Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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Jensen Huang’s half‑million jobs are arriving at substations
Jensen Huang says the real AI jobs number is written in cranes, substations, and shift schedules—not slide decks—and the next hiring boom may run on megawatts.
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Bloomberg tells Washington to tax rents, not robots
Bloomberg’s board says holster the robot tax and fund the landing—accelerate AI while cushioning workers with wage insurance, portable benefits, and rapid credentials.
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Colorado hiring AI law gets 14-day shield after xAI suit
A Denver judge iced Colorado’s audit-first AI hiring law—and added a 14‑day grace shield—while xAI and the DOJ push the fight toward transparency over mandates.
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OpenAI’s jobs map turns 18 percent into management decisions
OpenAI just swapped vibes for a working pressure map of the labor market—putting the next move on management, not destiny.
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Earnings calls turn AI into the layoff playbook
CEOs have learned that saying ‘AI’ turns layoffs into discipline—and a contagious playbook is spreading from earnings calls to org charts.
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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.