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Recruiters chase specialised AI roles as their own jobs come under threat

The recruitment industry, one of the first white-collar businesses that automation was meant to hollow out, is trying to reinvent itself by selling the very thing that threatens it. Facing AI tools that can screen applicants and draft job posts in seconds, staffing firms are narrowing their focus to the specialised, hard-to-fill roles of the […]

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‘We cannot choose to become idiots’: a Brown professor’s proof of mass AI cheating

An economics professor at Brown University suspects most of his class cheated with AI, and he has the numbers to make the case. Roberto Serrano watched his take-home midterm average hit 96 out of 100. When he switched the final to an in-person test, the average fell to 48. He has taken the story public, […]

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This AI startup pays $1.7M a year in rent so staff will work 72-hour weeks

Tech loves a perk, but few go this far. Rilla, an AI startup that makes coaching software for sales teams, spends about $1.7m a year on housing stipends so staff can live near its New York office, Fortune reports. The trade-off is a 72-hour week. Employees who live within a 10-minute bike ride of the […]

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Palmer Luckey: US universities are falling behind China’s, and it shows

Palmer Luckey has a blunt warning about the US-China tech race: America is losing the classroom. The Anduril founder argues that US universities have stopped teaching engineers how to build. That, he says, hands China a lead well beyond cheap labour. He made the comments in a conversation with the Hoover Institution, highlighted by Fortune. […]

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Perplexity is quietly building an AI coding tool to rival Cursor and Claude Code

Perplexity wants a piece of the AI coding boom. The San Francisco search startup has built an internal coding tool, codenamed “Teammate,” and may launch it publicly later, a person familiar with the matter told Business Insider. Its own engineers have used the tool since May. The company made its name with an AI search […]

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Only 6% of UK managers think Gen Z is work-ready. 45% of Gen Z disagree

Young workers and their bosses do not see the same person. Almost half of 18 to 24-year-olds, 45 per cent, believe they entered work with the skills to succeed. Just 6 per cent of UK managers agree, according to the Chartered Management Institute. The body polled more than 1,000 managers and 514 young people for […]

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Your customers would rather use ChatGPT than your chatbot, Gartner finds

Businesses spent big on AI to answer their customers. The customers had other ideas. People are approximately three times more likely to use a third-party GenAI tool, such as ChatGPT, than a company’s own chatbot to sort out a service problem, according to Gartner, Inc. The firm, a research and advisory company, surveyed 3,566 customers […]

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UiPath’s Dines: not hiring juniors is a mistake

At the Raise summit in Paris, two enterprise leaders asked why AI agents keep stalling in pilots. Their fix starts with people, not models. Most enterprises stall. Their AI agents run in pilots and never reach production. That was the blunt diagnosis from Daniel Dines, chief executive of UiPath. He spoke at the RAISE CxO […]

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OpenAI is hiring an investment banker to teach its AI the job

OpenAI is recruiting an investment-banking expert to help train its AI on the trade. The job listing seeks a “subject matter expert” with at least two years of investment experience for its Applied AI team in San Francisco. Base pay runs from $185,000 to $205,000, with equity on top, Business Insider reports. That equity sweetener carries new weight […]

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AI-native startups hire fewer juniors and more elites, Harvard study finds

Startups built around AI hire fewer entry-level workers than their peers, according to a working paper from Harvard Business School and INSEAD, first reported by Business Insider. The firms are leaner, flatter, and heavily weighted towards senior technical talent. Researchers Rembrand Koning and Hyunjin Kim examined Y Combinator startups from 2020 to 2024 alongside a broader set of […]

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