
OpenAI Calls for Robot Tax and a Public Wealth Fund
OpenAI published a 13-page policy blueprint proposing robot taxes, a public wealth fund for every American, and government-run 4-day workweek pilots as AI reshapes the economy.

OpenAI published a 13-page policy blueprint proposing robot taxes, a public wealth fund for every American, and government-run 4-day workweek pilots as AI reshapes the economy.

Three OpenAI executives shift roles simultaneously days after closing a $122 billion round, raising questions about leadership continuity before an expected 2026 IPO.

Andrej Karpathy scored 342 US occupations on a 0-10 AI exposure scale using BLS data - 42% of jobs score 7+, representing 59.9 million workers and $3.7 trillion in wages. He then deleted the GitHub repo.

ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott told CNBC that AI agents could drive college graduate unemployment into the mid-30% range, while his own company has automated 90% of customer service use cases.

RentAHuman.ai is a marketplace where AI agents hire humans via MCP or REST API for real-world tasks, but 590,000 workers are chasing just 11,300 bounties and most gigs turn out to be startup marketing.

Anthropic's new 'observed exposure' metric ranks 800+ occupations by actual AI usage, not just theoretical risk. Computer programmers top the list at 75%. Unemployment hasn't spiked - but young workers entering exposed fields are finding fewer jobs.

A bipartisan coalition of 40+ groups - from the AFL-CIO to the Congress of Christian Leaders - released a 34-point declaration demanding human control over AI, corporate accountability, and a ban on autonomous lethal weapons.

Alphabet's new three-year compensation plan could pay Sundar Pichai up to $692 million - more than seven times Satya Nadella's pay - with a third of the upside tied to Waymo and Wing performance.

Max Schwarzer, VP of Research and Head of Post-Training at OpenAI, leaves after a year leading the team that shipped GPT-5, 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3-Codex to return to RL research at Anthropic.

A 439,000-worker construction shortage is delaying AI data centers while electricians command $200K salaries and Big Tech scrambles to fill the gap.

Junyang Lin, the 32-year-old architect behind Alibaba's Qwen open-source AI models, announces his departure in a brief tweet - the fourth major exit from Tongyi Lab in two years.

Block CEO Jack Dorsey cut 4,000 employees - nearly half the company - citing AI tools as the reason, then predicted the majority of companies will make similar structural changes within 12 months. Wall Street rewarded him with a 25% stock surge. The evidence says he is wrong.