AI & Work

Oracle's 10-K is the first big SEC filing to pin workforce cuts on AI: 21,000 jobs gone with $1.8B in severance. OpenAI and Broadcom unveil the Jalapeño inference chip with ~50% claimed savings. Anthropic monetises Fable 5 and lures Nobel laureate Jumper.

Commerce halts Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5; restored 18 June with nationality-based controls. G7 Évian: AI CEOs pitch a US-led coalition. EU picks Italian-led EUROPA consortium for a 24-language frontier model. PwC: 62% AI wage premium. Accenture -20% on AI guidance.

Weekly observatory, week ending June 8, 2026 — Apple-Google deal (confirmed Jan 12, 2026): a 1.2T Gemini for Siri at ~$1B/year; consumer launch expected at the WWDC keynote scheduled for the evening of June 8. Challenger reports 97,006 May cuts, 40% AI-attributed — third consecutive record

45,000 tech jobs lost in March, Sam Altman proposes a “New Deal” for superintelligence, and the Anthropic-Pentagon case reaches the courts. AI is no longer disrupting work in theory — it is doing so in real time. April 2026 edition.