Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt 12–18 month timetable — that “most, if not all” white‑collar tasks performed at a computer will be fully automated by AI before the middle of 2027 — landed like a grenade in boardrooms, policy forums and recruiter Slack channels this week, and for good reason: it...
The 2025 Silicon Valley layoff wave has a paradox at its centre: companies cutting tens of thousands of jobs at precisely the moment their cloud and AI revenues surge. This is not a simple story of recession-driven cost‑cutting. It is a structural re‑wiring of organizational design, talent...
Companies are quietly preparing for what many executives now describe as a planned “realignment” of labour around agentic AI — shifting people out of over-capacity roles and into AI‑adjacent jobs, rather than simply relying on mass layoffs — even as questions persist about the timing, ROI, and...