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Sam Altman walked back the AI jobs apocalypse in Sydney the same week the FBI started filing data-center protesters under terrorism.
Altman admits he was wrong about AI jobs apocalypse. FBI/DHS files data-center protesters under 'anti-tech violent extremism' (Wired). Beijing makes Alibaba and DeepSeek AI staff surrender passports. Samsung's 48,000 chip workers ratify a 10.5 percent AI-revenue profit-share deal at 95.5 percent turnout. UK doctors say treat AI chatbots for kids like smoking.
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Read the full analysis on Substack ›1. Sam Altman in Sydney admitted he was wrong about the AI jobs apocalypse. Jensen Huang said the same thing on Tuesday. Anthropic's Chris Olah told the Vatican the opposite.
If your boss used AI as the reason for a layoff this year, or floated it as the reason for one coming, the CEOs of OpenAI and Nvidia just publicly said the framing is wrong, eight days apart.
euronews.com: No AI 'jobs apocalypse' so far, says OpenAI's Sam Altman
2. Wired published a thousand pages of FBI and DHS reports labeling data-center protesters "anti-tech violent extremism." Photography of an AI data center is on the suspicious-activity list.
If your county is one of the dozens currently fighting an AI data-center project, the federal threat lexicon now has a category that can be applied to people on your side of that fight.
androidauthority.com: Law enforcement is now monitoring for 'anti-tech extremism'
3. Beijing made AI researchers at Alibaba, DeepSeek, Manus, Moonshot, and StepFun surrender their passports. Bloomberg confirmed the expansion today.
If you work for a company that licenses, distributes, or invests in any Chinese AI model or service, the named-employee constraints just became personal.
thenextweb.com: China extends AI travel curbs from DeepSeek to other private firms
4. Samsung's 48,000 chip workers ratified the first AI-revenue profit-share deal in industry history. 73.7 percent yes, 95.5 percent turnout. [Returning]
If you work for a company whose revenue is going up because of AI and your paycheck is not, the Samsung union just established that a percentage of the AI-driven operating profit can be written into the wage agreement as a separate pool.
koreaherald.com: Samsung's strike-averting wage deal passes union vote
5. UK doctors told their government to treat children's access to AI chatbots the way the country treats smoking.
If you have a kid under 16 in the UK, an age-based AI chatbot restriction is now in front of the British government with the backing of the country's medical-establishment umbrella body.
medscape.com: Doctors Warn Social Media Poses Smoking-Level Health Risk