Current developments affecting technology employment, AI adoption, software investment, infrastructure and pricing. Updated as the evidence changes.
The Federal Trade Commission has opened a probe into leading AI developers. Businesses using agents now have a clearer reason to treat permissions, logging and human approval as operating controls.
SofteningLaborInformation employment fell by 23,000 jobs, including losses in computing infrastructure, publishing and broadcasting.
AcceleratingAICensus data show very large Information-sector firms among the heaviest AI users, while most adopters use AI in only a few functions.
DevelopingInvestmentBEA says second-quarter investment growth was led in part by information-processing equipment and software.
EasingPricingThe producer-price index for application software publishing was 1.2% below a year earlier and fell 3.3% in August.