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Nobel laureate economist warns AI jobs apocalypse fears could become a self-fulfilling prophesy 0
- AI, Business, Finance, Tech
- June 27, 2026
The disparity between the trillions spent fueling AI and the distaste of the people meant to adopt it has grown into a chasm. Only 16% of Americans believe AI will have a positive impact on society over the next 20 years, according to a recent survey conducted by Pew, while 40% expect the opposite. There’s
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tax tech profits, not people 0
- SCIENCE
- June 16, 2026
If artificial intelligence and automation begin to replace human labour at scale, the key economic question won’t be the speed at which jobs vanish — it will be who pays the bill. As machines generate an ever-larger share of economic value, governments will be forced to confront how to fund retraining and unemployment support in
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In SpaceX’s IPO: a Tesla merger clue and a $3.75 billion insider windfall for friends and family 0
- Big Tech, Business, Finance, Tech
- June 4, 2026
No good deed goes unpunished: The Magnificent 7 were down 1.25% at the close. Broadcom fared even worse. It lost 12.8% in overnight trading after reporting revenues that were a smidge below expectations, and after CEO Hock Tan didn’t raise his guidance for future AI chip sales. To put that in context, investors punished the
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How fertilizer shortages caused by the energy crisis threaten food security 0
- SCIENCE
- May 5, 2026
Since March, war in the Middle East has disrupted global fertilizer markets. Urea prices jumped by nearly 46% in a month, as geopolitical and energy shocks hit nitrogen supply chains1. The disruptions caused by blocked maritime bottlenecks, including the Strait of Hormuz, limiting tanker movements and flows of oil and liquefied natural gas, underscore the
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Motherhood derails women’s academic careers — these data reveal how and why 0
- SCIENCE
- March 29, 2026
After having their first child, women are 29% less likely to be employed at a university.Credit: miljko/Getty Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s, lowering their chances of getting university jobs, tenure and reducing their publication output, finds a large analysis1 of academics in Denmark. The
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The stay-at-home boyfriend is now an economic trend as more women than men go to work 0
- Business, Economy, Finance
- March 28, 2026
You probably know a woman supporting an unemployed man. Maybe you’ve been that woman. What used to be an embarrassing secret has quietly become a macroeconomic data point, and the Federal Reserve has the receipts. As of early 2026, women held more nonfarm payroll jobs than men in the United States. This has happened twice
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