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    Big Tech: hiring vs. revenue Work and Productivity · 100 Is AI spending replacing hiring? AI and Technology · 68 Superstar city premiums, pre- vs post-Covid Cities and Real Estate · 29 Where business investment goes Economy and Markets · 126 Texas vs. the rest of the planned power pipeline Energy and Infrastructure · 27 Ship transits since October 7 Geopolitics and Society · 44

    Recent Insights

    Artificial Intelligence

    Can AI Reduce Inequality?

    August 26, 2026     Artificial Intelligence

    Why Everybody Loves And Hates AI

    August 21, 2026     Artificial Intelligence

    AI Can See Your Watermark

    August 13, 2026     Artificial Intelligence

    The 50 Words That Explain AI

    August 6, 2026     Future of War · Finance

    Winning Under Uncertainty

    June 19, 2026     Inequality · Artificial Intelligence

    How to Tax AI Profits

    May 26, 2026     Artificial Intelligence

    Intelligence Is Eating The World

    May 20, 2026     Artificial Intelligence

    Artificial Manipulation

    May 18, 2026     Future of Work · Artificial Intelligence

    AI is not a tool.

    May 11, 2026     Artificial Intelligence

    How Goblins Ate The Economy

    May 6, 2026
    Future of Cities · Middle East

    The Meaning Of Dubai

    March 31, 2026     Future of Work · Future of Cities

    Welcome To The Jobless Boom

    February 18, 2026     Future of Work · Artificial Intelligence

    Who Will Get Canned in 2026?

    December 30, 2025     Essay

    Books I Enjoyed In 2025

    December 18, 2025     Artificial Intelligence

    Is OpenAI the New WeWork?

    September 30, 2025     Artificial Intelligence · Future of Work

    You Don't Need AI

    September 17, 2025     Future of Work · Artificial Intelligence

    All Business Is Show Business

    August 13, 2025     Artificial Intelligence

    Keen on AI

    July 28, 2025     Finance

    Are We in a Bubble?

    July 10, 2025     Artificial Intelligence · Future of Work

    It Worked for Nvidia, Could It Work for You?

    July 9, 2025     Artificial Intelligence · Future of Work

    Today It’s Cheating, Tomorrow It’s Fair

    June 20, 2025     Artificial Intelligence · Future of Work

    The Future of Work is Funny

    June 12, 2025     Finance

    Profits, Fast and Slow

    June 6, 2025     Essay

    AI Is Too Busy To Take Your Job

    May 12, 2025     Essay

    Everything Not Forbidden Is Compulsory

    May 2, 2025

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    Recent Data

    U.S. Treasury via FRED

    5- and 10-year real interest rates

    The source revised 2 previously published observations.     Census Bureau BTOS New 19-observation high

    Firms using AI

    Using AI moved from 21.8 to 22.4.     EIA New 36-observation high

    U.S. electricity consumption

    Total retail sales moved from 4,076 to 4,082.     Indeed Hiring Lab

    Software development job postings vs. all jobs

    Software development moved from 74.4 to 74.6.     Indeed Hiring Lab (CC BY 4.0)

    Software job postings across countries

    United States moved from 74.4 to 74.6.     Census Bureau BFS New 36-observation high

    New business applications, monthly

    Business applications moved from 536 to 579.     BLS CES via FRED

    Tech employment growth by segment

    Computer systems design moved from -1.67 to -1.22.     BLS Current Population Survey API

    Employment rates: young vs. prime-age workers

    Ages 20–24 moved from 65.6 to 65.3.     BLS CPS via FRED

    Workers holding more than one job

    Multiple jobholders moved from 5.3 to 5.4.     New York Fed SCE

    Worker Anxiety Index (W-AI)

    Worker Anxiety Index moved from 70.2 to 68.7.
    U.S. EIA

    Oil Prices

    Brent moved from 85.4 to 83.76.     BLS JOLTS via FRED

    Layoffs, trailing 12 months

    Information sector moved from 116.6 to 120.9.     U.S. Treasury and NBER via FRED

    10-Year–2-Year Treasury Yield Spread

    10-year minus 2-year moved from 0.36 to 0.38.     BEA & BLS via FRED

    Output growth vs. job growth

    Real GDP moved from 2.68 to 2.1.     Real Estate

    Nareit Office Occupancy

    Data through Q2 2026     Real Estate

    Office Occupancy and the Jobs That Fill Offices

    Data through Q2 2026     Business

    Hiring's response to growth, before and after

    Data through 2026     Business

    The path each company walked: revenue vs. headcount

    Data through 2026     Business

    The Unhired Index

    Data through 2025     Business

    The weakening link between revenue and hiring

    Data through 2026     Business

    What a new billion of revenue used to buy

    Data through 2026     Business

    Software headcount below its pre-Covid revenue scaling

    Data through 2026     AI

    Critical and high severity cybersecurity vulnerabilities from major vendors

    Data through Jul 2026     AI

    Share of published vulnerabilities NVD has rated

    Data through Jul 2026     AI

    Software vulnerabilities published per month

    Data through Jul 2026

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