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A January 2026 class action alleges that Eightfold AI scraped personal data on over one billion workers, scored job applicants on a zero-to-five scale, and discarded low-ranked candidates before a human being ever saw their applications. An ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1575#7543)

Eightfold is the company being sued. The AI platform filters applicants for Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, Netflix and PayPal. Plaintiff, Erin Kistler, applied to these companies through Eightfold's online platform. "She's a highly ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1575#7544)

Artificial Intelligence companies make vast claims about their tools replacing human labour - our charts show what's happening.

Scams caused an estimated $88.3 billion to $114.1 billion in losses last year as criminal groups increasingly turned to AI, deepfakes, and cryptocurrency.

Intel confirmed on Tuesday that it will cut an unspecified number of jobs in its data center group, the division responsible for Xeon server processors and AI-related hardware, as part of a broader restructuring under CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Shares rose as much as 8 percent in early trading, extending a rally that has seen the […] This story continues at The Next Web

Companies need to treat workforce development as infrastructure, not charity.

Companies need to treat workforce development as infrastructure, not charity.

Heavy AI users are 10 percentage points more likely to worry about their own job than light users are

The French economy has remained resilient but faces a more challenging environment as headwinds from the Middle East war have started to weigh on activity and higher energy prices have pushed up ...

The president has had the government take shares in all sorts of corporations. This approach would be particularly bad for the A.I. industry.

Real-to-sim conversion for robotic interaction with objects remains labor-intensive because it requires more than visual reconstruction: a streamlined real2sim process must recover scene geometries and object states, infer physical parameters, and assemble actors, objects, cameras, poses, and trajectories into a runnable physical simulation. Today this process still depends on manual tuning of visual foundation models, mesh cleanup, coordinate-frame alignment, and brittle workflow glue across vi

Real-to-sim conversion for robotic interaction with objects remains labor-intensive because it requires more than visual reconstruction: a streamlined real2sim process must recover scene geometries and object states, infer physical parameters, and assemble actors, objects, cameras, poses, and trajectories into a runnable physical simulation. Today this process still depends on manual tuning of visual foundation models, mesh cleanup, coordinate-frame alignment, and brittle workflow glue across vi

The city is home to the fastest-growing digital economy in Europe.

In a survey of more than 600 employers, one theme kept coming up: Despite AI, soft skills and the ability to learn still set successful job candidates apart.

Google’s AI struggles scream trouble as new Chinese models (again) throw US tech dominance into question Hello, I’m Blake Montgomery, writing to you after a double-header feature of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and the World Cup final. What a great Sunday. Today in tech, we’re discussing how China is chipping away at the US’s lead in the AI race and how Silicon Valley’s workers are taking action to protect their jobs from AI. New York becomes first state to impose one-year pause on new AI dat

Tech workers are increasingly unionizing, trading Silicon Valley’s myth of exceptionalism for collective bargaining to contest the corporate deployment of artificial intelligence For decades, the technology industry was a fortress that labor unions couldn’t breach. Tech workers already had cushy compensation packages, dream benefits like unlimited vacation and free lunch, and a flat corporate hierarchy that made engineers feel as powerful as their bosses, all of whom dressed down in sneakers and

Erik Brynjolfsson has a challenge for anyone worried about artificial intelligence: Stop asking what AI will do to us, and start asking what we will do with AI. In this episode of Me, Myself, and AI, the Stanford University economist explains why technology isn’t the biggest barrier to progress — people, organizations, and institutions are. […]

Daimler-Truck-Chefin rechnet bei Elektro-Lkw mit kräftiger Konkurrenz aus China. Um wettbewerbsfähiger zu werden, sollen in Deutschland 5000 Jobs wegfallen.

Remote job opportunities increased 28% during the first six months of 2026 compared to the same period last year, says Pnet.

My generation is struggling to find safety in our human relationships. AI companionship is filling the gap “There are parts of myself I only share with my AI,” Jerome told me. “ Your AI?” I asked. He was 27, three months out of a breakup, and entirely aware that his AI relationship was, as the psychotherapist Esther Perel put it , “a business product”. Still, he confided in it more than he ever had his friends. I mention Jerome because, in the four years I’ve been reporting on gen Z, I have watc

Technology leaders are very comfortable talking about productivity . We can discuss automation rates, developer velocity, cost curves, and defect rates with great confidence. We are less comfortable talking about mental strain, especially when the thing creating the tension is the very thing we are excited to adopt. Artificial intelligence agents will make that discomfort harder to avoid. Agents can write code, triage issues, research options, test hypotheses, and perform many of the tasks that

Expleo introduced ExpleoTeresa at a microfinance provider through a focused proof of concept, automating critical loan origination and disbursement journeys.

For the past two years, companies have been trying to add AI to their processes. That sounded reasonable at first. Existing workflows, existing systems, existing data, existing dashboards — now with intelligence attached. Add a copilot here, an agent there, a few automated steps, a model connected to some tools, and wait for productivity to rise. But this approach is starting to reveal its limit: The problem isn’t that AI can’t act. It increasingly can. The problem is that most companies don’t h

There’s a clear consensus that America hollowed out its critical minerals base. How to rebuild it is less settled. Alex Grant of Magrathea Metals and Wes Spurlock of Principal Mineral join Jonathan to discuss the processing technology, labor force, and how government can catalyze private capital investment in the sector rather than replace it.Image: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission via Wikimedia Commons. The post Rebuilding America’s Critical Minerals Base appeared first on War on the Rocks .

Community Colleges Rethink Program Value Joshua.Bay Tue, 07/21/2026 - 03:00 AM An initiative co-created by the Aspen Institute and the Community College Research Center helped 10 colleges move more than 20,000 students into programs leading to jobs and bachelor’s degrees. Byline(s) Joshua Bay

Staff told positions will be cut via voluntary and targeted redundancies as part of ‘evolution’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australia’s biggest media company, Nine Entertainment , has blamed the “extreme state of disruption” from AI for its decision to cut another 30 newsroom jobs at the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age. On Tuesday, the managing director of publishing, Tory Maguire, told staff the company wa

arXiv:2607.17947v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing AI measurement frameworks quantify cognitive capability, task automation, or catastrophic risk, but none measure autonomous agency: the extent to which a system behaves in a self-directed way. A system can saturate capability benchmarks while remaining entirely reactive, acting only when prompted and ceasing all activity when a task completes. We introduce the Autonomous Agency Scale (AAS), a behavioral framework that scores AI systems o

arXiv:2607.05454v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The journal is a seventeenth-century technology asked to do four modern jobs at once: disseminate results, certify their quality, allocate scholarly attention, and confer career credit. It does none of them well. Pre-publication peer review is slow, only weakly reliable, demonstrably biased toward established authors and institutions, and expensive, while the reviewing effort it consumes is spent largely on work that will never matter. We

The agency is giving employees in its healthcare and insurance division another shot at opting into the deferred resignation program.

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is identified as the most prevalent neurodivergent condition in the construction industry. While the construction industry may broaden employment opportunities, little is known about how ADHD traits shape workers' performance, sustained attention, and situational awareness in dynamic job-site environments. This work presents an exploratory interview study aimed at understanding how ADHD traits influence construction-specific productivity and how fu

Long before China imported soybeans from Brazil and the United States, the crop powered the country’s economy in the northeast, shaping industry, empire, and the fate of many small towns.

Ivanti CSO Daniel Spicer says frontier models have shown surprising effectiveness in early stages; but cost and human-in-the-loop viability remain open questions.

Arvind Raman, the director of National Institute of Standards and Technology, will serve as acting director of CAISI, according to a spokesperson

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION For two and a half centuries, America’s proud legacy has been shaped by visionaries and builders who have chased excellence and reached for the impossible. During Made in America Week, we celebrate the mighty engine of American manufacturing, driven by the businesses and workers who power our economy, and recommit to building a future where our greatest works are yet to come. American craftsmanship has long […] The post Made in Amer

Job pressures have increased as companies run headlong into AI adoption, causing 26% of top security executives to consider leaving their position.

How defense agencies can build a skills-based workforce without rebuilding from scratch. The post From job descriptions to skills intelligence appeared first on DefenseScoop .

How defense agencies can build a skills-based workforce without rebuilding from scratch. The post From job descriptions to skills intelligence appeared first on FedScoop .

Unlike conventional video game development, which relies on labor-intensive pipelines for asset production, animation, physics, and programming, video world models generate interactive environments from user inputs instantly. It enable us to create customized, explorable, and continuously evolving virtual world from text, an image, or video. Realizing this vision requires four tightly coupled capabilities: interaction, persistent spatiotemporal consistency, stable long-horizon generation, and ef

Law librarians are 'uniquely positioned to wield influence' because their job is to help others, not to win. The post AALL 2026: An Aloha Keynote For Lasting Impact, Not Glitz appeared first on Above the Law .