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It’s decades since the former US first lady was an employee. The world of work she grew up in has long gone Uh oh, Michelle Obama has been advising gen Z on navigating work. “One thing that’s important is to learn how to do something you don’t like to do and be good at it,” she told the audience at a podcast recording in London. “Every experience – the bad boss, the boring assistant job, the job you thought that you weren’t appreciated, the one that didn’t give you the assignment you wanted when you wanted it – all of that is learning to be resilient.” The podcast is called IMO, and she is entitled to her opinion, and it’s true that awful bosses, crap jobs and professional setbacks are inevitable, unpleasant learning experiences. Plus, Obama has navigated exceptionally tricky circumstances and put up with endless unjustified flak – she has plenty to teach everyone about grace under pressure. But there’s an implicit criticism of gen Z workers in her words. You see that a lot (they’re un
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A film about Iran's protest movement is making cinema history. "Dreams of Violets" is the first fully AI-generated feature film ever selected by a major international film festival. The 75-minute drama will premiere at New York's Tribeca Festival next week. Created by Iranian-British director Ash Koosha from his home in London, the film took just three months to produce and cost less than 2,000 euros. There were no actors, no cameras, no sets and no film crew. Koosha says the film simply could not have been made through conventional means. Living in exile and unable to safely film inside Iran, he turned to AI to recreate events linked to the country's deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters. The film is based on journalistic reports, photographs and eyewitness accounts, and explores themes of memory, censorship and resistance. But as Tribeca becomes the first major festival to embrace a fully AI-generated feature, the film is also reigniting a fierce debate. Can artificial intel
Asana has launched an AI personal assistant that can track various data sources to alerts users when a work project runs into problems and recommends next actions. It’s one of a range of product announcements made Thursday at the company’s Work Innovation Summit in London, including updates to its existing AI teammates product. These follow Asana’s recent acquisition of AI workflow automation software vendor StackAI for $75 million. Asana Dash is described as an “AI chief of staff” that can help users stay up to date on work projects by accessing information in Asana as well as across email, calendar and team messaging apps, said Arnab Bose, Asana’s chief product officer. “Keeping people in their ‘zone of genius’ and hooking up all of these unstructured signals to the structure of Asana — that’s what Dash does best,” said Bose. The AI assistant can access the same Asana project information as the user, and can flag when problems occur that could push a project off-track. Dash can then
London, United Kingdom June 2026 GenZVerse, a rapidly growing community-driven Web3 ecosystem built on the Polygon Blockchain, has announced the successful completion of two major ecosystem milestones: the permanent burn of 100% liquidity provider (LP) tokens and the transfer of all core ecosystem contracts to a multisignature governance structure. These achievements represent a significant step […] The post GenZVerse Strengthens Ecosystem Security with 100% LP Burn, Multisig Governance and Super App Development appeared first on Live Bitcoin News.
Gen Z uses the technology more than anyone, but many fear it is weakening their job prospects and creativity
The post Jes Staley interview about Jeffrey Epstein with House Oversight set appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Former CEO of Barclays, Jes Staley, arrives at the High Court in London, United Kingdom, on March 14, 2025. Staley is challenging his ban from the UK finance sector over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Tayfun Salci | Anadolu | Getty Images Jes Staley, the former JPMorgan Chase executive and ex-Barclays CEO, has agreed to be interviewed on about his relationship with notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on July 23 by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, a spokesman for the panel confirmed Sunday. The Financial Times first reported that Staley accepted the invitation for a voluntary transcribed interview extended to him three weeks ago by Oversight Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky. The Oversight panel has been conducting a series of interviews with high-profile people about Epstein, including former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clint
The post BNB Under Pressure: Exchange Tokens Lose Defensive Edge appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The headline hit before London lunch: another compliance request tied to Binance’s monitorship. Spot books thinned, basis softened, and BNB slipped even as majors steadied. That reflex tells you something has changed about exchange tokens. For years, BNB and peers were treated as quasi-defensive: revenue-linked, buyback-fueled, and supported by sticky utility. In 2026, they’re trading more like flow derivatives with headline gamma. Even when stablecoin balances rise on exchanges, the bid under exchange tokens is no longer automatic. This piece unpacks why the “defensive” label no longer fits, what flows are signaling now, and how to position when the core risk is not only price but platform. The Big Picture: Exchange Tokens in a New Regime Editor’s note: Through Q1–Q2 2026 I saw exchange-token behavior split from the old playbook. On headline days tied to venue oversight, BNB underperf
The post Gen Z moviegoing: Younger viewers are reviving the box office growth appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Hollywood can breathe a sigh of relief: Generation Z is not only going to the movies, it’s driving box office growth. During the pandemic, when theaters shut down and streaming became a dominant force in the media landscape, fears rose that this young cohort would shun the big screen as they matured into more engaged consumers. However, this generation, which ranges from around 14 to 29 years old, is one of the most active moviegoing demographics and attends more films per year than some older generations, according to data from Fandango. In 2025, members of Gen Z saw an average of seven movies in theaters — matching average viewership among millennials — while members of Generation X and baby boomers saw around six movies on average, Fandango found. “Gen Z is driving moviegoer trends today, and I think people are shocked,” said Jason Dorsey, president and co-founder of T