Federal Reserve Board Governor Christopher J. Waller announced the FRED MCP Connector on October 1, 2026 at FRED Con, hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, letting AI agents query the St. L…
A decade of official labor statistics from the UK Office for National Statistics and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows no net aggregate job destruction nearly four years into commercial large la…
A three-month field experiment on 133 US patent lawyers by Autor et al. (2026), published as NBER paper w35720, found that lawyers given access to a non-public AI drafting tool produced documents aver…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has expanded its official list of occupations that artificial intelligence could shrink to include public relations specialists, web developers, and hotel workers,…
Warehouse staffing shortages are driving employers to adopt AI-powered assistive technologies, with Bosma Enterprises, the largest employer of blind people in Indiana, using Meta glasses, drones, and …
The US Department of Labor is partnering with approximately 40 organizations, including Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, to build an AI Workforce Hub, a centralized platform to track AI's impact on jobs…
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…