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arXiv:2605.13866v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humans increasingly delegate consequential decisions to language models, yet whether these systems reproduce or reshape human patterns of discrimination remains unclear. Here, across 29 models and 177 occupations covering nearly half of U.S. employment, we show that language models incorporate demographics into hiring decisions, advantaging female and Black candidates while penalising disabled candidates, with effect sizes comparable to six mon

BackgroundThe systematic integration of robotics into health service delivery systems requires periodic assessment of robotic readiness in terms of digital-health maturity regimes across countries. The current study aims to cluster 169 countries into maturity regimes and classify and predict cluster membership accuracy based on digital-health maturity dimensions determining the system’s perception and interoperability, coordination, and workforce–regulatory reliability readiness. These country-l

OpenAI has trained an elite hacker, then locked it in a cage. Its whole job is to break OpenAI’s own AI. The company says it is too dangerous to let anyone else near it. The model is called GPT-Red, and OpenAI detailed it this week. It is an automated red-teamer: software that hunts for ways […] This story continues at The Next Web

Using sentiment analysis of 44,216 public health–related posts from the FedNews Reddit forum (2020-2025), we found that fear and anger scores rose 32% and 63%, respectively, in 2025 over 2024. These results underscore the adverse mental health impact of federal workforce changes and funding cuts on public health employees.

Employers are looking for AI skills - here's how to let them demonstrate you know what you're doing.

“AI is transforming how our economy operates, and a wide range of voices are unifying around a shared goal: expanding worker equity ownership,” writes Lynn Forester de Rothschild.

The UK economy has remained resilient, but the war in the Middle East has dampened near-term growth prospects. Growth is projected to slow to 1.0 percent in 2026 before gradually recovering as the ...

A group of 26 Meta employees has sued the company, claiming it used artificial intelligence systems to select people for layoffs, disproportionately targeting those on medical, parental or family leave. They are among the 8,000 employees, or about 10% of its workforce, Meta said it would lay off in May. The lawsuit filed late Monday...

Atlassian Corp. today announced it is expanding Jira with updates that will help developers prepare, distribute and track work performed by artificial intelligence agents. The company’s new Jira Planner helps turn incomplete project ideas into technical specifications, while its Jira Coding Agent and integrations with third-party agents transform work items into requests. With automation rules […] The post Atlassian evolves Jira into an orchestration hub for developers and AI agents appeared fir

The $21 billion company behind Eventbrite, Vimeo, and AOL has just revealed how it picked 286 out of 800,000 job applications.

How does ChatGPT Work compare with Claude Cowork for desktop automation? My testing reveals similar results, similar strengths, and one major reason Claude currently feels considerably safer right now.

* The DOJ subpoenas the Biglaw firms who surrendered to the Trump administration. It's almost as though cutting a deal with a bad faith actor was bound to cause trouble. [ New York Times ] * Todd Blanche hearings kick off today as Trump's personal lawyer seeks official Attorney General title. [ NPR ] * When Blanche was up for the deputy AG job, 116 lawyers who worked with him at the SDNY wrote a letter of support. They're... not writing a letter this time. [ MSNow ] * James Comey moves to consol

Understanding how visitors engage with interactive exhibits usually calls for either labour-intensive manual observation or invasive multimodal sensing -- eye-tracking, cameras, wearables -- that few science centres can deploy at scale. We ask how much can be learned instead from the handful of fields that most touch-enabled exhibits already log by default: a session's start time, end time, and press count. Analysing 2,816 visitor sessions across eight exhibits at two venues of a science experie

Agentic AI systems increasingly act through heterogeneous runtimes: local coding hooks, SDK tools, browser automation, managed-agent traces, API gateways, and workflow engines. A single operational act such as publishing code, changing identity state, moving money, or exporting data may therefore be represented by many incompatible runtime records. This makes a basic governance question difficult to answer: what action was actually approved, what evidence binds the approval to execution, and can

What GAO Found In July 2024, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) released an internal Integrated Science, Technology, and Engineering (ST&E) Plan documenting investments needed for ST&E capabilities over the next 20 years. NNSA’s plan identified and prioritized 46 ST&E facility investments across the nuclear security enterprise that support stewardship of the nuclear weapons stockpile and other NNSA missions. The investments were prioritized by mission importance and mission need

Why This Matters Bad actors may falsify the geographic origin of products to illicitly sell goods or substitute premium products with cheaper products, which can threaten our economy and consumer safety. In 2021, the U.S. International Trade Commission estimated that U.S. commercial fishing may have lost nearly $61 million in operating income due to illegal, unreported, and unregulated seafood imports. Technologies that verify the origin of imported food and agricultural products, like seafood o

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AI creates a two-track labour market where human expertise delivers faster job growth, higher wages and stronger productivity, says PwC.

Multiple workers impacted by the latest job cuts at Xbox believe the decision will hamstring some studios.

What if the U.S. Government Owned Stock in AI Companies? jdimaggio@upcea.edu Wed, 07/15/2026 - 03:00 AM Who is responsible for compensating Americans for jobs lost to AI? Byline(s) Ray Schroeder

The outgoing Labor president explains why no votes can be taken for granted in a time of ‘anxiety and insecurity’.

Digitising the kasi economy is about giving informal traders the economic visibility they have never had, and the access to capital that comes with it, says Johan Gellatly, MD of Altron FinTech.

The conference will delve into the findings of this year’s IITPSA Skills Survey, which will analyse the impact of AI on ICT jobs in SA.

The SA Youth CV gives young people a structured way to translate formal and informal experience, as well as paid and unpaid work, into clearer signals of capability, says Soraiya Verjee, product manager: youth technology at Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator.

Economic growth of 4.3 percent in the second quarter, versus the same period last year, reflected a broad slump outside of the country’s export-oriented manufacturing might.

arXiv:2607.11999v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: From maritime trade to commercial nuclear power, insurance has been the enabler of major economic and technological developments by pricing risk, limiting downside, and spreading best practices. The emerging AI agent economy, projected to handle trillions of dollars in transactions by 2030, looks to be the next such development. Yet insurers' exposure to AI agent risk currently sits largely unpriced across existing insurance lines; between this sil

arXiv:2607.12575v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents are said to be forming an economy in which they pay, on their own, for the data, APIs, and compute they consume. x402, which settles a stablecoin payment on-chain for each purchase, is the most widely deployed protocol for this, and its hundreds of millions of settlements are read as proof that the economy has arrived. We show the count cannot be read as adoption: it is the one metric an interested party can manufacture almost for free,

TerraFirma Inc., a startup with a platform that enables construction teams to remotely operate heavy machinery, has raised $115 million in funding. The bulk of the capital arrived in the form of a $100 million Series A round led by Kleiner Perkins. TerraFirma disclosed today that Bain Capital, Definition and more than a half-dozen other […] The post Construction automation startup TerraFirma raises $115M appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

A conversation with Pat Yongpradit, general manager of global education and workforce policy at Microsoft.

Enterprise automation startup InstaLILY Inc. said today it has closed on a hefty $60 million Series B round of funding that brings its total amount raised to date to almost $100 million. In addition, it launched a new tool that can help companies to quickly build, deploy and then continuously update and maintain software that […] The post InstaLILY, a developer of AI teammates that can automate complex, business-specific work, raises $60M appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

DOJ Has A Cool New Way To Demoralize The Attorneys It Has Left Working For It: Mandatory case quotas. Read The Opinion… No, Not Like That: Amy Coney Barrett tells Congress that the Supreme Court doesn’t really care about explaining itself all the time. Law School Doesn’t Need To Be A Debt Sentence: These schools […] The post Forcing Prosecutors To Bring Cases To Keep Their Jobs? What Could Possibly Go Wrong? — See Also appeared first on Above the Law .

Kevin Warsh told the House Financial Services Committee that the technology is a “huge opportunity” for the American economy but the Fed is monitoring its impact closely. The post Fed chair says AI ‘hasn’t displaced workers’ so far, has boosted productivity appeared first on FedScoop .

Meta cut its workforce by 10 percent in May.

The lawsuit filed by current and former Meta employees underscores rising concerns about AI's impact on jobs and people with disabilities in the workforce.

OpenClaw has emerged as a leading agent framework for complex task automation, yet it faces insufficient cross-platform GUI interaction support and a well-built self-evolution mechanism. These flaws limit its adaptation to diverse device ecosystems and prevent performance improvements through continuous learning from execution experience. To resolve these issues, we propose the Know Deeply, Act Perfectly paradigm for personal assistants, which holds that accumulated user interaction and task-run

Agentic AI introduces new insurance challenges because autonomous AI systems can make decisions, invoke tools, modify external environments, and interact with third-party services. This paper develops an AI-native mathematical framework for underwriting, pricing, and contract design for agentic AI deployments. A deployment is represented by a risk state that captures autonomy level, operational authority, permission exposure, governance maturity, and dependency concentration. The framework maps

Logistics company C.H. Robinson has seen a 45% productivity gain from deploying AI agents. Its CEO Dave Bozeman explains how he's found ROI from AI.

Choosing a path for the future has never been easy, but for young people today, such rapid technological change as artificial intelligence (AI) is making it increasingly difficult to predict which ...

Large Language Model (LLM) agents have moved beyond generating responses to executing multi-step tasks by calling tools, observing the results, and iteratively deciding the next action. Most agent systems run on desktops or servers, which support tool use and task automation. Mobile devices are also important agent environments because they are widely accessible and contain users' data, sensors, and daily-use applications. Existing mobile agents mainly operate smartphones through graphical user