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Forget the STEM safety net. Peter Thiel warns AI is a bigger threat to technical roles than to creative thinkers

A LinkedIn report supports some of the billionaire’s predictions, showing job postings mentioning “storytellers” doubled over the past year.

31.05.2026 6

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Jake Angelo

This viral recruiter says Gen Z isn’t lazy. Corporate America is just mad they’re harder to manipulate

Recruiter-turned-content creator Emily Durham, better known as Emily the Recruiter, said Gen Z looks at work as a business transaction, ditching the...

31.05.2026 4

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Immigration restrictions don’t boost native workers. They cut economic mobility for generations, study finds

A Cato Institute report found that immigration quotas in the 1920s actually harmed the economic prospects of native-born citizens.

29.05.2026 7

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Sweeping Silicon Valley layoffs are proof that tech CEOs are suffering from ‘AI psychosis,’ Box CEO says

Box CEO Aaron Levie said tech executives only see AI's "happy path." But employees working with the tech see a fuller picture.

29.05.2026 10

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Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest—and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days

An AI startup ran five simulations, each controlled by a different model. The results varied wildly.

28.05.2026 10

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A study finds escaping your income bracket no longer means building wealth. That disconnect may be what’s driving consumer pessimism to record highs

Hard work used to be the path to the American Dream. New research shows your parents' bank account now matters more than your paycheck.

27.05.2026 6

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Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. Now its COO is questioning whether it’s worth it

The rideshare giant's COO says “it’s very hard to draw a line” between rising AI costs and useful features for customers.

26.05.2026 10

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As AI wipes out white-collar jobs, one Alabama high school and Toyota are training students for roles that pay $40 an hour and can’t be automated

The Huntsville Center for Technology gives high school students a foothold in the skilled trades amid a job market starved for that talent.

24.05.2026 20

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Is a college degree is still worth it? Here are 3 things it can teach you that AI can’t do

College can help safeguard employees from having their jobs offshored to India or the Philippines, Carl Benedikt Frey told Fortune.

23.05.2026 9

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Microsoft reports are exposing AI’s real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees

Companies are racing to incentivize employees to use AI. But as some companies are finding, the more employees that use the technology, the heavier...

22.05.2026 30

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Cloudflare posted record revenue, then cut 20% of its workforce. CEO Matthew Prince says AI has made an entire category of workers obsolete

Prince said in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed that the company would cut “measurers” while prioritizing hiring of “builders” and “sellers.”

21.05.2026 10

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Ro Khanna blames ‘clueless’ boomers for Gen Z booing AI: They handed over a ‘broken economy’

"Young people are anxious, that they're economically frustrated, and they view AI with deep anxiety and suspicion, not as some kind of great thing."

21.05.2026 10

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A senior comms exec says your AI notetaker could be your company’s biggest liability

Arielle Patrick, a managing partner at Upland Workshop, told Fortune AI notetakers risk leaking confidential information—or even getting the facts...

20.05.2026 10

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CEO of AI-powered performance review firm says annual evaluations weren’t designed for the AI era: ‘The practice just hasn’t kept up’

15Five CEO David Hassell told Fortune that companies must stop relying on the annual performance review cadence.

19.05.2026 10

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Gen Z is over-relying on AI at work—and it could cost them their careers

Half of workers today say they’re relying on AI too heavily, according to a new study from software firm GoTo and Workplace Intelligence.

19.05.2026 10

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Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI

Mustafa Suleyman believes current AI computational power will only accelerate, disrupting every kind of work you do “sitting down at a computer.”

16.05.2026 10

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Meet the 20-year-old CEO who launched a company in high school to solve Gen Z’s entry-level job crisis

Connor Vukelich launched Poppin’ Jobs to streamline the job search process for entry-level workers.

16.05.2026 40

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China dominates the minerals that power AI. But one company claims there’s enough supply on the ocean floor to last for hundreds of years

Potato-sized mineral balls on the ocean floor may be an answer to easing the U.S.’s reliance on Chinese minerals.

15.05.2026 10

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Meta’s $10 billion Louisiana data center is getting $3.3 billion in tax breaks—more than seven years of the state’s entire police budget

States are awarding more than $5.6 billion annually to data center developers, and that’s a conservative estimate.

14.05.2026 10

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The Bezos family just donated $100 million to help achieve one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s top campaign promises

The parents of billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have deep ties to Robin Hood, one of Wall Street’s favorite local charities.

13.05.2026 10

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The China shock hollowed out factory towns. This professor thinks the AI shock is coming for your urban coffee shop

A new AI index maps out where in the U.S. the technology stands to hit hardest, echoing an economic trauma America is still recovering from.

12.05.2026 10

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AI isn’t paying off in the way companies think. Layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate returns, study finds

A Gartner study found that while 80% of companies surveyed reported workforce reductions, there was no correlation to higher ROI.

11.05.2026 9

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Forget the Rust Belt or the Sun Belt. The ‘Wired Belt’ may be the next frontier of American political power

AI automation may be the catalyst for a white-collar suburban revolt.

11.05.2026 20

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‘Employers are increasingly turning to degree and GPA’ in hiring: Recruiters retreat from ‘talent is everywhere,’ double down on top colleges

Hiring skills over people is no longer en vogue as firms deprioritize DEI and cut down on recruiting costs.

09.05.2026 10

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‘Close to zero’: Schools are spending tens of millions banning phones from classrooms, but test scores aren’t improving

An NBER study finds mixed results on the efficacy of school phone bans.

08.05.2026 10

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Gen Z just broke the streaming model: A majority subscribe, binge, and cancel over and over, study finds

An IGN Entertainment study found younger viewers are less loyal to streaming platforms, but more willing than older moviegoers to treat theaters as a...

07.05.2026 10

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AI is quietly splitting the housing market in two: Bay Area luxury homes are up 13%, affordable ones are collapsing

“It’s another sign of the K-shaped economy taking shape in the Bay Area,” said Redfin senior economist Yingqi Xu.

07.05.2026 20

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AI could solve America’s $39 trillion debt crisis—but only if Washington abandons displaced workers, Yale report warns

A Yale Budget Lab report suggests AI-driven productivity gains could reverse the national debt's upward trajectory. But what about the workers?

06.05.2026 10

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You had a miserable 2025 because of tariff inflation. The Iran war will be even worse, top economist says

One year after Liberation Day, tariffs have frozen hiring and fueled inflation. Now, Moody’s Mark Zandi sees the war in Iran threatening to deepen...

05.05.2026 10

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An AI ‘godfather’ says CEOs hyping job loss are ‘extremely destructive’—and your kids are paying the price

Former Meta AI chief Yann LeCun said repeated job apocalypse warnings are making high school students depressed.

05.05.2026 30

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A Harvard study just found AI can now out-diagnose physicians in the ER: ‘We’re already at the ceiling’

Even the researchers were surprised by the results.

04.05.2026 10

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A $20B battleship the U.S. abandoned after WWII is back in Trump’s $1.5T defense budget. Experts say modern missiles will easily destroy it

President Trump's record defense budget includes a new class of battleships not seen since WWII.

03.05.2026 10

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A Mark Cuban-backed vegan cheese company trained AI to scrutinize cardboard boxes. It’s saved $400,000

Austin-based Rebel Cheese says an AI agent helped uncover shipping-box overcharges after a holiday rush and has saved it $400,000 in one year.

01.05.2026 10

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China dominates the world’s lithium supply. The U.S. just found 328 years’ worth in its own backyard

The USGS estimates there’s 2.3 million metric tons of lithium oxide untapped in parts of Appalachia.

30.04.2026 10

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A 160-year-old paradox explains why AI will create more lawyers and accountants—not fewer, top economist says

Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok thinks AI doomers may be proven wrong. Just swap in "people" for "coal" in Jevons Paradox.

28.04.2026 10

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German chancellor says the U.S. ‘is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership’ as allies go public with discontent

Thailand’s foreign minister told The Washington Post the country is looking to Russia and China as the country grapples with an energy shock from...

28.04.2026 10

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says AI won’t kill entry-level jobs. He’s hiring 1,000 new grads to prove it

The billionaire said the SaaS giant would hire recent grads to help build its AI platforms.

27.04.2026 10

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‘You feel radicalized’: A Meta AI exec watched agents beat her top workers. Now she’s built a nonprofit to help Gen Z find jobs before they disappear

Gen Z is facing AI-driven layoffs and fewer entry-level jobs. Former Meta and Salesforce AI head Clara Shih says young workers can future-proof their...

26.04.2026 30

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With entry-level jobs vanishing, Gen Z grads are ditching corporate America—piecing together careers with entrepreneurship, gig work and freelancing

“What we're seeing now is something less linear, yet their outcomes are actually improving.”

24.04.2026 10

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American Airlines CEO calls United merger ‘a non-starter’: ‘No way to view that as anything but anti-competitive’

American Airlines CEO Robert Isom says a United merger would be bad for the airline.

24.04.2026 40

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‘The biggest energy security threat in history’: IEA chief warns 13 million barrels a day are gone with no cure in sight

IEA chief Fatih Birol says the world is losing 13 million barrels of oil a day, more than the two 1970s oil crises combined.

23.04.2026 10

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The starter home is dying. Better.com’s CEO says AI is the only thing that can save it

Better.com CEO Vishal Garg said AI can service the low mortgages loan officers avoid.

23.04.2026 20

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says you won’t lose your job to AI—you’ll lose it to your coworker who uses it

While other tech leaders warn of mass layoffs, Nvidia's CEO says the real threat is the person sitting next to you.

22.04.2026 10

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Trump officials whisper that his Truth Social posts about Iran risk killing peace talks

The Trump White House is having its own version of 2016 nostalgia as the avalanche of leaks commences.

21.04.2026 10

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This talent CEO says laid-off tech workers are ignoring a $300K ‘white-collar trade job’ with 81K openings a year

As AI layoffs threaten the white-collar workforce, the $700 billion data center buildout is minting six-figure technician roles, and employers can't...

20.04.2026 10

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Elon Musk bans résumés and cover letters in hiring for his chip team. These are the 3 bullet points he’s looking for instead

The Tesla CEO is nixing the résumé, following a growing trend in recruiting that emphasizes skills over credentials.

19.04.2026 20

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Parents are so panicked about the job market they’re paying career coaches $15,000 years before their kids graduate from college

As the job market grows more brutal for new grads, an industry of high-end career coaches is cashing in on parental anxiety, starting sophomore year.

19.04.2026 10

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OpenAI’s policy chief says AI companies ‘need to do a much better job’ talking about AI as industry leaders face personal attacks

OpenAI global policy chief Chris Lehane is warning industry leaders to tone down the rhetoric.

17.04.2026 10

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Gen Z is carving a different path in the housing market by doing it alone

“Gen Zers are absolutely crushing it when we think about singles purchasing homes in this housing market compared to millennials at the same age."

16.04.2026 10

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Yale asked a committee why people hate the Ivy League. Their 20 findings: A grades are meaningless and the admissions process is broken

The committee offered 20 recommendations, spanning everything from protecting free speech, supporting “open minds,” fixing admissions, and tamping...

16.04.2026 20

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