AI & Work

Stories about AI, automation, labor, skills, and technology shifts affecting Black workers, businesses, and institutions.

Researcher leaves a glass-walled AI lab as a forfeited equity document sits beside active model-development screens, illustrating questions about ownership, capital, risk, and control in the AI race.

20h ago

Jacob Coxon Quit Anthropic Over AI Risk. He Also Walked Away Before His Equity Vested

Memphis community relief station using generators, fuel, food coolers and emergency equipment after a major storm caused widespread power outages.

September 7, 2026

Memphis Lost Power. Black Communities Supplied the Backup System Themselves.

Lagos ride-hailing driver beside his car holding an inactive ride app as city transportation continues, illustrating the gap between asset ownership and market control.

September 3, 2026

Uber Left Nigeria and Uganda. The Drivers Owned the Cars, Not the Market.

MTN mobile finance and lending shown alongside an African data centre, illustrating MTN’s push into banking and Gulf-backed AI infrastructure investment.

August 26, 2026

MTN Wants to Control Credit. Gulf Capital Is Helping Build Its AI Infrastructure.

Black creator in a home studio beside a monetization dashboard showing YouTube thresholds rising from 4,000 to 8,000 watch hours and 10 million to 20 million Shorts views, with a February 1 calendar visible.

August 12, 2026

YouTube Is Doubling Its Monetization Barrier on the First Day of Black History Month

Black professional working with AI productivity systems as rising output contrasts with workers receiving a smaller share of economic production.

August 7, 2026

America Is Getting More Productive. Workers Are Getting a Smaller Share of What They Produce.

Black family and church finance officers verify a suspicious AI-generated money request before stopping a digital transfer.

July 21, 2026

AI Scammers Are Weaponizing Black Community Trust. What Protects the Money?

Editorial image showing workplace data, demographic reporting, and civil rights enforcement at risk as EEOC rules shift.

July 8, 2026

When Workplace Data Disappears, Discrimination Gets Harder to Prove

African engineers and policymakers in a Johannesburg data center reviewing cloud infrastructure, fiber routes, contracts, equity documents, and AI data ownership.

July 1, 2026

Google Just Crossed $1 Billion in Africa. Will the Continent Own the AI Economy It Is Helping Build?