Manufacturers are asking for artificial intelligence skills in their job ads more often than the rest of the economy, and they are advertising higher pay when they do, according to a Federal Reserve Board staff analysis of online job postings.
A survey of 270 U.S. CFOs and finance leaders found finance teams spend an average 26% of their work time verifying or correcting AI output, while only 3% report actively reducing headcount where AI replaced work.
SAP plans to acquire TechWolf, whose platform maps tasks, skills and external labor-market data to support hiring, reskilling, redeployment and workforce planning.
Microsoft said LinkedIn and Microsoft 365 chief Ryan Roslansky is leaving, and the teams behind Office and Teams now report to Charles Lamanna. Satya Nadella framed the change around “a new OS for work” with Office fully embedded in Copilot.
Synopsys and OpenAI announced GPT-Synopsys, a model meant to run chip-design software, interpret its output and iterate on designs. Synopsys says the model’s work will still be checked by conventional sign-off tools.
An NBER working paper using German worker survey data finds an index of AI's comparative advantage explains almost 60% of cross-occupation differences in adoption, versus 14% for exposure alone.
An NBER working paper links hiring of AI-skilled workers at U.S. public companies to about one extra point of productivity growth a year since 2018, and argues the gain comes from organization capital, not software alone.
An NBER working paper tracking more than 500,000 GitHub developers finds AI coding agents sharply raise commits but lift actual software releases far less, pointing to human bottlenecks after code is written.
