
Yale and Brookings researchers found that employment patterns remained stable 33 months after ChatGPT's launch, despite tech CEO and AI doomer warnings.

Bedrock Robotics raised $80 million to retrofit bulldozers and excavators with AI—not to cut jobs, but to solve a massive labor shortage and make dangerous work safer, it says.

Amazon (AMZN. O): Will invest $10 billion in artificial intelligence innovation in North Carolina. The investment will create at least 500 new jobs.

From welding steel to simulating sex and exploring beyond Earth, robots are replacing humans across numerous industries.
The IRS will cut about 6,700 jobs on Thursday, a person familiar with the matter said, in a restructuring that could strain the agency during the critical tax season. The cuts are all probation period employees who typically work at the agency for a year or two and enjoy fewer job protections than permanent employees. The IRS has about 17,000 probation period employees.
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Robert Bostic said the job market is still doing pretty well and the latest inflation data shows it still needs to be monitored cautiously. And said GDP is more resilient than expected. It is difficult to have confidence in any forecast at this time given the uncertainty of policy on multiple fronts. The Fed will remain on the sidelines until it gets more clear information.
In the United States, there were 7.60 million job vacancies in JOLTs in December, and 8 million were expected. The previous value was revised from 8.098 million to 8.156 million.
U.S. job openings fell more than expected in December to a three-month low, in line with a gradual slowdown in the labor market. A survey released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that U.S. JOLTs fell to 7.60 million job openings in December from a revised 8.16 million in November. The figure was lower than economists had generally expected. The decrease in job openings was driven by professional and business services, partially reversing the surge seen in the previous two months...
On January 27th, the general offices of the Ministry of Commerce and other six departments issued a notice on doing a good job in the "renewal" of home improvement kitchens and bathrooms in 2025. The notice proposes that all localities should focus on green, intelligent, and suitable for the elderly. The subsidy categories are mainly five categories of decoration materials, sanitary ware, furniture lighting, smart home, and home senior-friendly transformation products. The specific categories wi...