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Remote Labor Index puts Astra at 20.83% client-acceptable project completion News
Scale’s Remote Labor Index reports GPT-6 Astra completing 20.83% of sampled freelance projects at a client-acceptable standard, while most tasks still fail the full delivery bar.
Anthropic's economists sketch three AI futures and say workers lose share in all the big ones News
Anthropic published three scenarios for AI's economic impact, treating the middle one — AI doing half of all knowledge work by 2030 — as closest to expert expectations, and concluding that while output grows in every case, a larger share of the gains flows to capital rather than to workers.
A House bill would tax AI tokens and raise the rate when unemployment rises News
H.R. 10044, the AI Tax and Work Protection Act, would place an excise tax on foundation-model usage starting at 2% of token value and escalating automatically as the national unemployment rate climbs above 5%.
One person with AI matched a two-person team at Procter and Gamble News
A preregistered field experiment with 826 Procter and Gamble professionals found that individuals working with an AI assistant produced solutions rated as good as those from two-person teams working without one, on real product development problems.
Starbucks pulls its AI inventory counter from 11,300 cafes after nine months News
Starbucks has retired Automated Counting, an iPad-based computer vision system for counting shelf stock, nine months after rolling it out to 11,300 company-operated cafes, after workers reported miscounts and lost progress.
OpenAI says one in six work prompts is a task from someone else's job News
OpenAI analyzed more than 800,000 work-related ChatGPT messages and found about one in six were classified as tasks belonging to a different occupation than the user's own, rising to nearly half once generic work is excluded.
Stanford looked for the AI jobs shock in the labor data and could not find it News
A Stanford policy brief reports that unemployment in the most AI-exposed occupations has not worsened faster than in the least exposed since 2022, while flagging weakened entry-level hiring in two specific jobs as a real unresolved warning.
26 Meta Workers Sue, Saying AI Picked Them for Layoffs While on Leave News
A group of 26 Meta employees sued the company, alleging its AI-assisted layoff-selection systems disproportionately targeted workers on medical, parental and family leave -- a first-of-its-kind test of liability for AI-driven HR decisions.
Thomson Reuters cuts 500 engineers to hire 250 AI-native ones News
Thomson Reuters is eliminating up to 500 engineering roles while planning 250-plus new ones described as senior and AI-native, and its stock rose about 5 percent on the news.
200-plus experts sign 'WeMustActNow,' urging governments to prepare for AI job displacement News
More than 200 experts including Nobel laureates signed a Stanford Digital Economy Lab statement urging governments to prepare now for AI-driven economic displacement, amid a concurrent survey signaling strong but methodologically thin public appetite for socializing AI gains.
Anthropic's own data says the best coders gain the most from AI News
By studying hundreds of thousands of real coding sessions, Anthropic found that experienced engineers get more out of AI assistants, not less, a direct challenge to the idea that AI levels the playing field.