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AI & Jobs The Defense Department put OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI's Grok for Government live on GenAI.mil on August 31, alongside Google's Gemini. The portal has onboarded more than 1.7 million unique users out of 3 million personnel. The named use cases are job descriptions.
AI & Jobs On August 28, EXL chairman Rohit Kapoor and iMerit founder Radha Basu laid out the logic of a deal worth up to $310M. EXL runs 68,000 seats of exactly the back-office work AI took first. The company it bought sells human judgment.
AI & Jobs Campaign founder Peter Caulfield says three seconds of audio is enough to clone a voice with the right system. The campaign also cites 28% of UK adults reporting they have been targeted by a voice-cloning scam. Denmark is already legislating ownership of face, body and voice.
AI & Jobs A three-year contract UFCW published on August 28 carries one sentence: no employee in the unit may be 「terminated, laid off, demoted, or suffer a reduction in regularly scheduled hours」 because of AI. The unit is seven booksellers in Washington, D.C.
AI & Jobs BLS published its 2025-35 Employment Projections on August 27: 5.9 million net new jobs over the decade, total employment from 170.3 million to 176.2 million, growth of 3.5% against 10.9% in the prior decade. Office and administrative support falls 4.0% and sheds 752,100 jobs, the largest decline of any major occupational group.
AI & Jobs PagerDuty put two things in one release on August 27: ARR past $500M for the first time, and a workforce reduction of about 15%. The cut, the company said, hit non-customer-facing roles 「including support functions being automated」.
AI & Jobs HP posted record third-quarter revenue on August 26 and raised full-year guidance. The 10-Q filed with it shows $547M already charged against a restructuring plan HP says is driven 「primarily through artificial intelligence adoption and enablement」.
AI & Jobs At the Deutsche Bank technology conference on August 26, Intel CFO David Zinsner put the first hard numbers on Lip-Bu Tan's org compression: VPs down from roughly 450 at peak to about 200, management layers from 12 to six. His explanation was 「by the time the PowerPoints got modified to where it was getting presented to the CEO, it was an entirely different story」.
AI & Jobs Meta's May layoff of 10% was the first half of a two-wave plan code-named Project OT. Reuters published the documents on August 26. The second wave died the night before the first one landed, after Meta's own telemetry showed its AI agents were generating code without shipping product.
AI & Jobs Nvidia reported $96.2B for its fiscal second quarter after the August 26 close, more than double the year-ago figure. The load-bearing sentence was Huang's: 「compute is revenue.」 Read as a labor statement, it says company revenue no longer scales with headcount.
AI & Jobs The exposure debate keeps asking whether the machine does your job. This is a different mechanism: the human still decides, and outsources the hardest twenty minutes of it to a chat box.
AI & Jobs The union demanded a signature before any robot entered a Hyundai plant. What it signed on August 25 was a clause about sharing information.