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Brookings researcher quits to tackle AI's 'messy middle' for white-collar work
Molly Kinder argues AI job loss will hit knowledge workers first, and that universal basic income is the wrong answer.
Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman walks back AI white-collar automation claim
The Microsoft AI chief now says AI will automate tasks, not jobs, four months after telling FT lawyers and accountants would be automated in 12-18 months.
Labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards rejects the AI 'idle class' thesis
Edwards argues US workers won't be permanently displaced by AI — but says the safety net is already broken regardless of whether 7 million jobs vanish.
New York Times Tech Guild accuses management of using AI tools to monitor employee performance
Around 700 unionized engineers say DX and Glean violate contract protections against surveillance.
Boris Cherny says the title 'software engineer' could disappear by end of 2026
Anthropic's Claude Code creator hasn't written code in six months and predicts 100x more builders.
AI debt collectors take over 11,000-complaint industry as delinquency surges
Voice agents now handle 70 million monthly calls for debtors, cutting human head count by more than half at some agencies.
AI's job impact remains small as unemployment in exposed roles stays below average
BLS data shows no large-scale labor disruption yet, despite tech layoffs and adoption by 40% of workers.
Google's James Manyika says under 10% of occupations face full AI automation
The SVP and labor economist argues task automation far outpaces whole-job displacement — and predictions of 50% job loss are overblown.
Standard Chartered to cut over 7,000 jobs, lean on AI to replace roles
The London-headquartered bank is the latest global lender to tie a multi-thousand-headcount reduction directly to AI deployment.
AI is eroding entry-level work — 66% of hiring managers say new hires aren't ready
Cengage's Graduate Employability Report finds the bridge from classroom to career is breaking as automation absorbs junior tasks and internships dry up.
Cisco to cut 4,000 jobs in AI-focused restructuring as orders surge
The networking giant is reshaping its workforce around AI infrastructure demand even as order volumes climb.
GM cuts 600 IT workers, hiring back for AI-native engineering roles
The automaker is clearing more than 10% of its IT department to refill seats with AI engineers, agent builders, and data specialists.
Hollywood writers turn to AI data-labeling gigs at $52 to $150 an hour
Out-of-work TV writers are training chatbots for Mercor, Outlier and Turing, joining a contractor economy that's volatile, opaque and growing fast.
PayPal to cut 4,500 jobs in $1.5bn AI-driven restructuring
New chief executive Enrique Lores frames the layoffs as a two-to-three-year push to make PayPal a technology company again.
Oracle cuts thousands as cloud AI spending squeezes margins
Larry Ellison's bet on training-capacity GPUs is paying off in revenue — and biting elsewhere on the P&L.
Snap lays off 1,000, says AI now writes 65% of its new code
Evan Spiegel's memo is the clearest statement yet from a public-company CEO that AI has changed the headcount math permanently.
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