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Back to EpisodesA leaked tape. A fired workforce. And a city that just put a 1-in-20 odds on an AI economic shockwave.
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Yesterday in AI | Friday, May 22, 2026
A leaked tape. A fired workforce. And a city that just put a 1-in-20 odds on an AI economic shockwave.
A secret recording surfaced this week that reframes everything companies say about "productivity monitoring," and the person talking is one of the most powerful tech executives alive. Meanwhile, a general-purpose AI disproved something mathematicians have believed since 1946, verified by three of the world's top math minds. Then there's the AI company that just hit a financial milestone nobody expected this soon, a government report that assigned specific probability weights to the scenario where AI destroys millions of jobs, and a White House executive order that was almost signed, then wasn't. Six stories that all land differently than the headlines suggest.
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