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Entertainment industry splits on AI use, with some writers rejecting the technology while others quietly integrate it into creative workflows, according to Puck's Matt Belloni.

Analysis of 800,000+ ChatGPT messages reveals 43.5% of occupation-specific AI use involves tasks outside users' own jobs, with customer service and design roles leading the crossover.

As tech giants race to build AI infrastructure, skilled trades workers are divided on whether the lucrative jobs represent opportunity or complicity.

Three Amazon employees filed a civil rights complaint after being investigated for speaking to Seattle City Council about data center regulation, citing illegal retaliation.

Three Amazon engineers filed a civil rights complaint alleging the company retaliated against them for testifying about climate concerns at Seattle City Council hearings.

Thousands of Meta engineers drafted into a data-labeling unit report morale collapse, with some calling the work 'soul-crushing' and describing their assignment as involuntary.

OpenAI opened applications for a research collaboration platform connecting external economists with the company's tools to measure AI's impact on workers, firms, and economic institutions.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says the company is now pursuing frontier AI models independently of OpenAI, but disputes claims that advanced AI will displace workers.

OpenAI and partners opened The Barn, a 1GW data center in Saline, Michigan, pledging union jobs, water conservation, and community investment.

Robotics firms are scaling physical AI training data by paying consumers and gig workers to record everyday tasks, raising privacy and labor questions.

Cognition CEO Scott Wu argues AI coding agents should augment developers, not displace them, even as his $26B startup's own engineers rely on Devin for nearly all shipped code.

A 75-minute film entirely created with AI tools premieres at a major festival, reigniting concerns about generative AI's impact on film industry labor.

Unionized engineers at the Times challenge management's deployment of performance-tracking AI systems, alleging unfair labor practices and contract violations.

First-person video collection is becoming a booming market for robot training data, but workers are earning minimal wages for highly specialized labor.

The Vatican's new papal letter frames AI risks—from labor displacement to autonomous warfare—as threats to human dignity, calling for ethics-first governance and slower adoption.

Samsung's memory chip division agreed to 50% base salary bonuses plus stock incentives tied to profit milestones, narrowly edging SK Hynix's offers.

Former Google CEO faces hostile reception during May 16 speech as students protest AI hype amid job market concerns.

Meta's Model Capability Initiative, which records employee keystrokes and mouse activity to build AI training data, has triggered a viral internal petition and contributed to record-low staff morale.

Over a thousand DeepMind London staffers seek union recognition to block AI contracts they say aid Israeli military operations and other harm.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made an optimistic case for AI as a jobs engine at the Milken Institute — while leading the company that supplies its core infrastructure.