Chile and tech giants promise economy-wide impact but permits show fewer onsite jobs after construction.

Using Google’s Flood Hub, a nonprofit trial program sends early warning and unconditional cash to workers.

In an industry studded with megastars like BTS and Blackpink, virtual idols are building powerful new fandoms even while their true identities remain obscured.

Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan’s convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in automation-related jobs.

Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan’s convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in automation-related jobs.

The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.

Impersonators for OnlyFans models said their sales quotas are soaring, and once AI improves, they could be out of work.

The UAE plans to become the world’s testing ground for autonomous vehicles and upend the lives of 30,000 cabbies in the process.

When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.

New technologies are paving the way for farms that can run themselves, with minimal human input

Scarred by long hours, low pay, and a hostile work culture, many chip workers are leaving for competitors, including American companies.

A record number of people are leaving the Philippines to work in Taiwanese factories, where they face long shifts, low pay, and unequal treatment.

A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in countries with little regulation.

Western job seekers see lucrative offers in the booming AI hub, while others deal with rejections and lower pay.

In Taiwan’s AI-fueled chip boom, brokers control everything from paychecks to dorm beds, leaving workers feeling trapped and exploited.

From Dubai, the enigmatic founder of Byju’s recounts how he made his empire — and vows to rebuild it.

“Every day, for eight months, I deceived people”; Americans alone lost $12.5 billion last year to these sophisticated online cons.

Young Indonesians looking for jobs abroad are trafficked to fortified scam centers, where they are forced to weaponize AI chatbots and deepfakes.

In her new book, Empire of AI, Karen Hao insists that AI companies don’t have to choose between exploiting workers and chasing growth.

Automation is posed as a labor shortage solution, but workers say robots are making their jobs — and food — worse.

Facing a penalty for data breaches, the social media giant is threatening to pull WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram from Africa's most populous nation.

ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

Young Brazilians chase social media fame, selling “get-rich” schemes, while legal battles question platform responsibility and the cost to childhood.

Young Brazilians chase social media fame, selling “get-rich” schemes, while legal battles question platform responsibility and the cost to childhood.

Venezuela has long provided the tech industry with cheap, educated workers. But with the rise of generative AI, jobs have become less lucrative and harder to find.

Human fallout may include being replaced by LLMs, diminished skills, and fewer career options for all but the elite scholars.

Student-interns are paid for low-skill factory tasks and spend little time in the classroom.

Young Chinese engineers focus on homegrown innovation, drawn by fewer visa hurdles and the chance to build a future on their own terms.

New coalition calls for labor and free speech protections as AI tools make call center work both more efficient and demanding.

New coalition calls for labor and free speech protections as AI tools make call center work both more efficient and demanding.

Addictive algorithms fuse social networking with shopping and entertainment.

While EV users have been left in the dark during a prolonged energy crisis, many still prefer dealing with the hassle to the high cost of gas.

While EV users have been left in the dark during a prolonged energy crisis, many still prefer dealing with the hassle to the high cost of gas.

The startup has run into problem after problem on its new artificial-intelligence project, code-named Orion.

I got a rare look at the one tool responsible for all the tech in your life. It’s made by a company you’ve never heard of. And it’s maintained by hidden figures like her.

WhatsApp is already the world’s most widely used messaging app. Meta wants it to be a lot more.

The suit alleges Apple forces employees to give up their personal privacy rights and surveils them through iCloud accounts and non-work devices.

From AI-powered classrooms in Mali to EV taxis in Vietnam, people worldwide are seeing opportunities from this year’s biggest tech shifts.

AI labeling work is getting the gig economy treatment.

"We have data on the performance of >50k engineers from 100s of companies. ~9.5% of software engineers do virtually nothing: Ghost Engineers.”

BPO workers say AI tools are monitoring their calls, assisting them with customers, and scoring their performance.

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