Faster, Please!

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🏰 Lessons on AI and art from the Magic Kingdom
Disney fired a beloved character performer. It would likely never replace her with a robot. That distinction explains more about AI and creative work…
 • James Pethokoukis
⚛️ Why small reactors may be more than nuclear wishcasting
Meta’s nuclear deals suggest small reactors may finally have the customers — and reliable capital —they’ve long lacked
 • James Pethokoukis
✨ Don’t expect an AI job apocalypse
Goldman Sachs sees meaningful AI-driven displacement, but little evidence that technology will permanently sideline human workers. It's analysis worth…
 • James Pethokoukis
✨ AI agents are a real thing and doing real work
Forget the sci-fi timeline (for now). The economic payoff from AI is already happening one shippingt quote at a time
 • James Pethokoukis
😱 The stories that teach America to fear the future
From AI dystopias to data-center panic, our culture has trained us to treat progress as a threat in waiting
 • James Pethokoukis
📈 The most underrated trend of the 2020s
A quiet acceleration in US productivity is challenging the 2010s Great Stagnation narrative — even before AI fully reshapes American work
 • James Pethokoukis
🛢️✨ What the shale boom tells us about the AI boom
History often echoes. Like shale before it, AI is devouring capital long before its economics fully settle — a queasy but familiar stage of every new…
 • James Pethokoukis
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