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…
GitHub new repositories surged 79.2% month-over-month to 9.0 million, while AI crawlers now account for 5.8% of all HTTP requests, according to Cloudflare Radar. The data, compiled from 15 sources inc…
A developer discovered that their AI pipeline for generating explainer articles was fabricating statistics because the output schema required a 'statistic' field. The prompt instructed the model to al…
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh pledged Tuesday that the inflation surge of the past five years will be 'a thing of the past' and identified AI-driven business investment as 'the most striking featu…
Goldman Sachs warns the US will bear the brunt of AI-induced inflation, estimating that artificial intelligence is boosting core PCE inflation by around 20 basis points annually, with the impact expec…
Tech layoffs hit a five-year high in 2026, with 123,653 job cuts announced through May, a 66% year-over-year increase, as companies cite AI-driven efficiencies. Crypto firms including Dune and Crypto.…
More IT workers are seeking union representation amid mass layoffs, disillusionment with Big Tech, and fears that AI will displace jobs, but overall union membership in tech remains low at about 3.5%.…
A Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis study found that a general shortage of job openings, not AI, is the primary driver of rising unemployment among 18- to 24-year-olds, with unemployment up 2.9 percen…
The ISM report shows AI supplier-related commodities rising in price while oil prices decline, indicating AI infrastructure demand is replacing oil as the primary driver of commodity inflation. This s…
Job cuts attributed to artificial intelligence surged to 40% of all layoffs in May 2026, up from 25% in March, as companies like Meta cite AI-driven efficiency gains for workforce reductions. Analysts…
Egg prices in the United States have fallen 35.2% over the past year, but the cost of buying breakfast on the way to work continues to rise, with a fast-food breakfast combo potentially costing over $…
A study by U.K.-based payment firm Remitly found that DJ is the top dream job in the United States and Canada, based on Google searches from May 2025 to May 2026. The average annual pay for a DJ is $4…
Healthcare and skilled trades offer stronger job security due to steady demand and resistance to AI replacement, while tech and media roles face higher risk from automation and layoffs. Economists not…
A data-driven analysis of the US frontend engineer market in 2026 reveals that hiring demand peaked in early 2022 and remains flat-depressed, with no recovery. The decline is attributed to macroeconom…
California bosses earn a median wage of $143,200, 146% more than the typical worker's $58,200, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report. The state has 1.3 million managers, the most of any sta…