The August jobs report is due out on Friday morning, and economists are expecting that employers added 65,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate inched back up to 4.2%.

Welcome back to The AI Shift, our weekly examination of how artificial intelligence is changing the world of work. Since we started this newsletter almost a year ago, we’ve kept a close eye on whether (and how) AI is affecting the demand for human skills (see last week’s edition for the latest update).

As brands rush to use generative AI to make advertising faster and cheaper, new research suggests that the real risk is not obviously bad creative but work that looks good enough to approve while quietly underperforming in the market.

Anker's security division has big plans, and the company is prepping an even bigger AI management system for your home -- without relying on cloud data or subscriptions.

Meta is changing how it judges employees after a strange era of AI usage tracking. Your work matters more than how many tokens you burn through.

The Vermont senator said potential future versions of AI posed great risks and needed to be restricted by the government.

Madrona's sixth annual Intelligent Applications 40 names 45 private AI companies that have raised $410 billion combined, with Anthropic, OpenAI and Databricks accounting for 92% of that total. Rising round sizes forced the firm to raise its own funding thresholds for what counts as an early-stage company.

Several healthcare jobs are among the high-paying, growing jobs with low exposure to AI.

Meta upgrades its AI glasses' privacy features to block device users from filming people without their consent.

Examinations of an AI-powered cyberattack reveal AI systems focused on cheating and misleading human observers.