u/Odd_Row1657

Just came across "The AI Layoff Trap" which is a research paper wrote by two economists and it kind of broke my brain a little.

The basic argument is that AI layoffs create a demand externality. Basically, every worker you automate away is also a consumer you've deleted from the market. Automation for businesses is rational cause it saves time and is more efficient etc. However, it will also be the companies' downfall. Similar to the classic prisoner's dilemma problem, but applied to the entire economy. This isn't just now an American or European or China problem. We all need to be thinking about this.

link to the article I read for this https://mrkt30.com/the-ai-layoff-trap-congratulations-youve-been-automated/. It's hard cause I think AI is a good thing for working as it streamlines processes and I now use it every day. But I worry about how it will be used in the future and what the future will look like for my children and my children's children.

Let's be real, Sam Altman used to hype these insane $1.4 trillion infrastructure promises like OpenAI had already won the future. Now? They're quietly dialing it back to "just" $600 billion in spending by 2030, while swearing they'll somehow rake in $280 billion in revenue that year. From the $13.1 billion they actually made in 2025? That's like 20x growth in five years. Come on. The numbers are laughable and it doesn't take a genius to figure that out.

And who's paying? A huge chunk of OpenAI's users and enterprise deals are in Europe.

But I have noticed a change. Europeans want tech which is made BY Europeans FOR Europeans. This means bye bye Open AI hello Europe FINALLY claiming back its dependence.

Can we all please agree to listen and wake up now? Why keep subsidizing Silicon Valley's endless cash bonfire? (hope I dont trigger too many Americans)

(Article link for the full breakdown: https://mrkt30.com/can-openai-rely-on-europe-for-its-280b-revenue-goals-by-2030/)

Dictionary giant Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica just filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing them of "free-riding on our work" by secretly using tens of thousands of their copyrighted entries to power ChatGPT. The publishers say the AI is reproducing their exact phrasing and stealing visitors who would normally go straight to their sites.

OpenAI is not having a good month...

Fair use or outright theft?

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/03/19/free-riding-on-our-work-dictionary-sues-openai-for-using-copyrighted-materials-to-train-ch

Department of Defense blasts Anthropic in court: its "red lines" on AI use could let the company disable models during warfighting ops, making it an "unacceptable risk to national security."

This escalating battle over a $200M contract raises huge questions about AI ethics, government contracts, and who controls frontier tech in critical operations.

I wonder who is going to win the AI war... Anthropic VS US gov?

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/dod-says-anthropics-red-lines-make-it-an-unacceptable-risk-to-national-security/

Jensen Huang has said that “AI is essential infrastructure. Every company will use it. Every nation will build it.”

The 2026 NVIDIA event (GTC) has been really interesting to watch- with partnerships everywhere. Some of them include Mistral sovereign models to robotaxis with Uber/Hyundai and drug discovery at Roche.

AI's going mainstream fast...

https://mrkt30.com/jensen-huangs-gtc-2026-vision-nvidia-partnerships-shape-ai/

"Tesla’s Optimus, a general-purpose humanoid robot engineered by Elon Musk’s team, has gripped global attention as his boldest venture yet. Yet critics and industry watchers increasingly call it overhyped: repeated delays in full autonomy and high-volume production, heavy reliance on teleoperation in viral demos rather than true end-to-end AI, and a stretched “world-changing abundance” narrative amid execution hurdles and rising competition from more grounded rivals. Meanwhile, the humanoid AI robotics arms race is shifting focus eastward."

https://mrkt30.com/is-tesla-overhyped-enter-neura-robotics-europes-ai-robot-challenger/

News this week showed that Yann LeCun (top ex-google scientist) has started a new company called AMI and already has $1.03B from investments and $3.5B pre-money valuation.

Im not saying this isn't an amazing achievement for European AI sovereignty... It's big right? But I dont think people have investigated enough into it.

Take away Yann LeCun's fame in the AI world, how has he managed to get such a large investment for a company founded months ago with around 12 employees??? There is no product, no revenue and its basically in research mode.

Want to know the worst part of this... It's going to be 5-10 years before it starts making revenue. Lets repeat that: 5-10 years before AMI is going to make revenue. Will investors really wait a decade for payoffs while OpenAI/Anthropic ship stuff yearly?

I dont know why more people are not talking about it.

I used these articles for my research btw if anyone wants to fact check...

https://mrkt30.com/yann-lecuns-1b-ami-lifeline-can-it-save-europes-ai-sovereignty/

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/yann-lecuns-ami-labs-raises-1-03-billion-to-build-world-models/

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/03/10/french-ai-godfather-yann-lecun-raises-nearly-1-billion-for-startup-to-build-safer-ai