Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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The Fed stress tests a jobless boom from AI
When a Fed governor starts gaming out a ‘jobless boom,’ AI stops being hype and becomes monetary policy.
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Anthropic’s agents hit legal-tech moats, not headcount
AI isn’t firing lawyers—it’s draining the moats built on paperwork and shifting power to whoever owns verification and outcomes.
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From Micron wafers to ₹65 compute, India hires
India is trying to turn AI anxiety into payroll by fabbing memory at home and pricing compute like electricity at ₹65 per GPU-hour.
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Safety walkouts signal agents optimized to sell your judgment
The AI safety walkouts were a flare: your team is about to rent its judgment to monetized agents unless you lock in enforceable guardrails now.
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IBM triples entry-level hiring, turns juniors into AI stewards
IBM is tripling U.S. entry-level hiring by turning junior roles into human-in-the-loop arbiters who decide when to trust, doubt, and override AI.
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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.