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The Agriculture Department is trying to "get smarter" about AI with fewer resources. Other agencies are trying other ways to keep up with changes while dealing with workforce limitations.
Read the original →AI can automate routine customer experience work. Managers and employees remain essential for trust, judgement, empathy and sustainable transformation.
Read the original →As the use of AI in Hollywood grows, IATSE has hired a dedicated staffer to help its members navigate the new and uncertain environment.
Read the original →AI agents are moving quickly into enterprise operations, but the skills needed to manage them responsibly remain undefined. CompTIA announced plans to develop a new credential to define and validate those skills.
Read the original →Healthcare delivery and biomedical informatics are undergoing an architectural paradigm shift. Conversational software in healthcare, dominated by rule-based, scripted decision trees and stateless conversational wrappers, is being superseded by agentic AI. Earlier healthcare chatbots functioned primarily as rigid digital directories constrained by hardcoded deterministic pathways and static symptom-checking logic.
Read the original →Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said he believes AI could generate enough productivity gains for Americans to have a three-day workweek or rely on a single income for the whole household. He was pushing back against fears that the technology could cause large-scale job losses for American workers.
Read the original →The International Labour Organisation has called for urgent policy action so that productivity growth, including gains generated by AI, translates into better wages, decent jobs and stronger social protection for workers worldwide.
Read the original →AI robots are roaming Ralphs stores in Los Angeles, scanning inventory. The union is trying to stop them.
Read the original →China has rolled out a set of policy measures to create more jobs through AI, improve employment quality and mitigate the impact of job displacement from AI applications. The aim is to build an employment-friendly development model amid rapid development and growing use of the technology.
Read the original →CyberAgent has added two hiring tracks for its fiscal 2028 new-graduate engineer recruitment: Business Lead Engineer (AI/Data) and Tech Lead Engineer (AI/Data). The Business Lead Engineer is a career path the company newly defined. For 2028 it will be offered first in AI and data, with plans to extend it to other engineering roles.
Read the original →Marketing is the top job category both likely to shrink and to be strengthened because of AI. Over 70% say they may reduce new-graduate hiring. The most common reason for continuing is developing future executive and management candidates over the medium to long term. The survey was conducted by Neo Career.
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