Tracking how AI is reshaping roles, departments, and industries — updated daily.
AI & Jobs On September 11 Oracle raised this year's restructuring cost by $700M, most of it severance, for cuts it has not announced. About 92,000 of its staff sit outside the United States, where a planned redundancy runs on a clock the employer does not control.
AI & Jobs California's 2026 session ended August 31 with 26 AI-related bills passed and 24 now on Gov. Newsom's desk. SB 951 would require covered employers to give 90 days' notice before any technological displacement hitting 25% or more of the workforce. AB 1018, which would have regulated AI in employment decisions outright, did not pass.
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 The first US state body chartered specifically around AI displacement opened its hearings on the back office. It named an occupation and a population, then set a deadline that lands a year behind the corporate timetables it is responding to.
AI & Jobs More than 200 economists and 16 Nobel winners signed an open letter warning AI could displace workers at Industrial Revolution scale. It is four sentences long.