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Hot on the heels of Goldman Sachs announcing an AI-free index fund, AI Added ‘Basically Zero’ to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says

Briggs’ colleague, Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius, said in an interview with the Atlantic Council that AI investment spending has had “basically zero” contribution to the U.S. GDP growth in 2025.

“We don’t actually view AI investment as strongly growth positive,” said Hatzius. “I think there’s a lot of misreporting, actually, of the impact AI investment had on U.S. GDP growth in 2025, and it’s much smaller than is often perceived.”

Some of this is that the value of the excess manufacturing accruing to Taiwan and Korea.

If Microsoft creates a modern Aibo, does that mean CoPilot is your dog?

(Ref: "CoPilot is my Jesus" from flabdablet https://www.metafilter.com/212...ain-Has-Left-the-Station#8817052 )

I wondered how the NYT could edit Trump's comments to make him sound coherent and like he was speaking in complete sentences, and yet record every "uhm" and "ah" in a quote pulled from the middle of a 90 minute AOC free-form Q&A. Spin Class Cass Study: I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News"

How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative

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