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Reuters Breakingviews reported that employment in Los Angeles’ motion picture and sound recording industries has fallen 40 percent since 2022, shooting days in and around the city have been cut roughly in half since 2021, and studios greenlit approximately 428 scripted series last year — about 200 fewer than in 2022. Those numbers describe a…
WIRED reported that Avon and Somerset Police and Bristol City Council developed the Think Family Database between 2016 and 2023 — a predictive policing system that collected sensitive data on nearly half a million residents, combining police reports, mental health records, school data, and other information into a risk-scoring platform. More than 23 predictive models…
Reuters reported that EU antitrust regulators have preliminarily concluded that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act — a classification that would impose stricter requirements around self-preferencing, interoperability, and data portability. The EU’s concerns include the scale of each platform’s user base, their AI partnerships, their…
Reuters reported that Oracle ended fiscal year 2026 with roughly 141,000 employees — down from 162,000 the year before, a reduction of approximately 21,000 workers, or 13 percent of its prior-year headcount, with severance and exit costs reaching $1.84 billion. The cuts are not a retreat from investment. Oracle is simultaneously expanding into AI and…
AP reported this week that RAISE US, a new bipartisan nonprofit led by former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and former Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, launched with $500 million in backing from OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, and Bank of America — the same ecosystem accelerating AI adoption in U.S. workplaces. Pilot programs will begin in…
Companies are cutting workers while building the infrastructure meant to replace some of their work. The 2026 layoff cycle has passed the point where it can be explained as a correction from pandemic-era hiring. As of June 24, the 2026 layoffs tracker counted 267 layoff events affecting 185,894 workers. More than half of those events…
Universities are increasingly being asked to solve a problem businesses created: hiring for skills workers have never had the chance to develop. Labor markets depend on a simple bargain. Employers identify skills they need. Workers acquire those skills. Employers hire the workers who have them. Artificial intelligence has broken that bargain. Companies now routinely advertise positions requiring AI experience….
New York’s crackdown on fake job listings treats a symptom, not a disease. The real problem is that labor markets now reward the appearance of growth as much as growth itself. New York lawmakers approved legislation targeting “ghost jobs”—postings for positions that do not exist or are not actively being filled. Employers would face disclosure requirements: state…
A generation discovered creative expression on a platform they did not control, invested emotional and cultural labor in it, and is now experiencing the dissolution of the infrastructure they built as the platform’s ownership and operational focus shifts. TikTok’s cultural significance for Gen Z is not accidental. The platform’s algorithm, format, and accessibility created space…
Election years reveal questions about whose political participation gets treated as newsworthy and whose participation gets treated as exceptional. In 2024, local news outlets made editorial decisions about how much airtime and camera time different candidates would receive. That allocation was not random. Research into local broadcast coverage shows measurable disparities in who gets covered,…