#ai-jobs · How AI Is Reshaping Work

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3 and, in President Greg Brockman's words, declared 「the AGI era.」 The company's own charter defines AGI as a system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work, and Astra's headline skill is operating ordinary office software end to end, without a person clicking along.

CBRE published the 13th Scoring Tech Talent on August 18 and the finding traveled on August 21. The headline gave New York 394,300 workers against the Bay Area's 375,730. For anyone currently employed, the load-bearing figures are 31% and 60%.

Newcomer obtained the Poolside investor letter on August 21. Nvidia pays $6B to license the Model Factory, invests another $1B at a $12B pre-money valuation, and extends offers to 109 employees. Legally this is not M&A. In career terms it is a complete transfer of a technical core.

One in five US workers is weighing a move into a trade or manual job because of AI, and 3% say they are already in the middle of switching. The finding worth reading twice: the workers with the least confidence about AI are not the ones ignoring it.

Israeli legaltech startup Darrow cut about 60 of 180 staff — many of them the legal analysts whose work built the AI that now does the job.

Microsoft is cutting 4,800 jobs, about 2.1% of its workforce, amid record AI infrastructure spending and a 30% stock slide.

Walmart is laying off nearly 400 tech workers at eight Silicon Valley offices after an AI-driven reorg, while telling the WSJ the cuts aren't about AI replacing anyone.

Entry-level job postings are down 35% since 2023 and recent-grad unemployment is climbing, but a Federal Reserve study of over a million firms found no link to AI.

New hiring data reported June 24 shows the AI-kills-coders story has it backwards: engineering held up while middle management absorbed the cuts.

GitLab laid off about 350 people — 14% of staff — and exited 22 countries for the 'agentic era,' while beating earnings and calling it not a cost-cutting exercise.

Google cut staff across Google Cloud on June 3, including its elite Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant, and in at least one case cited reinvestment in AI as the reason.

A FrogHire.ai report on 20.7 million job postings found that AI mentions doubled in a year and, among those postings, the share calling AI skills required climbed from 45% to 76%.