By Conor Grant
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In the Workplace
You've finally figured out AI at work -- now comes the bill. Companies that now regularly use AI are starting to track their workers' use of tokens, AI's unit of measurement. They're scouting whose strategies should be amplified after generating a great return, and what wastefulness should be squashed.
Wall Street investors and tech workers are at war over the Bloomberg terminal. Some social-media posters claimed that AI has created a cheaper alternative to the popular computer system, prompting backlash from traders who have a sacred bond with the terminal.
High schools are ditching economics for personal-finance classes. In a world of limited resources, many state education departments are trading one requirement for the other as they give priority to the practical over the conceptual.
Management & Leadership
Black women are becoming entrepreneurs in droves, starting their own businesses at a faster clip than any other demographic in America, according to a recent report. Many are leaving the corporate world, in part, because it has become less hospitable.
You've finally figured out AI at work -- now comes the bill. Companies that now regularly use artificial intelligence are starting to track their workers' use of tokens, AI's unit of measurement.
The Big Number
How much more time workers spent using business-management tools, such as human-resources or accounting software, after they began using AI tools, according to a new report on AI's effects on work habits. The data, from the workforce analytics and productivity-tracking software company ActivTrak, found that AI is making workloads more intense, not lightening them.
State of the Workforce
Tech workers' new obsession is watching bots do their grunt work. In Silicon Valley, tech pros and amateurs are competing to see how many tasks they can outsource to AI without things backfiring.
New York City considers a $30-an-hour minimum wage. The proposal is drawing cheers from working-class New Yorkers struggling to afford the city and sending chills through a business community confronting rising costs on other fronts.
Workers at a JBS beef plant launched the industry's largest strike in years, stifling production at a time when prices for the protein are at record highs. The strike also comes as meat companies are losing billions annually producing beef.
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