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AI & Jobs Paramount Skydance settled its antitrust lawsuit with 12 state attorneys general on September 21, clearing the final hurdle to its $110B acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The settlement locks in a $47.5M worker fund and film-release quotas, but nothing in it stops the layoffs analysts and LA County both say are coming: as high as 4,500 jobs over three years.
AI & Jobs On September 15 Adecco said it is putting Salesforce's Agentforce Coworker in front of 27,000 employees. Buried further down: agentic AI is already live in recruitment workflows in 10 countries carrying 50% of Adecco business revenues.
AI & Jobs On September 15 the Financial Times reported KPMG UK will cut about 200 advisory roles, roughly 4% of the practice, with AI and cybersecurity specialists among those affected. A KPMG spokesperson cited 「low levels of attrition」 alongside a 3% drop in advisory revenue.
AI & Jobs At Dreamforce '26 in San Francisco on September 15, Salesforce launched AIforce and said AI is going to replace the user interface. Workers update records and trigger workflows from Claude or Slack without opening Salesforce at all.
AI & Jobs At Dreamforce on September 15, Siemens said an engagement agent and a qualification agent now handle its entire inbound funnel for 18,000 sellers. Still unshipped: Piper, which the release calls 「an AI SDR agent」.
AI & Jobs On September 11 Business Insider reported that Meta has begun asking engineers inside Applied AI whether they want to lead teams again. Four months after the 4 a.m. email that took the layer out.
AI & Jobs Adobe posted a record $6.76B after the close on September 10 and put a user count above the revenue line. Creative freemium monthly actives crossed 100 million, up more than 70% in a year.
AI & Jobs OpenAI shipped ChatGPT for Financial Services on September 10. The model is not the story. The story is which data vendors it plugged in and whose daily workflow it was copied from.
AI & Jobs Cognition closed more than $2B at a $48B valuation on September 9. Buried under the headline: run-rate revenue nearly doubled in four months, and the roadmap moves the engineer from doing the work to assigning it.
AI & Jobs Harvey closed $550M at a $15.5B valuation on September 9. The valuation is not the news. The penetration figure it published alongside is: 80% of the Am Law 100 already runs it.
AI & Jobs PayPal filed a WARN notice cutting 251 jobs at its San Jose headquarters, effective Oct. 30. The role breakdown — heavy on engineering, senior engineers, directors and senior managers — contradicts the merchant-support-and-customer-service-first story from May's 「becoming a technology company again」 announcement.
AI & Jobs 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.