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  • The Download: puncturing the AI jobs panic

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria Despite the growing hysteria over AI’s threat to white-collar jobs, there’s still scant evidence that the technology has had a large-scale impact on…

  • Driving Porsche's most powerful car—and no, it's not a 911

    1,139 horsepower, 400 kW charging, brutally fast, and brutally expensive.

  • It’s time to address the looming crisis in entry-level work.

    Artificial intelligence has not so far produced a clean story of mass unemployment. Aggregate employment in developed countries remains broadly stable, and recent assessments have found limited evidence that AI has shifted the headline numbers. But a troubling change may be hiding beneath the surface: the quiet weakening of the first rung of the career…

  • A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria

    Haven’t you heard? White-collar jobs are going away, decimated by AI. Waves of layoffs in the tech sector (most recently at Coinbase and Meta and Cisco) are said to presage what will soon come for all of us knowledge workers. But before you quit your job as a software developer or financial analyst—or tech journalist—and…

  • Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must "disarm" AI

    In an age of AI, Pope looks for "artisans of hope."

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