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  1. Labor & ProductivityNews

    Amazon Calls Token Metrics Flawed, Keeps Them

    Amazon's new memo tells managers to judge AI by results, though it still tracks how much each team uses.

    Oct 29, 20266 min read

  1. Labor & ProductivityOpinion

    Employers Pay More for Degrees as Colleges Drop Detection

    Employers are betting degrees matter more in the AI era, just as colleges abandon the tools that proved students did their own work.

    Oct 28, 20263 min read

  2. Labor & ProductivityOpinion

    Bauer Closes Its Growth Bet, Keeps the Recipes

    Bauer Media closed the digital unit chasing search scale, keeping the brands themselves, as AI search cuts hit small publishers hardest.

    Oct 27, 20263 min read

  3. Labor & ProductivityAnalysis

    Microsoft Keeps Data Centers Off Its Buyout List

    Microsoft invited 60,000 workers to leave this week, and spared the teams building its $175 billion AI budget.

    Oct 27, 20264 min read

  4. Labor & ProductivityRoundup

    Microsoft Buys Out Staff, Spares the Servers

    Microsoft offered 60,000 workers a way out while its AI budget held at $175 billion, and nine more stories moved today.

    Oct 27, 20265 min read

  5. Labor & ProductivityAnalysis

    Most Claude Chats Carry Real Stakes

    Stanford's SALT Lab found 56 percent of 249,834 sampled Claude.ai conversations involved consequential or high-stakes work, challenging the assumption that chatbots mostly handle busywork.

    Oct 26, 20265 min read

  6. Labor & ProductivityAnalysis

    Employers' AI Layoff Claims Crash From 40% to 9%

    Challenger's own monthly reports show AI's cited-layoff share peaked at 40% in May, then fell to 9% by September.

    Oct 25, 20264 min read

  7. Labor & ProductivityOpinion

    Union Pacific Keeps Current Jobs, Skips Future Hires

    Union Pacific promised lifetime jobs to win labor's support for its Norfolk Southern merger, yet its own numbers show the industry absorbing growth through attrition.

    Oct 25, 20263 min read

  8. Labor & ProductivityOpinion

    Refinery Workers Saw AI Coming, and Still Lost

    Refinery workers tried to bargain over AI risk months before any tracker counted a single industrial job lost to it.

    Oct 24, 20263 min read

  9. Labor & ProductivityOpinion

    Aerospace Manufacturers Hire Now, Automate Later

    Goldman ties AI job cuts to the next recession, and Boeing already lived that cycle twice before.

    Oct 23, 20263 min read

  10. Labor & ProductivityAnalysis

    Biggest AI Spenders Hire the Most Beginners

    A Ramp and Revelio Labs study of 21,559 firms found the heaviest AI spenders grew entry-level hiring 12 percent, while light spenders stayed flat.

    Oct 20, 20265 min read

  11. Labor & ProductivityOpinion

    Junior Coders Fell to 9% of Anthropic's Technical Hires

    Juniors fell to 9 percent of Anthropic's technical hires. Across 21,000 U.S. firms, the biggest AI spenders added entry-level staff.

    Oct 20, 20263 min read

  12. Labor & ProductivityNews

    Brandon Stirrup Admits Xbox Uses AI, Deletes Account

    Xbox's senior strategy manager said the company uses AI daily, then deleted his X account after the backlash hit.

    Oct 20, 20265 min read

  13. Labor & ProductivityOpinion

    The Chatbot's Perfect Score Had a Doctor Watching

    A Lancet study logged 98 AI-led primary care chats with a clean safety record, each one running under a doctor's constant watch.

    Oct 19, 20263 min read

  14. Labor & ProductivityAnalysis

    Hogan Lovells Cadwalader Bets on Two AI Rivals

    The firm signed with both Harvey and Legora this month, as data showed entry-level hiring at big firms falling for the first time since 2014.

    Oct 18, 20265 min read

  15. Labor & ProductivityOpinion

    AI's Data Economy Skips the Museum Guide

    Bloomberg found attorneys billing AI firms $400 an hour to train models, while a museum guide fears the same machines replace her for free.

    Oct 17, 20263 min read

  16. Labor & ProductivityOpinion

    Warehouses Add Jobs, Lose the Entry Point

    The IMF warns AI exposure will touch forty percent of jobs, but in warehouses, the fastest losses hit entry-level work while veteran staff keep jobs.

    Oct 13, 20263 min read

  17. Labor & ProductivityOpinion

    Mariana Minerals Swaps Miners for Technicians

    Copper's AI-driven price record is funding automated mines that hire technicians, while the truck drivers those mines once employed get left out.

    Oct 12, 20263 min read

  18. Labor & ProductivityOpinion

    Call Centers Shed Jobs, and Half Their Departing Workers Move Sideways

    A new Revelio Labs count shows global call center jobs falling for eight straight quarters, and Verizon and AT&T show which workers lose their route into office work first.

    Oct 10, 20264 min read

  19. Labor & ProductivityOpinion

    New York City Bans Classroom AI as Google Expands Gemini Access

    New York City's ban on classroom AI protects two-thirds of its students on paper, but Google turned on the same technology by default for 150 million children worldwide the same month.

    Oct 1, 20264 min read

  20. Labor & ProductivityAnalysis

    Entry-Level Work Is Where AI Shows Up First

    Employment of young workers in AI-exposed jobs runs 19 percent below their peers' pace, and most firms still adjust by retraining staff.

    Sep 2, 20266 min read

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