The youth hiring slump looks less like an AI cull and more like a classic margin-driven freeze—tariffs, policy whiplash, and CFOs stretching teams—so watch vacancies and quits, not the hype.

Jamie Dimon recasts AI’s job threat as a tempo issue—urging phased rollout, regulation as metronome, and short-run job gains instead of a panic purge.

Microsoft turned 200,000 real Copilot chats into a live map of which tasks AI already does—and how that’s quietly rewiring roles, review gates, and spans of control.

When the base of the pyramid turns into software, the only thing left to sell is a signature.

Buyers just said the quiet part out loud: AI contracts are now being justified by auditable headcount cuts, not productivity slides.

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.

One number just leapt from an op-ed into lawmaking—and it could shift AI policy from model fights to mass employment protections.

MBB’s frozen offers aren’t thrift—they’re the org chart admitting the deck builds itself and only judgment still compounds.

Hiring just went end-to-end algorithmic—win by pairing AI fluency with auditable judgment, not glossy sameness.

AI just showed up as a cause in WARN filings—the euphemism left the slide deck and entered the layoff clock.