The labor market is stagnant, if not in free fall, but one field stands out as an auspicious one for job seekers, according to Indeed.com.
The big picture: Seven of 2026's top 10 jobs — considering factors like availability, pay and wage growth — are in health care, according to the website's report published on Tuesday.
The advertising industry is entering a new era of growth fueled by AI agents that can more efficiently buy and sell ads on behalf of human marketers.
Why it matters: The rise of agentic advertising has helped offset economic uncertainty that was initially predicted to slow ad growth in 2025 and 2026.
Anthropic is previewing a new tool for non-coders that mostly built itself, engineers at the AI firm say.
Why it matters: The viral popularity of the tool — called Cowork, and designed to help non-coders with everyday work tasks — signals a shift toward software built by AI, with humans guiding the way.
The probe into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell comes as the Supreme Court is weighing just how strong President Trump's grip on independent agencies can get.
The big picture: Trump has taken significant steps to reshape the federal bureaucracy to his liking, but the Fed has eluded him. However, the Supreme Court is set to hear a pair of cases — that of Fed governor Lisa Cook and fired Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter — that could expand the president's power to fire.
The secretive national laboratories scattered across the country are now making public breakthroughs in AI-enabled cyber defense.
Why it matters: National laboratories — including Los Alamos, Sandia and Lawrence Livermore — are behind some of the biggest advancements you've never heard of in cyberspace.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Tuesday will call for unanimous consent to pass the bipartisan DEFIANCE Act, a bill to protect people from image-based sexual abuse online, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: Chatbots are coming under fire for producing child sexual abuse material and non-consensual intimate imagery of adults, and people are eager for legal recourse.
China's government last week confirmed that it will review Meta's $2.5 billion acquisition of Manus AI, whose core team last year relocated from China to Singapore.
Why it matters: This could signal an end to "Singapore-washing," a strategy that's helped a number of Chinese tech companies secure foreign investment and commercial contracts.
WebAI, an Austin, Texas-based sovereign AI platform, raised "high double-digit" millions of dollars at a $2.5 billion pre-money valuation, it tells Axios.
Why it matters: The idea is to run AI directly on devices, bypassing the cloud, for the sake of increased privacy, performance, and energy efficiency.
WitnessAI has raised $58 millionfrom high-profile investors, including Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures, Fin Capital, Qualcomm Ventures and Samsung Ventures, as it expands into securing AI agents, the company first shared with Axios.
Why it matters: Securing agents is the next battleground in cybersecurity, with defenders racing to lock down non-human identities before hackers get hold of them.
Defense software company Onebrief raised $200 million and snapped up Battle Road Digital, giving its military-planning suite a simulation and wargaming boost.
Why it matters: Onebrief has skyrocketed in just a few short years, riding artificial intelligence and contested logistics waves inside the Pentagon.
Microsoft on Tuesday made a series of commitments regarding future data centers, including a pledge that it will pay its property taxes and electricity bills and minimize water use.
Why it matters: A growing number of communities are opposing data centers arguing that the relatively few jobs they create aren't worth the higher utility bills and cost to the environment.
