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What this topic covers. AI research moves fast, but most reporting on it strips away the methodology. This topic keeps the evidence, the benchmarks, and the limitations in view.
Why it matters. Research claims shape funding, product launches, and policy narratives. If the evidence is weak or misread, the downstream conclusions are weak too.
Coverage
Microsoft AI Chief Predicts AI Will Automate Most White-Collar Work Within 18 Months
Mustafa Suleyman says lawyers, accountants, marketers, and project managers could all be replaced by AI systems within the next year and a half. The data tells a more complicated story.
Claude Mythos Cracked Apple's Most Expensive Security Feature in Five Days
Calif used Anthropic's Mythos Preview to build the first public macOS kernel exploit on M5 silicon, bypassing a multi-billion-dollar memory protection system Apple spent five years building.
Which Jobs Are Safest and Riskiest From AI? The Most Authoritative Research of 2026
Anthropic, Goldman Sachs, the WEF, and the IMF have all released major findings this year. Here is what the data actually says about who is exposed, who is protected, and what is already happening.
Anthropic's Implied Valuation Hits $1.4 Trillion - and the Company Is Already Fighting Back
On-chain pre-IPO markets pushed Anthropic's implied valuation up 40% in 24 days. Then the company declared all unauthorized share transfers void.
OpenAI Launches the Deployment Company, Backed by $4 Billion and 19 Partners
With forward-deployed engineers, a Tomoro acquisition, and McKinsey as a backer, OpenAI is going after the enterprise AI implementation gap - and Anthropic moved the same day.
654,882 Jobs Later: The Tech Layoff Wave That Started the Day ChatGPT Launched
From November 30, 2022 to today, more than 650,000 tech workers have been cut loose. The data tells a story the industry would rather not lead with.
Tools to evaluate
ChatGPT
OpenAI's conversational AI assistant covering writing, coding, research, and agentic tasks across a free tier and multiple paid plans.
Gemini
Google's multimodal AI assistant with native integration across Gmail, Docs, Drive, and Sheets, and a 1M token context window on paid plans.
Perplexity
An AI-powered search engine and research tool that provides conversational answers with cited sources, changing how we discover information.
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