Industries adopting artificial intelligence at higher rates are experiencing weaker employment growth and higher unemployment, according to Goldman Sachs research released Monday.

Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius identified statistically significant relationships between AI adoption and worsening labor-market conditions across U.S. nonmanufacturing industries in a report titled “Global Views: Downside Growth Risks.” The findings suggest the economic benefits of the AI boom may increasingly be accompanied by disruptions to American employment, although the correlations do not establish that AI directly caused the job losses .

“We are starting to see clearer signs that the AI impact is spreading beyond the technology sector,” Hatzius wrote in the report.

The analysis found that industries with a greater share of businesses using AI in regular operations tended to experience slower employment growth and higher unemployment compared with industries where adoption remained lower.

Goldman’s statistical model showed that a ten-percentage-point increase in industry-level AI adoption was associated with approximately 0.9 percentage points weaker employment growth. A corresponding analysis found a 0.9-percentage-point higher unemployment measure, calculated relative to the industry’s average unemployment rate from 2015 through 2019. (Read more from “Turns Out AI Is Taking Sledgehammer To Job Gains After All” HERE)

Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic booked a staggering $80.7 billion net loss in the first half of 2026 — mostly from accounting charges — as it warned that growing opposition to data centers could threaten its business.

The San Francisco-based company, which is preparing for a blockbuster IPO that could value it at as much as $2 trillion, voiced caution about the growing movement of anti-data center and anti-AI voters.

Resistance to data centers has “become more organized and coordinated across jurisdictions,” Anthropic said in the filing viewed by the Wall Street Journal.

The company, led by CEO Dario Amodei, said its high public profile “may draw particular attention to projects associated with us.”

Anthropic said most of its data center capacity is located in the US, although it has signed letters of intent to develop additional facilities overseas. Domestically, recent months have seen public opinion souring on AI and protests opposing data center construction. (Read more from “Anthropic Books Colossal $81B Loss, Warns of Data Center Backlash as Amodei Siblings Draw Modest Salaries” HERE)

Federal regulators are preparing to make the companies building the most powerful artificial intelligence answer for its apparent risks.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plans to compel documents and testimony from executives at OpenAI, Anthropic and other leading AI labs as it widens a probe of the companies an anonymous senior agency official told the New York Post on Wednesday. These demands land after executives from several of those companies signed an agreement at the White House pledging to regulate their own models, which President Donald Trump called “morally binding” Tuesday.

“The agency has plans to compel the executives at these firms to testify about their product [and] about the dangers they allege their products may have to consumers, to Americans,” the official told the Post.

The probe is examining possible unfair or deceptive practices under the Woodrow Wilson-era FTC Act, according to the Post. FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson believes the government does not need new laws to police the companies, the official said.

“People talk about how we need new laws for these companies, and the chairman’s been very clear … we have plenty of laws in the books,” the official told the Post, adding that the investigation is not meant to slow the AI industry down. (Read more from “Top Federal Regulator Opens Probe Into Whether AI Will Kill Us All” HERE)

Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang rejected warnings that AI could wipe out humanity within years, calling such predictions unscientific and irresponsible in an interview with CBS News.

In an interview with CBS News, Huang pushed back on warnings of AI doom that have circulated widely in recent weeks. “2030 is not going to be the end of the world. There is 0% chance that’s going to be the end of the world,” he said. He called the AI doomsday framing harmful, adding, “Scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible.”

Huang was responding to comments made earlier this month by Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic, who wrote on social media that AI developers “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Coxon’s remarks set off a broader public debate over AI risk, one that has drawn in Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other industry leaders who have called for slowing AI development. Huang dismissed the extinction scenario as “not grounded in science.”

Asked why the public should trust his assurances given Nvidia’s financial stake in AI’s growth, Huang said, “Our company’s success is directly connected to the safe deployment of products and services.” He added, “If we don’t continue to do that, our value would be diminished.” Nvidia’s chips power the large language models behind AI agents from OpenAI and other companies. The company’s market value stands at $5.3 trillion, the highest of any company in the world.

Huang argued that existing law, not new AI-specific rules, already covers much of the risk. “You have all kinds of liabilities associated with cybersecurity,” he said. “Apply that first, don’t let this doomsday narrative allow someone to relieve them of the laws that currently exist.” That position lines up with President Trump’s, who has said the AI industry does not need additional guardrails. (Read more from “Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: ‘0% Chance’ of Humanity Ending by 2030, AI Doomers Are ‘Irresponsible’” HERE)