AI Trends
AI insights & industry trends
September 29, 2026 · 3 min read
AI Skills Demand Is Up 165% — And Employers Want Something Else Alongside It
If you wanted one number to capture how fast AI has moved from "nice to have" to "actively recruited for" in the US job market, it's this: job postings mentioning AI skills are up…
September 22, 2026 · 3 min read
The Data Is In: AI Adoption Is Genuinely Driving Hiring, Not Cutting It
One of the most persistent questions in tech right now is whether AI adoption inside a company translates into fewer jobs or more of them. A new academic study — covered by…
September 11, 2026 · 4 min read
Inside Cognizant's AI Hiring Surge: A $4.5 Trillion Wager on American Workers
While much of the AI-and-jobs conversation this year has centered on what artificial intelligence is taking away, Cognizant just made a very public case for the other side of the…
September 8, 2026 · 5 min read
The Jobs Apocalypse Got Postponed — And AI/ML Engineers Are the Reason Why
For two years, the dominant story about artificial intelligence and work has been one of dread: chatbots writing memos, agents closing tickets, whole categories of entry-level…
September 4, 2026 · 4 min read
The AI Talent Race Just Went Global — And Silicon Valley Isn't Winning It Alone Anymore
For decades, the shortest path to a top tech job ran through Silicon Valley. If you wanted the best AI talent, you built your office there, and eventually the talent came to you.…
September 1, 2026 · 4 min read
Meet the New $200K AI Job Nobody Saw Coming: The Workforce Strategist
For the past couple of years, the highest-paying AI jobs have gone to the people building the models — researchers, engineers, prompt specialists. Now a different kind of AI role…
August 28, 2026 · 4 min read
From a Boise Basement to a $10 Billion Research Campus: Micron's Big Homecoming
Nearly fifty years ago, Micron started as four people working out of a basement in Boise, Idaho. This week, the company that grew out of that basement announced a $10 billion bet…