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David Paffenholz, CEO of AI recruitment platform Juicebox, reflects on the pros and cons of the new world of job seeking.

David Paffenholz, CEO of AI recruitment platform Juicebox, reflects on the pros and cons of the new world of job seeking.

Big Data & Society, Volume 13, Issue 3, July-September 2026. Based on ethnographic research with a grassroots civic hacking community in South Korea, this article examines how civic hackers enact data citizenship under the temporal and labor pressures of datafied societies. Drawing on a practice-oriented framework, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to reshape actuarial practice, particularly in domains that require reasoning over unstructured documents, heterogeneous data sources, and regulated decision workflows. Actuaries now face a design space that ranges from traditional rule-based automation to large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and multi-agent ``agentic'' systems that plan, retrieve, call tools, and reflect. This paper examines how these emerging architecture

About two-dozen Hoosier childcare providers and advocates overwhelmingly opposed looser statewide staff educational requirements during a Monday public hearing. “This is a profession. This is not just a babysitting job,” said Hanna Wetzel, the director of the Children’s Learning Center of Posey County. She spoke to representatives of the Family and Social Services Administration, the […]

And then on the other side, we have a positive kind of demand and productivity shock, which is coming from the technology cycle and particularly AI-led investment. So, there's two forces that are ...

The news comes with Activision Blizzard's parent company cutting jobs across the board.

Large language models (LLMs) have become significant providers of mental health support, yet they remain products of an attention economy whose operational and commercial targets favour sustained engagement over the friction that effective psychological support often requires. Developers' safety responses have been largely reactive, addressing the most visible and acute harms while subtler, longer-term patterns of risk (e.g., dependency, boundary erosion, the amplification of distorted beliefs)

Will AI replace marketing jobs? European marketers largely believe the answer is no. Yet many organizations have already reduced headcount or replaced employees with AI. The reality is more nuanced: AI is not simply replacing marketers — it is redesigning how marketing work gets done. As AI takes on more execution-oriented tasks, the value of human contribution shifts toward strategy, creativity, judgment, and leadership. The organizations that succeed will not be those that deploy the most AI t

Itamar Friedman discusses how architects and engineering leaders can break through the AI productivity ceiling using adaptive multi-agent systems. He shares insights on moving past simple autocomplete to resilient workflows by integrating autonomous testing, intelligent code review, and robust arbitration. Learn how to govern agent communication and build a context-driven SDLC that scales. By Itamar Friedman

Iran’s leaders could use the peace dividend to invest in fixing its severe environmental problems.

The warning comes as President Donald Trump announced the U.S. ceasefire and peace process with Iran is “over.”

In 2011, Marc Andreessen, a key figure in California’s venture capital scene, coined the phrase: “Software is eating the world.” The phrase describes the spread of software into everyday life and the displacement of physical business models. This process continues in an unexpectedly literal sense: AI companies purchase used books, scan them, and dispose of them to gather input for their models. The reason for this seemingly cumbersome method is the expectation that it will fall under the fair us

Global growth is projected at 3.0 percent for 2026 and 3.4 percent for 2027, broadly unchanged cumulatively from the April 2026 World Economic Outlook. The outlook is uneven: The war shock is weighing ...

Jan 21 (Reuters) - Eightfold AI, a venture capital-backed artificial intelligence hiring platform used by Microsoft, PayPal and many other Fortune 500 companies, is being sued in California for allegedly compiling reports used to screen job ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1575#7495)

The phishing campaign uses several tactics, including nested redirects, to evade detection and steal credentials from unsuspecting targets.

“Greg has done an excellent job as Federal CIO and Chief AI Officer,” an OMB spokesperson told Nextgov/FCW. “He will certainly be missed when his time here comes to an end.”

We also assume policy and geopolitical uncertainty remain elevated throughout 2027 and that the AI-driven technology cycle moderates from here with no exogenous boost to productivity. Now turning to ...

Employment and Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth’s recent announcement of a new AI Employment and Workplaces Forum is a welcome step. But its success will depend on whether it recognises ...

This blog post is part 1 of a 2-part series. The second part sets out recommendations for companies and policymakers. Six years ago—one month into a global pandemic—we argued that the automated moderation processes many platforms were rapidly adopting should be highly transparent, easily appealable, and temporary. We warned that "protocols adopted in times of crisis often persist when the crisis is over." That warning proved prescient. The use of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to id

Episode Six, a global technology provider of enterprise-grade card issuing, and Decisionly, an AI-powered dispute automation platform, today announced a strategic partnership to bring issuers a solution covering card infrastructure and end-to-end dispute management.

Africa's displacement zones may be the continent's least contested fintech...

The coming World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) is set to feature major new product releases, such as Huawei Technologies’ next-generation computing cluster, as China doubles down on AI in the global technology race. This year’s WAIC, the ninth since 2018 and running from July 17 to 20 in Shanghai, would include the first physical display of Huawei’s Atlas 950 SuperPoD, Tang Wenkan, director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatisation, said at a press briefing.

Microsoft baut seine Gamingsparte um, die Rede ist von der »bedeutendsten Umstrukturierung« der Xbox-Geschichte. Praktisch heißt das: vier Studios und mehrere Tausend Jobs fallen weg.

Imaging demand is growing faster than the radiology workforce can expand, and reporting backlogs cannot be resolved through training and recruitment alone. The most direct opportunity is reducing the time and effort radiologists spend producing reports, a task that requires interpreting images, integrating clinical history and prior studies, and drafting structured findings. We present Harrison.Rad 1.5 (HR1.5), a radiology-specific multimodal large language model that accepts interleaved text an

Artificial intelligence is reshaping economies and societies at a remarkable pace, transforming how people learn, work and live. Its ability to unlock access to knowledge, boost productivity and open ...

The closed-door event will focus on supply chain, workforce development and private sector insights into the emerging technology.

BEIJING, July 7, 2026 — China’s economy stayed resilient in early 2026, supported by strong high-tech investment and exports, according to the World Bank’s latest China Economic Update, Rebalancing ...

As the world increasingly relies on digital technology, the role of digital companies in driving the global transition to a low-carbon economy has become increasingly important. The International ...

The sweeping layoffs equate to 2.1% of Microsoft's workforce, with 1,600 immediate job losses at Xbox.

'It is neither possible nor desirable to own every great independent studio.'

Is this the beginning of a new world?

Governments, productivity, leaders and efficiency are steering AI's adoption now.

Coverage will apply to food delivery workers, rideshare drivers, and other platform-based flexible workers, even without formal labor contracts, with companies paying all premiums.

Research dissemination, turning a paper into a poster, a talk video, and a blog post, is still a manual last mile. Prior automation treats each artifact in isolation that each re-extract the paper from scratch, usually ship one-way renders the author cannot reopen in PowerPoint or Word, and gates quality on soft VLM-preference scores that plateau while load-bearing sections still read as empty. We argue this last mile is best built as a composition of skills: thin agent-readable contracts that s

OECD job markets have remained resilient, with total employment in OECD countries at an all-time high and projected to continue to grow this year and next. However, real wages remain below their ...

How to apply effective governance to harness the benefits of A.I. and mitigate its risks ...

In Cameroon, many young people combine university studies, part-time jobs, and social media content creation, turning their online presence into a valuable source of income while diversifying their earning opportunities.

Scientific equation discovery must combine broad domain priors with strict numerical testing. Symbolic regression supplies numerical grounding but faces a combinatorial search space, whereas many language-model systems ask the model to propose or select formulas directly. We test a different division of labour. We compare role specifications in which the language model acts as equation author, candidate decider or search controller, alongside end-to-end language-model and purely numerical baseli