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Since the rise of AI and automation, white-collar jobs are increasingly at risk, prompting a shift toward blue-collar trades. In 2025, 40% of young university graduates are choosing careers like plumbing, construction, and electrical work, which cannot be automated.

These jobs offer growing salaries—plumbers earning up to $99,000, electricians $98,000, and construction workers $75,000—outpacing many office roles. With office job postings declining and blue-collar demand rising, vocational training has become a cost-effective alternative to expensive university degrees.

Apprenticeships and practical skills are now valued, offering financial stability and career growth in an evolving labor market.

According to the video, the AI bubble is not about the end of artificial intelligence, but rather the end of its role as a vehicle for economic speculation. The video compares this situation to the dot-com bubble.

The speaker notes that tech giants are currently propping up the US stock market. Clear signs of a bubble in publicly traded AI stocks include investors actively looking for reasons to sell their shares. If the AI bubble bursts, it’s expected to cause a significant decrease in GDP, as the stock market has been shrinking for a while if these companies are excluded. The speaker speculates that trillions of dollars in investment money might leave the US economy and be invested in foreign countries like China or the UAE. The video also mentions that if the bubble bursts, the general public, including those with 401(k) retirement accounts, could be negatively affected and left “holding the bag.”

The latest innovation in the AI workplace revolution features agents that make decisions, and act alone, with minimal human involvement. Working It editor Isabel Berwick looks beyond the hype to find out what agentic AI means for the future of work.

There are increasing reports of people suffering “AI psychosis”, Microsoft’s head of artificial intelligence (AI), Mustafa Suleyman, has warned.

In a series of posts on X, he wrote that “seemingly conscious AI” are keeping him “awake at night” and said they have societal impact even though the technology is not conscious in any human definition of the term.

“There’s zero evidence of AI consciousness today. But if people just perceive it as conscious, they will believe that perception as reality,” he wrote.

Related to this is the rise of a new condition called “AI psychosis”: a non-clinical term describing incidents where people increasingly rely on AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Grok and then become convinced that something imaginary has become real.

Google’s brand-new AI image generator Nano Banana is here and it’s about to change filmmaking forever. In this tutorial, I’ll show you step-by-step how to use Google’s Nano Banana for completely free and how to build it into your AI filmmaking workflow.

Context engineering builds smarter AI systems by orchestrating RAG, memory, and agent collaboration. Martin Keen explains how multi-agent systems combine techniques like role assignment and chain-of-thought prompting for accurate, dynamic responses.

CNBC’s Julia Boorstin joins ‘Money Movers’ to discuss Hollywood’s high stake AI investment, particularly for visual effects.

For some people who are developing relationships with AI tools, the technology is inducing delusions or distorted beliefs, a phenomenon referred to as “AI psychosis.” Dr. John Torous, psychiatrist for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, joined “The Takeout” to discuss.

Music generated by artificial intelligence, which can take only two minutes to produce, has sparked ethical concerns in the industry.