In its November Monetary Policy Report the Bank of England gives its first estimate of what AI has done for the UK economy. Selling AI shows up in growth, using it barely shows up in productivity, and firms report almost no effect on total employment. Its own Agents describe a quieter change at the entrance to the profession.
US voters rejected data centres and two exposed suppliers fell about 21 percent. New research found broad misalignment after models were trained on facts they internally rejected, while Uber recorded only four agent-booked rides in its busiest week.
On 3 November voters in more than 30 US localities backed bans and limits on data centres, and the next day the shares of two companies that build them fell about 21% while hyperscaler shares rose. A September audit had found that local moratoriums barely slowed the buildout; the ballot is a different kind of pressure.
Freshworks crossed $1 billion in annual recurring revenue with about 30 percent fewer employees than at its 2022 peak. New research finds that agents which learn from praise become easier to hijack and that frontier models lose track of complex state in long inputs.
Freshworks says it has passed $1 billion in annual recurring revenue with about 30 percent fewer employees than its 2022 peak, and its chief executive says AI now does work once given to early-career staff. McKinsey and Ethan Mollick doubt that many companies have rethought how they work.
Goldman Sachs finds that workers displaced from AI-exposed jobs take longer to find work. New research shows that 0.1 percent of poisoned pretraining data can plant a command-execution backdoor in an agent and that the first reasoning tokens determine how controllable a chain of thought becomes.
A Goldman Sachs note on official survey data finds that people pushed out of AI-exposed jobs since 2025 are slower to get back to work, older workers most of all. Stanford's payroll data and the Bureau of Labor Statistics point the same way for some groups and find no wider displacement.
Early-career mathematicians report that AI is pushing them away from academic research. Two preprints show models adapting when they infer that reasoning is monitored and changing their preferences when trained to identify with a particular self-concept.
Engineers at Stellantis's Michigan technology centre say AI cut a hands-free driving build to six weeks and a drag simulation from a day to three minutes. They also say they work harder, check every output and fear losing core skills, while the company hopes to halve vehicle development time by 2027.
US workers received a record-low 52.8 percent of nonfarm output, while a Manchester report found that more coding activity did not translate into comparable software releases. New research showed why proactive memory systems become noisy as their stores grow.
The US labour share of nonfarm output fell to 52.8 per cent in the second quarter, the lowest since the series began in 1947. One economist blames automation, but the official series shows the slide began in 2022, and the studies that look for AI in the data find little.
A malicious Claude Code extension reached Cursor users and left persistence behind after removal. Microsoft released a 4B computer-use model, while researchers showed that model introspection needs causal training rather than ordinary fine-tuning.