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The AI jobs panic peaked in May and has faded fast since:
- News reports on AI job loss are down ~65%, back to year-ago levels
- Layoff announcements that cite AI are down ~90%, near the lowest of the year
Charts of the Week: a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-we…
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BREAKING: The number of restaurants in New York dropped ~2,000 YoY in Q1 2026, posting its largest YoY decline in at least 36 years.
This surpasses even the worst contraction recorded in any quarter during the 2020 pandemic.
The number of eating and drinking places in New York State has now declined YoY for 4 consecutive quarters, its longest streak since 2021.
This comes as restaurants are facing surging operating expenses, including insurance premiums, wages, interest rates, utilities, and health coverage, with overall costs rising faster than national averages.
Last year, employee health insurance costs jumped +12.9% for New York-area service firms, business insurance rose +7.0%, while utility costs surged +8.5%, according to the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce.
Skyrocketing costs are crushing New York restaurants.
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I guess it will depend on how much incremental performance those signals will add to the existing signals Meta already captures on its owned platforms.
reality is that most of users' direct interest (short and long term), brands, buying preferences/habits are already captured, which is why Meta is so compelling for direct purchases.
Muse is actually a great add-on for more valuable inventory for Meta, now in a real purchase moment. They won't miss the opportunity to drive you to purchase direct instead of just influence it.. and they will monetize it heavily.
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Jev is INSANE. 🤯
in 24.9 seconds it read 384 news from this morning and told 15 brands which stories to hop onto today, for $0.19.
Claude Opus 5, running on the same feed at the same time, got through 4/384 and cost $0.77.
per headline that is ~390x cheaper, and the answer comes back before you finish reading the headline yourself.
there's going to be so many ways for JEV to help you find trending stories, find journalists covering it, and get press coverage.
everything in the video open-sourced here: newsjack.sh (in the demo/ folder, together with 30+ skills to turn your agent into a PR team)
rod retweeted
A big problem with California is it tries to solve the worlds problems instead of focusing on the major problems at home
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we only fly winners @Argentina
🛩️🇬🇧 Rodri, flying back to Manchester from Madrid while talks with Barcelona continue.
World Cup Player of the Tournament, tonight boarding on Ryanair flight to Liverpool. ✈️
@kippaxgirlemily 📸
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It is their company. They could just stop.
We support this petition, signed by our CEO, several co-founders, and senior staff.
Our own research on recursive self-improvement, published last month, points to the need for tools to deliberately pace the frontier of AI development so society can prepare. We’re glad to see broad agreement across the field. pacingthefrontier.com/
