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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 .

Artificial intelligence can boost productivity, create better jobs, and improve public services in sub-Saharan Africa, but realizing these gains will require reliable power, affordable internet, ...

Young, old, midlife – whatever your age, gender or sector, the unemployment crisis is hitting us all. The only way through it is together The personal experience of long-term unemployment is one people rarely share, for completely understandable reasons. There’s a bit of superstition that saying it out loud will bed it in, and there’s always one person in 100 who will choose to explain away the misfortune as your own personal failing. Even if they’re clearly in the grip of superstitions of their

Die Deutsche Telekom plant den Einsatz von 50G-PON als Nachfolger von XGS-PON. Erste Labor-Tests finden bereits statt, um die Netze f�r Multigigabit-Bandbreiten vorzubereiten. ( Telekom , Huawei )

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted for network automation, yet their output quality and inference cost can vary substantially across LLM families. We present HuGLEN, a stepwise evaluation pipeline that uses an LLM-as-a-judge together with a small set of expert ratings to enable scalable and reproducible comparison of candidate LLMs, and to rank them using a quality efficiency score (QES). We demonstrate HuGLEN for translating outputs from an explainable artificial intelligence

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 on a 0-5 lexicon across seven dimensions of agency:

The commercialisation of artificial intelligence is poised to transition from a “token economy” to a “task economy” as token prices decline in the coming years, according to Chinese AI company SenseTime. “The pricing of tokens will inevitably drop, much like the cost of telecoms data did two decades ago,” SenseTime CEO Xu Li said in an interview with the South China Morning Post. After foundational models and computing power become basic infrastructure, the true commercial value will shift...

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

Most tech professionals wouldn't recommend their own role to someone entering the industry today.

Under the revised charges, published on the country’s electronic visa portal on Monday, Somali and Burundian citizens will pay $100 to enter South Sudan.

Why This Matters The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is the federal government's central agency for human resources and workforce management. Since December 2024, in alignment with presidential directives on the closure of certain offices and the reduction of the size of the federal workforce, OPM has undergone significant workforce and organizational structure changes. These actions have reduced institutional knowledge and operational capacity at the agency. OPM’s Headcount Decreased by 35

The next time you apply for a job, AI may screen your résumé before any human sees it. But there’s good reason to question whether AI will judge you fairly. Researchers already know that LLMs pick up human biases from their training data. New research suggests that LLMs can also develop their own biases from…

Inside the ‘Culture of Fear’ at One American-Chinese University Emma Whitford Mon, 07/20/2026 - 03:00 AM Faculty at Wenzhou-Kean have accused their employer of obfuscatory employment agreements, wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation and lack of shared governance. University officials dispute the charges. Byline(s) Emma Whitford