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Issue #63
This week: How AI is changing jobs, the skills that could matter more, Claude's move into Salesforce—and a $40K AI hackathon.
In this issue: 📊 Jobs | 🤖 AI Agents | 🧠 Skills | 🏆 Hackathon | 📅 Events | 🎓 Learning
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📊 The Big Picture
The U.S. Wants a Faster Read on AI Job Disruption
The U.S. Labor Department is working with OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Amazon to get faster information on how AI is changing jobs and hiring.
Private-sector data would supplement traditional government statistics, which can struggle to capture rapid changes in the labor market.
What it means for you:
AI’s effect on jobs is becoming important enough to track differently
New data could reveal which occupations are changing fastest
Workers may get earlier signals about where opportunities are growing—or shrinking
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🆕 New This Week
Claude Just Moved Into Salesforce
Salesforce introduced Claudeforce, connecting Claude with Salesforce data, workflows, business logic, and approved actions.
The first integration includes 37 prebuilt sales skills, letting users analyze live revenue information, update pipelines, and perform Salesforce tasks without leaving Claude.
What it means for you:
AI assistants are moving directly into everyday business software
Sales teams can automate more CRM work through conversation
Knowing how to manage AI workflows could become an increasingly useful workplace skill
🔍 Also in The News
The Human Skills AI May Make More Valuable
McKinsey’s Skill Change Index suggests AI won’t make most human skills obsolete—but it will change how people use them as they increasingly work alongside agents and robots.
Image source: McKinsey Global Institute on X:
More than 70% of skills employers seek today are used in both automatable and non-automatable work. Skills such as negotiation, coaching, leadership, and judgment could become increasingly important as AI handles more routine tasks.
What it means for you:
Human skills aren’t disappearing—they’re being used differently
Negotiation and coaching face relatively low automation exposure
AI fluency is becoming valuable alongside existing professional skills
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🧠 Builder Signal
Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 Can Sew Any Logo
A creator used Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 with the Pika API Club to turn a logo into a realistic embroidery-style video.
Turns a logo into animated embroidery
Works from a simple prompt
Shows a fast creative branding use case
🏆 AI Hackathon
Agents for Humans Hackathon — $40K in Prizes
Build an AI agent that handles repetitive tasks at work or in daily life using AWS’s Strands Agents SDK.
Deadline: September 14
Format: Online
Prize pool: $40,000
Who can join: Solo builders or teams
📅 AI Events — pick the one that fits
The AI Enterprise Conference 2026 — September 1 — Pier Sixty, New York, NY
Reuters Events: Momentum AI New York 2026 — September 24-25 — New York, NY
AI Connect Expo 2026 — September 9–10 — Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA
Gemini Enterprise Roadmap — September 2 — Online (Google Cloud OnAir)
Builder Bootcamp: Realtime — September 2 — Online (OpenAI Academy)
🎓 AI Learning Opportunities
Claude with Google Vertex AI — Anthropic (Skilljar)
Building Adaptive AI Agents — DeepLearning.AI
AWS Agentic AI Demonstrated — AWS Skill Builder
Create Intelligent AI Agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio — Microsoft Learn
✨ Final Note
AI isn’t only creating new jobs. It’s changing what makes someone valuable in an existing one.
Choose one AI skill, combine it with something you already know well, and use both on a real problem. AI + human expertise may become the stronger advantage.
