The entry-level isn’t being fired—it’s being outbid by software, with training debt and downtime risk quietly stacking up.

Acrisure didn’t just automate 400 accounting jobs—it packaged the work and plans to sell it.

Kashkari flips the AI layoff script: the data-center capex boom is fattening the term premium and freezing hiring even as the Fed nudges rates down.

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…

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.

With the official jobs report dark, a clearer signal emerged: AI-fueled productivity is letting firms boost output while quietly freezing headcount.

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.

Yale and Brookings just put the AI-jobs panic under a microscope and found ordinary churn, not a quake.

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.