AI and Jobs: Not a 1930s Replay — Yet

The specter of the 1930s Great Depression looms large in today’s debates about AI and automation. Pundits warn of “mass unemployment,” “AI job apocalypse,” and even a coming “1929 moment.” The comparison is rhetorically powerful — but mostly misleading. Let’s cut through the noise. The reality is more nuanced: AI is not (yet) destroying jobs … Read more

Big Brain vs Small Brain: OpenAI Codex/MCP and Tongyi DeepResearch Show Two Futures of AI

In the race to define the future of artificial intelligence, two radically different strategies are beginning to crystallize. On one side is OpenAI, doubling down on frontier-scale models, enterprise partnerships, and high-end infrastructure like Codex v2 and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). On the other side is Tongyi Lab, the Alibaba-backed group that just released … Read more