‘You won’t be replaced by AI, you’ll be replaced by someone using AI’ is already proving to be untrue. (and I said that too!)
ECONOMY
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AI Productivity Gains Fall Short of Corporate Expectations at Davos
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AI has dominated the conversation at #Davos2025, but companies are learning that productivity isn’t as fast as expected, says @DigEconLab Director @erikbryn
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Chinese Hedge Fund Open Source OS Model Disrupts AI Market
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That’s the irony, duh. The best OS model came from a Chinese hedge fund. The operative words here being ‘open source.’ That API already being built upon by hundreds of thousands of developers. (97% cheaper than Open AI’s.)
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AI Cost Efficiency Drives Software Company Benefits and Growth
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AI Advancements Benefit Software Companies DeepSeek's cost-efficient AI technology suggests potential benefits for software companies as AI tools become cheaper to develop and run. Companies like Microsoft and Salesforce could see improved margins and higher adoption due to these
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AI Thought-Leadership as Soft Power in Geopolitical Competition
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Actually, to me, there is nothing bizarre about this. A nation’s thought-leadership in an important area like AI is soft power. This soft power is a currency for global influence. I expect the geopolitical competition for AI thought-leadership to increase over the next decade.
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Chain of Thought merchandise and Google search disruption impact
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100% love the COT too. Need to get that MERCH ASAP! Wonder what happens to Google revenue when the rest of the world twigs on to new search?
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France considers capping welfare at 70% minimum wage
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Et si la France arrêtait enfin de subventionner l’inactivité ? L’idée d’une allocation sociale unique, plafonnée à 70% du SMIC, fait son chemin. Et c’est une excellente nouvelle. Voici pourquoi :
— Rafik Smati (@RafikSmati) 5 février 2025
1) La France ne travaille pas assez et ne produit pas assez. Si notre pays avait le… pic.twitter.com/LTaoc5LNe8Et si la France arrêtait enfin de subventionner l’inactivité ? L’idée d’une allocation sociale unique, plafonnée à 70% du SMIC, fait son chemin. Et c’est une excellente nouvelle. Voici pourquoi : 1) La France ne travaille pas assez et ne produit pas assez. Si notre pays avait le
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Is the S-Curve Adoption Pattern Inevitable for AI Technologies?
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Isn’t the s-shaped curve inevitable? Adoption starts, accelerates, then market saturates.
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China’s Manufacturing Path Dependency and Western Competitive Disadvantage
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I have discussed at length the path dependency in terms of manufacturing capability that is downstream from China rising up in a free trade world. That’s not an inability to innovate. It’s the inverse of the wests inability to compete with China in many areas