• May 26 2026
  FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen

  Global birth rates are falling…phones are a big reason why

  Homes and phones are part of the reason for the demographic shift changing our world

  
• May 23 2026
  US society

  US crime and mortality is declining fast — what can the rest of us learn?

  America is making progress in driving down violent deaths and those from some dangerous diseases

  John Burn-Murdoch

  
• May 21 2026
  The AI Shift

  Can AI make the public sector more efficient?

  Productivity gains may be cancelled out by the public’s own use of the technology when interacting with authorities

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• May 16 2026
  Demographics and population

  The Big Read. Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once

  Homes and phones are part of the reason for the demographic shift changing our world

  
• May 15 2026
  The AI Shift

  Are we thinking about AI and productivity all wrong?

  Self-reported estimates about how quickly work can be completed are not the most meaningful metric

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• May 7 2026
  The AI Shift

  Can AI help developing countries to ‘leapfrog’ into the future?

  For Africa, opportunities may lie in sequencing

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• May 2 2026
  Health

  The problem with healthy life expectancy

  A crude blend of very different statistics is not the best tool for the job

  John Burn-Murdoch

  
• April 30 2026
  The AI Shift

  Is AI increasing access to justice?

  A steep increase in ‘vibe litigation’ appears to be expanding the market for legal activity

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• April 25 2026
  Artificial intelligence

  What the AI ‘jobpocalypse’ narrative misses

  Whether or not new technologies can perform a task is only a tiny part of the picture

  John Burn-Murdoch

  
• April 23 2026
  Artificial intelligence

  Ask an Expert. What does AI really mean for your work? You asked, we answered

  Sarah O’Connor, John Burn Murdoch and Madhumita Murgia replied to reader questions

  
• April 23 2026
  The AI Shift

  Will AI widen inequality between workers?

  This and more findings from our new poll of AI usage by thousands of US and UK workers

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• April 23 2026
  Artificial intelligence

  High earners race ahead on AI as workplace divide widens

  FT-Focaldata poll offers early evidence on how the technology is reshaping work and reinforcing gender and pay gaps

  
• April 23 2026
  FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen

  The AI digital divide

  An FT survey shows the highest-earning workers are adopting the technology in their jobs far faster than others

  
• April 18 2026
  Demographics and population

  Why higher pay hasn’t made young adults feel richer

  The aspiration gap has turned everyone into losers, especially graduates

  John Burn-Murdoch

  
• April 16 2026
  The AI Shift

  How (un)reliable are AI agents?

  Consistency matters more than average accuracy in safety-critical domains

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• April 9 2026
  The AI Shift

  The AI job loss story is all about bundles

  Evidence on white-collar work displacement is beginning to match the theory

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• April 2 2026
  The AI Shift

  Will AI make it harder for non-graduates to climb the jobs ladder?

  Gateway roles to white-collar work appear particularly exposed to disruption

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• March 28 2026
  Artificial intelligence

  Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite

  Large language models elevate expert consensus and moderate views, in sharp contrast to social platforms

  John Burn-Murdoch

  
• March 26 2026
  The AI Shift

  Will software engineers survive agentic AI?

  A data deep dive shows that job vacancies are rising — but only for senior developers

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• March 19 2026
  The AI Shift

  The ‘great sucking sound’ of AI brain drain

  An explosion in industry salaries has resulted in top talent leaving the public sector

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• March 12 2026
  The AI Shift

  What that viral Anthropic jobs chart really means

  Unpicking a much-discussed plot

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• March 5 2026
  The AI Shift

  Is AI an existential threat to India’s outsourcing industry?

  Agentic tools are coming for the repetitive work that was once their bread and butter

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• February 28 2026
  UK society

  A million young Britons are falling through the cracks

  The voiceless ranks of those not in work or training risk tumbling off the UK’s social and economic map

  John Burn-Murdoch

  
• February 26 2026
  The AI Shift

  Do we really know which jobs are most at risk from AI?

  How technology changes the world of work is not just a technical question — and never has been

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• February 20 2026
  UK employment

  ‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question

  The graduate earnings premium isn’t really measuring what most people think

  John Burn-Murdoch