Future Workforce
OpenAI’s new policy paper proposes a “public wealth fund” that hands every citizen a stake in AI-driven growth – but critics argue it just ties the public’s wellbeing to the tech industry’s boom-and-bust cycles instead of expanding tested safety nets.
Prometheus, the physical-AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation to build a “Robo-Engineer” that designs and manufactures everything from jet engines to drugs – even as Bezos bets the result will be a labour shortage, not mass unemployment.
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.
China Post has begun deploying RobotEra humanoid robots to sort parcels at a major Guangzhou mail hub, the latest sign of Beijing’s aggressive push to automate industrial work.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin uses the game of Go to argue that AI pushes humans to improve rather than simply replacing them, even as the future-of-work debate intensifies.
A Chinese court has ruled that adopting AI is not a lawful excuse to fire staff, ordering a tech firm to reinstate a worker it tried to replace with a large language model — an early sign of judicial pushback against AI-driven layoffs.
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.
Claude Opus 4.6’s leap in long-context retrieval let it triage, route and assign work across a 50-person engineering org — the first sign AI agents can manage people, not just write code.
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