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It's jobs Wednesday!

Yes, you read that right. The monthly jobs report, a Friday tradition, is coming out this morning, five days later than originally scheduled due to the partial government shutdown.

Economists expect the US added 65,000 jobs in January and unemployment remained at 4.4%.

Investors are looking at the January jobs report to see if the job market has

Uber announced a new AI feature called "Cart Assistant" for grocery shopping in its Uber Eats app.

The new feature works a couple different ways. You can use text prompts, as you would with any other AI chatbot, to ask it to build a grocery list for you. Or you can upload a picture of your shopping list and ask it to populate your cart with all your favorite items, based on your order

Toyota has unveiled the 2027 Highlander, the first fully electric version of the vehicle and the automaker’s fourth EV in the US. It’s also the company’s first EV assembled in the country and the first electric model with three rows of seats. The automaker already sells the electric C-HR crossover and the electric bZ SUV in the US. While the 2027 Highlander resembles its predecessors, its lines

• The US Army's new command and control system is giving commanders more access and information for decision-making.
• The platform is being iteratively developed between the Army and industry through a series of tests.
• The Army has prioritized breaking down communication

With his newfound focus on the Moon, Elon musk is making some wild new plans. In an xAI meeting with employees, Musk said the company needed to build an AI satellite factory on the moon with a gigantic catapult to launch them into space, according to audio heard by The New York Times. 

All of that would be part of the billionaire's plans to create a massive orbiting AI "data center" that uses

• Companies such as Amazon and Citi have said they're trimming staff this year.
• Pinterest, for one, cited AI as a factor in its decision to shed less than 15% of its workforce.
• See the list of companies letting workers go in 2026.

The year 2026 is just getting started, and layoffs are already underway.

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• Frank Jones works as a contractor for Mercor and helps train AI models to do consulting work.
• Jones said AI will change the nature of consulting, but won't replace consultants.
• AI prompting will be a key skill for consultants, he said.

This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Frank Jones, a management consultant analyst for Mercor, which employs more than 30,000

• Flights to and from El Paso have been halted until February 20.
• That's equal to about 100 flights a day, according to Cirium data.
• The FAA issued flight restrictions citing "special security reasons."

Flights to and from El Paso, Texas, have been halted for 10 days by the Federal Aviation Administration, citing "special security

Keep your head down. Compartmentalize. Don't make trouble.

That's what many tech workers are taking their CEOs' strategic silence to mean, amid an immigration crackdown across the US by the Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security. Widespread violence by federal agents has sparked protests in Minneapolis and across the country. One month after an ICE agent shot and killed

• Companies are adopting a "fail fast" mentality to stay competitive amid the AI boom.
• Execs from companies like Okta, Salesforce, Blackstone, and Snowflake share their take on the strategy.
• While AI enables some companies to move more quickly, it also carries risks.

For some companies building with AI, failure isn't a setback. It