The White House just said the quiet part out loud: AI is pausing entry-level hiring while Washington floors the accelerator on compute.

Sen. Mark Warner just put a 25% unemployment clock on new grads—and a plan to expose AI-driven entry-level erosion before it scars a cohort.

Britain just turned Scunthorpe’s new furnace into a test of whether the state can orchestrate AI-driven reskilling as tightly as it funds steel.

Google’s $40B Texas bet moves AI work from code to kilowatts, swapping swag for hard hats and turning the grid into a hiring engine.

In 2025, AI-tagged layoffs have become the new signal of managerial courage—and the market is rewarding the companies that show it.

Singapore just fused AI governance with a workforce plan, turning compliance into a hiring roadmap for finance.

This holiday, retailers aim for trillion-dollar sales while making the leanest seasonal hires since 2009—because the first wave of temps now lives in software.

Gartner didn’t predict a jobs apocalypse—it issued the renovation plan, with 2028–2029 as the hinge and work design as the budget line.

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.

Meta’s $600B AI build shifts the jobs debate from code to concrete, with the chokepoint now electricians, transformers, and permits.