Elvis Eckardt

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The Pope is about to publish a letter to 1.4 billion Catholics about artificial intelligence. It may be the most consequential AI document of the year.

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GM, Ford and Stellantis have cut more than 20,000 white-collar jobs since their employment peak. AI is accelerating the trend.

The Detroit Three automakers have collectively eliminated 19% of their combined salaried workforces since 2022, according to public filings.

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Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs next week. Its profits just hit $27 billion in a single quarter. And its employees are miserable.

Wired spoke to more than a dozen current and former Meta staff ahead of next Wednesday's 10% headcount reduction, and the picture they paint is striking.

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Did you ask your wife to marry you on your first date?

Don't try to sell me something in our first conversation.

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Nearly two-thirds of workers have avoided using AI at some point. The reasons are more interesting than you might expect.

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Anthropic's CFO just said AI writes 90% of their code. And they are hiring more people because of it.

Krishna Rao, CFO of the company behind Claude, gave one of the most candid descriptions yet of what AI is actually doing to white-collar work from the inside.

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Donald Trump filed over 3,700 stock transactions in the first three months of 2026. Several involved companies, his administration was simultaneously making decisions about.

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The CV was invented in 1482. Leonardo da Vinci wrote the first one.

We have sent humans to space since then. We have not meaningfully changed how we hire them.

Think about that for a moment. Every other part of the business has been rebuilt from the ground up.

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A 102-year-old German world market leader just filed for insolvency. And it is far from alone.

Eliog, a Thuringian manufacturer of specialist industrial ovens used in the automotive sector, has filed for insolvency protection.

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Every time technology makes something more efficient, we end up using more of it. AI will be no different.

There is a 160-year-old economic idea that explains almost everything happening in the job market right now, and almost nobody is talking about it.

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Goldman Sachs wants to grow without hiring many more people. AI is how they plan to do it.

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Balance is a process, not a goal.

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The founders of Blinkist sold their company for €200 million. Three years later, they bought it back.

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Cisco is cutting 4,000 jobs to focus on AI. Its share price jumped 14% on the news.

That reaction tells you almost everything you need to know about how financial markets are currently thinking about AI and headcount.

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France's unemployment rate just hit its highest level in five years. And the timing could not be worse.
French joblessness climbed to 8.1% in the first quarter of 2026, rising across every age group and well above the 7.8% economists had expected.

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Amazon is still cutting jobs. And this time, AI is explicitly part of the reason.

The latest round of redundancies hit Amazon's "Selling Partner Services" team this week, the division that supports the millions of third-party sellers who use the Amazon marketplace.

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Three-quarters of hiring managers have caught candidates lying on their applications. But candidates are also worried about being deceived.

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Your summer holiday might cost more this year. Here is why.

The conflict in the Middle East is having a very direct effect on British holiday plans.

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12 million people in the UK are heading towards a retirement they cannot afford.

That is the finding from Scottish Widows this week, and whilst it is an improvement on last year's figure of 15 million, it is still a staggering number.