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How technology is reshaping work, covering hiring freezes, automation, layoffs, new roles and what the numbers say about the wider labor market.
DoorDash has opened a US waitlist for an AI agent that takes orders inside Apple Messages, reads a photo of your fridge, suggests what to cook and checks out with the card already on your account. Roughly 20,000 testers are in. Bloomberg’s look at an early build found prices that did not match the app.
New York City’s largest labor enforcement action ever lands on DoorDash: at least $131.5 million after 264,000 delivery workers were underpaid or paid late. The company says it screwed up, and that most of the bill is a formula dispute.
Sanders and Takano have reintroduced the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act, framing AI as the reason to cut the federal standard. The trial evidence is the strongest it has ever been, and it is still not the variable that decides this.
Meta spent three years flattening management to build an AI-native organization. Now it is quietly asking Applied AI staff to consider becoming managers again.
Nearly 1,900 Blizzard Entertainment workers ratified a historic union contract with Microsoft that forces the company to discuss, evaluate, and bargain before deploying AI, alongside big raises, severance, and recall rights.
About 30 humanoid and quadruped robots demonstrated outside Poland’s digital affairs ministry, chanting for AI rules. The organizer’s day job complicates the picture.
Apple disclosed John Ternus’s compensation in an SEC filing on his first day as CEO. The headline number is $58 million for fiscal 2027, but three quarters of the equity only pays out if Apple’s shareholder return beats the rest of the S&P 500.
Kickresume’s Will AI Take My Job scores 756 occupations using Anthropic’s Economic Index and Labor Department data. Customer service reps get 63 percent, hairdressers get 3. The number is real, and it does not measure what most people think it measures.
An internal Google DeepMind memo tells applicants there is a “non-trivial probability” their CV will be screened out incorrectly, and points them to a separate form that a human will actually read. Google says the system works fine.
Nvidia’s own VP admits AI compute often costs more than human salaries, yet 2026 layoffs keep citing AI. Here’s what the cost data actually shows.