AI & Jobs Class of 2026, May 15: Semafor's 「Cooked」 Tally Pegs CS Unemployment at 7.0% and Computer Engineering at 7.8%, IBM's Gary Cohn Tells Graduates to Become $260,000 Cement Layers at Data Farms, and One UC Davis Grad Has Applied to 500 Jobs
Semafor's May 15 tally on the Class of 2026: 5.8% recent-grad unemployment vs. 4% national, CS at 7.0%, computer engineering at 7.8%, 100K tech jobs cut YTD, and Gary Cohn telling graduates to go lay cement at data farms for $260K.