Only 2% of AI users pay for AI; 98% use the free tier, not to mention those who don't use AI at all. We are still in such an early stage, and most people aren't even aware of the models' full capabilities.
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AI’s contested impact on junior white-collar hiring
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"The best current evidence supports a narrow claim: AI may already be affecting the hiring margin for junior white-collar roles most exposed to AI, but this attribution is contested, and aggregate labor-market disruption has yet to appear in the data." https://
aleximas.substack.com/p/has-ai-impac
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Bill Gates Proposes Robot Tax Amid AI Job Automation
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Bill Gates Proposes FICA Robot Tax To Protect Workers Amid Rapid AI Job Automation! #Automation #AI #JobSecurity #job
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America first to manufacture Intelligence itself, changing everything
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In the long running narrative about American (and ergo Western decline), the wild-card no one expected was that America would be first to work out how to manufacture Intelligence itself.
— Nina Schick (@NinaDSchick) 2 octobre 2026
This changes everything; and while Europe is currently unable to participate meaningfully in… https://t.co/b1xj9kh7wuIn the long running narrative about American (and ergo Western decline), the wild-card no one expected was that America would be first to work out how to manufacture Intelligence itself. This changes everything; and while Europe is currently unable to participate meaningfully in
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Frontier AI models outperform junior accountants on accounting tasks
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“We find that on medium-length, well-defined accounting tasks, frontier AI models are now faster and more accurate than junior accountants, even the best one in our study.” Eighteen months ago they scored well below human accountants Good discussion here: https://
mercor.com/blog/human-bas
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Nvidia and peers may build more AI chips than market can absorb
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It’s entirely possible Nvidia and peers will build more AI chips than the market can absorb Merrill Lynch’s Vivek Arya has done a great job gathering all the data points on chip companies and what they may be able to sell to Google and the other cloud giants. What concerns me is
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AI Risk Scenario Links Economic Collapse and Uncontrolled Agents
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If the AI bubble collapses, the economy may collapse.
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) 1 octobre 2026
If it doesn’t collapse, poorly controlled agents may wreck the world’s infrastructure, or cause an accidental war. pic.twitter.com/31xtBi7afbIf the AI bubble collapses, the economy may collapse. If it doesn’t collapse, poorly controlled agents may wreck the world’s infrastructure, or cause an accidental war.
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AI assistants reshape bank competition before banks notice
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Banks used to compete on branches. Then on apps. Now the competition is happening inside a customer's AI assistant — before the bank even knows the customer is shopping. I explored how CNBC recently raised the real question: what happens when customers show up with AI that can
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AI-generated consulting reports to drive price drops
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A bit like consulting firms that charge hundreds of thousands of euros for a report 100% made by AI in two days by an intern. Price drops are coming. Everywhere.
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AI and the collapse of human economic value
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People often get this topic wrong because they don't understand economics. When they repeat that AI will be complementary to humans, they forget that to be paid, humans need to have added value. If AI does almost everything, the value of humans collapses