Elon Musk predicted in a May Forbes interview that digital intelligence could surpass the combined intelligence of all humans within five years and that the economy could double in size within five to…
A study from Apollo Global Management's Chief Economist Torsten Sløk and analyst Sania Edlich found that AI's earliest measurable impact on the labor market is wage suppression, not job loss, with hig…
US employers announced more than 1.1 million layoffs in 2025, one of the highest annual totals since 2020, with older workers over 50 facing growing pressure as job cuts spread beyond technology into …
Google's analysis of 15 million anonymized interactions with its Gemini App, AI Mode, and API finds that AI usage in the workplace remains shallow, with even adopting occupations touching a median of …
Male Gen Zers are leaving the US labor market at record rates, with labor force participation for men aged 16 to 24 falling to 56.1% in July from 69% in 2000, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics d…
CBS MoneyWatch's claim that AI is driving up consumer prices is rated 5/10 by Rubbish Talk, which found the tech-cost spike real but narrow while the Bureau of Labor Statistics' July report showed she…
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and other Democrats have warned that artificial intelligence could eliminate millions of jobs, but U.S. labor data shows employment has grown and unemployment has stayed be…
The U.S. labor force participation rate fell to 61.4% in July, and workers' share of GDP slid to a record low in the second quarter, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as AI-driven demand fo…
The AI boom is reshaping the US economy through massive capital expenditures by hyperscalers, with utility companies renegotiating power contracts and transformer manufacturers facing 18-month backlog…
U.S. Senators Mark Kelly, Jim Banks, and Todd Young introduced the bipartisan AI DATA Act (S. 4742) on June 10, 2026, to modernize three federal labor-market surveys and add quarterly AI-adoption ques…
Apollo Research published a July 30 white paper estimating that real-wage growth in high-AI-exposure occupations was 6.7 percentage points slower after 2023 than in lower-exposure occupations, with no…
A new white paper from Apollo Global Management found that jobs with the highest exposure to AI saw an average 6.7% decline in real wage growth after 2023, while overall employment effects were not de…
Google's first ATLAS study of 14.65 million Gemini interactions from April 2026 found AI use associated with 68% of occupations but only about 21% of tasks in the median occupation, with fewer than 10…
A new study from Google Research analyzing 15 million anonymized AI interactions across Gemini found no evidence that AI is about to cause massive automation and displacement of white-collar work, wit…
Stripe economist Ernie Tedeschi found that artificial intelligence is not driving the current US productivity boom, with total factor productivity growth remaining near zero despite heavy AI investmen…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Y Combinator's Startup School that fears of AI destroying jobs are 'exactly backward,' arguing that AI will automate tasks, not entire jobs, and will create new roles. Hua…
A developer has launched _done, a collection of pay-per-use AI tools that let agents perform real-world tasks such as IP and ASN lookups, CORS header checks, US CPI data retrieval, HTTP requests, DMAR…
A developer building a specialist AI agent to query Bureau of Labor Statistics data found that initial accuracy claims of 93% were invalid due to data leaks, stale evaluation files, and incorrect labe…
Bechtel CEO warns that a shortage of skilled labor, not computer scientists, will be the main bottleneck to America's AI ambitions, citing a Center for Strategic and International Studies estimate tha…
Anthropic's head of economics Peter McCrory published an X essay arguing AI has caused no material rise in US unemployment, directly contradicting CEO Dario Amodei's warnings of a white-collar bloodba…