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New York and Pursuit are building an AI Jobs Institute in Queens with $10m of public money. It aims to train up to 40,000 people by 2032; none trained yet.

Italy's AI decree 179/2026, in force from 23 October, says a person must make final hiring, firing and discipline decisions. Breaches are null and void.

Uber is giving more than 30,000 staff OpenAI's ChatGPT Work agent after a 1,000-person pilot. Neither company has given cost or productivity figures.

Anthropic commits 5% of shares to a wholly-owned LLC Public Benefit Fund, with 2% top-ups as value rises. Subject to stockholder approval.

Reuters: Anthropic’s Jack Clark told IMF/World Bank an internal model sees ~$44tn US GDP by 2030. Not an IMF forecast; he called it outlandish.

Anthropic’s self-study: junior technical hires fell from 27% to 9%; by August interactive agent hours outnumbered staff 6 to 1. Adoption is not random.

Anthropic survey: 39% of US adults vs 91% of staff expect Nobel-level AI by 2030; Sept re-run: 44%. Staff views are personal, not plans.

Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu says AI has raised costs dramatically, staff won't get their usual pay rise this year and the outlook for software jobs is grim.

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says AI investment is keeping world growth around 3 per cent, with Asian hardware suppliers gaining. Reuters reports.

A Stanford and King's College London working paper (not peer reviewed) finds that at AI-adopting firms in 41 countries, senior employment rose 6.7% while junior employment was 2.5% lower, "an estimate that is not statistically significant". Viral posts said junior jobs fell 3%. Here is what the paper says, and its limits.