How AI Is Disrupting the Job Market for Recent Grads

WSJ Tech News Briefing

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Between a yearslong white-collar hiring slump and recession worries, the labor market was already fragile for young college graduates. Now, artificial intelligence threatens to completely upend it. Plus, why you might want to wait on buying a new iPhone this summer. Belle Lin hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Get out of the headlines and into real conversations happening inside global organizations with the Executive Insights podcast.
0:07.3	Brought to you by AWS.
0:09.6	Listen in on the Executive Insights podcast, available on all major podcast platforms.
0:18.7	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday, July 29th. I'm Bell Lynn for The Wall Street Journal.
0:26.8	If you're looking to buy a new iPhone, you might want to pump the brakes. Learn how to optimize
0:32.7	your Apple buying schedule this summer as WSJ, personal tech columnist Nicole Nguyen tells us which Apple
0:39.2	products to buy right now and which are worth the wait. Then the outlook isn't so bright
0:45.4	for college graduates looking for starter jobs. Some companies are openly admitting that AI
0:51.3	can do the work of fresh-faced 22-year-olds and replacing them with tools like chat GPT.
1:02.0	But first, Apple never says much publicly about its coming products, but WSJ reporters have dug up that a slimmer iPhone model is on the horizon.
1:11.7	Plus, updates are due for air tags and other accessories.
1:15.4	WSJ, personal tech columnist Nicole Nguyen, joins Patrick Coffey to demystify what this update schedule means for which Apple products are worth shelling out for this summer.
1:26.6	So my biggest takeaway is that we should not buy new iPhones this summer.
1:32.5	Why should consumers even dedicated fans wait until the fall?
1:37.0	Gadgets are seasonal, and at least for the last decade or so,
1:42.4	have had a very regular release pattern. iPhones almost always
1:48.2	come out in September. And when that happens, the previous models drop in price. Like most
1:54.5	modern gadgets, iPhones have expiration dates. And if you wait just a couple of months for
2:00.3	September for the new model to come out,
2:02.5	you can get an additional year of support for that device. What should regular iPad users who may
2:09.7	want to upgrade know about the current models? And should they consider waiting for the pro
2:15.3	update? The iPad for me gets the green light.
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