WHAT'S NEXT?: AI will replace 16% of jobs over the next decade. A billion people will enter the job market over the next ten years.
[New] 85% of jobs that will exist by 2026 have not yet been invented, indicating a landscape of unprecedented change.
Talynce
[New] If AI removes the labour cap and space removes the energy cap, sustained 20-30% GDP growth - and a company capturing a huge share of a projected ~ $11 trillion AI buildout - becomes conceivable.
NextBigFuture.com
[New] The global demand for tech-related skills is projected to increase by 40% by 2026, driven by advancements in AI and automation.
Talynce
[New] With the global demand for tech-related skills expected to increase by 40% by 2026, advanced digital literacy will be paramount.
Talynce
[New] AI might generate 35% of UK jobs in the next 10 to 20 years.
PubMed Central (PMC)
[New] Conversational AI deployments in contact centers will reduce agent labour costs by $80 billion in 2026, and that partial containment alone, such as capturing a caller's name, account number, and reason for calling, can remove up to a third of the interaction time a human would otherwise spend.
Avaya
[New] Gartner expects agent-software spending to rise sharply and predicts autonomous business will become a net job creator by 2028 or 2029.
MarketingProfs
[New] Microsoft said its near-term work will focus on three areas: upgrading network cryptography, building crypto-agility for stored data and modernizing cryptographic trust chains used for identity, signing and certificates.
Campus Technology
[New] Microsoft 365 Copilot will work more intimately with Power Apps, which will lead to more blended use cases.
MSDynamicsWorld.com
[New] If Copilot becomes the trusted work layer across apps, agents, endpoints, and cloud infrastructure, Microsoft's sprawl will look like strategy.
WindowsForum
[New] 39% of workers' current skill sets are expected to be transformed or outdated over 2025 to 2030, and 59 of every 100 workers will need training by then.
Slasify
[New] Sub-Saharan Africa's working-age population will grow by more than 600 million over the next quarter century, more than three-quarters of the net labor-force increase across all developing economies, though only 24% of new workers today land wage-paying jobs.
Slasify
[New] Enterprises across Germany, Japan, and China are deploying IoT sensor networks, wearable biometric devices, and predictive analytics platforms to simultaneously monitor environmental hazards and workforce health in real time.
MarkNtel Advisors
[New] Weak NFP: A large miss, higher unemployment or weaker wages could lower US yields, strengthen the yen and push USD / JPY through 160.
investing.com
[New] US job growth slowed in June as employers added 57,000 new jobs - just about half of what economists had predicted - and the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised its figures from the past two months down by a total of 74,000.
The Guardian
[New] Even the Finnish government expects unemployment to remain elevated throughout 2026 before any meaningful improvement begins.
Armstrong Economics
[New] The US government should create new opportunities for private-sector pharmaceutical companies to work with DoD and NIAID to translate basic research findings into investigational therapies, diagnostics, and prophylactics.
PubMed Central (PMC)
[New] Ninety-two million jobs may be displaced by AI by 2030.Insurance Asia
[New] Whether artificial intelligence will cause mass workforce cuts over time remains up for debate, but it is starting to leave an imprint on US employment data.Insurance Journal
[New] Microsoft will invest US$ 2.5 billion in a new AI engineering business that will deploy 6,000 experts to work with enterprise customers.Fintech Singapore
[New] By 2030, 80% of large software engineering organizations will evolve into smaller, AI-augmented teams - fundamentally reshaping software development workforce structures.igmGuru
