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Every entry here is a verified event tied to a specific occupation and task. This is the evidence engine's public face — not a news feed: an event only appears once someone has read the source and connected it to a task judgement.
968 verified records across 160 occupations. The stage label says how much an event can move an assessment; nothing here changes the impact index automatically.
What the stage labels mean
DeploymentAn employer has put it into production. Can move the baseline — weighted by scale and how similar the setting is.
ConstraintFailure, rollback, regulation or cost is suppressing adoption. Can lower an assessment or widen its uncertainty.
CapabilityA demo, benchmark or paper shows the task can be done. Updates what the technology can do — not what employers will do.
ForecastA named person with standing publicly predicted something, on a date, in an attributable statement. It is recorded so that who said what, and when, stays checkable — and it never moves a task's assessment, because a prediction is not an observation. Its value arrives later: the record sits on the same page as the evidence about that occupation, so anyone reading the forecast reads the record of what happened next beside it. That is the reckoning; this site publishes no verdict on whether a forecast came true.
PilotSmall-scale trial in a real setting. Tells us the deployment conditions are being tested, not that they hold — so one pilot is never enough on its own; two independent ones are.
Policy mandateRegulation, subsidy or public procurement is requiring or funding adoption — the mirror of a constraint. It shows adoption is being required, not that it has happened, so one mandate is never enough on its own; two independent ones are.
Labour impactVerifiable change in hiring, headcount, hours or job scope. Highest weight — but causal attribution still has to be argued, not assumed.
Worker adoptionMeasured, large-scale use of a tool for real work, where the decision to use it was the worker's rather than an employer's. It is more than a capability record — the work is real, not a demo — and less than a deployment record, because no employer put it into production, required it, or built a process around it. Weighted `cautious`: `automating` means the machine can do the task AND there are adoption signs, and this is an adoption sign — but usage can be experimental, and much of the measurement comes from a party with a stake, so one record is never enough and two independent ones are. Note who is counting. Vendor telemetry sees this directly and sells the tool, so such a record names that stake in its scope; a statistics agency asking firms whether their workers use AI in tasks sees the same channel with no stake at all, and that is the better source where it exists.
Rule not enactedA rule that would have constrained or required automation was formally proposed and did not come into force — vetoed, voted down, struck down, or allowed to lapse. It establishes something real and checkable about the legal environment: a guardrail many people assume exists does not. It never moves a task's assessment, because it says nothing about what employers can do or are doing.
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September 2026
Its next-generation Hadrian robot laid more than 285 blocks an hour in a factory test, while its Hadrian assets were fully impaired, robot maker FBR reported
Bears on:Laying brick and block walls
Scope: Australia and the United States. The robot maker's annual report says its next-generation unit achieved an effective lay rate exceeding 285 blocks per hour in a factory acceptance test in October 2025, and…
Read the full card → · Source: FBR Ltd — Annual Report 2026 (lodged with the ASX on 30 September 2026) · Verified 2026-10-01
Management guided by the hypotension prediction algorithm was not superior to treating whenever mean arterial pressure fell to 73 mmHg or below, a two-centre trial found
Bears on:Watching the patient and responding to deterioration
Scope: An open-label randomised trial at two centres with 100 adults having major noncardiac surgery. Treatment triggered by the prediction algorithm was compared with treatment triggered at a mean arterial pressure…
Building permits will be reviewed on BIM data itself from spring 2029, with AI and programs assisting the review, Japan's construction ministry said in a basic plan
Bears on:Building and maintaining modelsChecking drawings against codes and standards
Scope: Japan. The ministry adopted a basic plan for introducing BIM data review, scheduled for spring 2029, in which BIM data itself is used for building confirmation and inspection. It says view-based review and…
Read the full card → · Source: 国土交通省 — 報道発表資料: 建築BIMデータを用いた審査開始に向け基本構想をとりまとめました(令和8年9月18日) · Verified 2026-10-01
Federal courts have been cautioned not to delegate core judicial functions, including decision-making, to AI, the US Judicial Conference was told in September 2026
Bears on:Deciding the case
Scope: United States, federal courts. The judiciary's news release on a Judicial Conference meeting says that, under interim guidance from its AI task force, courts have been cautioned not to delegate core judicial…
The FDA's 2026 Food Code, a model code widely adopted by US states and localities, requires a certified person in charge to be present in the food establishment during all hours of operation
Bears on:Running the team
Scope: The federal model food code for restaurants and food service. It says the permit holder shall be or designate a person in charge and shall ensure that a person in charge is present at the food establishment…
Read the full card → · Source: US Food and Drug Administration — Food Code 2026 (issued September 17, 2026), §§ 2-101.11, 2-102.12 and 2-103.11 · Verified 2026-09-28
Swansea Bay health board: AI coding pilots exceed 75% agreement on some elements, but complex episodes still need significant coder review and auto-coding cannot yet replace coders
Bears on:Coding short, routine chartsCoding complex inpatient stays
Scope: One Welsh health board's paper to its own committee, written for assurance while the board is failing the Welsh Government standard of coding 95% of inpatient and day-case episodes within a month of discharge.…
GitHub reported that one developer, working with its Copilot agents, moved the Copilot runtime to 832,378 lines of Rust, and that 31.0% of the developer's 2,639 messages went to review, testing and CI
Bears on:Reviewing what the machine wroteDeciding what shipsOwning the agents that write and change code
Scope: GitHub's own engineering account of moving the runtime behind Copilot CLI and the Copilot SDK from TypeScript to Rust: 832,378 lines of production Rust and 468,689 lines of Rust unit tests, done primarily by a…
Grounds maintenance employment will grow 5 percent from 2025 to 2035, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, without mentioning robots
Bears on:Planting and building landscapes
Scope: United States. The statistics bureau projects employment of grounds maintenance workers to grow 5 percent from 2025 to 2035, faster than the average for all occupations, with about 162,500 openings a year;…
Actor employment will show little or no change from 2025 to 2035, and AI may replace some actors in certain subfields, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated
Bears on:Principal screen performanceStage and live performance
Scope: United States. The statistics bureau projects that employment of actors will show little or no change from 2025 to 2035, at 67,500, with about 6,300 openings a year. It says the television and film industry is…
Read the full card → · Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Occupational Outlook Handbook: Actors (Last modified date: September 14, 2026) · Verified 2026-09-30
OpenAI's chief executive posted that he agrees the frontier needs pacing and that OpenAI will also give independent evaluators employee-like access
Bears on:Stopping it
Scope: A statement, not a measurement, and an agreement to a proposal rather than an account of anything done. What it establishes is a fact about a statement: on this date the person running this laboratory publicly…
Read the full card → · Source: Sam Altman (@sama) on X, replying to Dario Amodei · Verified 2026-09-13
Anthropic's chief executive posted that the AI industry should slow down, and committed his own company to giving third-party evaluators permanent, employee-level access to its systems
Bears on:Stopping it
Scope: A statement, not a measurement — and a commitment rather than a prediction, which is why it sits in a stage that changes nothing on this page. What it establishes is a fact about a statement: on this date, the…
Read the full card → · Source: Dario Amodei (@DarioAmodei) on X — "We Must Pace the Frontier" · Verified 2026-09-13
OpenAI published a data-agent template whose own instructions require the metric definitions, trusted queries and corrections to be supplied by the team using it
Bears on:Writing queries and building dashboardsKnowing when the data is lyingOwning the definitions the tools rely on
Scope: A vendor walkthrough and reference implementation, not a report of use at any company — no employer is named as running it. Recorded as capability, which on this site never moves an assessment. What each task…
Read the full card → · Source: OpenAI Developers — Cookbook: Build a data analyst with the Agents API · Verified 2026-09-22
2026-09-10OpenAI launched a financial-services product for research, modelling and client materials, shaped by design partnerships with Morgan Stanley and EvercoreFinancial analyst
2026-09-09Pearson launched an AI assistant in its Q-global and Q-interactive platforms that drafts sections of psychological evaluation reports, saying clinicians stay fully responsiblePsychologist
2026-09-06OpenAI's chief scientist wrote that he expects the current pace to be sustained into recursive self-improvement, and that systems will increasingly drive their own developmentAI researcher
2026-09-06OpenAI published that its research organisation reached 3.1 agent-workdays for every workday of human labour, while high-level planning stayed a minimal share of agent outputAI researcher
2026-09-04FDA's AI-enabled device list reaches 1,614 authorisations, 1,230 of them radiologyRadiologist
August 2026
2026-08-31Wall panels with windows and doors fitted are assembled by 14 robots in a South Australian factory, with a state housing project first in line, Renewal SA saidCarpenter / joiner
2026-08-31In Australia, 43.5% of surveyed mental health clinicians reported daily AI use for administrative or clinician-support tasks, and 33.1% for client-facing tasks, a study foundPsychologist
2026-08-28Japan's Financial Services Agency tightened rules for agencies selling several insurers' policies: they must explain the comparable policies selected and give concrete reasons for a recommendationInsurance agent
2026-08-27Dental assistant employment will grow 7% from 2025 to 2035 as demand for preventive care rises and dentists hire assistants for routine tasks, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedDental assistant / dental nurse
2026-08-27Economist employment will grow 5% from 2025 to 2035 as firms apply big-data analysis to pricing, though budgets may limit it, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedEconomist
2026-08-27Phlebotomist employment will grow 7% from 2025 to 2035 as an ageing population needs more blood tests, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedPhlebotomist
2026-08-27Occupational therapist employment will grow 15% from 2025 to 2035 as the older adult population grows, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedOccupational therapist
2026-08-27Speech-language pathologist employment will grow 17% from 2025 to 2035 as the population ages and awareness of children's speech disorders rises, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedSpeech-language pathologist / speech and language therapist
2026-08-27CNC tool operator jobs will fall 9% and CNC programmer jobs grow 6% from 2025 to 2035, as CNC equipment needs programmers, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedMachinist / CNC machinist
2026-08-27Machinist employment will grow 1% from 2025 to 2035, limited as CNC machine tools and autoloaders make machinists more efficient, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedMachinist / CNC machinist
2026-08-27Public safety telecommunicator employment will grow 4% from 2025 to 2035 with population and 911 call volume, though budgets may limit hiring, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedEmergency dispatcher
2026-08-27Respiratory therapist employment will grow 9% from 2025 to 2035 as an ageing population brings more respiratory conditions, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedRespiratory therapist
2026-08-27Construction and building inspector employment will not change from 2025 to 2035, as remote inspections reduce the need for government inspectors, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedBuilding inspector
2026-08-27Fundraiser employment, which includes grant writers, will grow 6 percent from 2025 to 2035, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, without mentioning AIGrant writer / grants officer
2026-08-27Statistician employment will grow 11 percent from 2025 to 2035 with wider use of statistical analysis, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, without mentioning AIStatistician
2026-08-27Surveyor employment will grow 6 percent from 2025 to 2035, and surveyors will still be needed to review what drones produce, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedLand surveyor
2026-08-27Carpenter employment will grow 4 percent from 2025 to 2035, while modular and prefabricated components reduce the need for carpenters, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedCarpenter / joiner
2026-08-27Mechanical drafter jobs will fall 6% and electrical drafter jobs 3% from 2025 to 2035 as CAD and BIM let engineers do the drafting, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedDrafter / CAD technician
2026-08-27Property appraiser and assessor employment will grow 3 percent from 2025 to 2035, with productivity raised by automated valuation models, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedProperty appraiser / valuer
2026-08-27Urban and regional planner employment will grow 4 percent from 2025 to 2035, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, without mentioning AIUrban planner
2026-08-27Brickmason and blockmason employment will grow 1 percent from 2025 to 2035, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, citing offsite prefabricated panels as a limit on demandBricklayer / blocklayer
2026-08-27Massage therapist employment will grow 15 percent from 2025 to 2035, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, without mentioning robotsMassage therapist
2026-08-27Payroll and timekeeping clerk jobs will fall 16 percent from 2025 to 2035 as productivity-enhancing technology limits demand, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedPayroll specialist / payroll clerk
2026-08-27EMT and paramedic employment will grow 6 percent from 2025 to 2035, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, without mentioning AIParamedic / EMT
2026-08-27Bartender employment will grow 5 percent from 2025 to 2035, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, without mentioning automationBartender / barista
2026-08-27Employment of barbers, hairstylists and cosmetologists will grow 7 percent from 2025 to 2035, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, without mentioning AIHairdresser / barber
2026-08-27Optometrist employment will grow 10 percent from 2025 to 2035, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, without mentioning AIOptometrist
2026-08-27Computer hardware engineer employment will grow 9 percent from 2025 to 2035, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, without mentioning AIChip design engineer
2026-08-27Mapping technicians will still be needed to review the output of drones and other technologies, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, projecting 6 percent growth to 2035GIS analyst / cartographer
2026-08-27Cartographer and photogrammetrist employment will grow 7 percent from 2025 to 2035, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, without mentioning AIGIS analyst / cartographer
2026-08-27Employment of judges and hearing officers will grow 2 percent from 2025 to 2035, limited by public budgets, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, without mentioning AIJudge / magistrate
2026-08-27HVAC and refrigeration technician employment will grow 11 percent from 2025 to 2035, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, without mentioning AIHVAC technician
2026-08-27Dental hygienist employment will grow 8 percent from 2025 to 2035, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, without mentioning AIDental hygienist
2026-08-27Travel agent employment will show little or no change from 2025 to 2035, and AI tools that let travellers book their own trips may limit demand, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedTravel agent / travel advisor
2026-08-27Fashion designer employment will show little or no change from 2025 to 2035, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, without mentioning AIFashion designer
2026-08-27Dietitian and nutritionist employment will grow 8 percent from 2025 to 2035, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, citing interest in food for preventive care and not mentioning AIDietitian / nutritionist
2026-08-27Psychologist employment will grow 6 percent from 2025 to 2035, and clinical and counseling psychologists 12 percent, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, without mentioning AIPsychologist
2026-08-27Proofreader and copy marker employment will hold at about 8,500 from 2025 to 2035, a change of −0.9 percent, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedEditor and proofreader
2026-08-27Editor employment will decline 1 percent from 2025 to 2035 as print newspapers and magazines lose ground, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, without mentioning AIEditor and proofreader
2026-08-27Model employment will decline 2 percent from 2025 to 2035, as AI that lets companies reuse images of products and models may limit demand, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedActor and model
2026-08-27Writer and author employment will show little or no change from 2025 to 2035, with increasing use of AI for writing expected to dampen demand, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedWriter and author
2026-08-27Composers will be needed for film scores and music for television and commercials as their jobs grow 1 percent to 2035, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedMusician and composer
2026-08-27Musician and singer employment will show little or no change from 2025 to 2035, with live music supporting demand, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, naming no AI effectMusician and composer
2026-08-27Interpreter and translator jobs will grow 2 percent from 2025 to 2035, with sign-language demand rising with video relay services, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedInterpreter
2026-08-27Court reporter jobs will see little or no change from 2025 to 2035, while AI transcription is expected to dampen captioner demand, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedCourt reporter
2026-08-27Data entry keyer employment will fall 25.5 percent from 2025 to 2035, from 131,800 to 98,200, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated, without giving a causeData entry clerk
2026-08-27Special effects artists and animators will see little or no job change from 2025 to 2035, though AI may dampen demand, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedAnimator and VFX artist
2026-08-27Fine artists including illustrators will decline 3 percent from 2025 to 2035, as AI-generated illustrations may compete with illustrators, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedIllustrator
2026-08-27Postsecondary teacher employment will grow 7 percent from 2025 to 2035, much faster than average, with about 103,300 openings a year, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedUniversity lecturer
2026-08-27Photographer employment will decline 1 percent from 2025 to 2035, with stock photos partly replaced by AI-generated images, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedPhotographer
2026-08-27Industrial engineering employment will grow 12 percent from 2025 to 2035, partly on demand for automation expertise, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedIndustrial engineer
2026-08-27Computer network architect employment will grow 8 percent from 2025 to 2035 as companies upgrade infrastructure for AI, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedNetwork engineer
2026-08-27Network and systems administrator jobs will decline 4 percent from 2025 to 2035 as tasks move to DevOps, outsourcing and automation, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedNetwork engineer
2026-08-27Network troubleshooting agents falsely diagnosed up to 24% of healthy networks when handed wrong tickets, and ticket wording shifted accuracy by up to 14.5 pointsNetwork engineer
2026-08-27Logistician employment will grow 18 percent from 2025 to 2035, much faster than average, with about 26,600 openings a year, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedSupply chain planner
2026-08-27Aircraft and avionics mechanic and technician employment will grow 6 percent from 2025 to 2035, with about 13,100 openings a year, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedAircraft maintenance technician
2026-08-27Computer systems analyst jobs, which include IT business analysts, will grow 8 percent from 2025 to 2035 as IT and AI expand, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedBusiness analyst
2026-08-27Management analyst employment, which O*NET files business analysts under, will grow 10 percent from 2025 to 2035, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedBusiness analyst
2026-08-27Pharmacy technician employment will grow 6 percent from 2025 to 2035, with technicians taking on tasks previously done by pharmacists, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedPharmacy technician
2026-08-27Mechanical engineering employment will grow 11 percent from 2025 to 2035, much faster than average, as factories add automation, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedMechanical engineer
2026-08-27Electrical and electronics engineering jobs will grow 8 percent from 2025 to 2035, faster than average, with about 16,300 openings a year, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedElectrical engineer
2026-08-27Data scientist employment will grow 35 percent from 2025 to 2035, much faster than average, with about 24,800 openings a year, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimatedData scientist
2026-08-27Cisco began rolling out MyAgent, an agent that executes multi-step work across Outlook, Webex, Jira and SharePoint, to all 90,000 of its employeesAdministrative assistant
2026-08-26AI agents now construct the itinerary alongside the consultant, and sales per consultant are up about 30% since 2023, Flight Centre told investors in 2026Travel agent / travel advisor
2026-08-26Interviews with 31 technical writers found documentation relies on engineers' technical review and outsiders testing it end to end, and 25 found LLM review feedback unreliableTechnical writer / documentation engineer
2026-08-19An autonomous, ultrasound-guided blood-drawing robot was authorised for adult outpatients, monitored by a trained phlebotomist who may supervise up to three devices, the US FDA decidedPhlebotomist
2026-08-19A plain blood-pressure alarm at 72 mmHg was non-inferior to the hypotension prediction algorithm in preventing low blood pressure during surgery, a blinded 143-patient trial foundAnaesthesiologist / anaesthetist
2026-08-19A robotic device that draws blood from the arm without hands-on operator intervention was authorised, to be run under a trained phlebotomist overseeing up to three at onceMedical assistant / clinic assistant
2026-08-18Police 101 non-emergency calls will be sorted by AI that sends non-police issues to other agencies, after pilots in 15 forces; the 999 system has not changed, the Home Office saidEmergency dispatcher
2026-08-18OpenAI paused two weeks of reinforcement learning on its latest deployment-intended models after agents compromised its research infrastructure, and says its largest frontier RL runs remain pausedAI researcher
2026-08-16Third-party data put Waymo at about 15% of ride-hailing gross bookings inside its zones in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix, with the effect on drivers showing up in hours rather than in layoffsRide-hail / taxi driver
2026-08-13Among 26 participants, manual building mapping was faster and more accurate overall than an AI-assisted editor, which most often merged buildings, researchers foundGIS analyst / cartographer
2026-08-13Machine-made building footprints meet or exceed hand-drawn quality but vary by place and should never be imported without checking local quality, Microsoft saysGIS analyst / cartographer
2026-08-13Unilever says its forecast engine produces a 104-week forecast every week across more than 5 million product–customer combinations, while its people make the final decisionsSupply chain planner
2026-08-12Representatives sold about 97% of Singapore's new individual life and health premium in the first half of 2026; policies bought online directly from insurers were 1.0%, down from 1.5%Insurance agent
2026-08-12Employment of 22-25-year-olds in the two most AI-exposed occupation quintiles fell about 11% from November 2022 to June 2026, while the least-exposed quintiles grew about 10%Sales / account manager
2026-08-12Employment of 22-25-year-olds in the two most AI-exposed occupation quintiles fell about 11% from November 2022 to June 2026, while the least-exposed quintiles grew about 10%Accountant / Bookkeeper
2026-08-12Employment of 22-25-year-olds in the two most AI-exposed occupation quintiles fell about 11% from November 2022 to June 2026, while the least-exposed quintiles grew about 10%Customer service representative
2026-08-12Employment of 22-25-year-olds in the two most AI-exposed occupation quintiles fell about 11% from November 2022 to June 2026, while the least-exposed quintiles grew about 10%Junior software developer
2026-08-11Language-model use in US federal research proposals rose sharply from 2023 and splits into minimal and substantive use, a PNAS study of confidential and public proposals foundGrant writer / grants officer
2026-08-11Google Translate's voice mode had linguistic or clinical errors in 33.3% of real clinic speech segments against 4.8% for qualified medical interpreters, a study foundInterpreter
2026-08-05AI agents for employees, managers and payroll practitioners are accessible to nearly all of its more than 1.1 million clients, the payroll provider ADP told investorsPayroll specialist / payroll clerk
2026-08-04Applicants for eligible residential projects must run an AI pre-application check from 1 September 2026, which does not replace official plan review, Honolulu's permit department saidBuilding inspector
2026-08-04Applicants for eligible residential projects must use an AI pre-application check from 1 September 2026, Honolulu's planning department saidUrban planner
2026-08-03Measuring buttress-thread pitch diameter with a touch-trigger probe on the CNC machine stayed within manufacturing tolerance in a production environment, a 2026 study foundMachinist / CNC machinist
2026-08-03PJM, the largest US grid operator, began using an AI tool to review interconnection application data in its reformed process, and says it will evaluate the tool's impactElectrical engineer
2026-08-03FDA guidance says instructions for use are judged by how representative users perform with the device, and that fixing a use problem by rewriting the instructions needs new test dataTechnical writer / documentation engineer
2026-08-03Two MS&AD insurers put a tool into claims payment that flags claim photos likely made or altered with generative AI, as reference for handlers who keep the final decisionInsurance claims handler
2026-08-02From 2 August 2026 the EU AI Act requires that a system meant to talk to people tells them it is an AI, and that synthetic output is machine-readably markedProduct manager
2026-08-01Coding associations' 2026 query standard: AI-generated queries to doctors must meet every compliance element, and humans remain responsible for ensuring queries are compliantMedical coder
2026-08-01US office administrative services employment rose 5.6% from November 2022 to 639,100 in August 2026, the highest point in the seriesReceptionist / front desk
2026-08-01US outpatient care centre employment rose 14.2% from November 2022 to 1,194,100 in August 2026, close to its series highMedical assistant / clinic assistant
2026-08-01US employment in offices of other health practitioners rose 21.1% from November 2022 to 1,355,200 in August 2026, its series highPhysiotherapist / rehabilitation therapist
2026-08-01US medical and diagnostic laboratory employment was 310,200 in August 2026 — below its March 2022 peak but still about 8% above its pre-pandemic levelMedical laboratory technician
2026-08-01US home health care employment rose 21.5% from November 2022 to 1,896,400 in August 2026, the highest point in the seriesCare worker / nursing assistant
2026-08-01US computer systems design employment peaked at 2,483,500 in March 2023 and has fallen about 5% since, to 2,362,700 in August 2026IT support specialist / helpdesk
2026-08-01US retail trade employment was 15,488,200 in August 2026, slightly below its November 2022 level and still below its January 2019 highRetail salesperson / shop assistant
2026-08-01US construction employment rose from 7,863,000 in November 2022 to 8,359,000 in August 2026, and the high point of the series is the latest monthConstruction worker
2026-08-01US investigation and security services employment rose 6% from November 2022, peaked at 1,049,800 in October 2025 and has been flat to slightly lower sinceSecurity guard
2026-08-01US employment in services to buildings rose from 2,215,800 in November 2022 to 2,307,100 in August 2026, within 0.5% of the series highCleaner / janitor
2026-08-01US employment in physicians' offices rose from 2,852,100 in November 2022 to 3,061,500 in August 2026, its highest point in the seriesGeneral practitioner / primary care doctor
2026-08-01US credit intermediation employment peaked in March 2021 — twenty months before ChatGPT — and has fallen about 5% since November 2022 to 2,528,300Loan officer / credit officer
July 2026
2026-07-31US electrical contractors' employment rose from 1,039,500 in November 2022 to 1,157,100 in July 2026 (preliminary), the highest in the series since 2016Electrician
2026-07-31Writing roles fell from about one in six of UK agency job postings to about one in thirty by July 2026, while overall agency postings rose 24 percentCopywriter
2026-07-30Analysing consultation responses fell from about 18.5 hours to about 16 minutes in a first trial of an AI tool, with gains of around 90% across five more councils, the ministry reportedUrban planner
2026-07-30Uber says its AI mobile-testing system runs 1,013 end-to-end tests continuously in CI and has turned its test engineers from "clickers" into people who build its contextSoftware tester / QA engineer
2026-07-29Australia's privacy regulator updated its facial recognition guidance for retail settings on 29 July 2026 to reflect the Administrative Review Tribunal's Bunnings decision of 4 February 2026Retail cashier / shop assistant
2026-07-28HMRC is sending about 1.8 million automatically generated Simple Assessment tax bills built from employer, DWP and bank data, and tells recipients to check the figuresTax preparer / tax agent
2026-07-28Equinox removed an AI-generated poster from its 2026 'Question Everything But Yourself' campaign and apologised, after months of criticism that the image was dehumanisingGraphic designer
2026-07-24A New York school district paused an approved 60,000 dollar humanoid teaching robot after state officials, the teachers union and parents objectedSchool teacher
2026-07-23Model-based CORENET X submissions become mandatory from October 2026 for new projects of 5,000 m² or more, after over 140 projects by 300 firms used it, Singapore's regulators saidDrafter / CAD technician
2026-07-23Singapore reported more than 140 projects by 300 firms had submitted through CORENET X, and narrowed its October 2026 mandate to projects of 5,000 m² and aboveCivil / structural engineer
2026-07-21Fully AI-generated tracks passed 50% of new uploads at their June peak, nearly 90,000 a day, yet drew only 1–3% of streams, Deezer reportedMusician and composer
2026-07-21Korea's AI framework act requires operators of high-impact AI to write and retain documents evidencing their safety measures, and to run a plan for explaining the system's criteria and training dataTechnical writer / documentation engineer
2026-07-21Korea's AI framework act requires operators above a compute threshold to run a risk-management system and submit their implementation results to the ministryCompliance officer
2026-07-21Korea's AI Framework Act places the use of AI medical devices inside high-impact AI, obliging the user to keep it under human management and supervision and to be able to explain its outputRadiologist
2026-07-21Korea's AI Framework Act, in force in its amended form from 21 July 2026, classifies AI used for public-service eligibility decisions as high-impact and requires human management and supervision of itGovernment service clerk
2026-07-20A $1.5 billion settlement paying about $3,000 per work was finally approved in Bartz v. Anthropic, with 440,490 of 482,460 listed works claimedWriter and author
2026-07-20On Beaver, a text-to-SQL benchmark built from real corporate warehouse query logs, a plain LLM scored zero and an agentic setup reached about 10%, against 80-90%+ on the public benchmarksData analyst
2026-07-16Roughly 300 of Netflix's 2026 titles used generative AI workflows, concentrated in post-production, including crowds and battle sequences, the company told shareholdersAnimator and VFX artist
2026-07-16Japan's IT promotion agency surveyed 1,799 companies and reported generative AI in use in 31.3% of procurement departments against 71.9% of IT departmentsProcurement / supply chain specialist
2026-07-16Netflix told shareholders GenAI workflows had been used in roughly 300 of its 2026 titles, with the largest concentration of the work in post-productionVideo editor
2026-07-15A spectacles prescription cannot be issued until every statutory part of the sight test is complete, the UK's optical regulator proposes in a consultation that also covers teleoptometryOptometrist
2026-07-10Applications for commercial electrical apprenticeships rose more than 70% between 2022 and 2024 on the back of the data-centre buildout, while completion runs near 45%Electrician
2026-07-07In a study with ten intrusion-detection experts, large models wrote network rules up to 90% syntactically valid, but the experts judged only 37.5% semantically correct and deployableSecurity analyst (SOC)
2026-07-02Singapore's social ministry set aside S$15 million over three years to incubate and pilot new technology in social servicesSocial worker
2026-07-02China's labour ministry put 12 further new occupations out for comment, among them 'embodied-AI robot application technician'Assembly line worker
2026-07-01New South Wales requires every electrical compliance certificate to be submitted through the regulator's eCert portal from 1 July 2026, directly from connected job softwareElectrician
2026-07-01Singapore's Building Control Act, as amended from July 2026, requires a qualified person's signed certificate with every plan and lets major works be approved on an accredited checker's certificateCivil / structural engineer
2026-07-01US restaurant employment rose from 10,853,600 in November 2022 to a series peak of 11,226,500 in May 2026, and was 11,137,500 in JulyWaiter / restaurant server
2026-07-01US automotive repair employment rose from 992,600 in November 2022 to a peak of 1,042,800 in February 2026 and was 1,034,700 in JulyAuto mechanic / vehicle technician
2026-07-01US management consulting employment rose from 1,515,700 in November 2022 to 1,573,800 in July 2026, and the high point of the series is the latest monthManagement consultant
2026-07-01US employment placement agency staffing peaked at 280,200 in September 2022 and was 245,000 in July 2026, a fall of 12.6%HR / recruiter
2026-07-01US long-distance truckload trucking employment peaked at 553,600 in August 2022, three months before ChatGPT, and was 501,400 in July 2026Truck driver
2026-07-01US architectural services employment was 203,900 in November 2022 and 204,200 in July 2026, never leaving a 201,100–207,500 band in betweenArchitect
June 2026
2026-06-3071.0% of French visual effects studios that use AI apply it to rotoscoping and compositing assistance, and 74.2% to set extension, a state survey of studios foundAnimator and VFX artist
2026-06-3083.6% of registered adult social care locations in England have digital care records, covering 91.9% of people receiving care, as of June 2026Care worker / nursing assistant
2026-06-30Pagaya tells shareholders it has cut the time to onboard lending partners by 2-3x because every new partner now joins through pre-built product integrationsPartnerships / channel manager
2026-06-30Bending Spoons tells investors its product managers gather user research and support feedback partly through AI tools that summarise and categorise it, and warns those inputs may misleadProduct manager
2026-06-30TikTok's statutory DSA report for H1 2026 says human moderators feed corrections back into its moderation models, while technology handles clear-cut cases and people take new or complex onesContent moderator
2026-06-30CVS Group, a UK veterinary group, piloted AI scribes for consultation notes in five referral hospitals and then extended them to 77 of its first-opinion practicesVeterinarian
2026-06-30TikTok reported that automated systems actioned 94.1 percent of the violating content it removed in the European Union, without human reviewContent moderator
2026-06-30C.H. Robinson's Q2 2026 10-Q shows average headcount down from 12,858 to 11,471 while revenue rose 19%, naming automation and AI to cut manual processes as the restructuring initiativeOperations coordinator
2026-06-30Honolulu reported permit decisions on its AI plan-check software averaging 32.5 days against 73, and corrections falling from 23.5 to 7.7 per applicationArchitect
2026-06-26Anthropic's usage telemetry: the median agentic session that produces a blog post contains one human prompt, against 13 turns in chatCopywriter
2026-06-25AI use in official statistics remains focused mainly on research, testing and administrative support rather than routine statistical production, Britain's statistics regulator saidStatistician
2026-06-25The UK statistics regulator says producers using AI to produce or communicate official statistics should apply the Code of Practice as for any method, with human oversight and clear accountabilityData analyst
2026-06-24Verizon's closed-loop automation executed over 70 million network configuration changes autonomously in 2025, its chief technology officer wroteNetwork engineer
2026-06-24Walmart's planners use weather simulations to see how a storm could affect inventory, routes and deliveries, and reposition stock before it hitsSupply chain planner
2026-06-24US DOT inspector general: FAA raised pay for controller on-the-job instructors, lifting instruction costs 160% while training hours rose under 20%; tower simulators upgraded at 90 of 95 sitesAir traffic controller
2026-06-24The IRS regulator of tax practitioners, who include CPAs, says AI-created returns and documents must be thoroughly reviewed before they reach clients or the IRSAccountant / Bookkeeper
2026-06-24The IRS Office of Professional Responsibility says tax practitioners must thoroughly review AI-created documents before they reach clients or the IRS, and cannot rely solely on AITax preparer / tax agent
2026-06-23ICT construction became the default on earthworks, used on more than 90 percent of national tenders and cutting survey-stake work, Japan's construction ministry reportedLand surveyor
2026-06-18The UK's National Cyber Security Centre advises developers to move towards writing code by hand when building authentication or authorisation logic with AI assistanceBackend developer
2026-06-17An AI permit pre-screening tool's completeness checks were 87% accurate and code checks 92%, but it missed corrections reviewers would find, Seattle's test foundBuilding inspector
2026-06-17An AI tool that turns old planning documents into map data was made available to every council in England, with 50 already using it, the housing ministry saidUrban planner
2026-06-16An AI prototype that triages householder planning applications and gives officers an initial assessment is being tested by three councils, the UK government saidUrban planner
2026-06-10Airbus describes its Vision Landing, DragonFly and Optimate cockpit-automation research as still in the research phase and "far from commercial certification"Airline pilot
2026-06-09PepsiCo signed a multi-year agreement with Gatik to run autonomous freight in its North America supply chain, already operating across Texas, Arizona and ArkansasTruck driver
2026-06-04Amazon's touch-sensing robot Vulcan moved from Spokane to handling more complex picking at its Hamburg fulfilment centre, alongside a €10bn European investment and 25,000 planned fulfilment hiresWarehouse worker
2026-06-03A chatbot to help developers and architects navigate development control guidelines will be offered to industry after an internal pilot, Singapore's planning authority saidUrban planner
2026-06-03Colorado's HB 26-1195 lets therapists use AI for records including therapy notes, but bars using it to record or transcribe a session without the client's advance written consentCounsellor / psychotherapist
2026-06-02Factory precutting reached 94 percent of post-and-beam timber houses in 2024, Japan's Forestry Agency reported in its white paperCarpenter / joiner
May 2026
2026-05-29Multimodal AI models remain brittle on mechanical engineering drawings and miss decisive cues, a 2026 drawing-understanding benchmark foundDrafter / CAD technician
2026-05-28Two Google engineers described the agents their own SRE organisation runs in incident response: alert grouping, handoff documents, postmortem drafts, and in some cases autonomous mitigationDevOps engineer / platform engineer / SRE
2026-05-28Salesforce's CEO said its roughly 15,000 engineers had been flat for two years because of AI, while headcount grew mostly in salesSales / account manager
2026-05-27A principle strongly favoring human performances is written into the 2026 US actors' union agreement, with prior written notice before a synthetic performer takes a human roleActor and model
2026-05-26US diagnostic radiology training posts rose from 997 to 1,083 across five Matches, filling at 98% or above throughoutRadiologist
2026-05-22In a prospective study across three NHS centres, AI second reads changed the diagnosis or grade for 5.4% of prostate biopsy patients and cut cases needing extra stainsPathologist
2026-05-22Singapore's Second Minister for Home Affairs said the police cannot hire its way out of a shortage and described AI deployed from report lodging onwardPolice officer
2026-05-22Singapore's police began drone patrols from eight pods and put an AI report-lodging assistant into its division headquarters and neighbourhood centresPolice officer
2026-05-22Glasgow's transport authority reported that Unite members accepted revised terms on 22 May 2026, and recorded that station staff numbers will increase as the Subway moves to unattended train operationMetro train driver
2026-05-21Spotify says more than 20,000 audio ads have been generated by over 7,000 advertisers with its free generative-AI tool that writes scripts and produces the voiceoverVoice actor
2026-05-21Japan's Medical Practitioners Act forbids a physician from treating a patient or issuing a prescription without personally examining them, and makes doing so a criminal offenceGeneral practitioner / primary care doctor
2026-05-20Using AI to create product designs may bring third-party IP claims or leave designs unprotectable, VF Corporation warned investors in its 2026 annual reportFashion designer
2026-05-19NICE says more research is needed before the NHS funds AI-assisted echocardiography analysis and reporting, noting checking the AI's findings can lengthen proceduresSonographer
2026-05-18An AI concierge that answers salon calls and messages and books, reschedules and cancels appointments in real time was launched by the booking platform FreshaHairdresser / barber
2026-05-18On BacktestBench, the best of 23 language models reached 67.41% overall accuracy, and volatility and Sharpe ratio remained 'disaster zones' for all of themQuantitative analyst
2026-05-18Baidu said Apollo Go delivered 3.2 million fully driverless rides in Q1 2026, with weekly rides peaking above 350,000 in March and total rides up over 120% year over yearRide-hail / taxi driver
2026-05-15Figma reported paid customers up 54% year on year to about 690,000 and new Pro team conversions up more than 150%, attributing seat expansion to adoption of its AI productsProduct / UX designer
2026-05-14Colorado's SB26-189 gives a person the right to meaningful human review after an automated consequential decision goes against them, with a plain-language explanation due within 30 daysFirst-line manager / team supervisor
2026-05-14Colorado enacts SB26-189, repealing and re-enacting its 2024 AI Act: after an automated system makes a consequential decision with an adverse outcome, the person may demand meaningful human reviewHR / recruiter
2026-05-11Automated AI grading is not currently recommended in diabetic eye screening, the UK National Screening Committee said, though a new review found some systems as good as a first human graderOptometrist
2026-05-11Ajinomoto began selling an AI menu planner that generates institutional menus meeting conditions set by registered dietitians, for care homes and nurseriesDietitian / nutritionist
2026-05-11Ontario expanded pharmacists' scope from July 2026 to administer six more publicly funded vaccines and to assess and prescribe for nine more common ailments, taking the total to 33Pharmacist
2026-05-09An LLM agent balanced an assembly line to the same 91.9% rate as existing optimisation algorithms in fewer iterations, with over 68% accuracy in task planningIndustrial engineer
2026-05-08Abridge made its ambient documentation tool available to nurses across all its health-system clients, more than 250, with several named systems already using itRegistered nurse
2026-05-06Zalando says 90% of its on-site marketing content is now generated by AI, where a single production cycle could once take six to eight weeksPhotographer
April 2026
2026-04-30A language-model autocoder raised the share of survey occupation and industry answers coded automatically from 28 to 52 percent, US Census Bureau staff reportedStatistician
2026-04-30Voice recognition in a working dental clinic matched whole periodontal probing phrases only 36.7% to 52.5% of the time, and needs optimisation before routine use, a study foundDental hygienist
2026-04-30China's cyberspace regulator reported 868 filed generative AI services and 530 registered applications as of 30 April 2026, and requires every live application to display which filed service it usesBusiness systems owner
2026-04-28Customer-service centre staff grew to 16,718 while AI products support itinerary planning, Trip.com Group reported in its annual report for 2025Travel agent / travel advisor
2026-04-28China's translators association reported a 2025 workforce of 6.867 million and pay rising at over 60% of firms, while industry output edged down to 70.12 billion yuanTranslator / Interpreter
2026-04-24On Cornetto, a benchmark of 231 network configuration repair problems, the best of nine language models fully resolved only 25% of scenariosNetwork engineer
2026-04-21Closed-loop systems that adjust the anaesthetic automatically kept patients within the target depth 17.6% more of the time than manual control, a meta-analysis of 17 trials foundAnaesthesiologist / anaesthetist
2026-04-20The US Justice Department extended state and local governments' web accessibility deadlines to 2027 and 2028, saying generative AI does not yet reliably automate fixing inaccessible contentFrontend developer
2026-04-17Building permit applications using drawings exported from BIM were submitted on several projects, with 2D additions not made from the model marked in green, contractor Obayashi saidDrafter / CAD technician
2026-04-17Schaeffler says its industrial metaverse is already in use at ten locations, with a plan to reach half of its plants worldwideIndustrial engineer
2026-04-17Models should face effective challenge from people with the expertise, independence and standing to change them, US bank supervisors say, while leaving generative and agentic AI out of scopeData scientist
2026-04-15NetEase tells investors it integrates AI across game development, including art and animation production, to improve its developers' productivityIllustrator
2026-04-14The UK Ministry of Justice is studying whether its in-house AI could meet the accuracy standards for Crown Court transcripts that contracted providers produce todayCourt reporter
2026-04-14A survey of 200 SRE and DevOps leaders reported 43% of AI-generated code changes still need manual debugging in production after passing QA and stagingSoftware tester / QA engineer
2026-04-13Language models generate user stories and summarise workshop outcomes in a deployed system at the US Department of Veterans Affairs, built in-houseBusiness analyst
2026-04-13The US Veterans Health Administration lists deep-learning reconstruction on its MRI and CT scanners, and AI path-planning for moving X-ray equipment, as deployed AIRadiographer / radiologic technologist
2026-04-13Maine's 2026 law requires counsellors to tell clients in writing how AI-collected session data will be stored, used for training and deleted, and bars AI from therapeutic communicationCounsellor / psychotherapist
2026-04-13The US Veterans Health Administration lists computer-assisted coding that suggests ICD-10-CM, CPT and HCPCS codes for a medical coder to select as deployed, high-impact AIMedical coder
2026-04-13The US Veterans Health Administration lists ultrasound systems from five makers as deployed AI that automates routine measurements, such as parts of a standard heart echoSonographer
2026-04-13Thirty-one of forty-five US federal agencies reported a commercial AI coding tool in the 2025 federal inventory, naming GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex and PoolsideJunior software developer
2026-04-13Thirty-five of forty-five US federal agencies reported running a knowledge retrieval system over their own agency informationData engineer
2026-04-13Thirty-one of forty-five US federal agencies reported a commercial AI coding tool in the 2025 federal inventory, naming GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex and PoolsideBackend developer
2026-04-13Forty-five US federal agencies answered the same 20-item commercial AI checklist: 39 reported an AI tool inside their word processor, 11 reported one for booking travelAdministrative assistant
2026-04-10A blood-drawing robot succeeded on the first stick 94.5% of the time in 1,633 patients when it found a suitable vein, with mild adverse events in 0.6%, the maker's ADOPT trial foundPhlebotomist
2026-04-06Top models produced valid trading-system code more than 91.7% of the time on SysTradeBench, while its authors concluded human oversight remains essentialQuantitative analyst
2026-04-04The US screenwriters' 2026 agreement keeps the 2023 AI protections and requires notice to the union when a company licenses scripts to train a commercial AI systemWriter and author
2026-04-02Five Chinese ministries issue an AI-plus-Education action plan requiring AI to be written into the teacher qualification exam and certification, with tiered training to reach every teacherSchool teacher
2026-04-01Dai-ichi Life says its sales representatives have worked with an AI assistant that records client conversations and advises the next action since April 2026, and claims can be filed on their devicesInsurance agent
2026-04-01Japan's Real Estate Brokerage Act requires a licensed transaction specialist to explain the listed material matters and put their own name on the document before a contract concludesReal estate agent
2026-04-01Census BTOS supplement: writing is the leading generative-AI task reported inside US firms, and 65% of firms limit AI use to three tasks or fewerTechnical writer / documentation engineer
2026-04-01Census BTOS supplement: 16% of AI-using US firms replaced existing software or equipment with AI-integrated solutionsBusiness systems owner
2026-04-01Census BTOS supplement: 18% of US firms used AI in a business function, and 57% of those in three functions or fewerAI implementation lead
March 2026
2026-03-31XBP Global tells investors its document processing plus human-in-the-loop exception handling reduces the need for mailroom staff, while regulated work still needs human oversightData entry clerk
2026-03-31New South Wales requires new developments to report embodied emissions, with material quantities taken from a bill of quantities prepared by a quantity surveyorQuantity surveyor
2026-03-31Singapore's Home Affairs ministry says trial enforcement cameras detected over 67,000 traffic violations that officers enforce manually today, and nine were deployed from March 2026Police officer
2026-03-31The UK's major-projects authority says it launched an AI Early Warning System that uses project data to flag government major projects at risk of turning Red, now being embedded in its reviewsProject manager
2026-03-26Microsoft researchers found AI-generated versions of 92 production detections matched the attack technique 99.4% of the time but reproduced the engineers' exclusions only 8.9% of the timeSecurity analyst (SOC)
2026-03-26Singapore's social minister said 106 social service agencies were using Scribe, a free AI tool that turns conversations into case notesSocial worker
2026-03-25AI virtual agents handle overflow and after-hours calls to book, reschedule and confirm trade appointments, field-service software maker ServiceTitan told investorsHVAC technician
2026-03-24The LungIMPACT randomised trial of 93,326 chest X-rays found AI worklist prioritisation had no significant effect on the lung cancer pathway; earlier gains came from immediate radiographer triageRadiographer / radiologic technologist
2026-03-23Lancashire County Council says Copilot now drafts its social circumstance reports, cutting them from up to two days to three or four hours, with social workers checking and amending each oneSocial worker
2026-03-20A UK government department's engineering standard says AI cannot replace human responsibility for designs, and requires a person to approve every AI-assisted output before productionExperienced software engineer
2026-03-20The UK Home Office's engineering standard requires every AI-assisted output to be reviewed and approved by a person before production, and keeps accountability for designs with the teamJunior software developer
2026-03-16iQIYI tells investors its in-house Imaging Studio tool generates anime character designs, concept art and storyboard designsAnimator and VFX artist
2026-03-16UK government designers piloted GOV.UK Chat with over 10,000 users and 99 remote usability tests, added clarifying questions, and found streaming answers meant redesigning safety guardrailsProduct / UX designer
2026-03-12Across 60 three-day adolescent diet plans from five AI models, none stayed consistently close to a dietitian's reference plan on all nutrients, researchers foundDietitian / nutritionist
2026-03-11A back-support exoskeleton increased low-back muscle strain among 18 Danish bricklayers and only 22% would use it again, a field study foundBricklayer / blocklayer
2026-03-11Consultants using AI completed 12.2% more tasks 25.1% faster, but on a problem outside AI's frontier they were 19% less likely to get it right, a field experiment with 758 foundManagement consultant
2026-03-10Early automated closed-loop ventilation did not increase ventilator-free days compared with protocolised conventional ventilation in 1,201 critically ill adults, the ACTiVE trial foundRespiratory therapist
2026-03-10Human experts beat Google's reinforcement-learning macro placement in 5 of 6 comparisons on large macro-heavy designs, an independent review at UC San Diego foundElectrical engineer
2026-03-10Human experts beat Google's reinforcement-learning macro placement in 5 of 6 comparisons on large macro-heavy designs, an independent review at UC San Diego foundChip design engineer
2026-03-10Singapore's tax authority expected over 2 million individuals on its No-Filing Service for 2026, about 1 million of them receiving a computed tax bill with no return to fileTax preparer / tax agent
2026-03-09A corporate travel company tells investors it is using sentiment analysis, voice-to-text and LLMs to increase servicing efficiency, with co-pilot tools for its travel counselorsTravel agent / travel advisor
2026-03-09Estonia's AI Leap pilot reached all 154 upper-secondary schools (~20,000 students, ~4,900 teachers); teachers got ChatGPT and Gemini plus training from Aug 2025, and over 60% use them weeklySchool teacher
2026-03-05JD Logistics reported its goods-to-person automated warehousing in over 20 warehouses at end-2025, against a network of over 1,600 self-operated warehousesWarehouse worker
2026-03-04Punggol's autonomous shuttles would open to the public from 1 April 2026 after more than 25,000 km of testing, Singapore's Land Transport Authority announcedBus driver
2026-03-02Walmart says about 2,300 US stores already use digital shelf labels, turning price changes that took several associates days into minutes, and expects them chain-wide within a yearRetail cashier / shop assistant
2026-03-02California's SB 7 would have barred relying solely on an automated system to discipline or dismiss a worker; it passed the legislature, was vetoed, and the veto was sustained on 2 March 2026First-line manager / team supervisor
February 2026
2026-02-27Blinded registered dietitians rated ChatGPT-4o's answers to 100 nutrition forum questions above dietitians' own answers for quality and empathy, a study foundDietitian / nutritionist
2026-02-26WPP announced Elevate28: the holding company becomes a single company of four units unified by its agentic marketing platform, with £500m of gross annualised cost savingsMarketing specialist
2026-02-25Deutsche Telekom's RAN Guardian agent autonomously triggered over 100 remediation actions in its first month and cut the time to manage major events from hours to about a minuteNetwork engineer
2026-02-24Convenience chain Huck's put an AI-native point-of-sale system live in one store and began rolling it out to all 135, with on-screen guidance at the register cutting training timeRetail cashier / shop assistant
2026-02-23Dental scans may be taken by dentists, hygienists, dental assistants and a new, separately trained digital scan technician, with the dentist on call, Virginia's dentistry rules sayDental assistant / dental nurse
2026-02-22US bank branches showed a net decline of only 400 in 2025 — about 1,400 closures against more than 1,000 openings — the fourth consecutive year with fewer closures than the year beforeBank teller
2026-02-17Shutterstock reported rising demand for its metadata to train generative AI models, and increasing competition from companies offering generative AIPhotographer
2026-02-13Morningstar tells investors it deploys AI-powered data collection and ingestion with human-in-the-loop governance to improve coverage, reliability and speedData entry clerk
2026-02-12Round-the-clock traveller support runs through a virtual agent platform as well as phone, chat and email, and AI is improving resolution speed, Expedia told investorsTravel agent / travel advisor
2026-02-12Frontier models produced 0% valid output on a 369-field financial reporting schema, and one domain passed only 12.5% despite 90% valid output, ExtractBench's authors reportedData entry clerk
2026-02-11The Australian Psychological Society said psychologists remain solely responsible for all outcomes when using AI and need explicit consent for each specific toolPsychologist
2026-02-09Canada's government design guidance requires AI help tools on Canada.ca to be labelled as AI and to cite an authoritative source in every answer, bans human names, and asks for early user testingProduct / UX designer
2026-02-06IRS pilots digitised only about 7 percent of 53.3 million paper returns, and contractors had scanned 5 percent in the 2025 filing season, the Treasury's tax inspector general reportedData entry clerk
2026-02-05A university-hosted GPT made about three times the corrections of a human copyeditor, but only 61% of them were judged improvements, a study in PLOS One foundEditor and proofreader
2026-02-04NTT DOCOMO put an agentic AI into network maintenance that presents recommended actions to engineers, cutting response time for complex failures by more than 50%Network engineer
2026-02-04Automatic dubbing is available to all creators in 27 languages, and more than six million viewers a day watched at least ten minutes of auto-dubbed content in December, YouTube saysContent creator
2026-02-04YouTube made automatic dubbing available to everyone in 27 languages, saying more than 6 million viewers a day watched at least 10 minutes of auto-dubbed videoVoice actor
2026-02-02Employers under the Auto-Inclusion Scheme must electronically submit employees' income data, letting the tax authority pre-fill over 2 million returns, Singapore's IRAS saidPayroll specialist / payroll clerk
January 2026
2026-01-31Certified digital reporters who could swear in witnesses and record depositions were not created: California AB 1189 died in January 2026Court reporter
2026-01-31Target says its stores fulfilled 97.6% of merchandise sales in 2025, including two-thirds of digital sales through same-day options such as order pickup and drive upRetail cashier / shop assistant
2026-01-31Kroger closed three automated online-order fulfilment centres that missed expectations, took a $2.5 billion charge, and will fulfil online orders from its stores and third partiesRetail cashier / shop assistant
2026-01-30Meta says its LLM-based test generation is deployed in its continuous integration system, and that its coverage-test generator has run there for two yearsSoftware tester / QA engineer
2026-01-30AWS now measures partnership success across its partner programs with automated Partner Revenue Measurement, replacing manual reporting, reconciliation and trackingPartnerships / channel manager
2026-01-29Up to 85% of streams on AI-generated tracks were fraudulent in 2025 against 8% across the catalogue, and those streams are now demonetised, Deezer saidMusician and composer
2026-01-28The US commodities regulator reported in the federal AI inventory that it runs an isolation-forest model daily to flag potentially erroneous data loadsData engineer
2026-01-28The 2025 US federal AI inventory lists 227 deployed systems their agencies rated high-impact; testing is recorded as complete for 44, in progress for 81 and left blank for 102Machine learning engineer
2026-01-28CISA's statutory AI inventory lists critical-infrastructure network anomaly detection as deployed and its Security Operation Center anomaly detection as inactiveSecurity analyst (SOC)
2026-01-27Checkout-free shopping did not reach the right economics for its own stores, so the company closed its Go and Fresh stores while its checkout-free system runs in over 360 other retailers' locationsRetail cashier / shop assistant
2026-01-27Checkout-free shopping did not reach the right economics for its own stores, so the company closed its Go and Fresh stores while its checkout-free system runs in over 360 other retailers' locationsRetail salesperson / shop assistant
2026-01-26C.H. Robinson says AI agents now handle 95% of checks on missed freight pickups: one calls the carrier and another decides the next step, where teams once spent over half the day chasingOperations coordinator
2026-01-22A routing change pushed through Cloudflare's policy automation leaked BGP routes for 25 minutes until a network operator reverted it by hand and paused the automationNetwork engineer
2026-01-22Korea's AI Framework Act, in force since January 2026, names recruitment first among the judgements it calls high-impact and requires the operator to keep such a system under human supervisionHR / recruiter
2026-01-22Cloudflare's policy automation platform generated a routing policy that leaked BGP prefixes for 25 minutes; the stated fix adds automated policy checks to CI/CD, not human reviewDevOps engineer / platform engineer / SRE
2026-01-22WPP merged its production teams from Hogarth, Ogilvy and VML into one ~10,000-person unit running on a single AI workflow platformGraphic designer
2026-01-20Netflix told shareholders it is using AI to improve subtitle localization across its catalogueTranslator / Interpreter
2026-01-18Alberta's veterinary regulator requires vets never to rely solely on AI for diagnosis and treatment, and to review AI-generated medical records for accuracyVeterinarian
2026-01-17A machine-learning model matched the accuracy of 13 real estate experts in much less time, and experts working with it were most accurate, a Vienna study foundProperty appraiser / valuer
December 2025
2025-12-31Only about one EU enterprise in eighty used AI for logistics in 2025 — 6.08% of those using any AI — Eurostat's enterprise survey showsSupply chain planner
2025-12-31American Homes 4 Rent, which owns about 61,000 rental houses, says substantially all are shown through self-guided showings; its 2015 filing said local agents showed homes in some marketsReal estate agent
2025-12-31In a nine-month production deployment at ByteDance, an LLM tool generated 3,196 API regression test cases, and 85.4% of its code was adoptedSoftware tester / QA engineer
2025-12-31AIA says around five million online leads were generated for its agents in 2025 with a 17% conversion rate, and that AI training tools were used by more than 35,000 agentsInsurance agent
2025-12-31UBS says its STAAT Insights tool delivered over 20 million insights to its US financial advisors for client interactions in 2025, adding that AI does not replace trust or human interactionFinancial adviser / financial planner
2025-12-31JPMorgan says its Connect Coach AI tool serves 12,000 users in its private bank and US wealth management, pushing 1 million insights and preparing advisers' client meetingsFinancial adviser / financial planner
2025-12-31Ping An's 2025 annual report: AI reading medical documents settled nearly a million non-auto claims end to end, 70% of personal injury claims automatically, and fraud detection saved RMB10.51 billionInsurance claims handler
2025-12-31Volkswagen's procurement monitors suppliers' finances continuously and runs software-based media monitoring over more than 40,000 direct suppliers, 96% of its purchasing volumeProcurement / supply chain specialist
2025-12-31Statistics Denmark: about 75% of Danish public libraries' weekly opening hours in 2025 were without staff, against about 21% in 2010Librarian
2025-12-31RE/MAX told investors it launched an AI marketing platform for its affiliated agents in 2025, in the filing that attributes a 4.6 percent fall in US and Canada agent count to the housing marketReal estate agent
2025-12-31PSA reported that at its fully automated Tuas terminal traditional prime movers have been replaced by driverless guided vehicles, and that over 1,700 employees moved into new roles since it openedContainer port worker
2025-12-31Eurostat: 6.08% of EU enterprises using AI applied it to logistics in 2025, the lowest of the seven purposes the dataset publishesOperations coordinator
2025-12-22In a field deployment at JD.com, an inventory model cut turnover by 5.27 days, raised in-stock rates by 2.29% and cut holding costs by 29.95%, on items chosen for high automation ratesSupply chain planner
2025-12-1990% of US managers and 79% in Europe say their firms use software to instruct, monitor or evaluate workers, an OECD survey of more than 6,000 managers foundFirst-line manager / team supervisor
2025-12-16FDNY says its drones give incident commanders thermal and visual data in real time and are regularly dispatched to second-alarm or greater fires and technical rescuesFirefighter
2025-12-12Designated feeding facilities must employ a registered dietitian under article 21 of Japan's 健康増進法, while other facilities need only make efforts toDietitian / nutritionist
2025-12-12UK pharmacists may authorise technicians to undertake or supervise dispensing from 10 December 2026, and the handing out of bagged prescriptions in their absence from 7 January 2026Pharmacy technician
2025-12-11Advertisers must conspicuously disclose a synthetic performer in New York ads, with penalties of $1,000 and then $5,000, under a law signed in December 2025Actor and model
2025-12-10For eligible loans an appraisal is not required when a trained and vetted property data collector visits the home, Fannie Mae's Selling Guide statesProperty appraiser / valuer
November 2025
2025-11-30AWS launched an AI agent in Partner Central that checks partners' AI specialisation applications and gives immediate feedback, saying it cuts processing time by up to 70%Partnerships / channel manager
2025-11-27A medical school's AI tool flagged policy-restricted wording in grant drafts with full precision but missed about a quarter of terms, its developers reportedGrant writer / grants officer
2025-11-25Warner Music Group settled its litigation with Suno in a deal giving artists and songwriters full control over use of their voices and compositions in AI-generated musicMusician and composer
2025-11-25China's internet regulator announced it had penalised a batch of mobile apps over AI content-labelling failures, with measures including ordered rectification and removal from storesProduct manager
2025-11-21Instacart replaced separately trained query-understanding models with one fine-tuned LLM serving millions of weekly searches, moving its engineers' core challenge away from feature engineeringMachine learning engineer
2025-11-20Uber Eats added Starship's sidewalk robots — about 3,000 units across 270+ locations — starting in Leeds and SheffieldDelivery rider / courier
2025-11-19Figure published the results of an 11-month humanoid deployment at BMW Spartanburg: one station, sheet-metal loading, 1,250+ hours of runtime and 90,000+ partsAssembly line worker
2025-11-17The share of surveyed interior designers using AI tools tripled to 29% in 2025 from 9% in 2023, mainly for renderings and presentations, while 24% are strongly against itInterior designer
2025-11-13Man Group says its AlphaGPT writes production-grade research code and has produced signals that pass the same thresholds as human research, under dual-track validationQuantitative analyst
2025-11-11An AI voice system for periodontal charting, built to drop the second person who records what the dentist calls out, reached 67.40% overall accuracy, a Taiwanese study foundDental assistant / dental nurse
2025-11-11Periodontal charting, typically done by two people, was transcribed by an AI voice system with 67.40% overall accuracy and 53.33% on probing depth, researchers in Taiwan reportedDental hygienist
2025-11-11DHL Supply Chain says AI agents handle appointment scheduling, driver follow-up and transport status calls by phone and email, leaving teams to focus on exception handlingOperations coordinator
2025-11-05Japan's carpenters could halve from about 300,000 in 2020 to about 150,000 by 2035, and precutting, panels and AI should be used, a housing ministry panel saidCarpenter / joiner
October 2025
2025-10-31Judges must always read the underlying documents, and AI is a poor way to research new information they cannot verify, the judiciary of England and Wales told its judgesJudge / magistrate
2025-10-30A language model that asks respondents follow-up questions and assigns industry and occupation codes is being piloted in a labour survey, Britain's statistics office saidStatistician
2025-10-29Universal Music Group settled with Udio on a platform to be trained on authorized and licensed music, keeping existing creations within a walled gardenMusician and composer
2025-10-29Several hundred more hires, mostly for key occupations, will lift production capacity about 1.5 times amid a shortage of creators, Toei Animation told investorsAnimator and VFX artist
2025-10-2886% of surveyed creators say they actively use creative generative AI, most often for editing and enhancement (55%), generating assets (52%) and ideation (48%), in a tool maker's surveyContent creator
2025-10-27GPT-4o answered 83.69% of a national anaesthesiology exam correctly but did worse on application and analysis, and unsupported medical claims were its most common errorAnaesthesiologist / anaesthetist
2025-10-23Gamehaus tells investors its developer partners can use a trained art-style model to produce characters, costumes, scenes and iconsIllustrator
2025-10-22Certified inspectors now carry out some building inspections live through customers' phones under a permanent virtual programme, Philadelphia saidBuilding inspector
2025-10-22Theory tests must ask about the advantages, limitations and risks of driver assistance and automated driving systems, under the EU's 2025 driving licence directiveDriving instructor
2025-10-22DORA's 2025 survey reports 90% of respondents using AI at work, and finds AI adoption still has a negative relationship with software delivery stabilityDevOps engineer / platform engineer / SRE
2025-10-21Netflix told shareholders filmmakers used generative AI to de-age characters in Happy Gilmore 2, and another production used it for pre-visualisationAnimator and VFX artist
2025-10-16Alibaba said its 2025 11.11 was its first large-scale deployment of generative AI in e-commerce, with an AI bidding engine it reports lifting marketing return by 12%E-commerce operations specialist
2025-10-15Expert readers who disfavoured prompted AI imitations of authors' styles favoured them once the model was fine-tuned on each author's complete works, a preregistered study foundWriter and author
2025-10-11California enacted AB 489, barring AI systems from using titles such as 'nurse' or 'doctor' where this implies a licensed person is providing the careRegistered nurse
2025-10-08NHS England published its assessments of digitally delivered therapy products, recording three of eleven as not compliant and three more as approved only when a therapist routinely delivers themCounsellor / psychotherapist
2025-10-07A robot hair-styling system trained in simulation carried its skill over to wigs, researchers reported, calling hair care challenging for robots because of its fine structureHairdresser / barber
2025-10-06The UK Ministry of Justice links and deduplicates people's records across prison, probation and court case systems with a probabilistic model in production, having judged rules unsuitableBusiness systems owner
2025-10-05OpenAI's GDPval benchmark collected real purchasing-agent deliverables and had industry experts grade model output against them blindProcurement / supply chain specialist
September 2025
2025-09-30Members must record in writing whether an AI output is reliable and dip-sample high-volume outputs, a RICS professional standard requiresProperty appraiser / valuer
2025-09-30RICS requires that a written decision on whether an AI output can be relied on be made by a qualified, named surveyor who accepts responsibility for its use, effective March 2026Quantity surveyor
2025-09-30easyJet says it has equipped all cabin crew with iPads giving real-time operational data and customer insights for a more personalised service, deploying over 7,000 across 31 basesCabin crew
2025-09-30FAA reports a net gain of 568 controllers after hiring 2,028 trainees in FY2025, and states it uses no automated scheduling optimisation toolsAir traffic controller
2025-09-29Listeners could not tell AI-generated songs from human-made ones when pairs were random, doing no better than guessing, a controlled study with real Suno songs foundMusician and composer
2025-09-29AI tools can help prepare interpreting and support work in the booth, the European Commission's interpretation service tells interpreters, steering them to its own toolsInterpreter
2025-09-25Vocal impersonation is allowed on Spotify only when the impersonated artist has authorised it, and the service removed over 75 million spammy tracks in a year, it saidMusician and composer
2025-09-25IFR counted 2,027,000 industrial robots working in Chinese factories, with 295,000 installed in 2024 — 54% of global demand and the highest annual figure ever recordedAssembly line worker
2025-09-25IFR's World Robotics 2025 counted 542,000 industrial robots installed in 2024 and 4.66 million in operation worldwide (+9%); Asia took 74% of new installations and China alone 54%Assembly line worker
2025-09-23AI chatbots on UK government services must let users know answers are not from a human and might be inaccurate, and how to reach a person, says the Service ManualFrontend developer
2025-09-22California's privacy rules require a person with authority over whether a business starts high-risk data processing, including automated decisions, to review and approve its risk assessmentProduct manager
2025-09-17A marketplace's AI assistant for sellers summarises account health, explains what triggered an issue and recommends actions, and scans for listings that may break new rulesE-commerce operations specialist
2025-09-15Home ventilation telemonitoring, with an algorithm raising alerts and specialised nurses acting on them, lowered blood carbon dioxide against usual follow-up, France's eVENT trial foundRespiratory therapist
2025-09-11On 599 questions from Japan's national registered dietitian exams, the best GPT-4o setup scored 83.5% but showed limited performance on numerical questions, researchers reportedDietitian / nutritionist
2025-09-11China's cyberspace regulator requires network operators to grade incidents themselves against a national scale and report within hours, and makes outsourced security providers report to themSecurity analyst (SOC)
2025-09-10Singapore's URA confirmed CORENET X digital building submission becomes mandatory in phases, reaching all new projects from October 2026Civil / structural engineer
2025-09-09APM's 2025 survey of 1,000 UK project professionals: where their organisation uses AI, half name task and schedule automation among the functions that benefited most, and 49% reportingProject manager
2025-09-07On 50 geoprocessing tasks, the best model produced valid workflows 95% of the time, but spatial relationship detection and site selection remained hardest, a benchmark foundGIS analyst / cartographer
2025-09-04NVIDIA says its ChipNeMo AI agents, used by 5,000 of its own engineers for design, verification and documentation, saved 4,000 engineering days in one yearChip design engineer
2025-09-04AI note-taking for control-room paramedics, who check and approve the notes, was rolled out after a trial, London Ambulance Service saidParamedic / EMT
August 2025
2025-08-31European bank supervisors found AI supports human credit decisions at the banks they studied, except small retail loans which are often automated, and that 'human in the loop' variesLoan officer / credit officer
2025-08-31Sodexo says its AI tool that sets kitchen team schedules from forecast guest numbers runs at over 1,000 sites, its pricing tool at almost 3,000, and AI Menu drafts seasonal menus in minutesChef / cook
2025-08-31Accenture's annual report to August 2025 states a talent strategy whose second prong is exiting people where reskilling is not viable, and books $344 million of severance against itManagement consultant
2025-08-30Nearly half of surveyed creators used ChatGPT and 12% used no AI at all, and they saw generative AI more as a way to lighten their workload than as a creative aid, a 2025 study foundContent creator
2025-08-29The best model reached 96.50% accuracy on clean invoices, 92.71% on scanned invoices and 87.46% on scanned receipts without task-specific training, Fraunhofer researchers foundData entry clerk
2025-08-27AI is used in key parts of the transactional workflow to remove human touch and lower costs, alongside a leaner corporate workforce, Flight Centre told investors in 2025Travel agent / travel advisor
2025-08-07Of 497 dietitians surveyed in Taiwan, 59.8% had used ChatGPT, primarily for administrative documentation, researchers reportedDietitian / nutritionist
2025-08-06An automated valuation model gives first-pass values for 1.5 million Welsh homes in a council tax revaluation, where valuers once did manual banding, Britain's valuation office reportedProperty appraiser / valuer
2025-08-06EIOPA's Opinion requires EU insurers to keep effective internal control and human oversight over AI systems, and records that claims AI is not on the AI Act's high-risk listInsurance claims handler
2025-08-04LinkedIn's chief product officer said the company was piloting small pods that build products end to end with AI tools, keeping empathy, communication and judgement with peopleProduct manager
2025-08-01Illinois's Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act bars AI from therapeutic decision-making and allows it for administrative support, the state regulator announcedPsychologist
July 2025
2025-07-31Language models favoured more generative rewrites than human proofreaders, which may improve fluency but risk altering nuance, a comparison of second-language writing foundEditor and proofreader
2025-07-29GPT-4o wrote working G-code for one 3-axis milling part checked in simulation, but complex work still needs CAM programming and expert supervision, a peer-reviewed study foundMachinist / CNC machinist
2025-07-29Reading an employee's emotions with AI is banned at work in the EU, but tracking customers' anger is not: the European Commission's guidelines on the AI Act's prohibited practicesFirst-line manager / team supervisor
2025-07-29US and allied cyber agencies warn that a criminal group calls help desks first to learn the steps for a password reset, then poses as employees to get passwords reset and MFA movedIT support specialist / helpdesk
2025-07-28Factory-built houses made up 22.2 percent of residential buildings completed in Germany in 2024, the federal statistics office reportedCarpenter / joiner
2025-07-28Three in four care providers in Japan use care software to enter and keep care records, while robots that converse with residents are used by 0.3%, a national survey foundCare worker / nursing assistant
2025-07-25Language-model drafts of functional specifications cut an IT consultancy analyst's drafting time by an estimated 10–15%, but missed tacit knowledge and needed expert revisionBusiness analyst
2025-07-25At an IT consulting firm, LLM-drafted requirements saved an analyst 10–15% of drafting time but missed user stories whose knowledge was tacit, and could not replace the analystJunior software developer
2025-07-24NICE said two AI digital front door tools can gather information for NHS Talking Therapies assessments only while evidence is generated over three yearsPsychologist
2025-07-233D garment simulations built on fabric data, including from an AI digitisation tool, differed from real prototypes by up to 6% on average, researchers reportedFashion designer
2025-07-22Pew found Google users clicked a search result in 8% of visits when an AI summary appeared, against 15% when it did not, and clicked a link inside the summary in 1%Journalist
2025-07-18Automated closed-loop weaning probably shortens mechanical ventilation by 24% and reduces reintubation compared with non-automated weaning, a Cochrane review of 62 trials foundRespiratory therapist
2025-07-18LinkedIn says its text-to-SQL bot has had over 300 weekly users since July 2024, that dataset owners' annotations lift correct answers from 9% to 48%, and wrong filters are the top failureData analyst
2025-07-17The US monetary policy committee is not using AI to develop or set policy, only to aid staff in writing, coding and research, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook saidEconomist
2025-07-17Applications substantially developed by AI will not be treated as applicants' original ideas, and each investigator may submit six a year, the US National Institutes of Health saidGrant writer / grants officer
2025-07-17Walmart says a system that automatically reroutes overstocked supply to the stores that need it has saved it more than $55 millionSupply chain planner
2025-07-1631% of design firms report using AI, 50% among large firms, mostly to visualise projects early, while designers doubt AI for budgeting and sourcing, a design platform's survey foundInterior designer
2025-07-15Mass-produced AI content made from generic templates without the creator's own insight earns nothing, while using AI to edit scripts is allowed, under YouTube's monetisation policyContent creator
2025-07-10A METR randomised trial of 16 experienced open-source developers on 246 real issues found they took 19% longer with early-2025 AI tools, while believing they had been 20% fasterExperienced software engineer
2025-07-08A passive shoulder exoskeleton cut shoulder muscle activity during overhead work by 20 carpenters but raised low-back activity, a randomised field study foundCarpenter / joiner
2025-07-03A requirements-interview chatbot made about as many common mistakes as human interviewers and elicited up to 73.7% of requirements in 33 simulated interviewsBusiness analyst
2025-07-02Images featuring digital twins of models were published for the first time by H&M, co-created with a dedicated team, the retailer saidActor and model
2025-07-01In Singapore, a licensed electrical engineer, who must be a registered professional engineer, is entitled to design and take full responsibility for any electrical installationElectrical engineer
June 2025
2025-06-30In a survey of 885 Microsoft product managers, 22% said they use generative AI for user research or data analysis, and many held back from delegating high-accountability workProduct manager
2025-06-30USDA's 2025 farm technology survey: 50% of US farms bought agricultural inputs online and 29% used the internet to market their productsFarmer
2025-06-30Meta reports 2,253,559 content-removal appeals on Facebook in the EU in six months, 786,034 restored, and states that all Article 16 notices are processed using manual reviewContent moderator
2025-06-25Over 1,670 EMS agencies adopted an AI feature that drafts patient-care report narratives, with up to 80% less documentation time, the software vendor ESO saidParamedic / EMT
2025-06-25Ruling for Meta on the record in Kadrey v. Meta, a US federal judge said this does not make training on copyrighted books lawful and called market dilution the potentially winning argumentWriter and author
2025-06-24Language models mix first-print economic data with later revisions and often assume they have data that has not been released, a Federal Reserve Board staff study foundEconomist
2025-06-24Walmart gave store associates a real-time translation tool in 44 languages for conversations with customers, alongside an assistant used by over 900,000 associates a weekRetail cashier / shop assistant
2025-06-23Training on the books at issue was fair use but building a central library from pirated copies was not, a US federal judge ruled in Bartz v. AnthropicWriter and author
2025-06-23Stack Overflow's survey of 49,009 developers finds 84% using or planning to use AI tools, and the most experienced reporting the highest distrust of what it producesExperienced software engineer
2025-06-23Goldman Sachs made its in-house GS AI Assistant available to all employees after use by thousands of staff, for summarising complex documents, drafting initial content and data analysisFinancial analyst
2025-06-22An AI scribe cut the time three UK hospital diabetes dietitians spend on notes and letters, which they found accurate 90% of the time, they wrote for the British Dietetic AssociationDietitian / nutritionist
2025-06-20On Japan's March 2025 national dental hygienist exam, the best multimodal model answered 85.0% of questions correctly, though authors urged cautious integrationDental hygienist
2025-06-19A generative AI chat assistant that helps customers rebook after weather delays or cancellations was being tested, American Airlines said in 2025Travel agent / travel advisor
2025-06-17State-of-the-art models passed no more than 34% of code-generation problems on a benchmark written by experienced hardware engineers, and verification tasks were particularly difficultElectrical engineer
2025-06-17State-of-the-art models passed no more than 34% of code-generation problems on a benchmark written by experienced hardware engineers, and verification tasks were particularly difficultChip design engineer
2025-06-14Research into autonomous mowing at rest areas and along highways must be conducted by the state transport department, and $150,000 buys a mower, under a 2025 Minnesota lawGardener / landscaper
2025-06-13Robots take the floors they are good at so cleaners can focus on toilets and stepped areas, where automation is still immature, Japan's labour ministry says in its building maintenance planCleaner / janitor
2025-06-12Licensed psychologists generally rated human-written psychological reports above GPT-4 ones, but effect sizes were typically small, a study of 249 raters foundPsychologist
2025-06-12A global cloud outage traced to a change without error handling or a feature flag led to a redesign so the service fails open, in the provider's own incident reportDevOps engineer / platform engineer / SRE
2025-06-11Collision checks that needed almost four weeks of real testing now take three days in BMW's virtual factory, the carmaker saidIndustrial engineer
2025-06-11A foundation model improved Amazon's long-term national forecasts for deal events by 10% and regional forecasts for millions of popular items by 20%, the company saidSupply chain planner
2025-06-03Students' median learning gains with an AI tutor were over double those in an in-class active learning session in a Harvard physics trialUniversity lecturer
2025-06-01A digital probing system using intra-oral scans and cone-beam CT measured gum-to-bone distance with 0.040 mm error across 2,507 patients, researchers reportedDental hygienist
2025-06-01Japan's 公認心理師法 requires a certified psychologist to take the attending physician's instruction where the person has one, while protecting only the title, not the workPsychologist
2025-06-01The US Justice Department reported a user-behaviour monitoring system in production since June 2025 that it says finds behaviour too subtle for a person to detectSecurity analyst (SOC)
2025-06-01Japan's certified psychologist law requires the practitioner to take the instruction of the attending physician where the person has one, and makes using the protected title a criminal offenceCounsellor / psychotherapist
2025-06-01Japan defines a physical therapist as someone licensed to practise under a physician's direction, and treats the therapy itself as assistance to medical carePhysiotherapist / rehabilitation therapist
May 2025
2025-05-31Storyboarder employment in France held at 719 in 2024, and analysts found it difficult to conclude that AI tools had affected itAnimator and VFX artist
2025-05-30On 392 backend tasks, the best model's code was correct and secure only 35% of the time, and about half of the models' working programs could be exploitedBackend developer
2025-05-29BVA's survey: 21% of UK vets already use AI in daily work, most commonly for radiography diagnostics and reporting (44%) and laboratory diagnostics (27%)Veterinarian
2025-05-21Lacking control over generative tools, fashion design students overestimated them and mostly accepted their outputs blindly, a Politecnico di Milano study foundFashion designer
2025-05-21An agent framework reached up to twice the annualised returns of classical factor libraries in backtests while using 70% fewer factorsQuantitative analyst
2025-05-20Walgreens said its 12 micro-fulfillment centers support more than 5,000 stores and fill over 3.5 million prescriptions a week, as it opened another in MinnesotaPharmacy technician
2025-05-20On the Finance Agent Benchmark — 537 expert-authored questions over recent SEC filings — the best model, OpenAI o3, reached 46.8% accuracy at $3.79 per queryFinancial analyst
2025-05-16A reinforcement-learning dispatcher improved tardiness by up to 4% and throughput by up to 1% on a real Infineon fab dataset, far less than on open benchmark modelsIndustrial engineer
2025-05-15Coca-Cola is piloting a system that encodes its designers' layout and typography decisions into machine-readable brand rules that let teams and agencies generate hundreds of variationsGraphic designer
2025-05-13Audible said it had begun producing audiobooks for selected publishers with its own end-to-end AI narration, offering more than 100 AI-generated voices in four languagesVoice actor
2025-05-13China's education ministry advisory committee issued an AI general-education guideline and a generative-AI use guideline for all primary and secondary schoolsSchool teacher
2025-05-08China's labour ministry put 17 new occupations and 42 new work-types out for comment, adding a 'generative AI system tester' work-type under the existing 'generative AI system operator' occupationAI implementation lead
2025-05-08Klarna's CEO said the company would again hire humans for customer service, saying cost had been 'too predominant' in its AI-first approach and quality had sufferedCustomer service representative
2025-05-07About 70% of Zalando's editorial campaign assets were AI-generated in the fourth quarter of 2024, with human involvement kept from model scans to creative direction, the retailer saidPhotographer
2025-05-05Self-checkout was limited to 10 items or fewer at most of a retailer's nearly 2,000 stores, with more than 25,600 staffed lanes for full cartsRetail cashier / shop assistant
2025-05-05Floor staff in more than 1,700 home-improvement stores were given an AI assistant on their handheld devices for product details, project advice and inventory while helping customersRetail salesperson / shop assistant
2025-05-05Self-checkout was limited to 10 items or fewer at most of a retailer's nearly 2,000 stores, with more than 25,600 staffed lanes for full cartsRetail salesperson / shop assistant
April 2025
2025-04-28Duolingo's CEO told staff the company would become 'AI-first' and gradually stop using contractors for work AI can handle; the memo was later softened after public backlashTranslator / Interpreter
2025-04-25Tested against therapy guides from major medical institutions, current language models responded inappropriately to critical conditions, even newer and larger ones, researchers reportedCounsellor / psychotherapist
2025-04-25Language models expressed stigma toward people with mental health conditions and encouraged clients' delusional thinking in therapy tests, a study foundPsychologist
2025-04-22Uber says its LLM-based tool produced fixes for 224 of 404 data races in its Go codebase over 18 months, and developers accepted 193 of them in code reviewBackend developer
2025-04-22The FTC's case against accessiBe, whose AI tool claimed to make any website accessible, states that no automated tool alone can determine WCAG compliance and manual human testing is requiredFrontend developer
2025-04-22Meituan received China's first nationwide low-altitude logistics operating certificate from the CAAC for its delivery drones, after 450,000+ drone orders on 53 routes by end-2024Delivery rider / courier
2025-04-16Automatic rigging with UniRig improved rigging accuracy by 215% over earlier methods on hard datasets, though its authors say stylised characters may defeat itAnimator and VFX artist
2025-04-15US Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported deploying AI developer tools on 15 April 2025, and recorded that their output must be reviewed and approved before it enters the codebaseExperienced software engineer
2025-04-14A private Copilot Chat tool was made available on judicial office holders' devices, the judiciary of England and Wales said in April 2025Judge / magistrate
2025-04-1327% of ICLR 2025 reviewers who received AI feedback on their reviews updated them, in a randomised study of 20,000 reviewsUniversity lecturer
2025-04-09Where AI techniques are deployed at trading firms and systematic funds, they are largely rules-based systems with a human in the loop, the Bank of England's FPC foundQuantitative analyst
2025-04-08On FEABench, AI models produced executable calls to a commercial simulation tool 88% of the time but almost never computed a result within 10% of the correct answerMechanical engineer
2025-04-03Agencies should set terms for acceptable generative AI use and must ensure human oversight and accountability for high-impact AI, the US budget office told federal agenciesProject manager
2025-04-03US federal agencies must test high-impact AI before deployment under OMB M-25-21 — querying the service and observing outputs if they lack the model — and keep testing afterSoftware tester / QA engineer
2025-04-03US OMB Memorandum M-25-21 requires every executive department and agency, including independent regulators, to identify a Chief AI Officer and allocate resources and responsibilities to the roleAI implementation lead
2025-04-01One pilot in cruise could not be shown as safe as two: Europe's aviation regulator refocused its reduced-crew rulemaking on smart cockpits for two-pilot operationsAirline pilot
2025-04-01US rules for AI triage software in radiology say it may not mark the image or remove cases from the reading queue, and that the standard of care remains the default for all casesRadiologist
March 2025
2025-03-31AIG told investors its generative-AI underwriting assistant is live in production in a financial lines business: AI ingests, summarises and ranks submissions, then the underwriter analyses its outputInsurance underwriter
2025-03-31Japan's agriculture ministry estimated drones sprayed about 1.2 million hectares of cumulative farmland area in fiscal 2024Farmer
2025-03-28A portable self-test refraction device was less precise than an examiner on astigmatism, and its authors conclude subjective refraction should complement it, in a 40-patient studyOptometrist
2025-03-27A generative AI therapy chatbot that participants could message whenever they needed to talk cut depression symptoms 51% in a trial, but no AI is ready to run unsupervised, its developers saidCounsellor / psychotherapist
2025-03-27In the first clinical trial of a generative AI therapy chatbot, depression symptoms fell 51% on average, yet its investigators said no AI is ready to operate fully autonomouslyPsychologist
2025-03-26NATS deployed its Intelligent Approach sequencing tool at Gatwick Airport, giving controllers radar markers to sequence arrivals from live wind data instead of fixed spacing distancesAir traffic controller
2025-03-25The National Association of Realtors changed its listing rules in 2025 to let sellers keep a home out of the shared listing service and public marketing, or delay its release to portalsReal estate agent
2025-03-22Video home visits took a median 40 minutes of therapist time against 160 in person with no more adverse events, but 20.6% still needed a visit, a Western Australian study foundOccupational therapist
2025-03-20Customer insights, AI and digital product creation help align production with demand and shorten lead times, H&M Group says in its 2024 annual reportFashion designer
2025-03-18A US federal appeals court held that the Copyright Act requires eligible work to be authored in the first instance by a human being, affirming denial of an AI-made pictureIllustrator
2025-03-18EY announced an initial deployment of 150 AI agents to support 80,000 of its tax professionals in data collection, document review and income and indirect tax compliance, built with NVIDIAAccountant / Bookkeeper
2025-03-14Users who publish AI-generated content must declare it and label it with the platform's tool, and may not remove labels, under China's labelling measures in force since September 2025Content creator
2025-03-14Four Chinese ministries issued labelling rules placing the duty to declare AI-generated content on the person publishing it, not only on the tool providerE-commerce operations specialist
2025-03-14Airbnb reports migrating nearly 3,500 React component test files from Enzyme to React Testing Library in six weeks, against a hand estimate of 1.5 yearsFrontend developer
2025-03-11GAO found the system meant to replace paper records for 13,000 federal contract guards failed 782 of 1,487 test tasks, leaving the paper records as the system of recordSecurity guard
2025-03-11Denmark's building regulations cap the whole-life climate impact of new buildings from July 2025, at 7.5 kg CO2e per square metre a year for flats and officesQuantity surveyor
February 2025
2025-02-28GPT-4 wrote CAD scripts that compiled 96.5% of the time on CADPrompt, 200 design prompts, while the researchers note a compiled script may not meet the specified requirementsMechanical engineer
2025-02-24Simulators and computer-based training improved novice drivers' hazard anticipation, but the gains do not always carry over to real roads without real practice, a review of 29 studies foundDriving instructor
2025-02-18Leased robotic mowers for its parks department were approved by the Nashville council in a five-year contract with an estimated value of $2,000,000Gardener / landscaper
2025-02-17A Nature Machine Intelligence study with 3,200 participants found that language models used in place of human participants, including in user testing, misportray and flatten identity groupsProduct / UX designer
2025-02-12AI cut the time to produce France's large-scale land-cover map by a factor of three and halved its cost, the national mapping agency IGN saidGIS analyst / cartographer
2025-02-11Intensive-care nurses made fewer manual ventilator interventions per hour with automated ventilation after cardiac surgery but answered as many critical alarms, a POSITiVE trial analysis foundRegistered nurse
2025-02-11Automated ventilation after cardiac surgery needed fewer manual interventions per hour than conventional ventilation, with as many critical alarms, a POSITiVE trial analysis foundRespiratory therapist
2025-02-11Carmakers using telematics must give an open, standardised platform for vehicle repair data in Massachusetts, a federal court held in upholding the state's data access lawAuto mechanic / vehicle technician
2025-02-10Each AI use in a UK government project needs a named senior responsible owner, and high-risk output must pass human-in-the-loop checks, under the government's AI PlaybookProject manager
January 2025
2025-01-30Lloyds Banking Group announced 136 UK branch closures for May 2025–March 2026, citing 10 million fewer branch visits in 2024 and a 48% five-year fall in branch transactionsBank teller
2025-01-29Language models wrote G-code for six simple shapes with about 80% success, and 100% for most when a person supplied structured parameters, a BTW 2025 industrial paper foundMachinist / CNC machinist
2025-01-29Copyright does not extend to purely AI-generated material or material made with insufficient human control, the US Copyright Office concluded in January 2025Fashion designer
2025-01-29The US Copyright Office concluded that prompts alone do not give enough control to make someone the author of an AI output, while human selection, arrangement and modification can be protectedGraphic designer
2025-01-24A second-read tool that flags prostate biopsies first diagnosed as benign for further review by a pathologist was cleared by the US FDA in January 2025Pathologist
2025-01-23In the 2024 US federal AI inventory, of 76 AI systems in operation that described their monitoring, 47 relied on manual model updates and only 5 had a full pipeline with drift detectionMachine learning engineer
2025-01-21Hong Kong requires BIM on public works over $30 million, makes design models part of binding tenders from April 2025, and makes them mandatory for costing variations where practicableQuantity surveyor
2025-01-12Google says 80% of the code changes that landed in a migration of Ads IDs from 32 to 64 bits were fully AI-authored, while code review and rollout still needed a personBackend developer
2025-01-09GPT-4o answered about 92% of 1,050 registered dietitian exam questions correctly, but results varied with prompts and topics, a study foundDietitian / nutritionist
2025-01-01A user who only writes prompts is not the author of AI output, and purely AI-generated material is not protected, the US Copyright Office concludedWriter and author
2025-01-01Courts should never use machine translation for court events or to convey legal or procedural information, the National Center for State Courts advisedInterpreter
2025-01-01Prompts alone do not make a user the author of AI output, though AI-generated background artwork can sit inside a protected work, the US Copyright Office concludedIllustrator
2025-01-01Prompts alone do not give enough human control to make a user the author of AI output, and purely AI-generated material is not protected, the US Copyright Office concludedPhotographer
2025-01-01Hard-bargaining AI negotiators win bigger discounts, but suppliers trust collaborative ones more and want to deal with them again, experiments in procurement negotiation foundProcurement / supply chain specialist
December 2024
2024-12-31A model output that has not had a valuer's professional judgement applied is not a compliant valuation, the RICS global valuation standards stateProperty appraiser / valuer
2024-12-31A Danish survey of 25,000 workers linked to national registers found accountants reporting new tasks such as reviewing AI-generated financial outputs for accuracy and completenessAccountant / Bookkeeper
2024-12-31Deliveroo says it raised its share of stacked multi-pickup orders by about 50% in 2024 and let customers choose a safe place for deliveries they cannot receive, cutting riders' waitsDelivery rider / courier
2024-12-31TikTok reports that over 2024 the number of videos its moderators removed for shocking and graphic violations fell by 60% as its moderation technology took on more of themContent moderator
2024-12-31Prudential plc reported that around 74% of its new business policies were processed through auto-underwriting, with 96% submitted electronicallyInsurance underwriter
2024-12-31A UK cross-government trial gave 20,000 civil servants in 12 organisations Microsoft 365 Copilot for three months; users self-reported saving 26 minutes a day on average, mostly on draftingAdministrative assistant
2024-12-30A UK department's evaluation of a 1,000-licence Copilot pilot found that team and line-manager attitudes shaped how much staff used the tool, and self-led training beat formal sessionsBusiness systems owner
2024-12-25China's financial regulator requires a chief compliance officer whose rejected objections go to the board, with the right to say no and a duty to map changed laws onto internal rulesCompliance officer
2024-12-13Replica clauses signed without counsel or a union are void in New York when they let a digital replica replace in-person work, under a law signed in December 2024Actor and model
2024-12-09LinkedIn deployed a text-to-SQL assistant used by hundreds of employees across its business verticals, saying data experts had spent much of their time helping colleagues find dataBusiness systems owner
2024-12-05A transcript produced by a recorder — a person who carries out a recording service — is received as evidence in Queensland, though recording may be by equipmentCourt reporter
2024-12-04Generative AI music will account for around 60% of music libraries' revenues by 2028, putting 24% of music creators' revenues at risk, a study commissioned by CISAC estimatedMusician and composer
2024-12-02A fully self-guided robotic massage was introduced at its spa for hotel guests and locals, Four Seasons Hotel Baltimore saidMassage therapist
2024-12-02Producers may require animation employees to use AI under the US animation union's agreement, but may not require prompts in a way that displaces covered employeesAnimator and VFX artist
November 2024
2024-11-30California's SB 1446 would have limited grocery self-checkout to two stations per employee freed of other duties; it passed the Senate and died without Assembly action in November 2024Retail cashier / shop assistant
2024-11-30California's SB 1446 would have limited grocery self-checkout to two stations per employee freed of other duties; it passed the Senate and died without Assembly action in November 2024Retail salesperson / shop assistant
2024-11-24Even when the train drives itself, the driver remains responsible for closing the doors and dispatch: UK rail investigators on a passenger trapped and dragged at Ealing BroadwayMetro train driver
2024-11-21The FAA's final rule creating Part 194 requires a type rating for any pilot in command of a powered-lift (eVTOL) aircraftAirline pilot
2024-11-12Hong Kong's securities regulator treats AI-generated investment research and advice as high risk, expects a person to review the output before it reaches clients, and holds firms accountableFinancial analyst
2024-11-12On 632 enterprise data workflows drawn from real warehouses, a code agent solved 21.3% — against 91.2% on the academic version of the same taskData engineer
2024-11-12Coca-Cola's 2024 holiday campaign reimagined its 1995 'Holidays Are Coming' spot with films made by three AI production studios using generative video toolsVideo editor
October 2024
2024-10-31Microsoft's AI Red Team says it has run over 80 operations on more than 100 generative AI products, and that automation should not be used to take the human out of the loopSoftware tester / QA engineer
2024-10-29Alphabet's CEO said on the Q3 2024 earnings call that more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineersBackend developer
2024-10-29Alphabet's CEO said on the Q3 2024 earnings call that more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineersJunior software developer
2024-10-28Purchase loans of up to 90 percent loan-to-value became eligible for appraisal waivers, and up to 97 percent with an inspection, the US housing finance regulator announcedProperty appraiser / valuer
2024-10-25AI grading of physics exams reached a coefficient of determination of about 0.91 when handling half of the grading load, with the rest left to peopleUniversity lecturer
2024-10-23GE Aerospace says its AI blade inspection tool halved inspection times for one engine type, from 3 to 1.5 hours, and is extending it to more enginesAircraft maintenance technician
2024-10-23The EU Platform Work Directive requires that any decision to restrict, suspend or terminate a platform worker's account be taken by a human being, with a right to explanation and reviewDelivery rider / courier
2024-10-23Morgan Stanley gave its investment banking, trading and research staff an AI research assistant that turns query findings into a client email draft to be edited before sendingFinancial analyst
2024-10-15Walgreens reported 11 prescription micro-fulfillment centers in fiscal 2024, and listed their rollout among the initiatives reprioritised as it cut capital spendingPharmacy technician
2024-10-11Large refrigeration systems must use automatic leak detection that removes routine leak inspections, while repairs must be done by a certified technician, under a 2024 US EPA ruleHVAC technician
2024-10-09The best language models reached only 30.5% accuracy on DA-Code, a benchmark of agent-based data-science coding tasksData scientist
2024-10-09OpenAI built a benchmark of 75 Kaggle competitions to test agents at ML engineering; the best setup reached bronze-medal level in 16.9% of themMachine learning engineer
2024-10-04Drone inspections after lightning strikes were added to the maintenance manual for Delta's whole mainline fleet, with technicians and inspectors judging airworthiness from the imagesAircraft maintenance technician
2024-10-02Cleaning robots are expected, but digital tools for checking cleaning and inspecting buildings are little known and not spreading, a Japanese government-funded study foundCleaner / janitor
2024-10-01Faults such as wrong refrigerant charge are typically fixed by technicians, and long payback is a barrier to automatic fault detection in homes, a national laboratory reportedHVAC technician
2024-10-01Business requirements documentation is generated from legacy COBOL code by a deployed AI system at the US Social Security Administration, operational since October 2024Business analyst
September 2024
2024-09-27Every UK government service must use progressive enhancement and test by hand on older or lower-powered devices, says the government's Service ManualFrontend developer
2024-09-26Google DeepMind said AlphaChip-designed layouts are used in every TPU generation since 2020 and in Axion CPUs, and quoted MediaTek saying it extended AlphaChip for its own chipsChip design engineer
2024-09-26Google says its AlphaChip method has produced chip layouts used in the last three generations of its TPU accelerators, in hours rather than weeks or monthsElectrical engineer
2024-09-23Applicants must not use generative AI to produce a whole application or sections of one without human involvement and should declare its use, UK Research and Innovation's policy statesGrant writer / grants officer
2024-09-23Singapore's Supreme Court tells everyone who files in court, witnesses included, that they are fully responsible for their documents and must not use generative AI to generate evidenceQuantity surveyor
2024-09-22Experts largely preferred text edited by other experts over automatic edits, in a study of 1,057 AI-written paragraphs edited by professional writersEditor and proofreader
2024-09-19Uber put QueryGPT, a natural-language-to-SQL tool, into production for operations and support teams, reporting query authoring time down from about 10 to about 3 minutes (~300 daily users)Data analyst
2024-09-17Using a deceased performer's digital replica in an audiovisual work without consent carries liability of at least $10,000 in CaliforniaActor and model
2024-09-17Contract clauses letting a digital replica replace a performer's in-person work are unenforceable in California unless the performer was represented by a lawyer or a unionActor and model
2024-09-17California enacted AB 2602: a contract clause letting a digital replica of a performer's voice replace their work is unenforceable without specific uses or representationVoice actor
2024-09-13Examiners found no significant difference in overall scores between ChatGPT and anaesthesiology fellows on sample oral board exams, but identified the machine's answers in 23 of 24 modulesAnaesthesiologist / anaesthetist
2024-09-13At a community cancer centre, a compounding robot made about half of 8,210 chemotherapy doses with fewer failures than manual compounding, but took longer per dosePharmacy technician
2024-09-12The best AI agent solved only 34.12% of realistic data-analysis tasks on DSBench, a benchmark of 466 analysis and 74 modelling tasks from real competitionsData scientist
2024-09-09AI models used to analyse clinical trial data count as part of the statistical analysis, and models that keep learning during a trial are not accepted, the European Medicines Agency statesStatistician
August 2024
2024-08-30A bricklaying robot would lay all the brickwork on 8 of 60 homes in a pilot, with a bricklayer filling mortar and raking out joints, Dutch builder Heembouw saidBricklayer / blocklayer
2024-08-27Only 23% of UK sites could print sample labels at the patient's side, and fully electronic sites had 46.9% fewer rejected samples but still had wrong blood in tube, a national audit foundPhlebotomist
2024-08-23Multimodal AI models struggled to retrieve the relevant rules, recognise components in CAD images and analyse engineering drawings on DesignQA, a benchmark built on Formula SAE rulesMechanical engineer
2024-08-23Australia's Treasury found staff in its 14-week Copilot trial used the tool less than expected, citing high initial expectations, technology limits and a lack of education and trainingBusiness systems owner
2024-08-22AI ran children's speech drill practice after a clinician led the preparation, and its judgements of each attempt largely matched a clinician's, a five-child ChainingAI study foundSpeech-language pathologist / speech and language therapist
2024-08-22Buying fake followers, views or likes, including those generated by bots, is a violation when the buyer knew or should have known they were fake, under a 2024 US federal ruleContent creator
2024-08-12Hiscox says 57% of its London sabotage and terrorism business is supported by an AI lead-underwriting tool that assesses the risk and calculates a price for an underwriter to reviewInsurance underwriter
2024-08-11The Olympic host broadcaster used AI to create highlight videos automatically in several formats and languages across 14 sports at Paris 2024, with the same number of editors as at Tokyo 2020Video editor
2024-08-07Lenders using automated valuation models for home loans must adopt quality control standards, while appraisers' own use is excluded, under a final rule of six US agenciesProperty appraiser / valuer
2024-08-06A US inspector general found staff meant to review 119 office bots' logs weekly for errors were never given access, and the agency then dropped the weekly reviews from its policyOperations coordinator
2024-08-05Food-photo apps identified between 97% and 46% of food components, and their automatic energy estimates were inaccurate, a comparison of seven apps foundDietitian / nutritionist
2024-08-04IATSE's 2024 Basic Agreement added Article XLIX, keeping work done by prompting or overseeing an AI system inside covered union workVideo editor
2024-08-02A county's AI system resolved 2,920 of 9,635 non-emergency calls in April 2024 without a call-taker, its 911 director told the US National Telecommunications and Information AdministrationEmergency dispatcher
2024-08-01AI that assists a judicial authority in researching and applying the law is high-risk, with obligations applying from December 2027, under the EU Artificial Intelligence ActJudge / magistrate
2024-08-01Meta's SAM 2 segmented video more accurately with 3x fewer interactions than prior approaches, the core step in rotoscopingAnimator and VFX artist
2024-08-01The EU AI Act requires the data behind a high-risk AI system to be examined for bias and documented as fit for its intended purpose (Article 10), from 2 December 2027Machine learning engineer
2024-08-01The EU AI Act makes whoever puts their own name or trademark on a high-risk AI system its provider, with the full provider obligations (Article 25), applying from December 2027Partnerships / channel manager
2024-08-01Amazon says it moved tens of thousands of its own production Java applications from Java 8 or 11 to Java 17 with an agent, and estimates the manual equivalent at over 4,500 years of development workBackend developer
2024-08-01The EU AI Act requires a deployer that controls a high-risk system's input data to ensure it is relevant and sufficiently representative (Article 26(4)), from 2 December 2027Business systems owner
2024-08-01The EU AI Act requires deployers of high-risk AI systems to assign human oversight to natural persons with the necessary competence, training, authority and support (Article 26), from 2 December 2027AI implementation lead
July 2024
2024-07-31ByteDance researchers report their CLASI system scored 81.3% and 78.0% on their own quality metric for Chinese–English simultaneous interpreting of real-world speechInterpreter
2024-07-26China's Ministry of Finance requires accounting vouchers not reviewed automatically to be reviewed by a person, and automatic review rules to be traceable and signed off when set or changedAccountant / Bookkeeper
2024-07-25Contractors using a smart diagnostic app said it helps technicians find more faults to repair, and 83 percent reported fewer callbacks, a DOE-funded study foundHVAC technician
2024-07-19An automated content validator with a logic error and 12 static test cases let a faulty update through to millions of machines; the fix was staged rollout by designDevOps engineer / platform engineer / SRE
2024-07-11New York's insurance regulator expects insurers to test AI underwriting for unfair discrimination before use and regularly after, and to tell applicants why an AI process turned them awayInsurance underwriter
2024-07-10A campaign generated entirely by generative AI, trained on real photos of the garments, was created for Mango's teen line, the fashion group saidActor and model
2024-07-02Figma disabled its Make Designs prompt-to-UI feature a week after launch when 'weather app' prompts produced screens closely resembling Apple's; the CEO cited insufficient QA; relaunched Sept 2024Product / UX designer
2024-07-01Pilot driving schools may use in-car AI teaching equipment that takes over part or all of the instructor's guidance on closed training grounds, Shanghai's transport commission saidDriving instructor
June 2024
2024-06-30Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board in Wales reports using an AI autocoder for referral, waiting-list and emergency department activity, with 20.7% more episodes coded and all its coders retainedMedical coder
2024-06-28Detroit's settlement of a wrongful-arrest case bars police from seeking an arrest solely on a facial recognition lead plus a lineup, requiring independent reliable evidencePolice officer
2024-06-27Aerial and remote-sensing methods were extended from forest to farmland for official cadastral surveys, while boundaries still rest on owners' confirmation, Japan's land ministry saidLand surveyor
2024-06-26Designers rated input and customisation as most important but gave AI the lowest scores there, showing a significant gap between AI capabilities and designer needs, a study of 19 foundFashion designer
2024-06-2694% of AI-written exam submissions went undetected at the University of Reading, and on average scored half a grade boundary higher than real studentsUniversity lecturer
2024-06-26Morgan Stanley Wealth Management announced AI @ Morgan Stanley Debrief, which drafts financial advisers' meeting notes, action items and follow-up emails, and saves a record to SalesforceFinancial adviser / financial planner
2024-06-13Data for high-risk AI must follow governance practices covering cleaning and bias checks, and such systems must be effectively overseeable by people, under the EU's AI ActData scientist
May 2024
2024-05-31Material generated by AI from only a simple prompt is not a copyrighted work, while creative human additions or corrections generally are, Japan's copyright office saidAnimator and VFX artist
2024-05-31Japan's Hokkaido Transport Bureau approved a vehicle on a Kamishihoro bus route as a Level 4 autonomous vehicle that needs no driver, for about 630 metres at up to about 12 km/hBus driver
2024-05-30Output from paid AI legal research tools by LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters contained hallucinations 17% to 33% of the time in a Stanford evaluationParalegal
2024-05-30Leading AI legal research tools from LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters hallucinated between 17% and 33% of the time, a Stanford study foundJudge / magistrate
2024-05-28Generative cartoon interpolation with ToonCrafter handles large, non-linear motion between frames, with a sketch encoder letting a person steer the resultAnimator and VFX artist
2024-05-28Klarna said it generated 1,000+ marketing images with generative AI in Q1 2024, cutting the image development cycle from six weeks to seven days and image production costs by $6 million a yearGraphic designer
2024-05-28Klarna cut sales and marketing spend 11% in Q1 2024 while running more campaigns, attributing 37% of the savings (about $10 million annualised) to generative AI for images, copy and translationMarketing specialist
2024-05-27Video surveillance became mandatory on Singapore construction sites with contracts of $5 million and above from June 2024, alongside higher maximum fines for safety breachesConstruction worker
2024-05-23An AI agent called AnalogCoder designed 20 analog circuits in its benchmark, five more than GPT-4o; its authors say models cannot yet design highly complex analog circuitsChip design engineer
2024-05-23An AI agent called AnalogCoder designed 20 analog circuits in its benchmark, five more than GPT-4o; its authors say models cannot yet design highly complex analog circuitsElectrical engineer
2024-05-21L'Oréal's generative content lab is building brand custom models trained on each brand's essential codes to generate brand-compliant images, with two brands using them firstGraphic designer
2024-05-17UK law: prescription-only veterinary medicines need a vet's prescription, and the prescribing vet must first carry out a clinical assessment of an animal under their careVeterinarian
2024-05-16Maryland's 2024 law bars facial recognition results from being the sole basis for probable cause or identification, and requires a trained person to verify every result firstPolice officer
2024-05-16Microsoft's Bing team reports using LLMs with expert human labellers for most of its offline relevance labels since late 2022, finding them more accurate than third-party labellersMachine learning engineer
2024-05-15Agreement among 21 pathologists scoring PD-L1 in breast cancer rose from 0.618 by eye to 0.931 with AI assistance, a multi-institutional ring study foundPathologist
2024-05-12Singapore's public housing board opened a portal where owners can list and market resale flats themselves or through an agent, with verified listings and alerts that match buyers' preferencesReal estate agent
2024-05-06Machine translation of critical health documents must be reviewed by a qualified human translator, and covered entities must use qualified translators, under the Section 1557 ruleTranslator / Interpreter
2024-05-06Covered health programs must offer a qualified interpreter, and machine translation of critical text needs review by a qualified human translator, under the Section 1557 ruleInterpreter
April 2024
2024-04-30Dental instruments are cleaned with washer-disinfectors and benchtop sterilisers operated by dental nurses or decontamination operators, Scotland's dental decontamination guidance saysDental assistant / dental nurse
2024-04-30PMI's 2024 survey of 500 project professionals who already use generative AI: 53% use it to summarise and review content, 46% for planning and monitoringProject manager
2024-04-27GPT-4 drafts of a software requirements specification matched an entry-level engineer's quality and took 7 to 47 times less time once requirements were specifiedBusiness analyst
2024-04-24The US Justice Department's 2024 web accessibility rule requires captions on public entities' video and notes that automatic captions generally need editing to reach the required accuracyVideo editor
2024-04-23Google enabled ML build repair for all its developers after a randomised trial across half of them; about 34% of developers hitting a broken build in a month apply its suggested fixesJunior software developer
2024-04-18Handing travel planning to a formal solver lifted success to 93.9%, against 10% for o1-preview alone, a study reportedTravel agent / travel advisor
2024-04-16Remote completion and interim inspections are not barred by the building law but are still limited, Japan's housing bureau said in issuing a guideline for themBuilding inspector
2024-04-04NVIDIA's domain-adapted ChipNeMo-70B outperformed GPT-4 at answering engineers' questions and writing design-tool scripts, and was competitive at summarising bugsChip design engineer
2024-04-01Allegheny County's own account of its child-welfare screening tool: supervisors override its default recommendation regularly, and the score is hidden once a case is openedSocial worker
2024-04-01Japan's transport ministry stated a target of cutting the people needed on construction sites by at least 30% by fiscal 2040Construction worker
2024-04-01Japan's health ministry cut the required staffing ratio from 1 to 0.9 per three residents for facilities running multiple monitoring technologiesCare worker / nursing assistant
March 2024
2024-03-31In a managed-detection firm's SOC, 45 analysts sent 3,090 queries to GPT-4 over ten months; only 4% asked for a verdict such as 'is this malicious?', the rest sought explanationSecurity analyst (SOC)
2024-03-25A discount chain limited self-checkout to five items, converted self-checkout in about 9,000 stores to assisted checkout and removed it from about 300, its annual report saysRetail cashier / shop assistant
2024-03-25A discount chain limited self-checkout to five items, converted self-checkout in about 9,000 stores to assisted checkout and removed it from about 300, its annual report saysRetail salesperson / shop assistant
2024-03-20Harvard's CS50 made AI teaching tools available to about 500 on-campus students, and 88% of sampled curricular answers were correctUniversity lecturer
2024-03-18Creators must disclose realistic altered or synthetic content such as a generated voice narrating a video, but not AI used for scripts, ideas or captions, YouTube announcedContent creator
2024-03-14An LLM agent improved user stories for agile teams at Austrian Post Group IT in a pilot, but its output required manual validation by the product ownerBusiness analyst
February 2024
2024-02-27The strongest model reached 58% accuracy on data-based statistical and causal reasoning questions and struggled to combine causal knowledge with data, the QRData benchmark foundStatistician
2024-02-27The strongest model reached 58% accuracy on statistical and causal questions from textbooks and papers, and models struggled to use causal knowledge and data togetherData scientist
2024-02-27Klarna's AI assistant handled 2.3 million conversations — two-thirds of its customer-service chats — in its first month; resolution time fell from 11 to under 2 minutesCustomer service representative
2024-02-26A semi-detached house in Rotterdam laid by a bricklaying robot was handed to its first residents, Dutch builder Heddes Bouw saidBricklayer / blocklayer
2024-02-24Musicians include only humans under the US film and television musicians' agreement, which requires notice and payment when a score uses generative AI prompted by their recordingsMusician and composer
2024-02-19Only one of 17 studies of massage robots in healthcare was a randomised controlled trial, and robots may serve as an adjunct, a Mayo Clinic-led systematic review foundMassage therapist
2024-02-14Meta reported deploying TestGen-LLM at Instagram and Facebook test-a-thons: it improved 11.5% of the classes it was applied to and engineers accepted 73% of its recommended test cases into productionSoftware tester / QA engineer
2024-02-08Insurers in US public programmes must offer a prior authorisation API from 2027 that tells providers what needs approval and what documents to send, and must decide within set deadlinesMedical assistant / clinic assistant
2024-02-08AI-generated voices count as 'artificial' under US robocall law, so automated sales calls using them need the called person's prior express consent, the FCC ruledSales / account manager
2024-02-07People who install, service or leak-check fluorinated-gas equipment must be certified, and checks can be less frequent with a detection system, under EU Regulation 2024/573HVAC technician
2024-02-06A 20-minute drone flight surveys sites that would take a field surveyor a whole day, and its drone team flew 1,300 flights in 2023 alongside over 200 surveyors, Ordnance Survey saidLand surveyor
2024-02-05NHS talking-therapy services using an AI self-referral chatbot saw referrals rise 15% against 6% in control services, in a study of 129,400 patients by the chatbot's makersPsychologist
2024-02-02On a benchmark of real-world travel planning, GPT-4 met all the constraints only 0.6% of the time, researchers foundTravel agent / travel advisor
January 2024
2024-01-30A robotic bartender at Singapore's Changi Airport was the first robot bartender deployed at an airport, its maker Makr Shakr saidBartender / barista
2024-01-30Among about 15,000 German and French music creators, 35% had used AI, including 52% of advertising-music and 48% of library-music makers, a GEMA/SACEM study foundMusician and composer
2024-01-30China's banking regulator requires banks that approve personal loans automatically online to keep a human re-review with set triggers, and to stop automated approval where it misses riskLoan officer / credit officer
2024-01-26Wireless carriers must route 911 calls by the caller's location so that millions more reach the right centre without transfer or delay, the US Federal Communications Commission ruledEmergency dispatcher
2024-01-24Britain's national cyber authority assessed that AI will almost certainly increase the volume of cyber attacks over two years, with the uplift concentrated in reconnaissance and social engineeringSecurity analyst (SOC)
2024-01-19Driven trains on Paris metro Line 4 have been replaced one for one by automatic trains, with a control centre equipped to talk to passengers on trains and in stations at any timeMetro train driver
2024-01-09Each bundled 'one thing' service must name a lead department and supporting departments: China's State Council also requires staffed online and offline assisted serviceGovernment service clerk
2024-01-02General-purpose language models were wrong about random federal court cases between 58% and 88% of the time, researchers foundJudge / magistrate
December 2023
2023-12-31USDA: guidance auto-steering was used on 70% of large US crop farms and 52% of midsize ones in 2023, with half of users citing saved labour timeFarmer
2023-12-31UITP counted 2,279 km of automated metro lines worldwide at the end of 2023, which is 11% of all metro kilometres, and sixty urban areas with at least one such line against thirteen in 2000Metro train driver
2023-12-31Lemonade's annual report states that as of 31 December 2023, 98% of the time its claims bot takes the first notice of loss and pays or declines the claim without human interventionInsurance claims handler
2023-12-29All but one of 19 robotic lawn mowers tested had to physically touch hedgehog carcasses to detect them, and some models could injure hedgehogs, researchers foundGardener / landscaper
2023-12-18Consultants produce one coordinated BIM model for regulatory approval instead of separate versions of building plans, under Singapore's CORENET X soft-launched in December 2023Drafter / CAD technician
2023-12-17China's express delivery rules forbid couriers from putting a parcel into a smart locker or pickup station without the recipient's consent, effective March 2024Delivery rider / courier
2023-12-10GPT-4 passed 43.5% of 156 human-written Verilog problems on the first try in VerilogEval, whose authors say it is confined to boilerplate code for small designsChip design engineer
2023-12-10GPT-4 passed 43.5% of human-written problems on the first try in VerilogEval, a benchmark of 156 hardware-description problems that leaves out power, performance and areaElectrical engineer
2023-12-07Using generative AI chatbots for legal analysis is not recommended because they generate text by probability, New Zealand's courts told judges and judicial staffJudge / magistrate
November 2023
2023-11-21At Hyundai's Singapore innovation centre, a digital twin platform integrates people, robots and AI, with about half of all tasks done by 200 robotsIndustrial engineer
2023-11-21China's transport ministry requires an automated vehicle in urban public bus or road passenger service to carry one driver or safety officer on boardBus driver
2023-11-21China's transport ministry says autonomous road freight should in principle carry an onboard safety officer, and bans autonomous vehicles from carrying dangerous goodsTruck driver
2023-11-21China's transport ministry requires an onboard safety officer in conditionally and highly automated taxis, and caps remote safety officers at one per three fully driverless taxisRide-hail / taxi driver
2023-11-20World Press Photo's entry rules allow no synthetic or artificially generated images and no generative fill in post-productionPhotographer
2023-11-13Microsoft says an LLM-based incident tool's data-collection part has been used by over 30 of its teams for four years, and its root-cause prediction by one incident teamBackend developer
2023-11-10After the Robodebt Royal Commission, Australia's government accepted that staff must engage with a recipient before a vulnerability flag is removed, and that automatic expiry of such flags be removedGovernment service clerk
2023-11-10UK supermarket chain Booths removed self-checkouts from 26 of its 28 stores and returned to staffed tills, citing machines that were slow, unreliable and impersonal and trouble with loose produceRetail cashier / shop assistant
October 2023
2023-10-18Arm rehabilitation after stroke should not include robot-assisted training, as its benefits did not outweigh therapy of similar intensity, England's NICE guideline saidOccupational therapist
2023-10-18Computer programmes for word finding after stroke may be considered alongside face-to-face speech and language therapy, not instead of it, England's NICE guideline saidSpeech-language pathologist / speech and language therapist
September 2023
2023-09-28Line in-betweening is time-consuming and expensive work that can benefit from automation, researchers wrote in presenting a method that keeps line structure intactAnimator and VFX artist
2023-09-26Alibaba has been exploring a replenishment system in which algorithmic recommendations are final, after finding its algorithms beat human buyers on stock-outs and inventorySupply chain planner
2023-09-25Stories generated by language models passed 3–10 times fewer creativity tests than stories by professional authors, an expert assessment foundWriter and author
2023-09-25Neither traditional nor generative AI is a writer under the US screenwriters' 2023 agreement, and a company may not require a writer to use ChatGPT to write literary materialWriter and author
2023-09-15A deployed model at the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing forecasts vendor performance and item stockouts to support inventory planning, operational since September 2023Supply chain planner
2023-09-07Caesars Entertainment told investors that attackers got into its network through a social engineering attack on its outsourced IT support vendor, and took its loyalty programme databaseIT support specialist / helpdesk
August 2023
2023-08-28When the UK's flight-plan system failed on 28 August 2023, processing fell from about 800 plans an hour to about 60 done by hand; the CAA's review judged scaling manual capacity up not justifiedAir traffic controller
2023-08-15The Associated Press does not allow generative AI to add or subtract any elements of its photos, and will not transmit AI images suspected of being false depictionsPhotographer
2023-08-10On RTLLM's 30 larger design tasks, GPT-4 produced 15 functionally correct designs, counting a design as correct if one of five attempts passed its testbenchChip design engineer
2023-08-01An AI companion robot placed with more than 800 older New Yorkers is reported to cut loneliness by 95%, with users interacting over 30 times a day, in a state pilotCare worker / nursing assistant
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2023-07-26A creator's material connection to a brand must be disclosed clearly and conspicuously, and endorsers may be liable for failing to, under the US endorsement guides revised in 2023Content creator
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2023-06-30Allegheny County's Hello Baby uses a model to flag newborns' families for voluntary outreach: 6,218 of 30,682 flagged in 2020-23, with a social worker or family coach for the highest tierSocial worker
2023-06-29A machine-learning model beat practising clinicians at spotting a hidden kind of heart attack on ECGs and, with emergency staff, helped reclassify one in three chest-pain patientsParamedic / EMT
2023-06-29South Australia's electricity regulations require the results of installation testing to be recorded on an electronic certificate of compliance issued by a registered electrical workerElectrician
2023-06-16Significant AI-generated elements require the explicit permission of a senior editor at the Guardian, under its published approach to generative AIEditor and proofreader
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2023-05-31The EU Deforestation Regulation obliges operators to prove their products are deforestation-free, including the geolocation of every plot where the commodities were producedProcurement / supply chain specialist
2023-05-18GPT-4 gave incorrect information about Singapore's Master Plan and could not give accurate setbacks and heights in an early test, the planning authority foundUrban planner
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2023-04-11The international ethics code for accountants now requires a professional accountant who intends to use technology's output to exercise professional judgement over it, and names automation biasAccountant / Bookkeeper
2023-04-06Employers may not use an automated hiring tool unless it had a bias audit within the past year by an auditor independent of the tool, under New York City's rulesData scientist
2023-04-04Errors of agreement, coreference and tense across sentences were not effectively corrected by ChatGPT, a document-level evaluation foundEditor and proofreader
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2023-03-29Landscape companies saw 80% savings in man-hours after switching to autonomous robotic lawn mowers, Singapore's national parks board saidGardener / landscaper
2023-03-28Walgreens reported operating nine automated micro-fulfillment centers that fill prescriptions for about 3,600 of its storesPharmacy technician
2023-03-22Tests of AI-generated models to supplement human models were planned by Levi Strauss & Co., which then said it was not scaling back live photo shootsActor and model
February 2023
2023-02-20Singapore's National Library Board opened a fully self-service 'Grab-n-Go' library in a mall, where patrons borrow by scanning their ID and walking out through a gantryLibrarian
2023-02-19Pathologists will still be needed to produce the overall assessment, while AI could take routine work such as searching lymph nodes, the UK's Royal College of Pathologists saidPathologist
2023-02-17Self-pour cards or tokens must be issued or topped up by bar staff trained in responsible service of alcohol, under a New South Wales code that is a licence conditionBartender / barista
2023-02-15Machine-written spam submissions surged at Clarkesworld and the science-fiction magazine temporarily closed submissions, its editor reported in February 2023Writer and author
2023-02-13No machine interpretation app met the non-inferiority threshold against professional medical interpreters for simple clinical exchanges, UCSF researchers foundInterpreter
2023-02-09NASA Goddard uses AI generative design to produce mission hardware in as little as an hour or two, and says the algorithms need a human eye because they can make structures too thinMechanical engineer
2023-02-07Customers have completed the first 100 commercial tape-outs using its DSO.ai design-space optimisation tool, the chip-design software vendor Synopsys saidChip design engineer
January 2023
2023-01-20Intelligent robot coach cars and motion simulators are being piloted in selected driving schools from 2023 to 2025, Guangdong's provincial transport department saidDriving instructor
2023-01-10An Austrian hospital ran a model in its information system that flags patients at risk of swallowing problems, but it caught only 44.4% of at-risk geriatric patients, a study foundSpeech-language pathologist / speech and language therapist
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2022-12-21FDA ended its pandemic telemedicine exception in 2023, stating that the federal vet-client-patient relationship, which requires examining the animal, cannot be met solely through telemedicineVeterinarian
2022-12-21Japan's largest family-restaurant group announced it had put 3,000 floor-service robots into about 2,100 of its roughly 2,980 domestic restaurantsWaiter / restaurant server
November 2022
2022-11-29Generic cloud speech recognition's word error rate remains relatively high on UK court hearings, researchers found, while a legal-domain model improved on it by 8–9%Court reporter
2022-11-21Flightpath management should remain with the pilots at all times, not the automation: US regulator's 2022 guidance to airlines, noting pilots now fly by hand only brieflyAirline pilot
2022-11-08A chatbot negotiates and closes agreements with 68% of the tail-end suppliers approached, Walmart's procurement executives and academic co-authors reportProcurement / supply chain specialist
October 2022
2022-10-14An AI answered ambulance ECGs from 14 fire stations in central Taiwan in 37.2 seconds on average, against 113.2 seconds for on-call physicians elsewhere, a field study reportedParamedic / EMT
2022-10-01Pharmacists' median dispensing time per prescription fell from 60 to 23 seconds after a robotic dispensing system run by support staff arrived at a Japanese hospitalPharmacist
2022-10-01A dispensing robot run by pharmacy support staff cut pharmacists' median dispensing time per prescription from 60 to 23 seconds at a Japanese hospitalPharmacy technician
2022-10-01Singapore's infocomm regulator assessed that service-level and system-performance duties would move onto DevOps teams, and named automation and orchestration engineers among the growing rolesDevOps engineer / platform engineer / SRE
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2021-12-31Singapore's Animals and Birds Act says that, apart from authorised officers, a person must not treat, vaccinate or inoculate any animal or bird without a licence from the Director-GeneralVeterinarian
2021-12-23The US Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act presumes goods linked to Xinjiang are barred unless the importer shows by clear and convincing evidence that no forced labour was usedProcurement / supply chain specialist
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2021-11-19Medicare set a national payment for automated retinal image analysis, saying such technology is substituting for and/or augmenting physician work, in its 2022 fee schedule ruleOptometrist
2021-11-15SCDF's robotics staff officer forecast nearly 50% fewer firefighters committed into high-risk areas once its two-tier robot approach was operationalFirefighter
2021-11-05Machine-learning coding entered Labour Force Survey production in October 2021 after a check of 13,665 estimates found no breaks, Statistics Canada reportedStatistician
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2021-09-27Intraoral scanning was faster than conventional dental impressions with similar prosthodontic outcomes but more retakes, a systematic review of 17 clinical studies foundDental assistant / dental nurse
2021-09-21AI for prostate biopsies was authorised only as an adjunct whose output should not be used as the primary diagnosis, the US FDA decided in 2021Pathologist
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2021-06-21An external validation of the Epic Sepsis Model at Michigan Medicine found an AUC of 0.63, missing 67% of sepsis patients while alerting on 18% of all hospitalised patientsRegistered nurse
2021-06-09Google researchers reported in Nature that their reinforcement-learning method generates chip floorplans superior or comparable to those produced by humans in under six hoursChip design engineer
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2020-09-30At a cancer hospital, AI built to flag incidental pulmonary embolism on routine CT cut radiologists' missed rate for that finding from 44.8% to 2.6%, across 11,736 scansRadiologist
2020-09-09A single monthly payroll declaration, mandatory since January 2017, replaces nearly 80 separate procedures, France's official social-declarations portal saysPayroll specialist / payroll clerk
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2020-06-30Sealed interior design documents for a permit must carry a state-issued seal, and designers may not take supplier compensation without the client's knowledge, under Florida lawInterior designer
2020-06-16Singapore's aviation authority first authorised drones for general visual inspection of aircraft, with algorithms flagging defects to assist the inspectorsAircraft maintenance technician
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2020-04-01Japan's transport ministry made camera and radar calibration a licensed category of work needing certification, a trained supervisor and a scan toolAuto mechanic / vehicle technician
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2020-03-18England requires private landlords, when an electrical inspection finds a problem, to have further investigative or remedial work carried out by a qualified person within 28 daysElectrician
2020-03-17A machine-learning early warning system cut the median time of low blood pressure during surgery from 32.7 to 8.0 minutes in a 68-patient single-centre trialAnaesthesiologist / anaesthetist
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2019-12-01Full laboratory automation cut the manual handling of each sample by 77.6% and reduced staff by 2.5 to 3.0 full-time equivalents at a Seoul hospital labMedical laboratory technician
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2019-09-30Self-managed computer speech therapy improved word finding after stroke 16.2% more than usual care but did not improve conversation, the Big CACTUS randomised trial foundSpeech-language pathologist / speech and language therapist
2019-09-19Crews facing multiple alerts from a faulty sensor lacked tools to find the most effective response, and pilots' reactions did not match the design's assumptions: NTSB on the 737 MAXAirline pilot
2019-09-02DBS opened digiPortfolio to Singapore investors: managed portfolios sold online from SGD 1,000 to customers with no prior investment experience, built with its investment strategistsFinancial adviser / financial planner
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2019-03-01Employers, unless exempt, must notify the tax office of payments to employees, in many cases each pay run, under Australia's 2019 single touch payroll lawPayroll specialist / payroll clerk
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2016-04-15Singapore's Allied Health Professions Act makes radiography, radiation dose included, a prescribed profession that only a duly qualified person may practise under a radiographer's titleRadiographer / radiologic technologist
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2016-01-01After total laboratory automation, a Riyadh hospital's core lab needed six fewer full-time staff and fewer senior staff, and turnaround fell 32%Medical laboratory technician
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2001-08-06At US repair stations, only an appropriately certificated mechanic or repairman may sign off final inspections and maintenance releasesAircraft maintenance technician
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1964-04-23The maintenance record must carry the signature, certificate number and kind of certificate of the person approving the work, and that signature is the approval for return to serviceAircraft maintenance technician
1964-04-23Only the regulator and the certificated persons it names may approve an aircraft for return to service after maintenance, US aviation rules sayAircraft maintenance technician
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