AI IMPACTTHE HUMAN SIDE OF AI
Clear reporting on the people, work, communities, and decisions being reshaped by artificial intelligence.
THE DAILY DESK
Lead report
Google's longest spam purge in a year ran thirteen days and named no policy. A free Madrid concert calendar lost 95% of its Google traffic mid-rollout.
Oct 20, 2026 AI Impact News
On the desk
Anthropic's own data shows junior technical hires collapsing from 27% to 9% while Claude agents log six times the hours. The missing experts come later.
Oct 19, 2026 AI Impact News
On the desk
FICO cut roughly 570 jobs and blamed AI. Its mortgage-score monopoly just cracked open at FHFA, and the fine print shows competition forced the whole cut.
Oct 18, 2026 AI Impact News
THE IMPACT TEST
What does this change for a real person — at work, at home, or in the community?
OUR EDITORIAL LENS
AI coverage often stops at the demo. We follow the second-order effects: the job redesigned, the neighborhood burdened, the patient helped, the decision made opaque.
Our newsroom brings together negative and positive impact stories, grounded in public evidence and written for people who want to understand what is actually changing.
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