How an automating technology affects career dynamics, human capital, and welfare in an economy where workers acquire skill through the tasks they perform, from Hassan Afrouzi, Andres Blanco, Andrés Drenik, and Erik Hurst www.nber.org/papers/w35157

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

Economists aren’t sure if or when A.I. will cause widespread job losses. But if it does, would the federal safety net be ready for the fallout? Our chief economics correspondent, Ben Casselman, explains what to know. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...

„Makrofinanzieller Schock“ – #IWF warnt vor #Anthropic -KI #Mythos. www.handelsblatt.com/100223344.ht...

Anthropic, en difficulté pour satisfaire la demande de son modèle d’IA, loue le plus gros centre de données d’Elon Musk

First up: Ashima Singh & @minanrn.bsky.social—AI office + laws on deepfakes, AI companions, & high-risk uses. 👉 eto.tech/blog/agora-s...

⭐️ New: State AI Governance Blog Series We’re launching a @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social ETO AGORA-powered series on how U.S. states are shaping AI governance. States play a key role in how AI is built & deployed—and are testing policies that could scale nationwide.

Mehrere große Verlagshäuser klagen gegen Meta und Unternehmenschef Zuckerberg. Grund ist die angebliche Benutzung von urheberrechtlich geschützten Werken zum KI-Training.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The feeling of efficiency should be mistrusted,” Ezra Klein writes. “The people I know who have small armies of A.I. agents working on their behalf certainly feel more productive, but I have not noticed their work improving. In some cases, it has clearly declined.”

Ligue 1 : Lyon domine logiquement Rennes et fait une excellente opération dans la course au podium

Researchers evaluated how well an AI model could diagnose and make decisions about patient care in the ER.

How do AI agents influence knowledge work? @suproteem.cc's talk at the DEL Seminar Series is now available on YouTube! Moderated by @erikbryn.bsky.social, Sarkar discusses three projects on the Economics of Applied AI. Watch here: youtu.be/4_T4aTLWtwY

Leaving #work early may not just shrink your paycheck — it may speed up cognitive decline. This study finds that when men aged 51-64 lose their jobs due to local economic shocks, their cognitive test scores drop measurably in the years that follow. www.nber.org/papers/w35117

High youth unemployment; limited incentives to invest in education or health; rule by a powerful, unaccountable elite—this is current petrostate reality. It could also be our AI future.

Trump’s Iran war leaves US with sharpest fuel shock in G7 ft.trib.al/AQ3ORar

Hormuz disruption raises risk of global food shock, traders warn ft.trib.al/CLwvbw2

In our latest op-ed for Newsweek, @belongnomics.com and I argue that framing AI governance in opposition to innovation is an unproductive exercise. Instead, we should be asking what we are innovating for -- and for whom? www.newsweek.com/stop-asking-...

Stop asking whether to regulate AI. Start asking what it's for. New op-ed in Newsweek with @minanrn.bsky.social: innovation vs. regulation is the wrong frame. The real question is what we're innovating for — and for whom. www.newsweek.com/stop-asking-...

The 1850–1910 high school boom explains about one-third of rising female labor force participation. But gains bypassed Black children and favored richer families, widening racial and class gaps, from Alison Doxey, Ezra Karger, and Peter Nencka www.nber.org/papers/w35068

Anthropic’s Mythos AI model tests limits of global cyber defences ft.trib.al/EWnfrGT

Remember this the next time corporations whine about minimum wage increases.

EN DIRECT, élections en Hongrie : Péter Magyar, conservateur pro-européen, en passe de détroner Viktor Orban à la tête de la Hongrie

Utrecht University is hiring an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Social Data Science - great opportunity for scholars working at the intersection of advanced statistical methods and computational social science research. #AcademicJobs #ComputationalSocialScience uu.nl/en/organisation/worki...

Yesterday, the ProPublica Guild walked off the job in the first strike by a major U.S. newsroom over, at least in part, AI protections. I spoke with striking journalists and union leaders on the picket line in New York for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/prop...

Manufacturing will not help rebuild the middle class. If we act, services just might. inclusive-prosperity.simplecast.com/episodes/man...

For those who missed Zoë Hitzig's visit to our Seminar Series, it's now available on YouTube! Watch "How People Use ChatGPT," moderated by Director @erikbryn.bsky.social, here: youtu.be/czrKIiuHZ-U

Earnings expectations are too high ft.trib.al/Vw3BLv6 | opinion

The San Francisco-based start-up has surged following a push into more complex and potentially more lucrative AI services. Read the full story here: ft.trib.al/3tXT4bB

@centreeuropeanref.bsky.social is looking for a new director. Please see the #job description and details on how to apply below buff.ly/6LT2jsf Deadline for applications 22/05/26

Tech companies are cutting jobs and betting on AI. The payoff is far from guaranteed

Since A.I. coding tools from Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor and other companies took off last year, one result has now become apparent: code overload. Aided by these tools, tech workers are producing so much code so quickly that it has become too much to handle.

« Il y a urgence à agir » : le gouvernement veut cadrer l’usage de l’IA dans la fonction publique

Der FC Bayern gastiert am Dienstag zum Viertelfinal-Hinspiel der Champions League bei Real Madrid. Jetzt steht fest, welcher Schiedsrichter den Kracher leiten wird. Dieser traf schon einmal eine umstrittene Entscheidung zugunsten der Königlichen.

The foundation of tomorrow’s food supply is rapidly deteriorating.

Do international students make American graduates more or less entrepreneurial? Foreign students create startups at three to four times the rate of Americans but generate positive spillovers that significantly boosts American startup creation. Giovanni Peri shares more.

The response rate in the household survey last month was the lowest on record -- even worse than at the height of the pandemic. No inherent reason to think that biases the numbers in one direction or the other, but it obviously adds more noise.

In orbit, power is free. But everything else is expensive. n.pr/4coDyvK

Seemingly all of Silicon Valley is convinced that A.I. will bring on the end of work, or at the very least massive job losses. Economists have been skeptical, bordering on dismissive. But lately that has begun to change. Economists are starting to take A.I. seriously. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/b...

What if AI just makes us work harder? timharford.com/2026/04/what...

Avec sa nouvelle gamme électrique, BMW fait une leçon de « made in Europe »

A striking fact I learnt researching my book: For those in the bottom half, much of the real wage growth between 1979 and 2019 happened over just 7 "tight" years. For top wages, full employment wasn't a big deal. For bottom wages, it was the nearly the whole game.

Very excited to see The Wage Standard in The Next Big Idea Club's Must Read Books list!

How can climate justice inform policy design and global climate negotiations? A new CORE Insight from Benjamín Leiva, Edwin Castellanos, @drdebbieley.bsky.social, and Pascal Girot, explores this pressing question. Read it here: books.core-econ.org/insights/cli...

"The overall slowdown in national job postings...does not appear to be driven (even modestly) by AI."

Pro-AI group to spend $100mn on midterm elections as backlash grows ft.trib.al/BlWpaqa

Au Canada, le télétravail des fonctionnaires remis en question

🔚 FULLTIME 🇨🇭 Switzerland 3-4 Germany 🇩🇪 ▪️ Wirtz outshone everyone against Switzerland and led the German national team to victory in the opening match of the World Cup year. #SWIGER

💻 #GenerativeAI is already transforming the world of work today. Florian Englmaier, economist at #LMU: “It’s well worth learning how to use it at an early stage and, above all, in a structured way.” Used wisely it can ease routine tasks and strengthen collaboration. #LMUMuenchen #FutureOfWork

In spite of all the talk of Claude Code and Codex meaning the end of humans writing code, software job adverts are actually going up, according to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com's crunching of millions of job ads for this week's The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/7325...

Italiens Reise geht weiter! 💪 Neben den Italienern ziehen auch Polen, Dänemark und Kosovo ins Finale der WM-Qualifikation ein. Damit endet der Traum für die Ukraine, Albanien, Nordirland und die Slowakei. ℹ️ Die Partien Tschechien gegen Irland und Wales gegen Bosnien-Herzegowina gehen in die…