This weekly update covers major announcements about how artificial intelligence and AI agents are changing the workplace. The biggest news is that a famous university called MIT released a study showing that AI can already do the work of 11.7% of workers in the United States. That means about 151 million workers could potentially have their jobs affected by AI technology.

Companies are already using AI agents—which are computer programs that can work on their own—to replace human workers in many jobs. For example, Salesforce used AI agents to reduce its customer support team from 9,000 workers down to 5,000. Klarna's AI helper now does the work of 853 full-time employees, which saves the company about $58 million every year.

IBM announced it would cut thousands of workers in the final months of 2025, and the company's leader said they want to hire more people for AI and quantum computing jobs instead. Other big companies like HP, Fiverr, and others are also cutting workers and using AI to do their jobs.

The good news is that new types of jobs are being created as companies use more AI. People are being hired to manage AI systems and make sure they work correctly. Learning how to use AI is becoming one of the fastest-growing skills that companies want workers to have.

Research shows that about half of all companies worldwide think they have too many workers because of AI, but this doesn't mean all those workers will lose their jobs right away. Companies are slowly changing how jobs work, mixing AI and human workers together so that AI handles repetitive tasks while humans focus on more important work.