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What happened this week: * AI displacement now shows up in the US government data at both ends of the career ladder: A Bloomberg analysis of new BLS figures finds every one of the eighteen occupations the BLS classifies as A... * The UK's data regulator has put AI hiring tools on formal notice. Sixteen organisations have already had a letter: The Information Commissioner's Office issued formal guidance this week saying that... * Salesforce will spend close to $300 million with Anthropic this year. Marc Benioff says the engineering productivity gains made it the easiest line in the budget: Marc Benioff disclosed that Salesf... What to try: * When the output goes wrong, shrink the task: Justin Skycak put it as a principle for skill acquisition this week: shrink the unit of practice until the mistake has nowhere to hide. The same rule ap... * Ask AI questions it can't possibly know the answer to: A marketing lead at a global firm told David this week she's running a five-minute stress-test on every AI tool she's thinking of trusting. Sh... * Run your day past AI before you start it: A senior leader described her commute habit to David this week. She opens Claude, asks it to review her calendar and her email, then asks it to surface wha... Read the full edition with all links and sources: https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/#edition-2026-05-23