Work & jobs
Hiring, layoffs, new skills — how AI is reshaping the way we work and who gets hired to do it.
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3 min readMixedTech Jobs Are Growing Overall — Just Not the Ones Making HeadlinesNew data shows U.S. tech employment rising even as layoffs continue, because AI-skill demand is pulling jobs into new industries and reshuffling which roles get hired.4 min readMixedUK datacentres may deliver just a quarter of the jobs the industry promisedThinktank Verdant says planned UK datacentres will support about 10,400 permanent jobs, not the 40,000-plus that techUK and ministers have cited.4 min readMixedUber drivers file Europe-wide lawsuit over AI pay-setting algorithmDrivers across the UK, Netherlands and beyond say an opaque AI system quietly sets their pay and could be pushing down what they earn.3 min readGood newsCalifornia moves to ban AI that reads workers' emotions on the jobA bill headed to Gov. Newsom would stop employers from using AI to infer how employees feel or to collect data straight from their nervous system.4 min readMixedGates wants to tax robots and reserve some jobs for humans. Nvidia's Huang says no.Gates's essay calls for a global plan to protect certain jobs from AI; Nvidia's CEO says the fear is overblown while Stanford data shows young workers already losing ground.4 min readMixedStanford study: AI isn't cutting jobs overall — it's closing the door to first onesResearchers find AI is slowing hiring for career-starter roles built on textbook knowledge, while jobs leaning on hands-on experience keep growing for workers already established.4 min readMixedLayoffs Get Blamed on AI, But 90% of Executives Say It's Not Boosting OutputApple just cut 200-plus jobs while rebuilding Siri, but new research shows AI-driven layoffs often backfire - and most frontline workers still have no real access to AI at all.4 min readMixedJudge lets lawsuit over Otter.ai's meeting recordings move forwardA federal judge ruled Otter.ai itself, not just the person who invited its AI notetaker, can be sued for recording calls without everyone's consent.4 min readMixedBosses are bracing for AI layoffs while still struggling to hire and manage AI useNew surveys show executives expect AI-driven cuts within two years, even as hiring gets messier and most managers admit they can't yet lead AI-native workers.5 min readMixedAI hasn't destroyed jobs yet — it's quietly raising the bar to keep oneA year after CEOs warned AI would wipe out half of entry-level jobs, unemployment data shows little mass displacement — but the nature of work is shifting fast.4 min readMixedVisa cut 2,600 jobs and blamed "AI evolution" — but it was hiring for the same roles months earlierVisa's layoffs hit VPs and senior directors while tech-sector job cuts nationally jumped 67% year over year, raising questions about how much AI is really driving the cuts.4 min readMixedUS Layoffs Hit a 2-Year Low, But AI Is Still Companies' Top ExcuseTotal job cuts fell sharply in July, yet employers cited AI more than any other reason for the layoffs that did happen — for the fifth month running.4 min readMixedOpenAI pays $3.2M after DOJ finds it favored visa workers over AmericansA federal probe found OpenAI and its Statsig unit made it needlessly hard for U.S. applicants to land jobs that were being used to sponsor visa holders.