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  • 10 World Economic Forum Infographics on the Future of Employment

  • Are Digital Brains the future of AI?

  • The most innovative companies in the world in 2025, according to Fast Company

10 World Economic Forum Infographics on the future of employment

How will the world of work change in the coming years? The World Economic Forum has recently published the "Future of Jobs Report 2025" which attempts to answer this question by analyzing the macro trends affecting jobs and the skills workers will need in the period from 2025 to 2030.

"Technological change, geoeconomic fragmentation, economic uncertainty, demographic shifts, and ecological transition, individually and in combination, are among the main factors expected to shape and transform the global labor market by 2030," the report states in its introduction.

This work has taken into account the opinions of more than 1,000 leading employers worldwide, representing over 14 million workers across 22 sectors and 55 markets around the world. This has made it possible to discover the workforce transformation strategies that employers plan to implement over the next five years.

These are some of the main conclusions of the report, which are also presented in this video:

  • Job creation and destruction due to the structural transformation of the labor market in the 2025-2030 period will amount to 22% of all current jobs. 92 million jobs (8% of the total) are expected to be eliminated and 170 million new jobs created (14% of total employment), resulting in a positive balance of 78 million jobs (7% of total employment).

  • Skills obsolescence: "On average, workers can expect two-fifths (39%) of their existing skills to be transformed or become obsolete during the 2025-2030 period."

  • Key skills: "Analytical thinking remains the most sought-after core skill among employers, with seven out of 10 companies considering it essential in 2025. This is followed by resilience, flexibility and agility, along with leadership and social influence."

The authors of the report have created a series of infographics that visualize the essential conclusions. In On the Net Today, we have selected 10 of them:

The report also offers very detailed data by country.

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Are Digital Brains the future of AI?

Inait and Microsoft bet on digital brains to drive AI advancement

Inait Founder and President, neuroscientist Henry Markram, explains what digital brains are.

Swiss startup Inait announced this Tuesday a collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate the development and commercialization of its innovative artificial intelligence technology, based on digital brains.

According to the company, "inait's AI technology, born from decades of neuroscience research, offers a paradigm shift in artificial intelligence. Its 'brain programming language' and its ability to learn from experience and understand cause and effect bring cognitive capabilities for real-world interactions toward adaptive general intelligence, overcoming the limitations of current AI systems."

The collaboration will focus on the development and commercialization of products initially targeting the finance and robotics sectors.

The founder and president of Inait, neuroscientist Henry Markram, explained that "after two decades of R&D, we now have digital replicas of brains and the knowledge necessary to teach them to perform AI. Microsoft's global ecosystem is ideal for globally scaling our disruptive digital brain-based AI."

Inait counts the Open Brain Institute as a strategic partner, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide researchers and organizations with advanced tools to explore and build digital models of the brain. In a few days, the Open Brain Institute will begin offering virtual laboratories to the public equipped with computational modeling services and an extensive repository of digital brain models. Thus, users will be able to "perform realistic brain simulations, test hypotheses, and explore the complexities of neural circuits."

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The most innovative companies in the world in 2025, according to Fast Company

Fast Company magazine has published its annual list of the most innovative companies in the world. These are the companies that, according to Fast Company, "are setting the pace" of innovation and "are making what once seemed impossible a reality."

This year's list is headed by Waymo, the company that "has taken robotaxis out of the realm of science fiction and put them to work on city streets."

Here are the top ten in the ranking:

  1. Waymo

  2. Nvidia

  3. Nubank

  4. WNBA

  5. BYD

  6. Glean

  7. Abridge

  8. EssilorLuxottica

  9. Rocket Lab

  10. Duolingo

In addition to the top 50 highlighted by Fast Company, the magazine has compiled a selection of the most innovative companies in 58 different professional categories, from advertising to AI, including biotechnology, commerce, and sustainability, among many others. So, in total, there are 609 companies "that are reshaping industries and culture."

Here is an explanation of the methodology followed by Fast Company to compile the list.

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