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The Easy Way to Keep Tabs on Site Status and Downtime

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Running a business already means wearing a dozen hats. The last thing you need is to discover your website went down hours ago and no one told you. What if there were a way to know instantly, without having to check it yourself every five minutes or hire an IT department to act as a watchdog?

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NBA Hall of Famer Paul Pierce Just Walked 20 Miles to Work

NBA Hall of Famer and “Speak on FS1” host Paul Pierce predicted on Wednesday that his beloved Boston Celtics (where he played for 15 seasons) would win Game 2 of their playoff series against the New York Knicks.

On the air, he said: “If the Celtics lose Game 2 at home, I promise you, I’m walking here tomorrow.”

“In my robe,” he added.

Well, the Celtics lost (now down 0-2 to the Knicks as the series heads to New York for Game 3 on Saturday) and Pierce was stuck setting his alarm for 4 a.m.

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— Paul Pierce (@paulpierce34) May 8, 2025

The former Boston Celtics star known as “The Truth” chronicled his journey on Thursday. Although he said he’d do the walk barefoot, he did end up putting on some shoes.

Thousands of viewers watched Pierce, in his robe, walk the almost marathon-length journey to his job at Fox Sports, which ended with him sitting outside the studios with his coworkers cheering him on in the background.

Paul Pierce actually walking to work at FS1 after saying he’d do it if Celtics lost Game 2 lmao pic.twitter.com/3I6NxEm9Un

— Ryan Glasspiegel (@sportsrapport) May 8, 2025

“Boston in six,” Pierce said at the end of the journey. “I dropped about five pounds today, I feel it.”

Maybe Pierce should stop making predictions, or he might be swimming to work tomorrow.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Wants You to Make AI Friends

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicts a future where AI will understand you so well that different AI personas will become your “friends.”

In a new interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel, Zuckerberg said that he thinks “the average person wants more connectivity, more connection that they actually have,” and thinks AI chatbots trained to have different personalities could help fill that void.

“The average American, I think, has fewer than three friends, three people they’d consider friends, and the average person has demand for meaningfully more, I think it’s like 15 friends,” Zuckerberg told Patel. (He was likely referring to a 2023 Pew Research Center survey, which found that 40% of Americans say they have three or fewer friends, while 38% have five or more.)

Zuckerberg says AI has the opportunity to fill that gap.

Although he said that AI would “probably” not replace in-person or real-life connections, it could help people feel less alone. He added that users are already tapping into AI to prepare for difficult conversations with people in their lives, and other companies are already offering AI personas as virtual therapists and romantic partners.

“For people who don’t have a therapist, I think everyone will have an AI,” Zuckerberg said in a separate podcast with analyst Ben Thompson last week.

However, not everyone is on board with having AI “friends,” and social media users criticized Zuckerberg for his comments.

The writer Neil Turkewitz wrote on X that Zuckerberg’s perspective “is what happens when you believe that humanity is reducible to binary data — you think of friendship through the lens of supply & demand.”

Other users questioned if AI friends would tell humans how to vote and what to believe, while another tracked Meta’s evolution from a place to connect with friends in 2006 to a place to connect with “imaginary friends” in 2026.

Some were more optimistic, writing that they “wanted an AI friend.”

Carolyn Rogers, head of marketing at the agency Blokhaus, wrote on X that the next step would be for AI friends to start recommending products, enabling Meta to monetize that friendship.

2006 – Join Facebook to connect with your friends
2026 – Join Facebook to connect with your imaginary friends

— WRLB? (@WRLB2) May 1, 2025

Zuckerberg’s comments arrive as Meta released a standalone Meta AI app last week to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok.

Zuckerberg revealed in an Instagram video about the app’s release that almost a billion people use Meta AI globally across the company’s apps like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

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IBM CEO: AI Replaced Hundreds of Human Resources Staff

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Former employees at IBM were replaced with AI, the company’s CEO confirmed earlier this week.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told The Wall Street Journal on Monday that the tech giant had tapped into AI to take over the work of several hundred human resources employees. However, IBM’s workforce expanded instead of shrinking—the company used the resources freed up by the layoffs to hire more programmers and salespeople.

“Our total employment has actually gone up, because what [AI] does is it gives you more investment to put into other areas,” Krishna told The Journal.

Krishna specified that those “other areas” included software engineering, marketing, and sales or roles focused on “critical thinking,” where employees “face up or against other humans, as opposed to just doing rote process work.”

IBM CTO Ji-eun Lee said earlier this year that IBM’s AskHR agent had automated 94% of simple, routine human resources tasks, like vacation requests and pay statements. Meanwhile, IBM’s AskIT agent reduced the number of calls and chats for the IT team by 70%.

IBM saw a “productivity improvement” of $3.5 billion over the past two years by using AI in more than 70 business areas, Lee stated.

IBM did not disclose when the HR layoffs and subsequent hiring in other departments occurred. The company employed 270,300 workers globally as of its 2024 annual report.

^{IBM CEO Arvind Krishna. Photographer: Christopher Pike/Bloomberg via Getty Images}

This week, IBM held its annual Think conference and introduced new products and services to grow its generative AI division, which has become a $6 billion business. The tools allow customers to build their own AI agents, capable of autonomously carrying out complex tasks, in under five minutes.

The service is similar to offerings from Amazon, Nvidia, and Microsoft.

Krishna has worked for IBM for over 34 years and stepped into the CEO role in 2020. Wedbush analyst Dan Ives told Business Insider on Wednesday that Krishna was in the process of transforming IBM into an AI company.

“It’s still the first inning in a nine-inning game,” Ives told the publication.

Krishna isn’t the first CEO to say the company has replaced people with AI.

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski stated last year that its AI chatbot did the work of 700 customer service agents and later announced that the company was undergoing a hiring freeze and filling in the gaps with AI.

Meanwhile, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said in September that the company’s new AI agents could replace gig workers during busy seasons.