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The governance question your org hasn't answered yet became a 13-hour outage last week, and the agents causing that kind of damage are alrea...
Your AI Agent Just Deleted Production. Who's Responsible?
Read Teaser →The most important governance story of the week didn't come from a regulator or a court. It came from Anthropic's own data, and it shows tha...
Your "Human in the Loop" Policy Is Already a Fiction
Read Teaser →Spotify's best engineers haven't written a line of code in 2026 — and 72% of your workforce still thinks AI won't touch their job.
Spotify's Top Developers Have Written Zero Code This Year. Your Engineering Job Descriptions Are Alr...
Read Teaser →Microsoft's AI CEO just put a timestamp on white-collar automation—12-18 months—while Spotify's best engineers haven't written code manually...
Microsoft AI CEO Predicts Full White-Collar Automation Within 18 Months—Here's What That Means for Y...
Read Teaser →Harvard research tracking 200 employees found AI tools increased workloads rather than lightened them—raising urgent questions about whether...
Harvard Study Finds AI Tools Expand Employee Workloads Rather Than Reduce Them
Read Teaser →SHRM research reveals 244,000 HR jobs—24% of the function—are now majority-automatable by generative AI, which means CHROs face the uncomfor...
24% of HR Jobs Now Cross the Automation Threshold—And It's Your Department
Read Teaser →When AI can autonomously complete six-hour engineering tasks, the workforce planning question shifts from "which tasks can we automate" to "...
The Technology
Read Teaser →Deloitte is retitling 182,000 employees to reflect AI-augmented work by June—the clearest signal yet that traditional job architecture is be...
Deloitte Rebuilds Its Entire Job Architecture Around AI—182,000 Titles Changing by June
Read Teaser →SHRM research finds 393,000 HR jobs face 50%+ automation risk—meaning the function leading workforce transformation is now the workforce bei...
393,000 HR Jobs Face 50%+ Automation Risk—And CHROs Must Look in the Mirror
Read Teaser →Companies are laying off workers based on AI's *potential* rather than its proven capabilities—while only 3,000-5,000 people globally can ac...
Employers Cutting Jobs Based on AI Hype, Not AI Results
Read Teaser →SHRM just mapped AI displacement risk across 10 HR occupations—and for the first time, HR has to confront that the function advising everyon...
The Technology
Read Teaser →Anthropic's CEO just put a number on AI displacement—50% of entry-level office jobs at risk within five years—and the UK is already showing...
Anthropic CEO Predicts Half of Entry-Level Jobs at Risk by 2030
Read Teaser →Architects are redesigning offices around AI agent noise—which means your workforce planning is already behind where facilities teams assume...
The Technology
Read Teaser →Fortune 500 CEOs are standing on the Davos stage naming customer service and programming as jobs that "will go away"—while AI agents just bu...
Verizon and IBM CEOs Name Specific Job Categories for AI Elimination—And Call for Transparency
Read Teaser →Anthropic just released the most concrete AI workforce data we've seen—AI now handles 25% of tasks in nearly half of all jobs, with 12x spee...
Anthropic's Economic Index Shows AI Handles Quarter of Tasks in Nearly 50% of Jobs—But Augmentation,...
Read Teaser →AI agents just built a 3-million-line web browser from scratch in under a week—your engineering headcount model was designed for a world tha...
Cursor's Autonomous AI Agents Build Production Software at Scale—Without Developers
Read Teaser →McKinsey now counts 25,000 AI agents as workforce members alongside 60,000 humans—and your board will soon ask what your ratio is.
McKinsey's 25,000 AI Agents Signal the Era of Hybrid Workforce Accounting
Read Teaser →Anthropic just shipped AI that executes entire workflows autonomously—while new benchmarks show even the best models hallucinate on half of...
Anthropic's Cowork Moves AI From "Helper" to "Doer"—Your Administrative Workflows Just Got a Timelin...
Read Teaser →Southwest's CEO just admitted AI tools work fine—it's getting 72,000 employees to actually use them that's the problem, and that confession...
Southwest Airlines CEO Reveals AI Limits in Organizational Transformation
Read Teaser →Utah just gave an AI system the legal authority to prescribe medications without a doctor's approval—and a dozen more states are watching, s...
Utah Approves First Autonomous AI Prescription System—Your "Human Required" Roles Just Got a Regulat...
Read Teaser →Anthropic's Claude Code replicated a year-long engineering project in one hour according to a Google Principal Engineer — and that's not eve...
Google Engineer Reports Claude Code Compressed a Year of Work Into 60 Minutes
Read Teaser →AI labor strikes are predicted for 2026 across telecom, healthcare, and manufacturing — and "human-in-the-loop" is about to become standard...
Major Labor Actions Over AI Predicted for 2026 — The Collective Bargaining Battle Lines Are Drawn
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