Back
LabourReported
The information sector — telecom, media, tech services — led US corporate AI hiring in 2025. Lightcast data cited in Stanford's 2026 AI Index found AI skills required in 13.2% of the sector's job postings, up from 7.8% in 2024
Verified 2026-08-19
THE INTELLIGENCE CLUB
Facts like this, six days a week
The Daily Receipts on weekdays, The Weekly Brief on Saturday — every fact traced to the filing it came from. Free.
Free forever. Six emails a week — The Daily Receipts on weekdays, The Weekly Brief on Saturday — drop either in one click.
Read this morning's edition →The screener · 72 companiesEvery layer of the AI chain, priced dailyHow this was verifiedEvery figure links to the filing it came from
More on Labour
- BLS's 2024-34 employment projections show AI adoption fueling outsized growth in the occupations that build and secure it: data scientist jobs are projected to grow 33.5%, more than ten times the 3.1% projected growth rate for all US occupations combined 33.5% projected growth in US data scientist jobs through 2034
- Nearly 750 executives in the Duke/Federal Reserve CFO Survey expect AI to barely touch total headcount — aggregate employment down less than 0.4% in 2026. What shifts is the mix, over the next three years: routine clerical work down more than 2 percentage points of employment share
- Epoch AI asked LLM judges how long an experienced engineer would need, without AI, to reproduce each merged pull request from the 41 collaborators on OpenAI's public Codex repository. In the second quarter of 2026, work beyond what anyone could finish in a single unassisted day accounted for 8% of contributor-days, up from 2% a year earlier