The new edition of "Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future" is now available! I have extensively updated the book to cover the latest advances in generative #AI and robotics and to examine the future economic and job market implications of the
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OpenAI’s Codex reaches 4M weekly users, 5x growth since February
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OpenAI is on a winning streak: Codex passed 4M weekly users, 5x since February. Knowledge workers are now a fifth of them, growing 3x faster than developers. The tool OpenAI built for coders is being adopted fastest by people who don't code. All figures from OpenAI's own
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Humans as bottleneck for AI code quality checks
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Since a lot of comments ask about it, they cannot really say anything about code quality using their methods. In part, the reason humans are the bottleneck is because humans are doing some sort of quality check on output, acting as a needed complement to AI coding.
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AI reshapes work and humanist profiles gain ground
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La IA está redibujando el panorama laboral y los perfiles más humanistas están ganando posiciones.
— Juan Merodio (@juanmerodio) 2 juin 2026
La IA es racional, lógica y extraordinariamente eficiente procesando datos, pero sigue sin comprender emociones, contextos complejos o matices humanos como lo hacemos las personas pic.twitter.com/eI3xettuQNAI is redrawing the labor landscape and the most humanist profiles are gaining positions. AI is rational, logical, and extraordinarily efficient at processing data, but it still does not understand emotions, complex contexts, or human nuances as we humans do.
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Meta’s ex-Director to keynote Rev London on evolving data science for agentic era
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Eduardo Arino de la Rubia, former Sr. Director of Data Science at @Meta
, closes Rev London on 25 June. His keynote: how the data scientist role must evolve for the agentic era. Register now:
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AI coding agents: 17x more code but only 30% more releases
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Big paper on AI coding agents using Github & other data The auto-complete tools (Copilot) led to 2.2x more code, local agents like original Claude Code led to 7.4x, & current remote coding agents 17.3x(!) But human bottlenecks in coding means actual releases "only" went up 30%
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Merge launches Agent Handler for Employees, secure AI integration with company software.
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🆕: Merge just launched Agent Handler for Employees — the safest way to connect AI to your company software.
— Futurepedia – Learn to Leverage AI (@futurepedia_io) 2 juin 2026
✅ Connects Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Copilot & more to any third-party system
✅ IT imports employees → maps them to approved tools
✅ Built-in data loss prevention… pic.twitter.com/RgQvgShtNJ: Merge just launched Agent Handler for Employees — the safest way to connect AI to your company software. Connects Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Copilot & more to any third-party system IT imports employees → maps them to approved tools Built-in data loss prevention
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Benedict Evans dismisses AI exposure predictions as nonsense
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.@benedictevans: "People try to predict a profession is X or Y% exposed to AI—this is just the most ridiculous bunch of deluded horsesh*t." https://t.co/Nsra5jHNUg pic.twitter.com/U1Ok1E5Y9h
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 1 juin 2026.
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Writers and Artists Need a Way to Label AI Use
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Writers and Artists Need a Way to Label AI Use: Here’s What That Could Look Like
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Codex working nonstop since 11am, feels like an AI employee
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I launched Codex on a goal at 11am, it's 5pm and it's still working. I've never felt so strongly the feeling of having an AI working for me. Like, it's doing a normal workday right now. I'm working on something else while it…