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For the first time in over a decade, staying put pays better than leaving. In August 2025, Americans who switched jobs saw their median wage rise just 4.2% over the previous year. Those who stayed with the same employer? 4.3%. The “switcher premium” that once lured millions to new badges and bigger paychecks has collapsed to 0.1 percentage point, the smallest gap since the Great Recession and a dramatic comedown from the 2.2-point bonus workers enjoyed in early 2022.

The American C-suite has turned into a revolving door on steroids. According to the latest data from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, 2024 delivered the highest number of CEO departures since the tracker began in 2002, and 2025 is on pace to match or exceed it. By the end of September 2025, 1,650 chief executives had already walked away, virtually identical to the same nine-month period in 2024 that ended the year with a record-shattering total.

In a move that has sent shockwaves through the AI filmmaking community, Tencent has released HunyuanVideo 1.5, an 8.3-billion-parameter open-source video generation model that is now widely regarded as the strongest fully open video foundation model on the planet.

In the hallowed halls of Broadcasting House, where the ghosts of Reithian public service broadcasting still whisper, a radical reckoning is underway. The BBC, once the envy of global media with its £5.7 billion annual budget and 20,000-strong workforce, is staring down a financial abyss. License fee revenues—frozen at £159 per household since 2020—have eroded 20% in real terms due to inflation, while streaming rivals like Netflix (with 15 million UK subs and a £1.2 billion local content spend in 2025) and YouTube (boasting 50 billion monthly UK views) siphon off younger audiences.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi just said out loud what most in the industry already whisper: the job of “driver” as we know it is on borrowed time.Speaking in late September 2025, he laid out the timeline bluntly:“In the next five to seven years we’ll actually have more human drivers and couriers because we’re growing so fast.

Missed the memo? Google just turned Gemini into a full-fledged presentation co-creator — and it’s already rolling out.Launched at the end of October 2025, Gemini Canvas can now take raw ingredients — a Google Doc, a spreadsheet, a PDF, an email thread, or even just a one-sentence idea — and automatically generate a complete, polished slide deck that opens directly in Google Slides or downloads as PDF.

For the past few years, a chorus of tech executives promised a glorious, automated future where 'smart' AI solutions would handle the grunt work, making human employees—especially those in administrative or routine roles—redundant. Companies enthusiastically swung the axe, replacing people with pixels in the name of efficiency.

New data from the OECD reveals that master’s degree candidates worldwide are concentrating their studies in a few key fields, reflecting strategic career aspirations and regional economic needs.