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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tech layoffs hit 150,000 in 2026 as AI cited in record cuts
Companies are cutting workers at 974 per day while a handful of AI insiders mint billion-dollar fortunes — and the gap is widening.
Meta employees revolt against Zuckerberg's companywide AI hackathon
Workers say layoffs of 8,000 colleagues last month left no time for a three-day AI build-a-thon scheduled for July 14-16.
Meta engineers call new 6,500-person Applied AI unit 'the gulag'
A hijacked livestream, a 1,600-signature petition, and a Zuckerberg apology memo expose deep unrest inside Meta's three-month-old AI draft.
Opendoor shuts India operations, citing shift to AI-native teams
The home-buying platform is pulling roughly 250 jobs out of Chennai and Bengaluru less than two years after opening them.
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.
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