Tnw Tnw - Future of work # pt-br <![CDATA[Skan AI raises $63m to watch how office staff actually work, then build agents that copy them]]> <![CDATA[Skan AI announced $63m in funding on Wednesday, co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital. What the money is buying is not a model. It is a record of how people at large companies actually do their jobs. Skan builds that record by watching them work.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/skan-ai-63m-series-c-workplace-observation-enterprise-agents]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/Avinash-Misra-Skan-AI-CEO-Manish-Garg-Skan-AI-CPO.avif <![CDATA[August 12, 2026 - 1:10 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:13:45]]> <![CDATA[Upwork cuts full-year forecast as AI pressures its marketplace]]> <![CDATA[Upwork shares fell sharply after the freelance marketplace cut its full-year guidance, overshadowing a second-quarter earnings beat and reviving concerns that AI is eroding the work it brokers.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/upwork-q2-2026-ai-disruption-guidance-cut]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/UpWork-logo.avif <![CDATA[August 12, 2026 - 12:48 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:13:45]]> <![CDATA[Musk says SpaceX AI will out-earn rockets by September, and be trained on staff]]> <![CDATA[SpaceX posted a 30-minute all-hands to X on Tuesday. Elon Musk used it to make two claims, and they only make sense together. The first is a number. AI revenue will pass everything else the company sells by next month. The second is a method. SpaceX will train Grok on its own information, including the people who work there.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/spacex-all-hands-musk-grok-trained-employees-ai-revenue]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/06/ftc-clears-musk-acquire-mesh-optical-spacex-data-centers.avif <![CDATA[August 12, 2026 - 12:46 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:13:45]]> <![CDATA[YouTube just doubled the price of admission to its Partner Program]]> <![CDATA[From 1 February 2027, a channel applying to the YouTube Partner Program will need 1,000 subscribers and 8,000 valid public watch hours over the previous 365 days. The current bar is 4,000 hours over 12 months.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/youtube-partner-program-doubles-entry-requirements-2027]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/07/youtube-picture-in-picture-broken-android-ios.avif <![CDATA[August 10, 2026 - 6:10 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:13:45]]> <![CDATA[Screen-fatigued and AI-weary, Gen Z reaches for the notebook]]> <![CDATA[The most digitally native generation in history is quietly reaching for the most analogue tool of all. According to Business Insider, Gen Z office workers are bringing pen and paper back to the workplace, swapping a screen full of tabs for a notebook and a decent pen.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/gen-z-pen-and-paper-back-to-the-office]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/Gen-Z-workplace.avif <![CDATA[August 10, 2026 - 10:23 am]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:13:45]]> <![CDATA[Recruiters are using AI avatars to run interviews. Now candidates are sending avatars to attend them.]]> <![CDATA[Job recruiters are meeting an uncanny new kind of candidate: the AI avatar. These digital humans mirror an applicant’s voice and likeness while being something else entirely, and they are turning up in first-round interviews.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-avatars-job-interviews-candidates-recruiters]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/ai-avatars-job-interviews-candidates-recruiters.avif <![CDATA[August 8, 2026 - 12:04 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:13:45]]>