JD Vance and the Labor Department suspended Microsoft, Adobe and six IT outsourcers from PERM, the labor certification most employer green cards require. Employees already in those queues pay first, and the officials' fraud charges put past filings under legal scrutiny.
Perspective Coverage
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- Builder
- Builder 16%
- Operator
- Operator 43%
- Investor
- Investor 41%
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+50
- Incentives70
- Confidence68
Tech job openings climb past 280,000 in TrueUp's count as AI spending pulls hiring toward hardware
TrueUp, which tracks more than 9,000 tech companies, counts more than 280,000 open tech jobs, up strongly from the start of 2026. With layoffs easing, plans that assume AI is already shrinking tech hiring are ahead of what this count shows.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives35
- Confidence45
CUDA engineers now supervise the AI that writes their GPU kernels
CUDA engineers, among tech's most sought-after specialists, increasingly supervise AI that writes and tests hundreds of GPU kernels. At base salaries Nvidia advertises as high as $431,250, employers are now paying for judgement about code the engineers did not write.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives70
- Confidence45
The proposed H-1B fee exceeds a year of pay for a $75,000 research job
Business Insider's year-later series on the H-1B crackdown opens with a Northwestern graduate who left Chicago for Germany after her employer said it could not sponsor her visa. The sponsorship call was the employer's.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption52
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives48
- Confidence60
Big Tech's doubled share prices are funding the exits its equity was meant to prevent
Business Insider's interviews with former Google, Apple and Microsoft staff show the same grant working both ways: the vested half pays for the risk of leaving while the unvested half is what the employer can cancel.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives58
- Confidence55
San Francisco rents are pricing out a $120,000 project manager at a Fortune 500 retailer
Business Insider's tour of the city's squeezed cohort found a bakery owner who paid himself $40,000 last year and a project manager on about $120,000 who cut her internet package to $40 a month and moved into a shared apartment.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives62
- Confidence55
OpenAI and Anthropic staff hold $198bn of paper against a $600bn San Francisco housing stock
San Francisco's July median rose 6% on an 18.4% drop in listings, which is a supply squeeze more than a wealth shock, and the $198bn that would make it a wealth shock depends on two IPOs that have not happened.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption34
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives68
- Confidence36
The retention lever managers assumed they had: visa-dependent engineers are now leaving Big Tech first
Repeated layoffs have made brand-name employers look risky to workers whose jobs hold their immigration status. Two engineers told Business Insider they left Amazon and Oracle for firms they judged steadier.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives41
- Confidence40