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AI firms step up race to secure workplace records as consent, security row spreads
OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta are developing AI agents to automate office work, lifting the value of internal workplace records. Employee emails, messenger chats and work documents are being traded as training data, fuelling privacy concerns. Business Insider reported that data brokers are buying records from both defunct startups and active firms, including offers worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Forecasts point to rising AI data spending, while cases at Meta and Google highlight consent and security issues.
AI & Enterprise
Token-maxing backlash fuels debate over corporate AI spending without results
Corporate executives are starting to question whether sharply higher AI spending is producing real results, Axios reported on May 28. The report said Microsoft cancelled most Claude Code licences, while Uber’s chief operating officer said AI costs are increasingly hard to justify. CloudBees CEO Anuj Kapur said job cuts may be the only way to offset AI costs. Others cited token-maxing, unclear use cases, costs, people and data as key obstacles.
AI & Enterprise
AI job hiring doubles in two years as demand surges for AI heads and data labelers
Hiring for jobs that run and manage artificial intelligence, such as heads of AI and data annotators, is rising rapidly despite widespread fears that AI will cut jobs. LinkedIn data for 2023 to 2025 showed AI created 640,000 U.S. white-collar jobs and AI-related postings more than doubled to 3.4 percent. Hiring included 225,000 head-of-AI roles and 312,000 annotators. Indeed found demand concentrated, with 1 percent of companies accounting for 90 percent of AI postings.