AI is everywhere on LinkedIn these days, from the company’s own hiring and search tools to the buzzy terms du jour that populate job listings and the monologues of aspiring thought leaders.

But does it prevent the sometimes isolating and disheartening experience of searching for a job? We spoke with LinkedIn’s chief product officer, Tomer Cohen, about how his team builds AI tools aimed at making those matches easier. Cohen said AI is helping to surface jobs that might not otherwise be seen in traditional search.

The Microsoft-owned company announced this week that it’s making its first AI agent, a hiring assistant for recruiters, globally available later this month, after an early-access period with select customers like SAP, Wipro, and Siemens.

Cohen also discussed the ways AI is changing the job market and how the company organizes its many agents.

This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

There are all kinds of thoughts on what AI means for jobs right now: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has said AI is going to eliminate half of white collar jobs. People worry that AI is already hurting entry-level workers. How much of that are you seeing bear out in the view you have into the platform? What is the biggest impact you’re seeing?

There’s no doubt that AI is basically reshaping jobs and roles. I think “jobs” tends to be not the right lens to look at. I think “skills” is probably the best lens, because what’s happening with AI is that AI is basically automating the repetitive, low-leverage tasks that we all do, especially for knowledge work. So everything from drafting to summarizing, scheduling, searching. And we allocate roughly 30% of hours currently done within the US economy [to those tasks]. So those skills, you should expect to basically be automated. Now, if your role is mainly those skills, then that role might no longer be necessary. But for many roles, those tasks are just a part of the role. So then you ask yourself, “OK, what are the next level of skills required?” And that’s really about, like, “OK, how do I work with AI better? How do I kind of shape AI to the needs of my company?” This is where you’re seeing the notion around AI fluency, AI agency. Do I know how to bring in a lot of great AI tools and know how they all work together? And that’s where we see that new role emerging and becoming really, really powerful.

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There was a spending blitz on renewable energy in the US at the end of last year, followed by plummeting funding during the first half of 2025, according to a recent report from BloombergNEF. And that dropoff was significant: Committed spending on renewables fell $20.5 billion (or 36%) compared to the second half of 2024.

“This reflects a rush of construction toward the end of last year as developers sought to lock in lucrative tax credits, followed by a sharp drop this year as policy conditions worsened,” the report said.

Those conditions included the phasing out of clean energy tax credits for solar and wind, and the Trump administration’s moratorium on offshore wind, which was later followed by the cancellation of a major offshore wind project in Rhode Island and possibly others to come.

Earlier this year, Tech Brew reported that US offshore wind stakeholders said that Europe would take up the mantle, which BNEF’s report showed is proving correct: In the first half of this year, European investment in renewables grew by nearly $30 billion, or 63%, “driven by onshore and offshore wind,” with Poland alone making up 36% of global offshore wind investments.

Onshore wind in the US suffered similarly: Investment fell by 80% compared to the second half of 2024, when “developers sought to safe harbor access to tax credits ahead of President Donald Trump’s return to the White House,” BNEF said.

Keep reading here.—TC

JP Poma was hired by Shopify in January with a mandate to inject its go-to-market teams with AI.

Seven months later, while the director of GTM initiatives’ team still resembles a traditional sales org—replete with SDRs, account executives, solutions engineers, and customer success managers—the way the team operates (how it uses insights and data, for example) is now more precise because of AI.

Poma and Shopify are pushing for tech to do everything from removing administrative tasks to synthesizing data for better decision-making. Shopify envisions a future where sales teams only have to do client-facing work—the rest will be handled by AI.

Keep reading on Revenue Brew.—BS

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A screenshot that says 1,000 words: Morning Brew’s Dave Lozo spilled less than 100 words to sum up data from OpenRouter that showed plummeting ChatGPT usage corresponding with summer break.

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