Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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CIPD survey finds 17% of UK employers plan AI cuts
The UK just put a number on AI-driven cuts—17%—aimed at clerical and junior professional roles, with a 12-month clock to reskill or redesign.
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Meta’s $600 billion AI bet needs electricians, not GPUs
Meta’s $600B AI build shifts the jobs debate from code to concrete, with the chokepoint now electricians, transformers, and permits.
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1,000 cars, 8–10 metros, Tesla hires the midnight shift
Tesla’s latest job postings show robotaxis shifting from demo to 24/7 logistics—hiring dispatch, cleaning, and tele-ops instead of drivers.
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A Senate bill turns AI job claims into quarterly filings
A bipartisan bill aims to turn “AI efficiencies” from earnings-call vapor into quarterly, public line items that companies and agencies must defend.
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Challenger report credits AI for 31,039 layoffs
AI found a new home in the spreadsheet, and 31,039 pink slips just carried its signature.
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IBM’s 270,000 workforce tilts toward Red Hat and AI
IBM’s “rebalance” keeps headcount flat while quietly trading legacy roles for AI‑first work to buy margin—and time—on the P&L.
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Amazon’s 14,000 cuts and the alibi of AI
When a pink slip says AI did it, is that technology at work—or a convenient alibi for old-fashioned cost cutting?
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LinkedIn just defaulted your profile into its hiring models
LinkedIn quietly flipped default AI training on for public profiles across Europe, Canada, and Hong Kong—tightening the hiring funnel, amplifying lock‑in, and raising hard questions about consent, audits, and bias.
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At Microsoft, one hire orchestrates many Copilot agents
Nadella just rewrote what a ‘hire’ means at Microsoft: add people only where a human-plus-agents system can deliver more than a pre‑AI peer.
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Since ChatGPT S&P up 70%, openings down 30%, point to the Fed
The viral ‘scariest chart’ looks like robots versus workers, but the timestamps and sector fingerprints point to tight money—not automation—as the real job killer.