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Starling Bank cuts 130 jobs as it bets on AI and looks beyond the UK

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Starling Bank is cutting around 130 jobs, roughly 3% of its 4,000-strong workforce, as the London-based neobank restructures its banking and technology operations. Staff were told this week that the changes were intended to simplify how the company operates, reduce duplication, and accelerate product delivery. The cuts come as Starling pushes AI deeper into its […]

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Why building AI for schools is harder than building a chatbot: inside Smartschool’s approach to exam prep

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Artificial intelligence has proven that it can trawl the internet to retrieve information quickly for answering questions. But teaching students using AI is a harder task. The stakes are even higher when the goal is not just learning in school, but performing well on high-stakes exams like the SAT and ACT. On the face of […]

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SAP freezes hiring and travel to shovel cash into AI

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Europe’s biggest software company is tightening its belt to chase artificial intelligence. SAP is freezing most hiring and pausing non-essential travel, all to free up cash for its AI push. The plan landed in an internal email to staff on Wednesday evening. Bloomberg saw the memo, and SAP confirmed the move to The Register. Going […]

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Cross-border payroll runs on $200B and zero shared infrastructure

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Every year, more than $200 billion in employer-originated wages crosses international borders. The money moves through a patchwork of local banks, regional payroll vendors, and manual compliance processes. Anyone who managed international payments in 2005 would recognise the setup. The scale has changed. The plumbing has not. This is not a minor inefficiency. It is […]

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Volkswagen reportedly plans to cut 100,000 jobs

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Volkswagen reportedly wants to cut 100,000 jobs, about 15% of its workforce, and close German plants. It would be the biggest overhaul in the carmaker’s history, and the unions are vowing to fight. Europe’s car industry is shrinking, and its biggest name is leading the retreat. Volkswagen reportedly plans to cut around 100,000 jobs at […]

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California built a tool to catch AI killing jobs

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California has built the first state tool to watch for AI wiping out jobs. The early read: no mass layoffs yet, but warning signs are flashing in the Bay Area and among college-educated workers. Everyone argues about whether AI is killing jobs. Almost nobody has hard data. California has now built a tool to find […]

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OpenAI, Anthropic and Amazon are funding RAISE US

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OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft are bankrolling a new nonprofit to retrain American workers for the AI economy. RAISE US, led by Gina Raimondo, has already raised more than $500m. The biggest names in AI agree on at least one thing. The technology they are building could upend the American job market, and almost nobody […]

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Hyundai workers vote to strike over robot fears

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Hyundai workers have voted overwhelmingly to authorise a strike, and for the first time robots are part of the fight. A Hyundai robot strike would test who controls the factory floor as humanoid machines arrive. South Korea’s largest carmaker is heading for a clash over robots. Hyundai’s union has voted to authorise a strike, partly […]

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Your AI coding tools may soon cost more than you

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By 2028, the AI tools a developer uses could cost more than the developer’s salary, Gartner warns. AI coding costs are climbing fast, and most companies cannot even see what they are spending. The AI coding boom has a bill, and it is growing fast. By 2028, AI coding costs will overtake the average developer’s […]

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Oracle cut 21,000 jobs this year and its SEC filing explicitly blames AI

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Oracle’s global workforce fell to 141,000 full-time employees as of 31 May 2026, down from 162,000 a year earlier, a net reduction of roughly 21,000 people. The company’s annual regulatory filing stated plainly that “the adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations have resulted, and may continue to result, in reductions to our workforce.” It […]

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