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Artificial intelligence is being deployed across the Global South at a pace matching or exceeding the Global North, yet AI governance has not kept pace, and the gap is far wider in the South. Drawing on a decade of AI audit practice across Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia Pacific (the only fully published second-party audit of a deployed system in the region, Robot Laura in Brazil; two completed but unreleased national audits, of a child-welfare risk model and a public-employment matc

arXiv:2607.19375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models perform economically valuable work, yet they are not currently assessed for how well they perform every economically valuable task. We introduce EconEvals as an open-source evaluation suite to measure capabilities relevant to tasks, work activities, and occupations in the US labor economy. We ground the evaluation suite in real user queries to language models where possible, and supplement these with synthetic data. Our evaluations

arXiv:2607.19733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of AI in Talent Management is a change in the way that organizations are designing their strategies for Talent Retention (TR), engagement, and future strategy. New and innovative tools such as predictive models, sentiment analysis, and personalized career planning have come up, and they offer better ways of addressing retention issues, workforce engagement, and, in general, sustainability. Through the application of predictive analy

French animation and visual effects company STIM – whose credits include “The Wild Robot,” “The Garfield Movie” and “Coyote vs. Acme” – is opening a production center in Spain’s Canary Islands, with plans to create more than 100 jobs as it expands its European operations. STIM Tenerife is set to begin operating in August and […]

IBM is now looking to improve productivity with artificial intelligence, including with a new coding tool called Bob.

New research proves "it makes sense to invest in adaptations."

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has voted to end a 60-year old requirement for employers to submit such data on their workforces.

Background: Research on transgender people’s health, particularly in reproductive health, has expanded exponentially over the past decades. However, previous studies frequently highlight perceived inaccessibility and gender-exclusivity of reproductive and perinatal care for transgender people. Objective: This observational study used a cross-sectional content analysis to examine online obstetrics, labor and delivery, and pregnancy-related materials from a purposive sample of 178 online hospital

Amazon's AGI unit has released a set of AI models, called Nova, and also includes groups working on silicon and quantum computing.

Building Automation Systems (BAS) manage critical building functions using protocols such as BACnet/IP, yet defenders have limited tooling and few labeled datasets for detecting BACnet-specific attacks. This work addresses these gaps through three contributions. First, CISA's Zeek BACnet parser is modified to produce a unified per-packet log, simplifying feature engineering for machine-learning (ML) pipelines. Second, a simulated BACnet/IP testbed is developed using bacpypes3 to model a small co

The Trump DOJ claims government lawyers need immunity from professional consequences. Past DOJ attorneys disagree. The post Over 500 Former DOJ Lawyers Explain How They *Somehow* Managed Jobs Without Massive Ethical Violations appeared first on Above the Law .

Monday.com is cutting roughly 20 percent of its global workforce, about 620 people, as the Israeli project management company restructures around what it calls its AI Work Platform. The company disclosed the plan in a Form 6-K filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, citing the need to support a leaner operating […] This story continues at The Next Web

Quantum-kernel methods encode a dataset's geometry in a Gram matrix, so learning claims on hardware kernels assume the intended geometry survives execution. We measure that survival for one frozen four-qubit ZZ feature-map kernel on $N=24$ real indoor air-quality windows, reconstructed on ibm_fez (1024 shots per circuit) under baseline, dynamical decoupling alone, and gate twirling alone, each a single non-interleaved job. Every configuration returned a complete, finite, positive-semidefinite Gr

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the 2026 Article IV consultation with Brazil on July 20, 2026. Brazil’s economy has remained remarkably resilient in the face of ...

Southeast Asian countries have started to bridge the digital divides. To facilitate cross-border trade, QR payment (Opens in new window) systems show how regional cooperation can deliver practical ...

Healthcare workers in Congo have faced local resistance, unpaid labor, and physical assault during the declared fastest Ebola outbreak in history.

Designing and directing mixed human and agentic teams may be key to conducting the future of work

Investment in artificial intelligence and related companies is lifting the stock market and spending across the economy.

OpenAI is planning a data center in Georgia called "Project Camellia" with a 3.2-gigawatt power deal from Georgia Power. The company pledged $80 million for the local community and $71 million in Codex credits for students to counter growing opposition to US data centers that many residents see as resource-hungry but job-poor. The article OpenAI's "Project Camellia" in Georgia secures a massive 3.2-gigawatt power deal through 2032 appeared first on The Decoder .

Soundcharts founder David Weiszfeld on 'tokenmaxxing', the AI reckoning he expects in 2027, and why the jobs at the heart of the music business will outlast the tools built to serve them. Source

OpenAI announces Project Camellia in Effingham County, Georgia, with commitments to responsible energy, community investment, jobs, and access to Codex.

We shared how Samsung users can boost productivity and get time back on new foldables, watches, and glasses coming soon.

Literacy rates have steadily risen around the world over the last decade, according to a 2025 UNESCO report —important progress on a key UN Sustainable Development Goal, as the ability to read, write, and use numbers is “crucial for thinking critically and navigating information-rich society and economy in a safe, effective and responsible manner.” Access to digital learning has largely been associated with higher test scores for students globally. As technology continues to advance, tech compan

A new mission to save NASA’s Swift observatory shows why catching a satellite that was never designed for rescue is one of the hardest jobs in spaceflight.

The outspoken executive explains how the company’s business model has evolved, and why AI still has to prove it can drive growth.

Very few companies have a better real-time read on the American economy than Delta, and even fewer CEOs are more willing to say what they actually think than Ed Bastian. True to form, he shares how the company’s business model has evolved over time, and why he’s not convinced by AI until it moves his top line. This is an abridged transcript of an interview from Rapid Response , hosted by former Fast Company editor-in-chief Robert Safian. From the team behind the Masters of Scale podcast, Rapid R

What GAO Found The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) provided budget authorities for transportation, infrastructure, and energy projects. Together, the four agencies selected for this review—the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of the Interior (Interior), National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), and Department of Transportation (DOT)—obligated a majority of their IIJA or IRA funding. IIJA. Of the approximate

What GAO Found Technologies like batteries and semiconductors are essential to the U.S. economy but rely on imports of lithium, gallium, and other critical minerals. GAO found that substitution and recycling technologies could help reduce U.S. reliance on these imports. But progress is likely to take many years in some cases. Potential for technologies to reduce critical mineral import reliance For batteries, substitution and recycling technologies offer near-term potential. For example, using l

Beijing is ramping up its computing power and unveiling new policies to boost the city’s “token economy”, as China accelerates AI adoption across key industries in its tech race with the US. The Chinese capital aims to add another 50,000 petaflops of intelligent computing power in the second half of 2026, pushing its total capacity over 130,000 petaflops by the end of the year, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology said at a press briefing on Tuesday. One petaflop is

Dynamic manufacturing environments require multi-agent systems to coordinate effectively under frequent operational disturbances such as machine failures, urgent job arrivals, and processing time variations. Existing multi-agent reinforcement learning approaches treat each disturbance episode independently, discarding valuable coordination experience that could accelerate future adaptation. In this paper, we propose a Graph-Structured Experiential Memory (GSEM) framework for multi-agent coordina

To increase productivity at work, we need to embrace a passion for exploration, argues John Hagel.

AI researchers describe state-of-the-art models as one thing repeated at scale: the Transformer, wired identically for text, pixels, or speech. Neuroscientists describe the cortex as a mosaic - dense Layer 4 in visual cortex for spatial encoding, thick Layers 5/6 in motion cortex for temporal integration - different jobs solved by different structures. This paper argues the gap is a structural error, not a stylistic one, and is measurable. A century of cytoarchitecture, from Brodmann to single-c

A Labour Court halts a municipal disciplinary hearing after finding rulings may have relied on AI-generated hallucinated legal authorities.

Senior leaders must treat AI governance as their own daily job, not something the technology committee handles quarterly, write Peter Pronovost, Justin Norden, and Kedar Mate.

This paper examines the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into cancer screening programmes, focusing on the associated equity challenges and resource allocation implications. While AI technologies promise significant benefits—such as improved diagnostic accuracy, shorter waiting times, reduced reliance on radiographers, and overall productivity gains and cost-effectiveness—current interventions disproportionately favour those already engaged in screening. This neglect of no

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The integration of AI in Talent Management is a change in the way that organizations are designing their strategies for Talent Retention (TR), engagement, and future strategy. New and innovative tools such as predictive models, sentiment analysis, and personalized career planning have come up, and they offer better ways of addressing retention issues, workforce engagement, and, in general, sustainability. Through the application of predictive analytics, organizations can determine employees' lik

arXiv:2605.17086v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automation can displace or complement labour, but this need not be constant across economies. Existing exposure measures typically assign fixed scores to tasks or occupations and capture cross-country variation through employment structure. Here we show that feasible automation depends jointly on task content and country-level conditions. We use a large language model to classify 18,797 work tasks in 124 economies by exposure, labour marg

Global technology corporation FPT and Nuummite, a MEA-based digital transformation and intelligent automation firm, have signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement to advance collaboration across the Middle East and Africa, creating a stronger platform for enterprise transformation through customer experience, data, AI, and cloud solutions.