Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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California’s N-6-26 builds AI layoff early warning system
California is wiring its labor market with an early‑warning system for AI disruption—deadlines, dashboards, and policy levers included.
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OECD’s Skills‑First Readiness Index turns AI shock into mobility
The OECD just swapped forecasts for plumbing: a skills-first operating system and a readiness index built to turn AI’s task churn into worker mobility.
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Prometheus raises $12B on Bezos labor shortage wager
In Paris, Bezos flipped the AI script, betting that cheap intelligence will spark a shortage of humans who can turn torrents of designs into certified, built reality—backed by his roughly $12B Prometheus wager.
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Nvidia’s $2B Coherent deal aims 1,000 Texas jobs
Nvidia’s $2B tie-up with Coherent in Sherman aims to prove that cheaper photons can mint 1,000 paychecks where AI meets the factory floor.
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PwC 2026 finds AI leaders hire faster, reward deciders
PwC’s new AI Jobs Barometer maps a split market where automation trims tasks, but wages and hiring chase the people who choose, design, and lead.
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AFL-CIO makes AI the 2028 campaign litmus test
Organized labor just turned AI policy into a campaign gatekeeper—and 2028 hopefuls will either meet worker standards or fail the test.
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7,000 reassigned, spans shrink, Meta rebuilds its management graph
Zuckerberg admits Meta’s AI pivot overshot, pauses broad layoffs, and pivots from buying clusters to rebuilding the org that ships them.
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Walmart’s 2.1 million associates get an AI literacy baseline
Walmart is wiring AI into design, logistics, and store ops with a bold promise—train everyone, don’t trim headcount—and a nationwide OpenAI-backed certification to put blue vests in charge of the outputs.
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Sanders seeks 50% public stake to veto mass automation
Sanders wants the off switch on the cap table: a public 50% stake with veto over job‑erasing AI deployments, plus a pause on new data centers until their footprint is counted.
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Anthropic puts $200 million behind unemployment-triggered job protections
Anthropic just put $200M behind measuring AI’s job shocks—and paired it with a trigger-based plan that pays when the market won’t.