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The Other AI Jobs
Want to get a job in the Bay Area? The fastest-growing listings are for operations engineers, applied scientists, senior machine-learning engineers, principal cloud architects, forward-deployed engineers, and the like, according to Laura Ullrich, the director of economic research in North America at the Indeed Hiring Lab. “A year ago, people were very concerned about these types of jobs not coming to fruition,” she told me. Today, “it’s all AI. It’s all AI jobs.” Or not quite all.
The Non-AI AI Jobs
5 hours ago London/New York — Global technology stocks sold off sharply Thursday, as a growing list of worries, including rising borrowing costs and tougher competition from China, caused traders to sour on AI investments. The Nasdaq Composite fell 1.2% shortly after the opening bell. The tech-heavy index posted …
The College Decision Just Got Harder
Imagine that you’re one of the 3.8 million American teenagers on track to graduate from high school next spring. You have been told your whole life that knowledge work is the future and that a college degree is a high-speed ticket to the middle class. The average worker with a B.A. or B.S. makes 68 percent more a year than the average worker without one, translating to $1.2 million in additional earnings over a lifetime, if not more.
Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer
52 Years Ago, Something Happened To Me At A College Frat House That I Was Never Able To Speak About — Until Now “I swallowed the pain I experienced, and it remained undigested for years, playing havoc with my psyche and my body.” A young woman has filed a civil suit against Cornell University and seven fraternity members she alleges were involved in an incident in which she says she was given drugs and …
A Plan to Pay Married Mothers Not to Work
The parents of young kids don’t have it easy in the United States. The country doesn’t have mandatory paid parental leave. It does not send out a child allowance. It doesn’t offer universal prekindergarten or provide day-care subsidies to all families in need.
The Property-Tax Revolution
The United States is in the throes of the largest tax revolt in a generation, and the revolutionaries are winning. Since 2020, nationwide home values have climbed roughly 50 percent, leading property-tax bills to increase 19 percent and contributing to a 71 percent increase in the cost of homeowner’s insurance.
The Property-Tax Revolution
3 hours ago Dynamic Currency Conversion has been catching travelers unawares for years. But there’s a new development that makes it even easier to fall into the trap. I just returned from a family vacation through France, Spain, and Portugal, and we had an amazing time. However, I couldn’t help but notice a new …
A Tempest in a Walk-In Closet
If you were trying to identify the spiciest policy affecting the fewest Americans, you’d struggle to do better than New York City’s pied-à-terre tax. This spring, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul agreed on a plan to target extremely valuable homes. As of this fiscal year, homeowners will have to pay up to 6.5 percent tax on condos and co-ops assessed at more than $1 million; and up to 1.3 percent on multifamily houses assessed at more than $5 million.
Paperwork, lines, hours on hold: There’s a ‘Time Tax’ on Americans who need help most
Jake Brasch and Nadja Leonard-Hopper are the duo the behind the musical Hole!, coming to New York this December. Chewboy hide caption toggle caption Chewboy Editor’s note: This article contains sexual themes. EDINBURGH — For nearly a month, Edinburgh has been overrun by performers, posters, packed rooms — and some very strange ideas.
The Time Tax
Marcella Patino was hunched over a table at the South Salt Lake Community Center, her pizza getting cold and her nerves fraying. Patino is a single mom with three kids, and kidlike in her own way, tiny and sweet-voiced. When I met her, in the summer of 2024, she was 33 years old and earning $300 a week doing manicures and pedicures. To bump up her income, she had recently gotten a degree from aesthetician school, meaning she could start offering her clients facials and eyebrow lamination too.
How American Bureaucracy (Literally) Steals Years From Your Life
Washington currently estimates that Americans spend 12 billion hours a year filling out government forms, meaning the average person spends six 8-hour workdays filing their taxes, signing up for Medicaid, renewing their driver’s licenses, and applying for government loans. At prevailing wages, this uncompensated labor is worth $430 billion a year.
Are Raccoons Evolving Into Pets? Original
Listen1.0x 0:0022:51 At 10 p.m. in early July, Long Island was sweltering under a heat dome. As bedroom lights dimmed and heavy clouds rolled in, a raccoon ambled onto the porch of a split-level home, found a crack in a sliding door, and slipped inside. He tongue-polished a lasagna tray on the floor near the kitchen counter before waddling back into the damp fug of the summer night. Soon after, a raccoon with a facial scar and a thin tail entered, ate a snack, and flopped down for a nap.
Muž, který předpověděl příchod AI, si s vámi chce promluvit o budoucnosti
Zahraničí••18 minut Erik Brynjolfsson je ekonom, který dokáže číst v lidech stejně dobře jako v tabulkách. A není pesimista Už před více než deseti lety vyslovil ekonom Erik Brynjolfsson předpověď: AI změní úplně všechno. Lidé začali používat nástroje před miliony lety. Pěstovali obilí a domestikovali zvířata, poté vyvinuli písmo, železné nástroje, knihtisk a střelný prach. Pokrok byl však pomalý a izolovaný, a to až do poloviny 18.
The AI Bubble Is No Ordinary Bubble
The American stock market is booming, thanks to artificial intelligence. Tech giants are borrowing billions to acquire AI talent, purchase chips and hardware, and construct data centers. And market watchers are starting to get worried. They see financiers bulldozing giant piles of money to private AI start-ups with no realistic path to profitability, tech companies reliant on other tech companies for revenue growth, and non-tech businesses without a lot to show for their AI investments.
The AI Bubble Is No Ordinary Bubble
Business 4 hours ago These 5 Side Hustle Businesses Keep Costs Low and Profits High Inc Magazine - Chris Morris • 4h With minimal startup expenses, strong demand, and room to scale, these side hustle ideas offer a path from extra cash to a full-time business. Side hustle businesses often require some sort of investment on your part.
The Problem America Refuses to Address
In the age of the trillionaire, inequality remains a defining challenge. Robert Morris migrated from England to the American colonies as a teenager and established himself in the mercantile industry. During the Revolutionary War, his trading ships attacked British vessels and seized their cargo; after the conflict, the Founding Father became a millionaire, likely the country’s first. He later invested in frontier real estate—a good bet made too soon.
The Age of the Trillionaire
Robert Morris migrated from England to the American colonies as a teenager and established himself in the mercantile industry. During the Revolutionary War, his trading ships attacked British vessels and seized their cargo; after the conflict, the Founding Father became a millionaire, likely the country’s first. He later invested in frontier real estate—a good bet made too soon. Morris went bankrupt, spectacularly, and spent the years 1798 to 1801 incarcerated in a Philadelphia debtors’ prison.
The Man Who Saw AI Coming
More than a decade ago, the economist Erik Brynjolfsson made a prediction: AI would change everything. Humans began using tools millions of years ago. They cultivated grain and domesticated animals, and then developed written languages, iron tools, the printing press, gunpowder. Progress was slow and local until the mid-1700s, when modern society roared into being alongside machines and engines. Invention built on invention. Then, in recent decades, the pace of human progress slowed again.
Alan Greenspan Was ‘Not Quite God’
On Monday, Alan Greenspan died at the age of 100. The Federal Reserve, which he led from 1987 until 2006, issued an encomium in characteristically modest and understated Fedspeak.
How to (Try to) Get a Job Now
A few years ago, Ken Schumacher was working for a technology company. Part of his job involved assessing potential hires: hopping on a Zoom call, giving an applicant an engineering test (kind of like a crossword puzzle with code instead of words), and going on “mute for an hour” as the applicant struggled through it. Except many of the candidates weren’t struggling. The firm’s exercises were getting posted on sites such as Glassdoor.
AI Has Ruined the Job Market
Culture 18 hours ago Amazon’s List of the Best Books of the Last 10 Years bookriot.com - Erica Ezeifedi • 18h Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.Amazon’s Best Books of … Lifestyle 16 hours ago Hotel Concierges Reveal the Secrets They Wish More Guests Knew—and the Mistakes to Avoid Travel + Leisure - Meena Thiruvengadam • 16h From tipping strategies to booking mistakes, hospitality insiders share their...
The ‘Vibecession’ Is Over. The ‘Permacession’ Is Here.
According to Americans, it is bad out there. Real bad. This month, the University of Michigan’s index of consumer sentiment dropped to its lowest point since 1952, when the survey started. A poll of potential Republican voters found that just 43 percent rated the economy as “excellent” or “good” and 55 percent as “fair” or “poor”; for potential Democratic voters, the shares were 5 percent and 94 percent, respectively. Low-income families are nervous, and so are high-income ones.
The ‘Vibecession’ Is Over. The ‘Permacession’ Is Here.
Listen1.0x 0:0016:17 According to Americans, it is bad out there. Real bad. This month, the University of Michigan’s index of consumer sentiment dropped to its lowest point since 1952, when the survey started. A poll of potential Republican voters found that just 43 percent rated the economy as “excellent” or “good” and 55 percent as “fair” or “poor”; for potential Democratic voters, the shares were 5 percent and 94 percent, respectively. Low-income families are nervous, and so are high-income ones.
The ‘Vibecession’ Is Over. The ‘Permacession’ Is Here.
Students 15 hours ago Why Are College Students Booing AI? Bloomberg - By Walter Frick • 15h Welcome back to The Forecast from Bloomberg Weekend, where we help you think about the future — from next week to next decade.
So Nobody Is Going to Pay Taxes Now?
Earlier this month, the IRS finished collecting 2025 taxes, taking in an estimated $5.2 trillion from businesses and households. That’s a lot of cash. But Congress is spending $7 trillion a year, pumping out as much fiscal stimulus now as it did during the Great Recession. All of those excess dollars are spurring retailers to raise prices and the Federal Reserve to slow down interest-rate cuts.
America’s Insane Tax-Filing Process
If you are anything like me, you have spent a lot of time over the past few weeks opening letters, finding receipts, requesting PDFs, scanning documents, and going through your credit-card statements line by line. It’s tax season. And in the United States, taxes are a DIY affair. This is the case even though Washington could probably do your taxes for you. If you earn a salary or an hourly wage, the Internal Revenue Service already knows how much money you make.
How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years
Will my job even exist in five years? Following the rise of Claude Code and ChatGPT, pretty much every white-collar worker I know has been asking themselves that question. AI can code like an engineer, write a business plan like a consultant, decorate like an interior designer, and answer medical questions better than a doctor. It can make up a shockingly catchy and shockingly filthy country tune, and croon it in a voice drenched in Tennessee whiskey.
How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years
Listen1.0x 0:009:59 Will my job even exist in five years? Following the rise of Claude Code and ChatGPT, pretty much every white-collar worker I know has been asking themselves that question. AI can code like an engineer, write a business plan like a consultant, decorate like an interior designer, and answer medical questions better than a doctor. It can make up a shockingly catchy and shockingly filthy country tune, and croon it in a voice drenched in Tennessee whiskey.
How To Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years
5 hours ago This has been a dangerous month to be an oil refinery. On Monday night a fire hit Valero Energy’s 435,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. The refinery, 90 miles east of Houston, has been ramping up purchases of heavy crude from Venezuela. Despite a dramatic fireball there were no …
Will Small Businesses Get Their Money Back?
Last month, Jonathan Silva, the chief executive officer of WS Game Company, paused a meeting to try to make sense of a Supreme Court decision the moment it was handed down. “I have no law experience whatsoever,” he told me. But “I know that at 10 a.m., you go to the Supreme Court’s website, and I know what link to go to, and I know when to refresh it, and I got this 144-page—I forget the exact term of what it is.
The Disappearing American Mortgage
If you’ve secured a loan and you are closing on a new home in the near future, congratulations. You’ve taken part in an essential middle-class rite of passage—and you’re one of the lucky few. The mortgage, the cornerstone of wealth building for generations of Americans, is vanishing.
The Worst-Case Future for White-Collar Workers
White-collar workers are getting nervous, with good reason. Sure, 98 percent of college graduates who want a job still have one, and wages are ticking up. Sure, some companies that cite the labor-saving, efficiency-promoting effects of ChatGPT and Claude as they let employees go are just “AI washing”—talking about algorithms to distract from poor managerial decisions. But the labor market for office workers is beginning to shift.
America’s Annoyance Economy Is Growing
On a Wednesday evening in mid-June, Ralph Coolman, a small-business owner and accomplished athlete, set out to run a 5K in Ventura, California. He quit after a mile, and spent the next few days afflicted by nausea, indigestion, and exhaustion. His wife, Erika, a nurse and an athlete herself, figured he had the flu. But on Saturday morning, Ralph began breathing rapidly. She rushed him to an urgent-care center, where a doctor put him on oxygen and sent him to the emergency room.
America’s Annoyance Economy Is Growing
On a Wednesday evening in mid-June, Ralph Coolman, a small-business owner and accomplished athlete, set out to run a 5K in Ventura, California. He quit after a mile, and spent the next few days afflicted by nausea, indigestion, and exhaustion. His wife, Erika, a nurse and an athlete herself, figured he had the flu. But on Saturday morning, Ralph began breathing rapidly. She rushed him to an urgent-care center, where a doctor put him on oxygen and sent him to the emergency room.
The program thats turning schools around
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.On a chilly day before Christmas, Teresa Rivas helped a tween boy pick out a new winter coat. Get the bigger one, the one with the waterproof layer, mijo, she said, before helping him pull it onto his string-bean frame. Rivas provides guidance counseling at Owen Goodnight Middle School in San Marcos, Texas. She talks with students about their goals and helps if theyre struggling in class.
The Three-Step Guide to Fixing Affordability
Earlier this month, Donald Trump took a break from his busy schedule of watching TV and overseeing the renovation of his taxpayer-financed mansion to rally his constituents. “They always have a hoax—the new word is affordability,” the president told a packed crowd in the Poconos. “You can give up pencils, because under the China policy, you know, every child can get 37 pencils.
What are the prospects for laid-off workers?
For the last few weeks, Heidi Roberts' full-time job has been trying to find one. "I literally apply at jobs from 8:00 a.m. 'til five o'clock every day," she said. "And I think I've done about 56 to 60 jobs already. And I've only had seven callbacks. So, it's just been really disheartening." She's been at it every day since October, when she was laid off from a financial company in Knoxville, Tennessee. She said she didn't see it coming: "I had no idea, none at all," she said.
What are the prospects for laid-off workers?
For the last few weeks, Heidi Roberts' full-time job has been trying to find one. "I literally apply at jobs from 8:00 a.m. 'til five o'clock every day," she said. "And I think I've done about 56 to 60 jobs already. And I've only had seven callbacks. So, it's just been really disheartening." She's been at it every day since October, when she was laid off from a financial company in Knoxville, Tennessee. She said she didn't see it coming: "I had no idea, none at all," she said.
This week on "Sunday Morning" (Dec. 14) Original
The Emmy Award-winning "CBS News Sunday Morning" is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET. "Sunday Morning" also streams on the CBS News app beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. (Download it here.) Hosted by Jane Pauley COVER STORY: What makes for a great Christmas song? The most popular and enduring Christmas songs, from "Jingle Bells" to "All I Want for Christmas Is You," share many traits, according to musicologist Joe Bennett.
How private equity is changing housing
We have a housing crisis, as you probably, painfully, know. Wouldnt you like to have someone to blame for it?The United States is short 4 million housing units, with a particular dearth of starter homes, moderately priced apartments in low-rises, and family-friendly dwellings. Interest rates are high, which has stifled construction and pushed up the cost of mortgages.
Donald Trump’s War on Christmas
President Donald Trump might not be ruining Christmas, but he’s making it more expensive. American families are expected to spend $1 trillion on gifts and other goods this November and December, roughly 4 percent more than they spent last year. But they’re paying more for everything—artificial trees, ornaments, toys, novelty sweaters. They have fewer options to choose from when they log on to Etsy and browse upscale boutiques.
Donald Trump’s War on Christmas
It’s a bad year for shoppers. It’s a terrible year for small-business owners. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. President Donald Trump might not be ruining Christmas, but he’s making it more expensive. American families are expected to spend $1 trillion on gifts and other goods this November and December, roughly 4 percent more than they spent last year.
Is This the End of the Trade War? Original
The trade war might be coming to a strange end. Last week, the Supreme Court heard two cases questioning the legal underpinnings of Donald Trump’s tariff regime. A group of state governments and businesses—selling toys, wine, plumbing supplies, bicycle saddles, and other goods—argued that the United States’ trade deficits do not constitute an emergency and that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not give the White House the unilateral authority to impose tariffs anyway.
What Tariffs Did
This 95-Piece Cordless Drill Set Is on Sale for Only $46 at Walmart “It works great.” Autoblog aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. Add us on Google Are you still tightening and loosening screws by hand while working in your garage and other parts of your home? This can make it nearly …
Is This the End of the Trade War?
After Trump Split, Epstein Said He Could ‘Take Him Down’ Jeffrey Epstein cast himself as a Trump insider and wanted to leverage potentially damaging information about the president and his business dealings, according to emails with associates. President Trump’s long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein came to an apparent end in the mid-2000s. But Mr. Epstein …
Can Mamdani Pull Off a Child-Care Miracle? Original
Listen1.0x 0:0015:44 Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Zohran Mamdani will be New York City’s next mayor. The Queens assembly member has rocketed from local political obscurity to national political celebrity in less than a year, making bumper-stickery campaign promises aimed at alleviating the city’s cost-of-living crisis. Fast, free buses. A freeze on rents. Municipal grocery stores. Universal child care.
The Partisan Punishment of the Shutdown Original
The federal shutdown is dragging into its fourth week with no end in sight. TSA workers are not getting paid for screening airport passengers’ bags for contraband. National parks are asking tourists for donations. Prospective homebuyers are struggling to secure flood insurance. Start-ups are idling, figuring out if they can go public. As much of America stalls and sputters, President Donald Trump is forging ahead on a plan to remake the government’s budget without Congress’s assent.
How Are We Still Fighting About Obamacare? Original
Has any law in recent memory proved as controversial for as long as the Affordable Care Act? The legislative package will be old enough to drive next year, yet it’s somehow the main reason the federal government remains shut down today. In exchange for their votes, Senate Democrats are demanding that the GOP roll back its Medicaid cuts and preserve insurance subsidies used by 20 million Americans.
The Everything Recession Original
Last week, the federal government shut down, with both Republican and Democratic plans to finance ongoing appropriations failing to garner enough votes to pass the Senate. Donald Trump did not seem overly worried about the situation, calling it an “unprecedented opportunity” to throttle funds going to blue states and fire federal employees. The stock market surged higher and the bond market did not react. But up to 750,000 workers will be furloughed, losing out on $400 million in wages a day.
The Last Americans Really Paying Taxes Original
Donald Trump is altering the tax code for the benefit of millionaires and billionaires. That is the simplest conclusion to draw from the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act earlier this summer, and not an incorrect one. Yet the bill also does something stranger and harder to parse, and something that might prove a more perilous threat to the country’s finances in the long term.
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