U.S. employers took on 147,000 new nonfarm workers last month, beating analysts’ estimate of 110,000 and edging ahead of May’s upwardly adjusted 144,000. April’s total also was revised higher by 11,000 to a total of 158,000.
Category: 8 July 2025
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GOING OUT OF BUSINESS TRENDS
The economic landscape has presented an array of challenges that will profoundly affect the business community this year.
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IS AI MORE EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT THAN HUMANS ARE?
A group of European scientists recently put leading AI models from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI through a battery of commonly used tests of emotional intelligence (EI).
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WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT
Private sector jobs fell to the lowest level since October 2024, according to a Department of Labor Report and more than half of private companies cut jobs last month. Employers cite high interest rates and uncertainty over tariffs as the driving factors behind slow hiring.
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ZUCKERBERG DISCUSSES DETAILS OF META’S AI PUSH
Last week, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg detailed a restructuring of his company’s AI operations around a push to create an AI "superintelligence" that can outperform humans in virtually all fields.
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FOREVER CHEMICALS LINKED TO AUTISM RISK IN MEN: STUDY
A newly released study revealed a link between perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and autism in men.
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TOP EUROPEAN CEO’S ASK EU TO PAUSE LAW GOVERNING AI
The chief executives of 44 major European corporations, including Airbus, BNP Paribas, and Philips, have signed a letter to European Union (EU) president Ursula von der Layen, urging the union to pause for two years its landmark law governing AI set to take effect next month.
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U.S. SENATE SCRAPS PLAN TO BLOCK STATES FROM REGULATING AI
By a vote of 99 to one, the U.S. Senate deleted from Donald Trump’s “big beautiful” tax and spending bill a measure that would have prevented individual states from regulating artificial intelligence (AI) for 10 years.
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PEACE PRESIDENT? TRUMP DECLARES ECONOMIC WAR ON CUBA
U.S. President Donald Trump last week signed a memorandum that aims to put new restrictions on tourism to the island, deny international investment, and enforce a decades-old economic embargo that Havana’s top diplomat rejected as a punishment to the Cuban people and the “main obstacle to our development.”
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AI DEEPFAKES ARE ERODING TRUST IN POLITICAL PROCESSES
AI’s ability to create fake photos, videos, and voice knockoffs has progressed to the point where it has begun to sway election outcomes, experts told The New York Times.