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AI is already reshaping the value of human expertise, but its effects on workers aren’t predetermined. MIT professor David Autor says the key question isn’t what jobs can be automated, but which tasks within a job are automated and who benefits from that shift. In some cases, AI can increase wages and productivity; in others, it can lower barriers to entry, intensify competition and compress pay. Stanford professor Erik Brynjolfsson discusses whether AI will widen inequality or expand opportunity, and how policymakers can steer its development.

Seedance 2.0 fever continues — but HOW is this model so good? Today I’m breaking down the architecture behind ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 and why this might be the first true “thinking” video model. We’re looking at how Seed 2.0 (ByteDance’s new flagship LLM) powers the video generation pipeline, what RAG means for the future of AI video, Hollywood’s response with cease and desist orders, and I’m debunking those viral Seedance 3.0 rumors.

Google Gemini 3 DeepThink, the world’s smartest AI? This video analyzes benchmark results across various complex tasks, including coding challenges and visual reasoning tests. It also explores how this technology is being used in scientific research to tackle real-world problems.

An AI-generated video of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise fighting sparked concern among Hollywood studios and actors. Lauren Pozen reports.

Matt Wolfe discusses the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, heavily inspired by a viral article by Matt Schumer arguing that AI’s impact will be more significant than COVID-19. Wolfe highlights how AI tools have recently crossed a threshold, moving from basic generation to executing complex, autonomous tasks that showcase judgment and taste. He shares personal experiences of building functional tools and websites with minimal prompts, noting that AI is now instrumental in developing its own successor models.

While acknowledging counterarguments regarding the pace of adoption, Wolfe emphasizes the exponential growth curve of AI capabilities, predicting widespread automation of white-collar work within a few years. He encourages viewers to move beyond free tools and seriously engage with paid AI services to understand their potential. Ultimately, he advises that being early to adopt and understand these technologies is crucial for professional survival and leveraging the immense opportunities AI presents.

CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa reports on AI’s impact on the workforce and equity markets.

ByteDance just changed the game. One week after Kling 3.0 set the benchmark, SeedDance 2.0 is here to take the throne.

It’s been exactly one week since we declared a new King of AI Video, but in AI time, that’s an eternity. Today, I’m revealing exclusive internal documents and video examples of ByteDance’s new frontier model, SeeDance 2.0

This isn’t just an update—it’s a multimodal beast capable of handling up to 12 reference inputs (9 images + 3 videos) and generating native audio. We are putting it through the ultimate stress test: from the famous “Severance” elevator shot to consistent character tracking and the mind-bending “Subvert the Plot” feature.

Is this the model that finally beats Kling and Sora? Let’s find out.

Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude.

Anthropic’s New Opus 4.6 is a DREAM for Authors. I put it through my usual tests for premise, outline, writing, revision, and more.

Humanoid robots just entered a new phase of realism. In Shanghai, DroidUp revealed Moya, the world’s first fully biomimetic embodied intelligent robot, built to move, react, and socially interact in ways that feel human on a subtle level. While Moya focuses on humanlike expressions and presence, Unitree’s G1 proved robots can survive brutal real-world environments by trekking across extreme subzero terrain. Xpeng’s IRON humanoid showed both the promise and limits of public-facing robots after a viral stage fall. At the same time, researchers at Harvard are redesigning robotic joints based on the human knee, and Westwood Robotics is teaching humanoids to work while walking, pushing machines closer to real-world usefulness.