U.S. employers added a modest 29,000 positions in September as the national unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%, signaling a softening labor market.

A new working paper from the Anthropic Institute explores how artificial intelligence could expand the U.S. economy by 2030 while threatening labor market disruption.

The United States labor market suffered an unexpected setback in July as nonfarm payrolls dropped by 23,000 and previous months saw severe downward revisions.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma was appointed to a Federal Reserve task force examining AI and jobs, an assignment that has drawn public attention due to her concurrent oversight of a 3,200-person workforce reduction.