Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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From not real work to wage insurance line items
A weekend soundbite became the scaffold for policy, proving that in the AI-and-jobs fight, language moves money faster than models do.
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Salesforce adds 3,000 to 5,000 sellers as support automates
Salesforce is automating support while hiring thousands of AEs, betting AI will flood the funnel but leave trust-heavy closing to humans.
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Stanford and World Bank data show wages up, jobs intact
AI’s first labor shock isn’t layoffs—it’s a bidding war for people who can make the models matter.
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OpenAI’s Lighthouse brings 4,000 union jobs to Wisconsin
AI’s jobs story just moved from spreadsheets to switchyards as OpenAI, Oracle, and Vantage drop a near‑gigawatt “Lighthouse” campus on Lake Michigan, hiring by the thousands.
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Amazon’s plan to avoid 500,000 hires by 2033
Amazon just put dates and dollars on a plan to scale logistics by skipping hundreds of thousands of hires—precision automation as a headcount strategy.
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Citi’s $25M bet on AI-ready first jobs
Citi’s $25M is a push to preinstall apprenticeship—training low-income young adults on AI-era workflows—and a challenge to employers to rebuild the first rung of work.
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Gartner’s 0/75/25 becomes your 2030 IT org chart
Gartner just put a date on the end of unassisted IT work—and it rewires your hiring plan from the help desk up.
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AI runs on paid learning time and steel-toed boots
An op-ed from Google’s chief economist and Diane Coyle reframes AI as a task editor—and dares Washington to fund paid, portable, verifiable learning to make the edits stick.
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Figma hires AI directors post‑IPO as throughput drives demand
Dylan Field just flipped AI from a cost cutter to a demand engine—and says that means more hires, not fewer.
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Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 7, accelerates algorithmic HR in California
Newsom’s veto didn’t kill bossware—it killed the speed limit, ushering in a year of fast, opaque AI in HR.