Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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AI users 4 percent likelier to hire, ECB finds
ECB firm-level data shows SMEs using AI to build, not just cut costs, are adding people—and the motive behind adoption is the jobs outcome.
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Gartner sees 50% of AI layoff companies rehiring by 2027
The AI layoff victory lap is boomeranging into a rehiring scramble, with 2027 looming as the bill for skipping integration and exception design.
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Dallas Fed finds AI-exposed jobs down 1%, wages up 8.5%
Dallas Fed data says the bot ate the manual—and marked up the scar tissue.
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Block’s 40% cuts show why the Fed stays put
The Fed just signaled that AI-driven job losses won’t be met with easy money—because the problem isn’t demand, it’s the economy swapping out its transmission.
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At 4.3%, unemployment shrugs at the AI panic
The AI jobs apocalypse makes great headlines, but the labor market isn’t buying—here’s what the data actually say, the early tells to watch, and how to play an ambiguous moment.
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Block’s 40% cuts and electricians’ overtime redraw the AI labor map
Wall Street just turned AI into a cost mandate, and the safest paychecks may be wearing steel‑toe boots.
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AWS tells CFOs to budget for fewer people
Jassy didn’t predict apocalypse—he handed operators a playbook: let software scale the rote, and staff up where humans steer, govern, and translate the machines.
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San Francisco Fed flags 6.5% versus 1.2% AI hiring split
The Fed just elevated AI from startup story to macro variable—and the lopsided hiring map explains the risk.
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WiseTech shares jump 11% on fewer keystrokes bet
WiseTech named AI as the reason for 2,000 cuts—and markets cheered a world where judgment and orchestration matter more than typing.
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Goldman pins 0.2% of rising unemployment on AI
Goldman just put a hard number on AI’s labor bite: a quiet 0.2 percentage-point uptick that’s already reshaping hiring pipelines and where the pain lands.