Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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San Francisco schools bar AI from cutting teaching positions
San Francisco ended its teachers’ strike with a new rule of the road: AI can help, but it can’t cut headcount.
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Microsoft’s AI chief sets 12–18 month clock on white‑collar automation
Microsoft’s AI chief just put a 12–18 month timer on white‑collar work, as agents take over tasks and careers get rewritten as policy files and guardrails.
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Plumbers are up 20% in data center hotspots
The hottest signal for where AI comes online isn’t GPUs—it’s a 20% raise for pipefitters and a 112% surge in drywall hires.
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Eight months inside a 200-person firm where AI rewrote calendars
An inside-the-firm study shows generative AI didn’t give time back—it tightened cycles, blurred roles, and quietly taxed focus.
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The real layoff memo is the GPU invoice
The memo says “focus,” but the budget says you were traded for compute—here are the three doors and how to pick the one you can still walk through.
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Andrew Bailey makes AI skilling a macro policy lever
A central banker just turned ‘AI training’ into forward guidance, arguing that shrinking entry routes and rising AI task loads demand urgent, operational skilling as the economy’s pressure valve.
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India’s unseen hiring freeze as offer letters vanish
The shock isn’t layoffs but the entry-level offers that never print—and a two-track plan aims to reopen the on-ramp via AI fluency and upgraded human-centric work.
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Claude starts closing books at Goldman, humans manage exceptions
Goldman is moving Claude from helper to doer in reconciliations and KYC, and if exceptions don’t rise, the rungs of Wall Street’s apprenticeship start to disappear.
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January’s 108,435 cuts, 7 percent tagged AI
January’s ledger put AI-linked layoffs at 7% and exposed how much of the rest is de-layering and market-friendly storytelling, not robots at the gate.
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IBM’s Krishna turns half into a call center blueprint
IBM’s Arvind Krishna just turned “half” into a blueprint: automate the repeatable, prove it with audit trails and KPIs, and steer humans toward exceptions and relationship repair.