A recruiter holds information about employment during a hiring fair at Fair Park in Dallas, Jan. 14, 2026.

A sign with information about employment is displayed during a job fair in Dallas, Jan. 14, 2026.

CoCounsel Legal is an artificial intelligence tool that acts as a virtual assistant for legal professionals. More people in the legal field are using AI to automate repetitive tasks and save time, but hallucinations have led to fake cases and false information in legal documents.

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A woman walks by a giant screen with a logo at an event at the Paris Google Lab on the sidelines of the AI Action Summit in Paris, on Feb. 9, 2025.

People gather around a table of iPhones at an Apple Store in Pittsburgh on Jan. 8, 2025.

American workers are disenchanted, depressed and frustrated. But looking for a new job requires running a gauntlet of online application portals, artificial intelligence screening and impersonal interviews that have turned the job search into a minefield.

The average application uploaded to a website has less than a 1% percent chance of leading to a job offer, according to a study published by Business Insider, an online news agency.

Job seekers need a whole new plan to succeed in an increasingly inhuman labor market.

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