Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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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.
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Coinbase files 8‑K on AI‑native reorg and 700 cuts
Coinbase is melting its org chart into software—cutting 14%, flattening to five layers, and betting one person plus agents can outship yesterday’s teams.
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Zhou wins back pay as Hangzhou rejects AI inevitability
A Hangzhou court just ruled that “AI made us do it” isn’t a legal excuse—if you automate, you must negotiate, retrain, or compensate.
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When 70% of AI compute meets thin paychecks
AI’s productivity surge won’t translate into a boom unless the gains flow beyond profits to the paychecks that keep demand alive.
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90% of data center builds go to union trades
AI’s job story is being written in copper and concrete as unions and tech quietly team up to build the megawatts—and manpower—the models need.
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Lawrence Wong’s May Day pledge rewires AI around jobs
Singapore recasts AI adoption as labor-market choreography—hardwiring councils, incentives, and tool access to a single metric: time to reemployment.