Career cushioning is booming as employees build backup plans and parallel skills to guard against roles being redefined by AI, with the World Economic Forum putting the average half-life of a skill at…
The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025 projects 92 million jobs displaced globally by AI while 170 million are created, and the National Bureau of Economic Research estimates roughly 50…
AI is hollowing out the middle of the career ladder rather than replacing jobs wholesale, according to data from Stanford SIEPR and Boston College's Center for Retirement Research. Stanford SIEPR repo…
Challenger, Gray & Christmas recorded 101,743 AI-cited U.S. job cuts through June 2026, nearly double the full-year 2025 total, and the NBER projects roughly 502,000 by year-end, but BCG projects 50-5…
AI-related job postings reached a record 4.2% of all US job postings in December 2025, up from 3.3% in March 2022, according to Indeed Hiring Lab, even as overall postings were only 6% above their Feb…
PwC's 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer finds entry-level jobs most exposed to AI are seven times more likely to require skills once reserved for senior roles, such as leadership, strategic thinking, and …
Former HCL Technologies CEO Vineet Nayar argues in his new book, *Humans First, Machines Second*, that the greatest AI risk is the erosion of human ambition, not smarter machines. Citing IDC projectio…
An estimated 99% of Fortune 500 companies now use some form of automation in hiring, with 88% using AI for initial screening and about 70% allowing AI to reject candidates without human oversight, acc…
SpaceX filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission in January 2026 for one million satellites to serve as orbital data centers, and Starcloud filed for 88,000 satellites after succ…
Ikea's AI-powered customer service bot Billie, launched five years ago, now handles three-quarters of customer queries, but instead of laying off call center workers, the retailer retrained them, turn…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the AI infrastructure build-out will create hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs in construction and skilled trades, estimat…
A Stanford Digital Economy Lab study by Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar, and Ruyu Chen found that employment among workers aged 22 to 25 in the most AI-exposed occupations in the U.S. fell by 13% si…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the construction of AI data centers, which McKinsey estimates will require $7 trillion in global capital outlays by 2030, will cr…
GPTZero's July 28 investigation found that four PwC Middle East reports published from 2024 through 2026 contained fabricated, mismatched, or unsupported citations, classifying four citations as fake.…
AI is compressing digital work, with 139,156 tech-sector job cuts in the first half of 2026, 83% more than the same period in 2025, and AI cited in over 101,000 cuts across U.S. employers, according t…
Chinese President Xi Jinping and other senior officials have repeatedly called for international cooperation on AI governance, warning that AI could escape human control and urging the creation of a g…
The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025 projects 170 million new roles and 92 million displaced by 2030, a net gain of about 78 million jobs, against structural churn of roughly 22% of t…
Ikea has retrained roughly 8,500 call center employees to handle complex customer queries or work as sales-oriented design consultants after deploying its AI-powered customer service bot Billie in 202…
Demand for AI literacy has grown sevenfold in two years as generative AI tools become daily workplace utilities, with 12% of employed adults now using AI daily and the World Economic Forum predicting …
A 60-minute media literacy course significantly improves older adults' ability to identify and resist misinformation, according to a new report from Australian researchers. The study, which trained 79…