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CESifo study finds no AI hit to 2026 college grad hiring
Summer 2026 unemployment for recent grads came in at 7.3%, well inside the 6.3%–7.8% range seen since 2022.
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AT&T targets 85,000 workers by 2030 as AI automates its copper empire
The 150-year-old telecom has shed more than half its workforce in a decade and is retiring copper across 85% of its footprint.
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Andreessen Horowitz launches a $42M rival to college with 10 tech partners
The Horowitz Andreessen Academy will take 50 students, skip degrees and homework, and route them into OpenAI, Palantir, Google, and Meta.
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Pew survey: 34 of 37 countries expect AI to destroy more jobs than it creates
A 42,151-person global poll finds 76% in Australia and South Korea and 71% in the US bracing for AI-driven job losses over 20 years.
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Wipro says AI has freed capacity equal to 20,000 workers
The Indian IT services firm's CTO frames the shift as capacity reallocation rather than layoffs, but the math points the same direction.
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Greenhouse CEO calls the AI hiring market a doom loop as both sides lose trust
Job seekers pay $30–$50 a month to game applicant tracking systems that employers may not even use for ranking.
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Insurance claims adjusters are the workforce's biggest AI haters, Glassdoor finds
98% of adjuster reviews mentioning AI are negative as employment in the sector drops 21% year-over-year and entry-level postings fall by half.
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Meta tests robots that swap cables and reset servers in its data centers
Watney, Kinova, and ABB robots are running trials in Altoona and Ohio, with one bot targeting up to 80% of a technician's workload.
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Clara Shih left Meta after AI agents beat her best employees
The former Salesforce AI CEO says agents collapsed 10-day, 10-step processes into minutes — and predicts one in five corporate roles is at risk.
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Stanford: AI is cutting entry-level jobs, with a 19% employment gap for young workers
Employment for 22-to-25-year-olds in AI-exposed jobs has fallen 11% since 2022, while less-exposed peers grew 10%.
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Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator writers with ChatGPT
CEO Matthew Karch says no writers were replaced by AI; former lead writer Stella Sacco says she was cut in December 2023.
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Forward-deployed engineers become AI's scarcest hire, with just 2,000 elite in the US
Christian & Timbers projects a 2,100% surge in demand by year-end as enterprises race to turn AI spend into measurable ROI.
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Hyundai says Atlas humanoid robot plan is not part of union strike talks
The automaker plans to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting in 2028, while South Korean workers strike over pay and retirement age.
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Hyundai union strikes over Atlas humanoid robots, an auto-industry first
39,000 South Korean workers walked out as Hyundai plans 25,000 Boston Dynamics Atlas units across its plants starting 2028.
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200 economists and AI leaders warn of jobs 'tsunami' from AI
Signed by Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI executives alongside Nobel laureates, the statement says AI could transform the economy faster than the Industrial Revolution.
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Google DeepMind union talks stall as senior leaders skip opening session
London staff say HR was sent in place of executives; CWU calls the opening meeting a time-wasting exercise.
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AI-heavy firms grew headcount 10.2% even as 90,000 jobs got cut
A Ramp and Revelio Labs study finds the biggest AI spenders are hiring faster, including entry-level — but only if they were already winning.
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Google loses Gemini architects Adler and Pritzel to Anthropic
Two more Gemini researchers join a wave of defections to Anthropic and OpenAI, weeks after Google paid $2.7B to bring Noam Shazeer back.
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Engineering hiring proves AI-resilient: 55% of Big Tech hires in 2025
SignalFire's data shows engineering roles fell just 11% from 2019 hiring levels, far less than the 25% drop across all tech functions.
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Oracle workforce shrinks by about 21,000 employees amid AI push
The cuts mark one of the largest white-collar reductions tied directly to AI adoption at a major enterprise software vendor.
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GM installs 50 FANUC robots at Factory Zero as 1,300 workers stay laid off
The UAW says GM could recall idled members instead of automating, as Chinese dark factories set the global pace.
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Electricians wiring AI data centers split over the work
IBEW workers are powering the AI buildout, but a growing online debate questions whether the paychecks are worth it.
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Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer leaves Google for OpenAI
Shazeer's exit lands less than two years after Google paid to bring him back from Character.AI, and weeks before OpenAI's IPO.
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Robinhood cuts 10% of staff and pointedly avoids blaming AI
CEO Vlad Tenev's note on 290 layoffs sidesteps the AI script other tech CEOs have leaned on all year.
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Meta CTO calls company's Applied AI reorg 'atrocious' in internal memo
Andrew Bosworth pledged stability, manager caps, and better snacks after a 6,500-person AI division was labeled 'a gulag' by staff.
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