Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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CFOs translate Dimon’s 3.5 days into margin math
A single fraction just turned into a boardroom playbook: cut to capture AI gains now, pilot shorter weeks later, and let politics decide who keeps the paycheck.
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Denmark’s chatbot rollout kept hours steady while tasks moved
AI is quietly rewiring tasks, boosting judgment-heavy bundles and organizational “glue,” while enabling credible one-person companies—so the near-term risk is thinner roles, not fewer jobs.
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Challenger data shows 15,341 U.S. March cuts tied to AI
In March, one in four U.S. layoffs were pinned on AI—a new permission structure that’s shifting dollars from SG&A to cloud bills and turning pink slips into product roadmaps.
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MIT CSAIL finds 65 percent of text tasks usable as is
The office tsunami never came—instead, the waterline crept up, and MIT just measured how high “good enough” has gotten.
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1,000 registered voters say AI cuts jobs, not theirs
Americans expect AI to cut jobs in general but not their own—fueling a comfort-driven stall in upskilling that employers and policymakers are about to stumble over.
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Oracle trades headcount for megawatts and GPUs
Oracle just converted salaries into GPUs and megawatts overnight, rewriting budgets and public risk for the AI buildout.
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Civil engineering up 40 percent, data science down 30
No pink slips—just a missing first rung, as AI erases true entry-level roles and raises the bar to “2–3 years” while candidates are told to bring their own AI.
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When coverage stops, SLAs and runbooks redraw headcount
The empty headline was the tell: the real action moved into runbooks, budgets, and org charts quietly redefining jobs.
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Headlines fade as HRIS dashboards rewrite hiring math
Yesterday’s missing AI-and-jobs blockbuster is the signal: the action has slipped from press releases to reorgs, procurement clauses, and HR dashboards.
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Sam Altman rumor fades as integration bills decide headcount
No headline won because the real decisions slipped backstage—into cost stacks, procurement math, and institutions quietly rewriting how work gets done.