Upwork study shows AI agents excel with human partners but fail independently

Artificial intelligence agents powered by the world's most advanced language models routinely fail to complete even straightforward professional tasks on their own, according to groundbreaking re [...]

Here’s to the stable ones: In praise of Tim Cook

Tim Cook’s tenure as Apple CEO ends September 1 when he takes the role of executive chair. He will be replaced by John Ternus, a 25-year Apple veteran and head of its hardware engineering division. [...]

The economy was even more fragile than we thought. Now BLS is in even hotter water

Economists say there isn't anything out of the ordinary in BLS's annual revisions that use more comprehensive data that's slower to attain [...]

The government shutdown means no jobs report. But is it time to kill the jobs report anyway?

The employment report blackout comes at a time when the BLS faces both an accounting and a public relations problem [...]

ExpressVPN adds a Fastest Location button and launches a new native Mac app

ExpressVPN, one of the best VPNs, is launching two brand-new features that sound confusingly like things it already does. Users on Android, Mac and iOS (but apparently not Windows, Linux or smart TVs) [...]

Anthropic says it hit a $30 billion revenue run rate after 'crazy' 80x growth

Dario Amodei is not the kind of CEO who talks loosely about numbers. The Anthropic co-founder and chief executive, a former VP of research at OpenAI with a PhD in computational neuroscience from Princ [...]

Trump yanks his BLS pick, throwing the agency into further chaos

The president had nominated EJ Antoni last month, after removing Erika McEntarfer following employment numbers that showed the jobs market stalling [...]

AI jobs are among the fastest-growing in the UK

Many of LinkedIn's fastest-growing jobs in the UK didn’t even exist 25 years ago, and AI features more than once. [...]

Trump fires chief of labor statistics agency, sparking some GOP criticism

Trump’s BLS purge drew swift rebukes from economists and elevated concerns of political interference with data that angers the president [...]