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MIT Technology Review’s Debrief reflects on how Gen Z is thinking about the rise of AI. The page appears to be an editor-in-chief commentary tied to the magazine’s security issue, framing AI’s effects on jobs, security, and economic prosperity.
Visit originalThis Business Insider as-told-to piece follows software engineer Mostofa Adib Shakib, who shifted from traditional roles at Snap Inc. and ZipRecruiter to AI-focused contractor work with Mercor after ChatGPT convinced him the industry was changing. He describes learning about LLMs, agentic AI, and r…
Visit originalThis Ben Leavitt Show episode features futurist Peter Diamandis discussing how AI will affect everyday people rather than just tech elites, addressing widespread anxiety about job loss and automation. Diamandis offers an optimistic counter-narrative to fear-driven media headlines, discussing AI's p…
Visit originalMo Gawdat, former chief business officer for Google X, argues in this Fortune piece that the idea AI will create jobs is 'crap' and warns that AI and AGI will outperform most humans, threatening even CEOs and government leaders. He argues that profit-driven capitalism is accelerating AI adoption fo…
Visit originalThis X (Twitter) post argues that Palantir's reported $10 billion Army contract will drive a major hiring wave for defense-focused data center and infrastructure roles, since military AI cannot run on public cloud. It lists needed capabilities such as air-gapped data centers, SCIF facilities, and c…
Visit originalThis Medium article argues that AI is rapidly automating routine white-collar jobs, listing 10 roles at high risk of replacement by 2026 and explaining the vulnerability of each. It suggests pivot paths and learning steps such as SQL, automation tools like Zapier and Notion AI, and prompt engineeri…
Visit originalThis Business Insider article discusses Google Brain founder Andrew Ng’s view that artificial general intelligence is overhyped. The page’s description says Ng argues humans will still have work to do even as AI advances. It is a news article by Shubhangi Goel published in July 2025.
Visit originalThis YouTube video (Wes Roth) covers the launch of Manus, described as China's first general AI agent, an autonomous system that can research, write biographies, build websites, rank resumes, and handle multi-step tasks in the cloud. It discusses Manus's use of command-line tools and multi-agent wo…
Visit originalOpenAI CEO Sam Altman and CPO Kevin Weil answered student questions at the University of Tokyo, comparing competing with AI to trying to 'beat a calculator' at arithmetic. They said humans will no longer be able to compete with AI in areas like mathematics, programming, or physics, but will instead…
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