The Wrap: FBI Investigates Jobs Site Breach; Pay Raise Fight Ahead; AI Race Stays Full Speed
Welcome to The Wrap for Wednesday, September 23! From the newsroom at MeriTalk, it’s the quickest read in federal tech news. Here’s what you need...
Verizon to invest $70 million in AI training effort | WTVB
WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Verizon is investing $70 million in a nationwide effort to provide AI training to job seekers, small business and educators...
Verizon launches $70M AI skills initiative
JERSEY CITY, N.J.—Verizon today announced a total investment of $70 million for Verizon AI Skills for America, a new initiative designed to empower job seekers,...
IBM’s Gary Cohn says the AI job-loss fears of a year ago haven’t materialized, with the U.S. …
IBM’s Gary Cohn says the AI job-loss fears of a year ago haven’t materialized, with the U.S. still near full employment even as data center...
Dallas Fed: AI Is Hitting Jobs and Pay for Recent College Graduates – Fort Worth Inc.
Generative artificial intelligence, err, super intelligence, is contributing to a weaker job market for some recent college graduates, with students in fields most exposed to...
Ema raises $77M as AI starts eating into enterprise software and services | TechCrunch
Ema, a startup that uses teams of AI agents to automate corporate processes across HR, IT, and finance, has raised $77 million in a new...
Panel outlines the job skills Wisconsin workers need amid AI’s growth | Business | captimes.com
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The real AI threat isn’t China, it’s accelerationism – Fortune
Later this week, President Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping will meet at the White House to discuss AI policy alongside leaders of the biggest...
AI may be making women’s emails and job applications sound less professional – Business Insider
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Ray Dalio: AI will both be productivity miracle and devastaing bubble | Fortune
There’s a huge divide between how the world’s AI leaders view the transformative technology. Some foresee a huge jobs boom and a new era of...
World Campus launches new AI credentials, literacy resources for online learners
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State World Campus has launched new credentials in artificial intelligence (AI) and resources to bring AI into the virtual classroom...
Ranked: U.S. Metro Areas With the Most Engineering Jobs – Visual Capitalist
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Tech layoffs 2026: Tracking all the job losses across Apple, Oracle, Uber, TikTok, Meta …
We’ve been inundated with tech layoffs throughout the whole of 2026 — and there’s likely more to come. In June, 14,000 job cuts happened at...
Meet a 20-year-old with a 4.5 GPA who skipped college for technical school | Fortune
AI is barreling into white-collar industries, and more people than ever are trying to AI-proof their careers. Gen Z college graduates are increasingly landing in...
China AI: Data centres rise from the rolling plains of Inner Mongolia – BBC
Ulanqab, with its steppes and volcanoes, is an unlikely digital frontier. For years, it has been China’s official “potato capital”. But now its fields have...
Mathematics Just Got Its First Taste of the AI Job-Pocalypse – Gizmodo
For years, the leaders of the most powerful tech companies have predicted that AI will displace a significant portion of the workforce. The impact will...
Will AI really kill us all? The science behind the hype – Nature
Concerns that artificial intelligence might kill us all are blowing up right now following warnings from researchers and leaders at some of the world’s foremost...
Stark Pay Growth Gap Between Jobs With More and Less Exposure to AI – Business Insider
10 high-paying and growing jobs with very high exposure to AI 10 high-paying and growing jobs with low exposure to AI 20 high-paying jobs that...
ABBYY gives old-school OCR a job in the AI pipeline – The Register
applications FineParser runs in a CPU-powered container, preserving tables and layout before handing documents to an LLM ABBYY has packaged its FineReader OCR engine as...
5 Ways AI Is Reshaping Student Success – Inside Higher Ed
For much of the past few years, conversations about artificial intelligence on college campuses have centered on how students use it in the classroom, with...
Moraine Valley, other colleges ramp up training for careers in artificial intelligence era
As artificial intelligence becomes more prominent in the workforce, community colleges across Chicago and the suburbs are preparing students for a future being shaped by...
What We Tell Our Kids About AI – TIME
What is changing is not simply the tools available to help us make predictions about human biology. It is the speed of the discovery process...
Handshake COO Jon Stull Explains How Job Seekers Will Benefit from AI Skills Studio
00:00 Ashley A moment ago, Handshake, which touts itself as the career network for the AI economy, announced the roll out of a new app...
Microsoft starts a new round of job cuts and the next phase of its Xbox ‘reset.’ Read the memo.
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Maryland Governor Calls for AI Job Bias Guidance, Safety Rules – Bloomberg Law News
Maryland labor and civil rights agencies are set to issue guidance detailing how the state’s anti-discrimination laws apply to employment decisions made using AI technology,...
Texas Senate Takes Up AI Jobs And Local Tax Oversight Tuesday – Dallas Express
Texas senators will examine how artificial intelligence is reshaping the workforce Tuesday while also scrutinizing hotel occupancy taxes and financing zones used by cities to...
Job Seekers in Their 50s Share the Unique Challenges They Face – Business Insider
I’m applying to entry-level jobs at 56 and can’t even get an interview. My confidence has taken a hit — so I’m pivoting. I can’t...
Report: AI Created Recession-Like Job Market for Some New Grads – Inside Higher Ed
For some recent college graduates—especially those who majored in computer science and related fields—the rise of generative artificial intelligence has created a job market that’s...
AI stock valuations may have peaked. Trivariate thinks these shares can keep working
It may all be downhill from here for valuations of artificial intelligence-related stocks, but that doesn’t mean investors need to start fleeing the space en...
GM CEO Mary Barra Says Skilled Trades Could Be More ‘AI-Proof’ As Company Invested …
Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. General Motors Co.‘s CEO Mary Barra said skilled-trades...
21 Million Marijuana Arrests: Why Cannabis Prohibition Failed in America
Twenty-One Million Arrests Later: The Plant Was Never the Problem the Law Said It Was I like round numbers about as much as I like...
Tech, Science, Social Media Jobs in San Francisco & Silicon Valley Plunge to 2019 Level
The local economy and housing market have become immensely dependent on unsustainable AI magic-money. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. San Francisco is the epicenter of the AI...
AI adoption is driving hiring, but mostly for senior roles – The Edge Malaysia
(Sept 21): Companies using artificial intelligence are adding more jobs than those that are not but those gains sharply favour senior employees over junior workers,...
Aviation regulators turn to AI to help manage the nation’s airspace – NPR
An American Eagle plane takes off from Hollywood Burbank Airport in October 2025 in Burbank, California. Mario Tama/Getty Images Mario Tama/Getty Images WASHINGTON — The...
How the ‘AI doom loop’ is trapping job seekers and employers – Baton Rouge Business Report
The 2026 job market has become increasingly difficult for both job seekers and employers, with job openings slowing, applications per position rising and many candidates...
AI Workplace Legislation: State Laws on Employee Monitoring & Hiring | MultiState
Key Takeaways: States considered 155 bills addressing AI in the workplace during the 2026 legislative session, with proposals focused on transparency, accountability, worker privacy, and...
Meet your new co-worker: How AI is reshaping global jobs – Kursiv.kz
Artificial intelligence has quietly transitioned from an experimental concept into an everyday workplace collaborator across major global economies. A recent ranking by World Population Review...
Does AI do a better job of finding all the hidden gems in S-1 filings? – Yahoo Finance
00:00 Speaker A Do you use AI to help you with DS1? 00:02 Speaker B So, I haven’t. Um, not really. Uh I’ll sometimes like...
Addleshaw Hires Deloitte Employment Pro For AI Push – Law360 UK
By Hanna Vioque ( September 21, 2026, 7:09 PM BST) — Addleshaw Goddard has hired an associate director from Deloitte Legal as partner in its...
Bill Gates says Trump’s AI views point to societal blind spot – CBS News
Bill Gates told CBS Mornings that President Trump’s view that the risks posed by AI are overblown reflects a societal blind spot, with many people...
Why some musicians aren’t happy about labels signing AI deals with platforms – LA Times
Two years ago, the biggest record labels took artificial intelligence music generators to court for copyright infringement. Now several of them are licensing their catalogs...
Pensions Awareness Ireland launches AI retirement coach – Silicon Republic
The platform aims to give employees greater clarity and insight when it comes to planning for retirement. As part of its plans for Pensions Awareness...
Is A.I. Above the Law? – The New Yorker
Brave New World Dept. Is A.I. Above the Law? Our legal system isn’t ready for machines that act on their own. By Jill Lepore September...
Media jobs at risk over A.I expansion – FBC News
U.S. journalism educator Professor Steven Youngblood. [Photo: JOSEFA SIGAVOLAVOLA] Artificial intelligence’s rapid growth in the region could transform Pacific newsrooms, but it could also put...
Shopify’s CEO Made Staff Prove AI Couldn’t Do Their Jobs. Now He Says They’re Tossing AI …
Shopify’s CEO mandated that staff prove AI couldn’t replace them before new hires were approved. Now he has a name for what that policy produced...
The data center backlash is reshaping American politics — one community at a time – NPR
AFP via Getty Images, Claire Harbage/NPR/Collage by Emily Bogle/NPR With striking speed, the widespread debate around data centers has become a fault line in American...
Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape the US labour market in a way that is more … – Instagram
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US jobs paradox: AI exposed roles see 46% pay surge even as AI linked layoffs rise
The divergence has become particularly visible since 2024 and widened further through 2025 and 2026. The chart indexes 2021 average pay at 100; by 2026,...
US jobs paradox: AI exposed roles see 46% pay surge even as AI linked layoffs rise
The divergence has become particularly visible since 2024 and widened further through 2025 and 2026. The chart indexes 2021 average pay at 100; by 2026,...
AI growth raises copyright, jobs concerns in Asean creative sector – Newsbytes.PH
Artificial intelligence (AI) and digital platforms are changing how creative works are produced, distributed, and monetized across Southeast Asia, while raising concerns over intellectual property...