Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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Congress asks ChatGPT, forecasts 97 million jobs exposed, pushes 32-hour week
Congress let an LLM score which tasks are on the chopping block, christened it “artificial labor,” and paired the estimate with a 32-hour week and profit-sharing to capture the gains before they trickle away.
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John Chambers warns the C-suite is becoming variable cost
John Chambers just moved AI anxiety upstairs: companies that can’t collapse decision latency and replatform around software will disappear—and so will many of their leaders.
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Hire welders and electricians before ordering H100s
The AI bottleneck just moved from code to copper—and the winners wear hardhats.
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Atlanta Fed 3.8 percent growth, requisitions quietly stall
With the official jobs report dark, a clearer signal emerged: AI-fueled productivity is letting firms boost output while quietly freezing headcount.
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Challenger report names AI in 7,000 September layoffs
With the BLS offline, a single private report made AI a present-tense hiring constraint—and the first casualties are the bottom rungs of the career ladder.
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CPS dissimilarity index stays flat after ChatGPT
Yale and Brookings just put the AI-jobs panic under a microscope and found ordinary churn, not a quake.
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Kevin O’Leary’s eight words meet a six‑figure H‑1B
O’Leary’s tidy “AI reallocates” line only works if leaders pay for the bridge—upskilling at home and visas that don’t price out the talent to make it real.
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SB 53 forces recall‑ready AI and new safety jobs
California’s SB 53 forces frontier AI to ship with a paper trail, turning safety ops, incident reporting, and human-in-the-loop design into the new launch checklist.
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The Guardian backs worker veto on AI as UK pivots
The Guardian just moved the UK’s AI debate from hype to a worker mandate: no distribution, consent, and compensation—no deal.
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Walmart keeps payroll flat, rebuilds roles with agent builders
Walmart just made “every job” a work order—keeping 2.1M workers while rewiring roles with AI and a 2026 national certification that could reset retail’s job spec.