1. (PDF) PwC - 2026 글로벌 AI 일자리 바로미터 : AI 시대 일자리의 두 가지 미래AI 기반 노동 시장의 이원화 구조 형성: 전 세계 6개 대륙의 10억 개 이상의 구인 광고 분석 결과, AI 도입이 인간의 고유한 판단력과 창의성을 요구하는 '전문인화(Professionalised)' 트랙과 기술적 진입 장벽을 낮추는 '대중화(Democratised)' 트랙으로 글로벌 노동 시장을 선명하게 이원화.역량 격차 확대 및 급여 디커플링 발현: 전문인화 직군은 2018년 이후 신규 스킬 요구치가 68% 폭증하며 대중화 직군(33%)을 압도하였고, 2021년 이후 임금 그로스 속도 역시 42% 가파르게 앞서 나가며 지식 노동...

PwC’s 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer analyses over a billion job ads from six continents to reveal that AI is creating a two-track labour market in which skills like judgement and leadership are even more critical–and more rewarded. AI is driving big productivity gains for companies and–perhaps surprisingly–companies making the biggest gains are raising wages and headcount faster than companies least exposed to AI. 40% Productivity growth is 40% higher at companies most exposed to AI versus least.2x Skills needed for the most AI-exposed j...

Sports stars Dak Prescott and Tyrese Haliburton are among the partners of the fund investing nearly $50 million into Rhoback.L Catterton, the private equity firm backed by LVMH, has made the first investment from its new athlete-led consumer fund, taking a minority stake in Charlottesville, Va.-based activewear brand Rhoback in a deal worth nearly $50 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.The transaction marks the debut of Champ, a $500 million vehicle created with sports advisor Mark Patricof to turn elite athletes into co-owners ra...

The90 Launches The Gem, The First Personal Sun Intelligence Wearable.The90 has officially launched The90 Gem, a smart jewelry wearable designed to help women track real-time UV exposure and make more informed decisions about sun protection and long-term skin health. The product aims to address a critical skincare challenge: while up to 90% of visible skin aging is linked to cumulative UV exposure, consumers have historically lacked a way to measure that exposure in real time.Unlike traditional UV index readings, which provide broad location-...

AI Adoption Is Creating a New Enterprise Risk: Distributed De-Skilling.Boston Consulting Group’s new article, When Everyone Uses AI, Companies Risk Losing Critical Skills, argues that the next major AI risk for companies may not be hallucinations, data leakage, or job displacement alone. It may be the quiet erosion of the very human capabilities that make organizations intelligent. The report calls this risk distributed de-skilling: the collective weakening of judgment, critical thinking, creativity, problem framing, and reasoning when empl...

Function as a flavor is not a cosmetic trend. It is a structural shift in how brands must think about the relationship between a product's stated purpose and its felt experience. For years, efficacy was enough. If a cleanser worked, consumers would use it. If an app tracked nutrition accurately, users would log. If a fragrance smelled distinct, buyers would return. That model assumed usage was guaranteed. No more.

The evidence for this shift is accumulating across categories and geographies simultaneously: 

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The latest Digital News Report by Reuters Institute published Tuesday shows that in a 45-country sample, only 10 percent of people use AI chatbots to consume news. Shares reached as high as 14 percent in South Korea and Turkey and 13 percent in Brazil. Countries where the fewest people engaged in the practice were the United Kingdom at 4 percent and Germany as well as Hungary, Croatia, Denmark, Finland and France at 5 percent. The United States, home to many of the world's most prolific chatbot creators, only saw use for news standing at 6 p...

Silicon Valley startup begins hand-assembling $300,000 Model A vehicles for controlled testing by select customers.Alef Aeronautics begins hand-building $300,000 Model A flying cars for testingVehicle rotates 90 degrees for vertical takeoff but limited to 25 mph roadsEarly buyers become beta testers rather than daily commuters at luxury pricingTraffic-clogged highways have spawned countless flying car fantasies, but Alef Aeronautics just delivered something tangible: actual production of their Model A Ultralight at a Silicon Valley facility....

Phone addiction has reached a point where doomscrolling is affecting our cognitive intelligence and already, dumbphones are trying to address this global problem. More often than not, these devices work for a while, eventually triggering the user to ditch them and get back to old ways.Commodore, resurrected by YouTuber Peri Fractic (a.k.a. Christian Simpson), brought back the 1982 Commodore 64 keyboard, and the brand looks strong to capture a very niche segment of the nerdy market. Now, under his leadership, there’s yet another gadget that...