Junior Work Is Vanishing First
Coding, writing, and analyst roles show AI substitution earliest. The pipeline problem is bigger than the job-loss headline.
DropThe Data Desk9 min
Compute
The GPU Market Stopped Behaving Like Hardware
Blackwell demand turned chips into infrastructure allocation. Startups compete for access, not price.
DropThe Data Desk8 min
Money
OpenAI Found Revenue. The Margin Question Remains.
Enterprise adoption is real. Whether the unit economics work at scale is the next story.
DropThe Staff6 min
Models
Benchmarks Are Becoming Product Marketing
Model scores keep rising. The harder question is whether tests still predict real deployment value.
DropThe Data Desk7 min
By the Numbers
$320B
Global AI infrastructure spend (2026)
Gartner
1,247
AI models released in 2026 (so far)
Epoch AI
$42.7B
Total AI startup funding (Q1 2026)
PitchBook
78
Countries with national AI strategies
OECD AI Policy Observatory
Society
Creative AI
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