WEF Launches Connected Future Initiative, Microsoft AI Copying Messages & More

Home Depot, Walmart customers get good news.-MSN (Commentary: maybe not empty shelves, but higher prices???) No surprise there.
UPS cutting around 20,000 jobs, 164 buildings closing.-USA Today
Electronic Arts Lays Off Hundreds, Cancels ‘Titanfall’ Game.-MSN
Duolingo Announces Plans to Replace as Many Human Workers as Possible With AI.-The Byte
This School Will Have Artificial Intelligence Teach Kids (With Some Human Help)-ED Week
Retailers are at risk of ID fraud – better defenses are now imperative.-Biometric Update (My opinion: another globalist excuse to accelerate biometric digital ID's.)
Microsoft's AI Secretly Copying All Your Private Messages.-Futurism
Brain Implant Companies Apparently Have an Extremely Dirty Secret.-Futurism
WEF Launches Connected Future Initiative to Promote Global Digital Public Infrastructure with Backing from UN, EU, and Bill Gates.-Reclaim The Net
Is Realty Vanishing? AI Makes Americans Suspicious Of Everything On The Internet.-Technocracy News and Trends
Links:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/home-depot-walmart-customers-get-good-news-after-tariff-scare/ar-AA1DVqBS?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=fa1350480cb041a9a1a6401a2d93b8da&ei=32
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/04/29/ups-job-cuts-building-closures-2025/83343016007/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/electronic-arts-lays-off-hundreds-cancels-titanfall-game/ar-AA1DRCvx?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=fa1350480cb041a9a1a6401a2d93b8da&ei=22
https://reclaimthenet.org/wef-connected-future-initiative-digital-id-dpi-global-standards
https://futurism.com/the-byte/duolingo-replacing-humans-ai
https://futurism.com/microsoft-ai-copying-messages
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202503/retailers-are-at-risk-of-id-fraud-better-defenses-are-now-imperative
https://futurism.com/brain-implant-companies-data
https://www.edweek.org/technology/this-school-will-have-artificial-intelligence-teach-kids-with-some-human-help/2025/01