Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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Material influence now triggers HR liability in Colorado
Colorado ditches grand AI rituals for a notice‑plus‑liability regime that turns any machine‑shaped HR outcome into evidence if it materially influenced the decision.
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From headcount to H100s, the new layoff script
AI just jumped to the first line of layoff memos as companies reroute salaries into compute and promise “leverage” long before the metrics catch up.
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Bank of Canada data show 90% of AI adopters kept headcount
A G7 central banker just swapped ‘jobs’ for ‘tasks,’ telling us to watch workflows—not layoffs—if we want to see AI’s real impact.
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Delta’s Ed Bastian scraps AI speech, insists on authorship
After admitting an AI wrote his speech, Delta’s Ed Bastian tossed it to make a sharper point: in an AI-saturated market, the scarce premium is the person willing to sign the call.
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The next AI bottleneck is the licensed electrician
Jensen Huang just told CMU grads that the quickest on-ramp to the AI boom runs through a hard-hat gate, not a Git repo.
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Meta turns payroll into GPUs ahead of May 20
Meta has set a new exchange rate—people for compute—and the first installment is due May 20.
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Google puts Gemini in the engineering interview
Google just moved the interview to where the work lives: collaborate with Gemini, prove your prompts, and show you can keep AI‑accelerated code safe and fast.
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Cloudflare aligns product and payroll around agents, cuts 1,100
Cloudflare just made agents the architecture—cutting ~1,100 roles, front‑loading rich severance, and daring the market to wait while it rewires the company.
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a16z backs expansion; Stanford finds 16% entry-level slide
Forget mass unemployment: a16z’s bet is on expansion and friction, while a 16% hit to AI-exposed new grads shows where the collateral damage starts.
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Coinbase to Shopify, AI cited while metrics go missing
Executives have found the perfect layoff alibi—AI—while the missing metrics tell a different story.