Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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GPUs, power, and token budgets are delaying layoffs
AI-driven job cuts aren’t late—they’re queued behind compute, budgets, and a recession trigger.
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The $1.25 regret tax on AI layoffs
Two-thirds of firms that credited AI for cuts are rehiring as exceptions became the average case and the “savings” leaked into refunds, churn, and compliance.
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Capex up at least 60%, Meta reroutes payroll to data centers
Meta just translated thousands of salaries into megawatts and specialist pay—and every boardroom is taking notes.
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Musk’s universal high income meets 27,000 AI layoffs
Musk’s upgrade from UBI to “universal high income” just leapt from tweet to budget math, as fresh AI layoff data and economist pushback force the question: if machines make the goods, does Treasury make the paychecks?
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Boston confronts 207,000 AI job losses in five years
Tufts pegs 207,000 Boston jobs and $25.6B in wages on the line within five years—unless the city stops shipping content and starts commercializing trust.
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CFOs expect 502,000 cuts, but agents steal your day
The next disruption isn’t pink slips—it’s agents setting your tempo, unless we rate‑limit the micromanager in the prompt box.
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New York Fed prices AI training as non-degree workers miss out
The New York Fed just put a dollar sign on AI fluency—and showed who’s locked out.
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Morgan Stanley says AI rewrites tasks before payrolls
Morgan Stanley argues the first wave of AI won’t cut rows from the org chart—it will rewrite the formulas inside them.
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Scale AI’s Jason Droege says firms are layoff-washing
Scale AI’s chief says the ‘AI layoff’ wave is more costume change than collapse, with reliability—not GPUs—deciding what truly gets automated.
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Unions move the AI fight to data center permits
Unions just grabbed AI by its infrastructure—permits, power, and robotaxis—and are forcing the surplus to flow through paychecks, not promises.