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A PwC analysis of over a billion job ads finds employers in AI-exposed fields now expect entry-level candidates to bring traditionally senior skills like leadership, judgment and emotional intelligence.
Polsia, an AI startup run by a single founder with no employees, has raised $30 million at a $250 million valuation by promising ‘AI that runs your company while you sleep’ — though sceptics question its revenue claims.
Three solo founders — behind Daymaker, OpenClaw and Base44 — have turned Sam Altman’s ‘one-person company’ idea into reality, showing how AI tools now let individuals build and sell businesses at startling speed.
McKinsey says 25,000 of its 60,000 ’employees’ are now AI agents, as consultancies restructure around human-AI teams and brace white-collar workers for upheaval.
Red-team startup CodeWall says its autonomous AI agent gained full read-write access to McKinsey’s Lilli platform in two hours — a preview of machine-speed attacks on corporate AI.
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