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Now that the housekeeping is done, here’s what you might’ve missed last week.
11.7% of US Jobs Could be Handled by AI
This report shows that traditional metrics like GDP and unemployment miss where AI is actually hitting the labor market: Project Iceberg’s Iceberg Index maps skills-level exposure and finds that white-collar cognitive and administrative work nationwide faces five times more technical AI exposure than visible tech-sector disruption, with especially sharp risks in finance-heavy and industrial states.
Genesis Mission Leaves Unresolved Questions
The White House’s new initiative directs the Department of Energy to fuse national labs, supercomputers, and vast federal datasets into a closed-loop AI discovery engine. Pitched as a Manhattan Project for science, but launched with no clear price tag or access model. For enterprise tech leaders, Genesis is less about immediate impact and more about direction of travel: a signal that future norms will center on tightly orchestrated, secure, and observable AI pipelines.r
Are Chinese Tech Giants Circumventing Chip Bans?
Alibaba, ByteDance and other Chinese leaders in generative AI are leasing compute from foreign‑owned facilities abroad so they can keep training large language models on Nvidia hardware that Washington has tried to cut off, while DeepSeek leans on pre‑ban chip stockpiles and joint work with Huawei to blunt the squeeze.
EuroBank to Launch AI Factory
Greece’s Eurobank is launching an “AI Factory” with Fairfax Digital Services, EY and Microsoft, using Azure, EYai, and Nvidia to embed agentic AI into its core banking systems and push autonomous decision-making across the bank, while also deepening its Fairfax relationship through an €813 million insurance deal involving Eurolife Life and a 45% stake in its Cyprus insurance business.
AI Only Amplifies Hiring Bias
AI is speeding up hiring and legal exposure at the same time: new research shows recruiters mirror biased algorithms, while fresh laws in states like CA and NY now mandate audits, candidate notice, and alternative assessments, pushing employers to pair AI efficiency with real governance and human oversight.
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Type 1 Diabetes Cured in Mice
Stanford scientists report that a combined transplant of donor blood stem cells and pancreatic islet cells cured or prevented Type 1 diabetes in mice, creating a hybrid immune system that stops autoimmune attacks without ongoing insulin or immunosuppressive drugs and pointing toward future human trials using tools already common in the clinic.
Are Electric Cargo Ships Actually Viable?
As battery and solar costs plunge, a new study finds that electrifying shipping may work best not through fully electric container ships, but via smaller auxiliary battery ships that recharge in port, rendezvous at sea, and give carriers a flexible, lower‑carbon way to move global trade.
AI Models Advancing Alzheimer’s Detection
A Swedish research team has built a tiny, privacy-preserving AI model that classifies dementia from EEG data with more than 97% accuracy using federated learning, allowing hospitals to improve diagnosis without ever sharing raw patient records.
Amazon Investing in “Purpose-Built” AI
AWS is massively scaling its federal footprint with a $50 billion investment, adding 1.3 gigawatts of secure compute, giving U.S. agencies expanded access to secure cloud regions and advanced AI services tailored to classified and sensitive workloads.
Central Banks Weary of Broad AI Adoption
A new survey of central banks managing over $6.5 Trillion finds AI still stuck in the back office: most are using it for basic analytics, keeping it away from core policy and reserve decisions, shunning digital assets, and clinging to the dollar even as they talk up diversification.
🍫 Power Numbers
4.1% - The increase in US Black Friday spending from 2024 to the tune of $11B+
$12,000 - How much 160 New Yorkers are receiving in a UBI-esque pilot funded by Coinbase
943M - Snapchat’s Monthly Active Users, yet still not reaching profitability
4,000 - 6,000 - The number of jobs HP will cut by 2028 as they lean heavier into AI integration
220M - The number of paid users OpenAI projects by 2030
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