Meta spent the first half of this year planning to replace much of the work its employees do with AI agents, then abandoned the most aggressive part of the plan when the technology did not deliver. Meta code-named the scheme Project OT, short for Organization Transformation. It explored cutting the size of many teams by […]
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TL;DR PwC projects U.S. data center investment will hit $118.4B by 2027, up 116%. Deloitte shows data center job postings grew 64% vs 4% economy-wide, with electrical technician postings up 180%. Patrick Doyle argues the industry is pulling workers from restaurants and grocery stores into high-risk construction without adequate mentoring or safety culture. He advocates […]
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Luke Metz has joined Meta Superintelligence Labs, seven months after rejoining OpenAI. A source familiar with the matter confirmed the hire to Axios. Ina Fried reported it on Monday. Metz starts this week and reports to Alexandr Wang, who runs Meta’s AI effort. Three labs in under a year Metz left OpenAI in 2024 for […]
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OpenAI’s vice-president of sales in the Americas has resigned after five months in the job. Kaylin Voss is going back to Salesforce, according to The Information, which broke the story on Friday. She left a week after her former boss. Denise Dresser, OpenAI’s chief revenue officer, walked out after nine months. Both women came from […]
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Slack launched a coding product on Thursday. Slack Code adds project-specific channels where teams and AI agents write, review and ship software together. The work happens inside the chat app rather than in a separate browser tab. The mechanic is simple. Tag a coding agent from any conversation and it spins up a dedicated code […]
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The programme sits inside the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The first cohort enrols this autumn. The Associated Press reported the launch and the backlash on 14 August. Kaitlyn Huamani, who covers social media and internet culture, wrote it. ASU declined an interview request about the new degree. The university’s own documents […]
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The union announced it on 13 August. Its own statement sets the end at one minute past midnight on Wednesday 19 August. The strike began on 27 October 2023 with about 120 mechanics across seven Swedish workshops, Electrek noted. It became the longest industrial conflict in modern Swedish history. Tesla never signed a collective agreement, […]
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Corporate filings show the closures, Reuters reported in an exclusive. The revenue figure is the one that explains the rest. China accounted for 1.5% of global revenue as of 2024. Microsoft has no current plan to exit. It has simply stopped growing there. Put 1.5% against the scale of the company and it almost disappears. […]
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Almost every AI business sells a product. Someone builds a model or a tool, licenses it, and hopes the customer works out what to do with it. Thrive Holdings inverts that. It buys accounting firms and IT services companies outright, puts its own engineers inside them, and rebuilds how the work gets done. It now […]
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TL;DR Employee engagement hit a five-year low of 20% in 2025, costing $10 trillion globally. GroupTogether co-founder Julie Tylman argues that formal recognition programs miss the most meaningful source of appreciation: peers who see the effort firsthand. She advocates for embedding small, repeatable rituals like group cards into daily work to make connection visible across […]
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From 1 February 2027, a channel applying to the YouTube Partner Program will need 1,000 subscribers and 8,000 valid public watch hours over the previous 365 days. The current bar is 4,000 hours over 12 months. The Shorts route doubles as well. Twenty million valid public Shorts views over 90 days, up from 10 million. […]
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TL;DR Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman says work-life balance and building something extraordinary are incompatible. “It’s every waking minute.” Cerebras is valued at $49.5B. He joins Sergey Brin and Meta’s Bosworth in pushing longer hours. Andrew Feldman, cofounder and CEO of AI chip company Cerebras, says it is “mind-boggling” that people believe they can achieve greatness […]
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Job recruiters are meeting an uncanny new kind of candidate: the AI avatar. These digital humans mirror an applicant’s voice and likeness while being something else entirely, and they are turning up in first-round interviews. Lana Kersanava, a Sydney-based recruiter, told Semafor she has encountered them over the past six months. “At the beginning, it’s like […]
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TL;DR Meta CTO Bosworth told employees AI gains should go into more work, not more time off. Called the Meta Days vacation question “very dumb.” Meta cut 8,000 jobs this year while spending $135B on AI. Meta’s chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth told employees at a July Q&A that AI productivity gains should be used […]
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Google is laying off around 52 employees in Washington state, according to a WARN notice it filed on Wednesday and first reported by GeekWire. The letter gives no reason for the cuts. It says only that they are permanent, and that they are not the result of relocating or contracting work out of the state. […]
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Most AI companies want to sell software to call centres. Yellow.ai wants to buy the call centres. The enterprise-AI firm has agreed to go public through a merger with a blank-cheque company. It plans to spend much of the money acquiring the outsourcing operators it aims to automate. The deal folds Yellow.ai into Bluerock Acquisition […]
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TL;DR UK tribunal rules Holiday Extras discriminated against a remote worker by refusing to let her keep her camera off during calls A UK employment tribunal has ruled that forcing a remote worker with anxiety, ADHD, and autism to turn on her camera during a video training session amounted to disability discrimination. Laura Tait, a […]
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Oracle’s global workforce fell to 141,000 full-time employees as of 31 May 2026, down from 162,000 a year earlier, a net reduction of roughly 21,000 people. The company’s annual regulatory filing stated plainly that “the adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations have resulted, and may continue to result, in reductions to our workforce.” It […]
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TL;DR ClickUp cut 22 per cent of its workforce and introduced $1 million salary bands for remaining staff. CEO Zeb Evans says the company is restructuring around a “100x org” model where AI agents outnumber employees 3:1. ClickUp, the $4 billion productivity platform, has cut 22 per cent of its workforce. CEO Zeb Evans announced […]
Read MoreTL;DR Coinspaid built a remote-first fintech culture centered around ownership, flexibility, learning, and employee well-being. By combining global hiring, cross-team collaboration, and long-term career development, the company has become one of fintech’s most recognized remote-first employers. Fintech is a sector known for speed and pressure. Employment is usually described in the language of momentum: rapid […]
Read MoreTL;DR The six largest US banks shed 15,000 jobs in Q1 2026 while posting $47 billion in profits, with CEOs explicitly crediting AI for headcount reductions; JPMorgan, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo are now disclosing specific AI productivity metrics in earnings calls, marking the quarter where AI-driven workforce reduction moved from […]
Read MorePicture a woman in her mid-30s assessing her options, balancing household expenses with a long‑held ambition to enter a more purpose‑driven profession. A transition into teaching or nursing holds deep meaning, yet most degree pathways require time away from a steady income and a financial commitment that demands careful planning. The desire to move forward […]
Read MoreTL;DR A People Analytics study analyzing 205 tech professionals found that early employee attrition is driven more by stalled career momentum than workplace culture. Promotions, internal mobility, and visible growth opportunities were the strongest predictors of retention, while team socialization had little measurable impact. I went into this research convinced I already knew the answer. […]
Read MoreGlobal HR is no longer just about compliance. It’s becoming an operational infrastructure layer for distributed companies. As a seasoned HR professional, I used to think working for an international company was a peak career flex. Unfortunately, in 2026, the reality can be far less glamorous. Picture running an HR team for a global company […]
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In short: Accenture Ventures has invested in General Robotics, whose GRID platform provides a unified AI intelligence layer across 40+ robots from different manufacturers including FANUC, Flexiv, and Ghost Robotics. The deal extends Accenture’s physical AI strategy alongside its NVIDIA-powered Physical AI Orchestrator and prior investments in Sanctuary AI and Schaeffler humanoid robotics partnerships. Accenture […]
Read MoreThe 2026 AI Index from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI documents a deepening disconnect between expert optimism and public anxiety. Gen Z anger about AI is rising fast. Employment in AI-exposed fields among younger workers is already declining. And the US has the lowest trust in its government to regulate AI of any country surveyed. […]
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Dehydration is unfortunately a pretty common issue for people of all ages. Some studies suggest that as many as 75% of Americans could be chronically dehydrated at any given moment. It’s easy to fall short of your body’s daily water intake needs if you’re busy, stressed or preoccupied with other things. Dehydration may be a […]
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In short: AI-powered “vibe coding” tools have driven an 84% jump in new app submissions to Apple’s App Store in a single quarter, according to reporting by The Information, the largest surge in a decade. The flood is straining Apple’s review infrastructure, with approval times ballooning from 24 hours to as many as 30 days. Apple […]
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The class of 2025 graduated into the worst entry-level job market in five years. Now a growing number of them are using AI tools during live job interviews, and a cottage industry of startups is rushing to sell them the means to do it. Whether that constitutes cheating or common sense depends on which side […]
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Meta began cutting hundreds of jobs on Wednesday across Reality Labs, Facebook, recruiting, sales, and global operations, according to people familiar with the matter and LinkedIn posts from affected employees. The layoffs are the latest in a rolling series of workforce reductions that have accelerated sharply in 2026, as the company redirects resources toward artificial […]
Read MoreTony Siu, founder of Coffee & Code Philadelphia and an AI engineer and community builder, aims to advance a model of ecosystem development that blends human connection with the thoughtful use of AI. His approach reflects a community-first, servitude-leadership philosophy where participation, shared learning, and developer advocacy evolve alongside scalable systems, offering insight into how […]
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