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The Job Market Is So Bad, Survey Finds Most People Looking For Work Just Don’t Care Anymore

The Job Market Is So Bad, Survey Finds Most People Looking For Work Just Don’t Care Anymore

Published by Jenni Sidey

The burnout from looking for work is real. Talker Research conducted a survey of 5,000 career hopefuls who are essentially done with looking for work because it feels hopeless.  According to the findings, “Eight in 10 unemployed Americans are struggling to find the motivation to continue their job search.” Add to that the challenges of AI replacing jobs, AI making the resume-review process more difficult, fake jobs, and the simple fact that applying has become much more difficult than ever before. Is it any wonder that the unemployed just don’t care anymore? The job market is so bad that a survey found that most people looking for work just don’t care anymore. MAYA LAB | Shutterstock What was so interesting about the survey was that, despite Gen X and baby boomers being unemployed for the longest stretch, every generation was struggling. From feeling overwhelmed at the market itself to the stress of countless rejections, the overall theme among those who want to work but simply can’t find a job is why even try.  The US …

AI Trusted Less Than Social Media and Airlines, With Grok Placing Last, Survey Says

AI Trusted Less Than Social Media and Airlines, With Grok Placing Last, Survey Says

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Google Gemini is the most trusted AI platform among its competition, but many people still have concerns about the technology, according to an American Customer Satisfaction Index poll released Thursday. In ACSI’s results, AI scored an overall customer satisfaction score of 73 on a scale of 0 to 100, which the authors noted was slightly below social media (74), airlines and mortgage lenders, but in line with energy utilities.  Of the five platforms mentioned in the survey, Google Gemini led with 76, followed by Microsoft Copilot (74), Claude and ChatGPT (both 73), and Grok and Perplexity (both 71). Meanwhile, TikTok (77) and YouTube (78) both scored better than the AI platforms. Gemini is one of the most prolific AI services, with access via smart speakers, TVs, phones and computers, while most ChatGPT users access the AI tool via the ChatGPT website or mobile app, and Grok via social media platform X. The ACSI poll found that 43% of respondents said reduced human-to-human interaction is their main concern, followed by job loss for future generations (37%) and their own job …

Most enterprises can’t stop stage-three AI agent threats, VentureBeat survey finds

Most enterprises can’t stop stage-three AI agent threats, VentureBeat survey finds

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A rogue AI agent at Meta passed every identity check and still exposed sensitive data to unauthorized employees in March. Two weeks later, Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup, confirmed a supply-chain breach through LiteLLM. Both are traced to the same structural gap. Monitoring without enforcement, enforcement without isolation. A VentureBeat three-wave survey of 108 qualified enterprises found that the gap is not an edge case. It is the most common security architecture in production today. Gravitee’s State of AI Agent Security 2026 survey of 919 executives and practitioners quantifies the disconnect. 82% of executives say their policies protect them from unauthorized agent actions. Eighty-eight percent reported AI agent security incidents in the last twelve months. Only 21% have runtime visibility into what their agents are doing. Arkose Labs’ 2026 Agentic AI Security Report found 97% of enterprise security leaders expect a material AI-agent-driven incident within 12 months. Only 6% of security budgets address the risk. VentureBeat’s survey results show that monitoring investment snapped back to 45% of security budgets in March after dropping to …

Despite ‘Survey’ Sadness, Jobless Claims Slide Near Historic Lows

Despite ‘Survey’ Sadness, Jobless Claims Slide Near Historic Lows

Published by Jenni Sidey

The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time fell to just 207k (below the 213k expected and down from the prior 209.25k) – back near its lowest levels in 5 years (and trend towards its lowest level in 50 years)… Source: Bloomberg Despite a small pick up last week, Continuing jobless claims have been below the 1.9 million Maginot Line since the start of the year… Source: Bloomberg Finally, as the following chart suggests, while it may be “hard to get” a new job, firing remains very low… Source: Bloomberg The ‘no hire, no fire’ economy is alive and kicking. Source link

43% of AI-generated code changes need debugging in production, survey finds

43% of AI-generated code changes need debugging in production, survey finds

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The software industry is racing to write code with artificial intelligence. It is struggling, badly, to make sure that code holds up once it ships. A survey of 200 senior site-reliability and DevOps leaders at large enterprises across the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union paints a stark picture of the hidden costs embedded in the AI coding boom. According to Lightrun’s 2026 State of AI-Powered Engineering Report, shared exclusively with VentureBeat ahead of its public release, 43% of AI-generated code changes require manual debugging in production environments even after passing quality assurance and staging tests. Not a single respondent said their organization could verify an AI-suggested fix with just one redeploy cycle; 88% reported needing two to three cycles, while 11% required four to six. The findings land at a moment when AI-generated code is proliferating across global enterprises at a breathtaking pace. Both Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Google CEO Sundar Pichai have claimed that around a quarter of their companies’ code is now AI-generated. The AIOps market — the ecosystem of …

Online sports betting grows rapidly as concerns about risks rise across the US, survey shows

Online sports betting grows rapidly as concerns about risks rise across the US, survey shows

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Online sports betting is becoming a routine part of daily life across the United States, with participation continuing to climb even as unease about its effects grows. A new national survey released April 13 shows both trends moving in tandem. Researchers from the Siena Research Institute and St. Bonaventure University’s Jandoli School of Communication report that 27% of Americans now hold an active online sportsbook account with platforms like DraftKings, Caesars, FanDuel, or BetMGM. This has steadily increased from 22% in 2025 and 19% the year before. Another 6% say they used to have an account, meaning roughly one in three Americans has tried online sports betting at some point. New Siena/@BonasJSchool Annual Sports Fanship Survey: Part 2 – Online Sports Betting More Than a Quarter of Americans, 27% Have An Active Online Sports Betting Account; A Third Have Opened an Account At Least Once Sports Betting Continues to Grow as 60% of Online Sports Bettors… pic.twitter.com/wzFvGrdE8r — SienaResearch (@SienaResearch) April 13, 2026 Younger men remain the most active participants. Among men ages 18 to …

Gen Z Americans Grow More Skeptical And Angry About AI, Survey Finds

Gen Z Americans Grow More Skeptical And Angry About AI, Survey Finds

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, Young Americans are using artificial intelligence (AI) regularly, but their distrust and resentment toward the technology are also growing, according to a new Gallup survey. The survey, released Thursday, found that more than half of Generation Z respondents ages 14 to 29 said they use generative AI either daily or weekly. Younger members of Gen Z who are still in K–12 education were more likely than Gen Z adults to say they use AI at least weekly. Yet even as usage remains widespread, optimism is fading. Compared with Gallup’s survey last year, young people are less excited about the changes AI could bring and more skeptical about its growing presence. The share of respondents who said AI made them feel hopeful fell to 18 percent, down from 27 percent a year earlier, according to Gallup. The share who said it made them feel excited dropped to 22 percent from 36 percent. At the same time, negative feelings have grown. Thirty-one percent of respondents said AI made them …

About 1 in 4 hold negative views of both parties: Survey

About 1 in 4 hold negative views of both parties: Survey

Published by Sam Flores

Many Americans continue to hold negative views of both the Democratic and Republican parties ahead of the midterm elections, according to a new poll. In a CNN survey released Friday, nearly a quarter of U.S. respondents said they have negative perceptions of both the Republican and Democratic parties. The respondents, however, preferred Democratic candidates in… Source link

Americans see sports prediction markets as gambling, as survey finds growing concern

Americans see sports prediction markets as gambling, as survey finds growing concern

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A new nationwide survey suggests most Americans don’t see sports prediction markets as investing tools, but rather as another form of gambling, with growing concern about how these platforms operate and who might be at risk. The poll, commissioned by Gambling Is Not Investing and carried out by Morning Consult, gathered responses from 15,029 adults across the United States between March 17 and March 22, 2026. It paints a detailed picture of how people understand prediction markets and what kind of oversight they expect. Even though awareness is rising, relatively few people are actually using these platforms. A large majority, 83%, said they hadn’t bought or traded contracts on a prediction market in the past year, compared with 73% who hadn’t placed a sportsbook wager and 65% who hadn’t traded traditional financial assets like stocks or ETFs. Still, opinions are firm as 81% of respondents said sports-related activity on prediction markets amounts to gambling. When platforms describe these contracts as “investments,” most people don’t appear to be convinced—70% still classify the activity as gambling, while …