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LinkedIn data shows AI isn’t to blame for hiring decline… yet

7:26 AM IST ¡ April 16, 2026

LinkedIn data shows AI isn’t to blame for hiring decline… yet

LinkedIn’sBlake Lawit,the chief global affairs and legal officer of the Microsoft-owned professional networking site, confirmed in an interview at theSemafor World Economysummit this week that the company’s data shows a decline in hiring of around 20% since 2022. However, he pushed back at the idea that AI was to blame. “At LinkedIn… we have an economic graph which is over a billion members. We’ve got companies, jobs, skills. It’s really an amazing real-time view of what’s happening in the labor market. And we’ve looked — because everyone wants to know the answer to this question: Is AI impacting jobs right now? We’ve looked and, honestly, we haven’t seen it,” he said during his interview. Instead, the executive suggested that the decline in hiring was more closely tied to a rise in interest rates. “We have not seen the sort of impacts that you would expect to see in areas that everyone is talking about AI… like industries, whether or not it’s customer support, or administrative, or marketing — all these places that if we were seeing impacts [from] AI that’s where it would be,” Lawit continued. “Yes, hiring’s down, but not down more,” he added. Lawit also noted that LinkedIn’s data didn’t indicate that the decline in hiring of college-aged young adults getting their first jobs was “down more,” either, when compared with people who were in the middle of or later in their careers. Still, he didn’t rule out that things could change. “Doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen in the future, but not yet.” On that point, however, Lawit had a warning of sorts. Lawit noted that over the last several years, the skills that are needed to do the average job have changed 25%. With the rise of AI, LinkedIn expects that figure to be 70% by 2030. “So, even if you’re not changing jobs, your job’s changing on you,” he said.

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AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says. But first, it will spend big.

AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says. But first, it will spend big.

Andy Jassy hasmade it knownthat he believes AWS can be a trillion-dollar revenue business. During Amazon’s quarterly earnings call on Thursday, he repeated this ambition. “What we’re building at Amazon is unlike anything that’s ever been seen before. There has never been a business with a trillion dollars of annual revenue,” he said. However, before the cloud business gets there, Amazon is going to have ramp up its capital expenditures to build out the infrastructure necessary to support that blossoming business. “We still expect 2026 cash capex of approximately $220 billion — the majority for AWS — and expect to spend meaningfully more in 2027, with a clear line of sight to attract its financial returns,” Jassy revealed on Thursday. Amazon’s big spending on its AI infrastructure buildout has beenan ongoing source of concern for investorsthis year. Indeed, during Thursday’s call, Wall Street analysts repeatedly asked Jassy to explain the spending, the signals that the growth really will come, and the profit margins expected. Jassy told them it was all money well spent because the e-commerce giant planned to capitalize on a historic moment in global cloud demand driven by AI. AWS revenue increased 39 percent from the year-ago quarter, a trend of steady growth for thesixth straight quarter. And the CEO forecast on the call that it would increase by 40% not just next year, but in 2028, too. “AWS is a $184 billion annualized revenue run-rate business, and yet the opportunity remains extraordinary,” the CEO enthused. “With our continued pace of innovation, new core and AI functionality, enterprises wanting to run their core and AI workloads in AWS, and the amount of capacity that we’re adding each year, we believe that AWS can grow north of 40 percent in each 2027 and in 2028, and be a trillion-dollar revenue business in the next five to 10 years.” Jassy added that the company was “in the very early days” of AI adoption by the enterprise and said that, so far, the “strategy is working.” Later, when questioned why the investment needed to grow AWS was so substantial, Jassy characterized the AI boom as a “once in a lifetime opportunity” that required, and was worth, such a big financial commitment now. “We’re going to invest to continue being the leader,” he said. “We can fund this plan, and I think it will forever change the size of Amazon. It will forever change our revenue.” Investors, however, remained concerned. Shares were down about 6% on Thursday in after-market trading. The AI boom has been a mixed blessing for the cloud industry, since the AI services that undergird the boom are supported by cloud infrastructure. Like Amazon, other cloud providers arespending bigbut also earning big. Microsoft, for instance,just postedyet more record-breaking revenue growth, driven largely by its cloud business. It, too,has spent a bundle.

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You don’t need to believe in a god to get a religious exemption from using AI at work

You don’t need to believe in a god to get a religious exemption from using AI at work

Pope Leo XIV has decried AI as a threat tohuman dignity, but it’s not just the devoutly faithful who might worry about how AI squares with their beliefs. David Durman, a nontheistic Humanist, recently secured areligious exemptionfrom using AI in the workplace. “Humanism is a collection of beliefs about the human experience and how humans interact with the world,” Durman, a University of Kentucky administrator, told TechCrunch. It centers on “human well-being and flourishing, both individually and collectively […] and implores a person to try to improve both their well-being and their flourishing as well as the others around them.” As he watched AI grow more popular in daily life, Durman sought out theAmerican Humanist Association(AHA) — a nonprofit advancing secular humanism — to investigate how he could gain legal protections against having to use AI at work. He believes that using the technology runs counter to his beliefs. “The way we become moral actors for ourselves and for others is through the active application of our minds, and the diminishing of that [through AI use] is going to necessarily have a negative impact on our ability to do so,” he said, reflecting on how overreliance on AI might affect critical thinking. In astatementpublished by the AHA earlier this week, Durman wrote, “AI is interfering with people’s ability to earn a living, the environmental costs spell disaster for humanity and our planet, and its supplanting and theft of human creativity threaten elements of our culture like art and literature that make society flourish.” Humanism is not anti-religious, but it tends to appeal to people who are skeptical of a god or other supernatural power yet still seek a scientific and moral framework to ground themselves in. “Concern about AI and human dignity can run through several different faiths and traditions, whether that’s Catholic teachings, or Universalism, or Humanism, and we want Humanists or nontheists to know that they fall into these categories — that they are also protected by the law at work,” Alexandria Huiskens, Staff Attorney at the AHA, told TechCrunch. Durman is the first Humanist to secure workplace accommodations that allow him to abstain from AI use, and one of the first people to publicly discuss their pursuit of these protections. He was inspired to seek them when he read thatErin Maus, a Unitarian Universalist and software engineer, was able to secure similar protections for herself. “For me, this was about me and my convictions,” Durman said. “I’m obviously not trying to tell people how to think or feel… But I do hope that it encourages people who have similar concerns to pursue not necessarily religious exemption, but pursue their concerns to the best of their ability where they feel is the most appropriate.” University of Kentucky spokesperson Jay Blanton told TechCrunch that the institution reviews requests for religious accommodations on an individual basis, considering the employee’s job responsibilities and the circumstances of the request. “In this case, the university determined that an accommodation could be provided while allowing the employee to continue performing the essential functions of their position,” Blanton said in a statement. “As technology and job responsibilities evolve, accommodations may be reviewed to ensure they remain reasonable and workable.” Maus’ situation is especially unusual, since it has become rare for software engineers to write code without any AI assistance. But in Durman’s administrative role, in which he supports researchers applying for grants, he has not been required to use AI at work. Like many workers across fields, some of his colleagues and leadership have recommended that employees try out these tools, so he sought to secure his exemption now, in case the suggestion becomes a mandate in the future. “I hope that if [others] have similar feelings, that they feel encouraged to pursue some kind of resolution,” Durman said.

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Meta quietly launches an AI fashion app called Style Sketch

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OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings acquires ADT

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LinkedIn data shows AI isn’t to blame for hiring decline… yet