accomplishment and ownership. Too much friction and red tape at work or too many Zoom meetings are bad. But a few quiet, boring moments to tinker and organize can serve as little rituals that anchor us."
Amanda Hoover@amandahoover.bsky.social · 5mo agoAI, execs say, will make you more efficient. It helps you beat the blank page, and takes on tedious tasks. But the blank page and routine work can boost our creativity. We don't know what we lose when we give work to AI. My latest for @businessinsider.com. www.businessinsider.com/ai-automatin...
AI, execs say, will make you more efficient. It helps you beat the blank page, and takes on tedious tasks. But the blank page and routine work can boost our creativity. We don't know what we lose when we give work to AI. My latest for @businessinsider.com. www.businessinsider.com/ai-automatin...
AI is taking over the boring parts of our jobs. That's killing our creativity.
Workplaces adopted AI tools to eliminate boring tasks and boost productivity. That's backfiring, causing more burnout and less creativity than ever.
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Seeing people in the news industry say that articles should be AI-generated is absolutely bonkers and the antithesis of why so many of us became journalists in the first place—because we aspired to the art of reporting AND writing. I will never release AI slop under my byline.
"In a callous job market where it can feel like everyone's hungry and nobody's making it to the table, recruiters and job seekers alike are looking for a shakeup. But anytime the rules of the game change, there's bound to be new winners and losers."
Business Insider@businessinsider.com · 5mo agoSlop is killing the résumé. Job hunters are scrambling for new ways to stand out
The résumé is dead. Companies are advertising jobs saying they won't read them. They're shifting to skills-based hiring and quiet recruiting for jobs. Résumé evaluation was flawed. But as the rules of the hiring game change, so may the losers and winners. www.businessinsider.com/hiring-manag...
The latest casualty in the white-collar job apocalypse: Résumés
Slop is killing the résumé. Job hunters are scrambling for new ways to stand out
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The feelings people have about data centers are tied to their own energy costs — a local issue that's not yet an indictment of the centers at large. But as more communities fight to defeat them, it's more bad PR for Big Tech. Politicians will take note. www.businessinsider.com/americas-hot...
Politicians can't ignore data centers anymore
Data centers have become America's hottest NIMBY issue, with everyone from Bernie Sanders to Ron DeSantis is turning against them.
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Big shoutout to the gay hockey boys and Bad Bunny for making 2026 the year i learned to feel again.
i wasn't sure if my Heated Rivalry hyper-fixation would ever be cured. then i discovered the Bad Bunny half time show.
"keeping kids off the internet is couched in language of protecting them, keeping them safe ... But there is a piece of it that is inherently rooted in the idea that they have nothing valuable to add to society or that there's no point in listening to them." www.businessinsider.com/kids-parenti...
What adults lose when kids are banned from social media
Banning kids on social media today will hurt tomorrow's internet.
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It's a popular sentiment: social media is bad for kids. But as someone who grew up on and loved the OG social web, I looked deeper at the ways teens can benefit from social media — and what we all get when young people shape online culture and activism. www.businessinsider.com/kids-parenti...
What adults lose when kids are banned from social media
Banning kids on social media today will hurt tomorrow's internet.
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SCOOP from me in this week’s @wired.com Inner Loop newsletter: A look inside a forum where users claiming to be ICE/CBP vent their frustrations and concerns about their jobs. “This is going to be a train wreck that we may not survive.” www.wired.com/story/inside...
Inside the ICE Forum Where Agents Complain About Their Jobs
“I'm all for removing illegals, but snatching dudes off lawn mowers in Cali and leaving the truck and equipment just sitting there? Definitely not working smarter,” writes one forum user.
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twitter must be dead dead cause someone posted a rat coin purse that would have 2019 twitter losing its collective mind and most of the top comments are bots saying random words or people not nearly amped enough about the rat coin purse
