Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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Sam Englebardt’s 30 percent becomes an operating model
When the base of the pyramid turns into software, the only thing left to sell is a signature.
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Thirty percent became a purchasing criterion at Reuters NEXT
Buyers just said the quiet part out loud: AI contracts are now being justified by auditable headcount cuts, not productivity slides.
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Amodei wants compute levies to buy back the bottom rung
At DealBook, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei said the market won’t self-heal and called for automatic, industry-backed funds to finance employer-tied apprenticeships and wage insurance before AI wipes out the junior ladder.
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Sanders moves 100 million threatened jobs onto Congress’s calendar
One number just leapt from an op-ed into lawmaking—and it could shift AI policy from model fights to mass employment protections.
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McKinsey, BCG, Bain keep pay flat as AI thins pyramid
MBB’s frozen offers aren’t thrift—they’re the org chart admitting the deck builds itself and only judgment still compounds.
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Two-thirds back AI authority as audit trails become currency
Hiring just went end-to-end algorithmic—win by pairing AI fluency with auditable judgment, not glossy sameness.
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Sixty days to layoffs as WARN notices cite AI
AI just showed up as a cause in WARN filings—the euphemism left the slide deck and entered the layoff clock.
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Nvidia’s automate everything order promotes humans to loop architects
When the chipmaker-in-chief says “automate everything,” the middle-manager veto dies and your performance becomes the telemetry of the systems you orchestrate.
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Fed’s Beige Book flags AI replacing entry-level roles
AI didn’t take your job—it canceled the posting, and the Fed just wrote it down.
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MIT and Oak Ridge National Lab map $1.2 trillion in AI exposure
MIT and Oak Ridge priced the present: an agent-based Iceberg Index shows today’s AI can already cover 11.7% of U.S. wages, and it’s mostly paperwork, not code.