Big Tech is betting $700 billion on AI. Healthcare will decide whether the bet pays off
Healthcare has something many industries lack: a clear place to put the productivity gains AI creates.
Read the original →Article digest · Oct 11 AM
AI & Economy — what each story says
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🌐 Macro Economy / Growth3
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- America’s trillion-dollar bet on AIThe Hill · 10/10 12:00 UTC
- The Trump Economy: AI Bubble and BeyondCenter for Economic and Policy Research · 10/10 14:14 UTC
📈 Productivity3
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- What’s Dragging Down A.I. Efficiency? The ‘Verification Tax.’The New York Times · 10/10 14:28 UTC
- Is AI Taking Our Jobs? Signal Boosting Noah SmithEconomist Writing Every Day · 10/10 15:18 UTC
- The economist behind the ‘China shock’ says AI is a paradoxical ‘skill-disequalizer’ for Gen Z workersFortune · 10/10 12:49 UTC
👷 Jobs / Labor Market3
Palantir CEO says only trade workers or those with neurodivergence will succeed in the AI era
Billionaire Alex Karp tells Gen Z to skip elite college degrees. One-fifth of Fortune 500 companies are recruiting more neurodivergent talent by 2027.
Read the original →New JTED center to help build AI resistant jobs
At Pima JTED, the Joint Technical Education District, a new building should go a long way towards training students for AI resistant jobs.
Read the original →AI forces coding program to revamp how it prepares Philly students for tech jobs
The curriculum has been overhauled to try to give young people a leg up in an increasingly competitive job market.
Read the original →⚡ Energy / Power Demand3
The AI Boom’s Hidden Cost: Wholesale Prices Are Surging 41% in America’s Largest Electricity Market
America's largest electricity market is undergoing a dramatic repricing that most of the country will never see. The force driving it has nothing to do with weather or fuel costs anymore.
Read the original →Google modernizes its nuclear reactors to power AI data centers in the U.S.
Google is modernizing nuclear reactors in an effort to supply its data centers that support artificial intelligence.
Read the original →As companies pour billions into Earth-based AI infrastructure, Google taking the data center race off-planet
Google will conduct experiments with its satellite in space for a year.
Read the original →🚢 Trade / Industrial Policy2
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- AI and Export Controls: A Legal BreakdownGV Wire · 10/10 16:11 UTC
- The AI data center build-out has made the US more reliant than ever on foreign semiconductorsYahoo Finance · 10/10 15:36 UTC
🏛️ Central Banks / International Institutions1
AI Boom Is Triggering ‘Dutch Disease’ In The US Economy, Warns Apollo’s Torsten Slok — ‘The Only Durable Fix Is…’
Apollo Global Management Chief Economist Torsten Slok argued in a note on Friday that the rapid expansion of AI investment is creating an unusual economic imbalance. He said the AI boom is creating a new set of challenges for the U.S. economy.
Read the original →🏗️ Corporate Capex2
SemiAnalysis Founder Dylan Patel: AI Infrastructure Investment Severely Underestimated, Real Returns Go Beyond Tokens
While the revenues of artificial intelligence companies continue to grow rapidly, investments around their data centers, GPUs, power supply and chip supply chains have entered the "trillion-dollar era." The question is whether such infrastructure spending can translate into sufficient revenues, profits and economic growth.
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- The Six-Month Payback That Explains Every AI Capex DecisionFourWeekMBA · 10/10 06:10 UTC
🗾 Japan's Economy and AI2
Ethan Mollick: AI Has Already Killed the Internship Economy, and That Raises the Value of College
The real AI disruption is not approaching universities but has already hit the market for new graduates. Wharton professor Ethan Mollick made the comments on The Prof G Pod.
Read the original →And ST HD's Adastria launches new AI-driven brand, achieving low prices through efficiency gains
Adastria, which runs the apparel business of the And ST HD group, developed ELMIRA, a new women's apparel brand created together with AI, and begins selling it on October 8 on its own e-commerce mall, And ST. The brand uses the company's own AI technology to improve operational efficiency.
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