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Analysis
AI Companies’ Cyber Letter Puts Operators on Notice
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and security vendors issued a collective-defense framework aimed at companies, governments and frontier labs.
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Workplace, leadership, operations and the changing design of organizations.
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News Brief
Rivian CFO Claire McDonough Will Leave Oct. 30
The electric-vehicle maker has begun a search for a permanent successor and says the departure is not tied to a disagreement.
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NSW Moves to Rethink Take-Home Assessments as AI Use Spreads
New South Wales officials are asking whether unsupervised take-home work can still reliably measure student learning in the age of generative AI.
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Analysis
America Lost 23,000 Jobs. The Warning Signs Were Already There.
July payrolls missed economists’ forecasts by more than 100,000 jobs. Revisions to prior months, slowing hiring and emerging changes in how companies use labor suggest the decline was less sudden than the headline implies.
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News Brief
Wall Street Firms Targeted in Phone-Based Cyberattacks
Attackers used calls to try to persuade employees at major hedge funds and private equity firms to hand over access or sensitive information.
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News Brief
Thomson Reuters Raises Forecast as Professional AI Gains Traction
Revenue rose 9% as the company lifted its full-year outlook and pointed to AI products serving legal, corporate, tax and accounting customers.
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News Brief
Etsy Cuts 12% of Staff in Product and Engineering Restructuring
The marketplace is eliminating about 220 roles while saying the change was not caused by AI, even as it prepares teams for new tools and skills.
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Analysis
The Human Handoff Is Becoming Automation’s Most Important Design Problem
Automation works smoothly until a workflow encounters ambiguity, risk or failure. The companies that design strong human handoffs will resolve exceptions faster, protect accountability and produce more durable returns from automation.
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Explainer
The Operations Leader’s Guide to Human-AI Workflows
Reliable human-AI systems define machine autonomy, human judgment, escalation and accountability as parts of one workflow.
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Analysis
Productivity Software Is Not the Same as Productive Work
AI can accelerate individual tasks while leaving the larger system of approvals, interruptions and duplicated work untouched.