SAG-AFTRA and major video game companies have reached a tentative deal on a new contract after months of strike, addressing concerns over AI replicas and securing important gains for performers.
Amazon plans to invest $10 billion in North Carolina to expand its artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure, creating at least 500 high-skilled jobs in the state where it already employs about 24,000 workers.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai dismisses fears of AI displacing workers, emphasizing the company's expansion plans and viewing AI as an accelerator for product development and job creation, while acknowledging concerns about job displacement and uncertainty around achieving artificial general intelligence.
Google is introducing a $13 million AI Opportunity Fund to help prepare over 2 million Canadians for an AI-powered future through training and skills development initiatives across the country, fostering a strong AI workforce.
Google unveils a staggering $7 billion investment in Iowa, boosting AI capabilities and job opportunities, while prioritizing sustainability through renewable energy and workforce development partnerships.
Salesforce has quietly acquired Moonhub, a startup building AI tools for talent recruitment, evaluation, and hiring, with the entire Moonhub team joining Salesforce to advance its AI strategy, accelerating Moonhub's mission in the rapidly growing AI-powered HR tech space.
McKinsey's AI tool Lilli, used by over 75% of its employees monthly, creates PowerPoints and handles tasks traditionally done by junior workers, allowing them to focus on higher-value work for clients.
As AI rapidly advances towards artificial general intelligence (AGI), experts warn it could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs within five years, reshaping the economy and severing the link between labor and value creation, potentially leading to a loss of worker bargaining power and widespread technological unemployment.
The CEO of AI firm Anthropic, Dario Amodei, warns that AI could eliminate 50% of entry-level office jobs soon, part of a Silicon Valley script hyping AI's potential to fix everything after ruining everything first, despite lack of evidence to support such dramatic claims.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei cautions that the rapid advancement of AI technology poses a significant threat to mass employment, urging society to address the potential for AI to automate numerous tasks and displace human workers across various industries.