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About 20 percent of U.S. professionals have job titles today that didn’t exist in 2000, according to LinkedIn. Now, generative AI is accelerating the change. Here are some roles workers might encounter as the job market continues to evolve:

A crash on a Mississippi highway gave a group of lab monkeys a taste of freedom. But some were killed, police said, after the driver said the monkeys were infected and dangerous. Tulane University said they had not been exposed to any infectious agents. https://wapo.st/4oLdIWn

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Actor Elijah Wood, who starred in The Lord of the Rings movies as hobbit Frodo Baggins, surprised a couple at their themed Lord of the Rings wedding at the Hobbiton movie set. “After the couple had finished signing, I rushed around to meet him and asked him to come and have a few photos with the couple," photographer Cath Ullyett wrote in a social media post. "Being the gentleman he is, he didn’t want to interfere, however, with some friendly encouragement he stepped in and was welcomed by all.”

President Trump called his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping a 12 out of 10 after Trump lowered tariffs on imports from China by 10 percentage points in exchange for a delay on restrictions on rare earth minerals, among other things. Read more: https://wapo.st/48VO6S4

Proud dog owners paraded around their pooches at the Washington Square Park Halloween Dog Parade in New York City on Saturday, showing off pups dressed as Labubus, mops, pizza and even the Louvre thief.

Paramount began laying off 2,000 people on Wednesday, two months after David Ellison’s Skydance bought the media company for $8 billion. https://wapo.st/435ldz0

Reginald Dwayne Betts was locked up as a teenager for carjacking. Books were his escape. “Imagine yourself as a teenager, 17 years old, in solitary confinement, and you’re just calling out, ‘Yo, somebody send me a book,’” Betts said. “Somebody sent me Dudley Randall’s “The Black Poets,” and it radically changed my life.” Freedom Reads — which he started in 2020 — installs libraries in prisons across the country. The organization often hears from people whose lives have changed because of the books they got access to while in prison. Freedom Reads is set to open 35 Freedom Libraries in Missouri across two facilities, a men’s and women’s prison. The libraries each have 500 books and low bookcases that allow access from each side. The idea is to encourage conversation and community around the books. Read more: https://wapo.st/43Bu7Er

Whether it’s a last-minute task requiring work outside business hours or do-or-die stress over a slide deck, some Gen Z workers are questioning the false sense of urgency ingrained in many workplaces. Pushing back on the everything-is-an-emergency approach ties into larger conversations about the role work plays in our lives. There was a time, perhaps for their parents’ generation or generations prior, where hard work and loyalty were rewarded, said Phoebe Gavin, a career and leadership coach. Now, there’s no guarantee of employers ensuring you’re rewarded for going above and beyond — and some young workers are deciding that the last-minute project they’re supposed to panic over simply isn’t one. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gGbE_sGs