The AI boom triggers a critical shortage of 81,000 electricians annually through 2034 as tech giants like Google desperately compete for skilled tradespeople to build data centers, offering higher wages while battling housing and hospital projects for the same workers.
Slack launches a completely rebuilt AI-powered Slackbot that reads users' work conversations and files to provide instant catch-ups, personalized drafts, and complex document analysis, rolling out to premium customers today with enterprise-grade security protections.
Anthropic launches Claude Cowork, an autonomous AI assistant that performs desktop tasks like file cleanup and report creation on macOS, targeting enterprise customers and directly challenging OpenAI's workplace dominance with safety-focused AI solutions.
Chamber launches revolutionary AI platform that automatically optimizes enterprise GPU usage, promising to eliminate $240 billion in annual waste from idle computing power while boosting workload capacity by 50% through real-time resource orchestration.
Salesforce launches an upgraded AI-powered Slackbot today that schedules meetings and answers workflow questions using conversation context and company data, available exclusively for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers with enterprise-grade security features.
Software engineers abandon traditional line-by-line code reviews as AI agents now generate code at volumes too massive for human inspection, forcing teams to shift from syntax checking to behavior testing in live environments while infrastructure scrambles to handle unprecedented parallel development workflows.
Hypercubic unveils an AI platform to modernize critical 1960s COBOL mainframe systems that still power 70% of major enterprises, addressing the crisis of retiring engineers taking decades of institutional knowledge from undocumented systems running banks, airlines, and government operations.
SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin warns at CES 2026 that artificial intelligence poses existential threats to 160,000 entertainment workers, with voiceover artists and background actors facing job displacement from digital replicas as AI advancement creates workforce injury deemed 'an absolute certainty.'
Snowflake announces its largest acquisition ever, purchasing observability platform Observe for $1 billion to help users monitor data systems and resolve issues 10 times faster through unified telemetry data collection.
Lenovo launches Qira, a revolutionary AI super agent that seamlessly coordinates tasks across PCs, smartphones, tablets, and wearables, while simultaneously releasing next-generation AI-powered devices including Aura Edition computers with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, flagship Motorola phones, rollable displays, AI glasses, and comprehensive enterprise solutions for manufacturing and sports …