Every Major AI Company is Building Workforce Training Pipelines
The “stable 30-year career” is dead. The question isn’t whether change is coming โ it’s whether you’ll be ready when it does.
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The “stable 30-year career” is dead. The question isn’t whether change is coming โ it’s whether you’ll be ready when it does.
UNDER THE RADAR Friday, February 13, 2026 BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT Thursday’s employment data confirms what workers already feel: Continuing claims hit 1,862K – people staying unemployed longer as reemployment gets harder. WARN Act notices show 852 job losses per day (up 51% from 2025), with companies explicitly citing “AI and automation” for cuts. Meanwhile, … Read more
When the same capital entities own multiple layers, competitive constraints may weaken, creating opportunities for extraction without traditional market checks.
Individual retraining is insufficient. Going solo means competing with AI for scraps.
This is what structural unemployment looks like. It’s not individual failure. It’s systemic failure.
We acknowledge something uncomfortable. Individual career intelligence helps the 20-30% of workers who have runway, capability, and time to transition. For the other 70%? We need systemic solutions we can’t provide through career advice alone.
This article examines why companies are building massive centralized AI infrastructure for workloads that don’t technically require it, who profits from that choice, and what communities need to understand before approving deals that subsidize extraction infrastructure instead of supporting adaptation alternatives.
While Meta signs multi-gigawatt nuclear deals and communities approve billion-dollar data centers, Swiss researchers proved that 80-90% of AI work doesn’t need massive facilities at all. It is now capable of running on 4-10 computers locally.
When technology hits the “good enough AND cheaper” threshold, change happens FAST. Distributed computing didn’t gradually replace mainframes over 20 yearsโit happened in 3-5 years once the technology crossed that line.
We just crossed that line. Last week.
Career Intelligence for Workers Navigating AI Transformation A Note on Timing Under the Radar continues to adapt. Starting today, Under the Radar publishes at 5:00 PM ET on Fridays instead of our previous morning schedule. Why? The most important employment data releases happen Friday mornings at 8:30 AM ET – initial jobless claims, and on … Read more