Jeff Rumage
Staff Reporter at Built In
Expertise: Aerospace, Tech News, Human Resources, Professional Development and Workplace Culture
Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jeff Rumage is a Built In staff reporter covering workplace culture in the tech industry. Before joining Built In in 2021, he worked as a reporter and editor for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Patch and the Oconomowoc Enterprise. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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The Trump administration is taking equity stakes in chipmakers and rare earth miners, transforming taxpayer dollars into a government stock portfolio worth over $10 billion.
Digital passports may speed up lines at the TSA, but their use beyond the airport could reshape the internet — raising concerns about privacy, security and a future where you’re asked for your ID at every turn.
As AI data centers devour electricity at an unprecedented rate, tech giants are racing to secure energy by reviving shuttered nuclear plants, investing in small modular reactors and experimenting with green energy alternatives.
Netflix’s $83 billion deal faces a hostile counter-bid from Paramount. Between antitrust concerns and Trump’s involvement, there’s a lot up in the air. Here’s what we know so far.
As AI plays a larger role in our lives, a new benchmark reveals how easily these systems can be steered toward harmful behavior that exploits users’ attention, builds dependency and promotes unhealthy behaviors.
Pushback against AI is often chalked up to a fear of change or new technology, but employees are also raising valid concerns that need to be understood and taken seriously.
Artificial intelligence stands to revolutionize how shoppers browse, compare products and make purchases online. Here’s what brands and retailers should know about the rise of agentic shopping.
As automation continues to reshape the labor market, some white-collar professionals are cashing in by teaching AI models to do their jobs.
Large language models are transforming how job seekers discover and evaluate potential employers. As AI increasingly shapes the applicant journey, talent teams must boost their visibility and uphold their reputation on these platforms.
By creating Grokipedia, Musk hopes to upend the world’s largest shared reference point with an AI-generated encyclopedia that spins a version of reality that more closely reflects his own beliefs.
Reddit found a valuable revenue stream in licensing its deep content library to OpenAI and Google. Now it’s going after Perplexity, Anthropic and the middlemen that circumvent anti-scraping technologies.
While the Trump administration pushes for deregulation and threatens to penalize states for passing AI laws, dozens of states are forging ahead with their own rules, establishing safeguards around frontier models and chatbots.