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The Download: AI’s impact on jobs, and data centres in space

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MIT Technology Review - Ai Research Title: The Download: AI’s impact on jobs, and data centres in space Date: 2026-04-07 12:10 Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/07/1135208/the-download-ai-impact-jobs-data-centres-space/ <p><em>This is today’s edition of </em><a href="https://forms.technologyreview.com/ne…
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  • Elon Musk is trying to take control of the future of AGI

    60% confidence
  • Any plan to address AI's impact on jobs will depend on collecting one vital piece of data: price elasticity

    60% confidence
  • Critics warn that Apple's industrial eucalyptus tree farms will do more harm than good for the environment

    60% confidence
  • If Trump gets his way, the US could face a costly brain drain

    60% confidence
  • Chinese tech firms are selling intelligence exposing US forces by combining AI with open-source data

    60% confidence
  • We need a Manhattan Project for collecting price elasticity data on AI's job impact

    60% confidence
  • Top research talent is already fleeing the United States due to funding cuts

    60% confidence
  • Some OpenAI insiders have called Sam Altman a sociopath

    60% confidence
  • OpenAI's CFO fears it won't be IPO-ready this year

    60% confidence
  • Elon Musk coordinated attacks with Mark Zuckerberg against OpenAI

    60% confidence
  • It was actually quite nice when Artemis II was out of communication with the rest of humanity

    60% confidence
  • Many OpenAI insiders don't trust Sam Altman

    60% confidence

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SpaceX · orbital data centers planned1000000 units
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The Agentic Takeover of the CFO's Office
Enterprise finance software vendors—BlackLine, OneStream, Numero AI, and Oracle—are racing to embed autonomous AI agents into core financial operations (close, consolidation, reporting), backed by consolidation M&A (Numero-Royu, BlackLine-WiseLayer), fresh leadership hires, and survey data showing nearly a quarter of CFOs plan to boost AI spending over 50%. Adoption momentum is strong even as at least one bellwether (Oracle) sees its stock lag year-to-date, suggesting the market hasn't yet fully priced in the shift from AI-as-feature to AI-as-agent in finance.
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Satellite-Terrestrial Network Integration Acceleration
Increased investment and launches in hybrid satellite-cellular networks across telecom industry; competitive responses from other carriers; regulatory activity around satellite spectrum; expansion of emergency/rural connectivity use cases
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Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
Two significantly different EPS values (10.21 vs 2.68 USD_per_share) are reported for Morgan Stanley on the same observation date (2025-12-31). Fact A specifies FY 2025, while Fact B's 'N/A' fiscal period is ambiguous. If both represent FY 2025 annual EPS, these values directly conflict. The magnitude of the difference (3.8x) is too large to attribute to rounding or minor calculation variations. The missing fiscal period in Fact B raises data quality concerns, but same-date observation + same attribute should reference the same period.
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