Whenever I schedule an appointment during the school day, I feel guilty. I ask for their latest available appointment. If that doesn’t work, I pull up the school calendar. Then I start doing the ridiculous parent math: How long is the drive? What class will my child miss? Can I get them back before the
The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year, according to a report that the AI company published on Friday. Anthropic argues that its own workplace trends could be indicators of “how AI will shift work organization, hiring, and labor demand across the economy,” especially
Metrologists retire the leap second immediately, instead of by 2035. Credit: Alejandro Martinez Velez/Europa Press via Getty Time discrepancies that used to be adjusted by a jump of a second around once every 1.5 years will now wait until an hour needs correcting instead. Leap seconds serve to align time given by the sun’s position
Last week, a friend asked if I knew of any jobs for her recent graduate. Between his rigorous academic load, sports, and club activities that landed him in a prestigious university, he’d never held a job. “My fail,” she confessed. My kids have had jobs, but I have parenting fails of my own. I’m concerned
“What a night!” “I barely slept.” “I don’t even know what time I went to bed.” The same statements can have very different meanings in different stages of life. My friends and I used to worry about where everyone was at 2 a.m. Now, we worry about whether everyone’s baby has pooped that day. Laura-Kate
Remember when Anthropic’s AI jobs report suggested gardeners were among the safest workers because AI couldn’t pull weeds or tell a rose from a dandelion? I joked about that in AI Insider earlier this year. Well, Anthropic updated the research to freak us all out a bit more. This time it asks a bigger question:
