How companies are using AI to pay workers as little as possible
By POPULAR INFORMATION Published on March 26, 2026 As corporate profits surge, American workers are taking home a record-low percentage of the proceeds from their work. In the third quarter of 2025, the “labor share” of Gross Domestic Product in the U.S. decreased to 53.8%, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This was […]
AI Agents Are Mathematically Incapable of Doing Functional Work, Paper Finds
By futurism Published on January 26, 2026 A months-old but until now overlooked study recently featured in Wired claims to mathematically prove that large language models “are incapable of carrying out computational and agentic tasks beyond a certain complexity” — that level of complexity being, crucially, pretty low. The paper, which has not been peer […]
AI is hitting UK harder than other big economies, study finds
By The Guardian Published on January 26, 2026 The UK is losing more jobs than it is creating because of artificial intelligence and is being hit harder than rival large economies, new research suggests. British companies reported that AI had resulted in net job losses over the past 12 months, down 8% – the highest […]
Hospitals Are a Proving Ground for What AI Can Do, and What It Can’t
By THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Published on January 05, 2026 Samir Abboud, chief of emergency radiology for Northwestern Medicine, thought he was already working at maximum speed. In a carefully honed routine, aided by voice dictation, he could finish writing an X-ray report in as little as 75 seconds. Then the Chicago-based health system rolled […]
Organizations can now buy cyber insurance that covers deepfakes
By CYBERSCOOP Published on December 09, 2025 Synthetic media, including AI-generated deepfake audio and video, has been increasingly leveraged by criminals, scammers and spies to deceive individuals and businesses. Sometimes they do so by imitating an employee’s CEO, urging them to transfer large sums of money or provide them access to work accounts. Other times […]
Same Cart, Different Price: Instacart’s Price Experiments Cost Families at Checkout
By GROUNDWORK Published on December 09, 2025 Two shoppers walk into the exact same grocery store, at the exact same time, and pick up the exact same box of Cheerios. Then, they head to the cash register to check out. This sounds like the opening to one of those “three guys walk into a bar” […]
Can AI Boards Outperform Human Ones?
By HBR Published on November 05, 2025 According to a recent poll of 500 global CEOs, 94% believe AI could offer better counsel than at least one of their human board members. In October 2025, Samruk-Kazyna, the National Wealth Fund of Kazakhstan, announced the appointment of SKAI (Samruk-Kazyna Artificial Intelligence), as a voting member of its […]
Hospitals Are a Proving Ground for What AI Can Do, and What It Can’t – Copy
By arxiv Published on October 30, 2025 AIs have made rapid progress on research-oriented benchmarks of knowledge and reasoning, but it remains unclear how these gains translate into economic value and automation. To measure this, we introduce the Remote Labor Index (RLI), a broadly multi-sector benchmark comprising real-world, economically valuable projects designed to evaluate end-to-end […]
The Fight Over Whose AI Monster Is Scariest
By WSJ Published on October 18, 2025 Anthropic’s problem might be that it’s the sober one at the AI rager. One of its co-founders drew a string of unusual rebukes from the White House this past week after penning a rather personal essay about his own uneasiness around the work his industry is doing. “Make […]