Haven't you heard? White-collar jobs are going away, decimated by AI. Waves of layoffs in the tech sector (most recently at Coinbase and Meta and Cisco) are said to presage what will soon come for all of us knowledge workers. But before you quit your job as a software developer or financial analyst-or tech journalist-and...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria Despite the growing hysteria over AI's threat to white-collar jobs, there's still scant evidence that the technology has had a large-scale impact on...