It's important to know who owns the meter though. Water and power are public infrastructure with rules. AI is a handful of private labs setting whatever rate they want.
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Critique of AI benchmarks not measuring real work
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"The Final Exam of Agents" With the way AI continues to brilliantly succeed at benchmarks, yet this has not translated into real economic value, the authors of this article say the problem lies with the benchmarks, since none measure work.
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Who Benefits from AI-Powered Age of Abundance?
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The idea of an AI-powered age of abundance sounds incredible — but who will actually benefit from it? AI has the potential to dramatically increase productivity, reduce costs, accelerate innovation and unlock opportunities on a scale we've never seen before. Supporters
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Trump targets AI, Europe and France without global giants
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Trump wants to take stakes in AI giants. Even the homeland of the free market now considers AI a strategic asset. In China, it's even more blatant… And Europe? It hasn't created a single global AI giant. And France? It has neither the giants, nor
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State of Generative AI in the Creator Economy
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The state of #GenerativeAI in the creator economy
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Seismic shift: Mistral benefits as US AI trust declines
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Seismic shift It’s a good day to be Mistral. Nobody is going to trust an American AI company that is partly owned by the US Government. Just the way the US doesn’t trust Huawei. After this meeting, everything is going to change. I don’t think either Washington or
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YouTube deletes 16 AI channels with billions of views and millions in revenue
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YouTube spent 2026 deleting AI channels by the thousand. 16 of them held 4.7 billion views and $10 million a year in ad revenue. Gone in one sweep. The channels still standing all did one thing right. It has nothing to do with how much AI they used:
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Agents’ Last Exam: A Challenging Benchmark for AI Task Performance
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// Agents' Last Exam // Agents' Last Exam is a living benchmark of over 1,000 economically valuable tasks, built with 250+ industry experts and mapped to the U.S. federal occupational taxonomy. The hardest tier sits at a 2.6% average full pass rate across mainstream harnesses
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Pope Leo XIV excommunicates ChatGPT, the soulless AI but shareholder
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Someone had to eventually excommunicate ChatGPT. It will be the Pope. Leo XIV, the first American pope in history, has just brought before the court of morality the most American industry there is. The algorithm has no soul. But it has a shareholder.
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CEO driving to work realizes AI tokens cost more than fired employees
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CEO driving to work after realizing these AI tokens are going to cost way more than the employees he laid off: pic.twitter.com/dRB0Z5Sbxq
— Charly Wargnier (@DataChaz) 5 juin 2026CEO driving to work after realizing these AI tokens are going to cost way more than the employees he laid off: