🔗 Instagram is testing direct link-sharing in post captions.

🤖 LinkedIn tests out AI-powered interview screening.

⚠️ Buzzfeed has “substantial doubt” it can stay in business.

🎬 Mazda and Disney takeover the Oscars with cinematic ad.

🏀 And here come the March Madness campaigns.

✍️ Grammarly pulls down controversial impersonatation feature.

This week on The Daily Carnage Show:

• Recent research reveals a new occupational hazard: AI brain fry, which is more likely to happen to employees using more than 3 AI systems in a workday.
• When it comes to AI replacing people, marketing is the fifth most vulnerable industry, according to a new study.
• Anthropic’s decision to walk away from the Pentagon deal is paying off in spades.
• Why exactly does Gen Z wish TikTok was never invented?
• And WTF are Verts? Plus, more.

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Italian Down syndrome advocacy org CoorDown is challenging the continued use of the “R-word.”

Instead of just telling people to stop using it, the “Just Evolve” campaign highlights how the word has been used to demean people with intellectual disabilities and reinforce harmful stereotypes, urging viewers to “just evolve.”

The campaign builds on decades of advocacy against the slur after a recent resurgence.

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