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Welcome, humans.

Remember when Jensen said robots would start actually understanding the world around them?

ImagineAI just dropped this wild video of their SE01 humanoid robot taking a casual stroll around their Shenzhen campus, and... it's unnervingly smooth? The footsteps sound so natural you'd think it was just another employee heading to grab coffee.

Trust us, turn the sound on for this one.

Our favorite interaction from Reddit:

• “I think my upstairs neighbor has one of these."
• "Are you my downstairs neighbor? If you are, it's just my kids..."

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

• 41% of large companies expect to decrease their employees by 2030 via AI.
• We share the 10 fastest growing + declining jobs by 2030.
• Grok is available as an iOS app.
• 77% (!) of tech workers now use AI tools instead of traditional search.

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Is AI Actually Taking Our Jobs? The Data Might Surprise You.

The biggest debate in AI (after whether it'll kill us all) is whether it'll take all our jobs. And TBH, recent headlines aren't exactly... comforting.

There’s a stat floating around from The World Economic Forum’s 2025 Future of Jobs Report that 41% of employers are planning to downsize their workforce as AI automates tasks.

Gulp. And the hits keep coming:

• Bloomberg Intelligence predicts global banks will say goodbye to 200,000 jobs in the next 3-5 years (thanks, AI)
• Salesforce casually announced they're putting engineer hiring on ice for 2025 because... well, AI.
• And many white-collar professionals we know are doom-scrolling through LinkedIn wondering if they're next.

But hold up—is it really all doom and gloom? When we dug into the actual data, things got interesting.

We asked Perplexity Pro to do a deep dive on whether AI increased or decreased employment in 2024, and it basically said "¯_(ツ)_/¯" but more professionally: "AI's impact on employment in 2024 was less dramatic than initially predicted, with effects varying across industries and job types." Not exactly the robot apocalypse we were promised, right?

We’ve talked about what those industries are: Jobs in writing are down 31%, software down 21%, and graphic design down 17%. Pour one out for us creatives!

But as we’ve said before, AI will also create new jobs, and already is. While it didn’t make headlines, the WEF report also mentioned this stat: “About 70% of companies plan to hire workers to develop and enhance AI tools, and 62% plan to hire for collaboration with AI.”

Check out this fascinating roundup from WEF of the fastest-growing vs. declining jobs by 2030—it's like a tale of two industries. The growth column reads like an AI conference agenda (think: data warehouses, IoT specialists, ML specialists), while the decline column... well, it's basically a list of things ChatGPT already does really well.

Our take: We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: the jury's still out on whether AI will cause mass unemployment.

We're cautiously optimistic that AI will create more jobs than it kills in the long run—kinda like how computers didn't actually put everyone out of work—but we're not gonna sugar-coat it: some industries are in for a rough ride, and that turbulence could hit hard and fast given the pace of AI development and adoption.

P.S. Just for fun, we asked Claude to predict if it would take our newsletter writing job. It politely declined to answer, which we're choosing to interpret as good news.

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Around the Horn.

• Elon Musk requested that the California and Delaware AGs force OpenAI to auction off a significant stake in its business.
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• A copyright lawsuit against Meta claims that Zuckerberg allowed the team to train Llama models on pirated ebooks and articles.
• Some ChatGPT users are seeing a new feature in Custom Instructions that allows Chat to respond in styles like “witty” and “opinionated”.

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Intelligent Insights

• The FDA released its first draft guidance on using AI in drug development, addressing the surge in AI-related submissions (over 500 since 2016) and providing a risk-based framework for evaluating AI models in regulatory decisions.
• A new WSJ report detailed how major companies are deploying AI agents—with J&J using them for drug synthesis, Moody's running 35 agents for financial analysis, eBay building a multi-LLM agent framework, Deutsche Telekom's internal agent serving 10K employees weekly, and Cosentino fully replacing 3-4 customer service roles (it moved those employees to other service areas).
• AI search is eating Google's lunch—new data shows 77% of tech workers now use AI tools instead of traditional search.

A Cat's Commentary.