AI is going to eliminate way more jobs than anyone realizes

Tech Insider : Economy
A glitchy liquid tidal wave hurls towards a group of gray cubicles with concerned workers looking upon the looming threat. The background of the scene is a glitchy bright green.
The AI revolution is about the crash into the global economy and upend millions of jobs.

Arantza Pena Popo/Insider

A tidal wave is about to crash into the global economy. 

Goldman Sachs is having an identity crisis

Tech Insider : Economy
A Goldman Sachs vase smashed to pieces
Goldman Sachs has gone from a disciplined force of finance's greatest killers to a humbled and weakened shell of itself.

Tyler Le/Insider

I never thought I'd write this but … I miss the old Goldman Sachs.

AI is about to turn the internet into a total nightmare

Tech Insider : Economy
Amid an orange background, a swirl of fluid white and orange lines and stars chaotically disrupt an array of dark blue internet windows. Binary code decorates the orange background
AI bots and AI-generated content are flooding the internet with spam, scams, and misinformation. And it's making it a nightmare to be online.

Arantza Pena Popo/Insider

The genius plan that could bring down skyrocketing home prices

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
large triplex with a price tag/New Zealand flag attached and two small homes with price tags/American flags attached
If the US wants to build more homes, slow down rent growth, and give more people a place to live, it needs to learn from New Zealand.

Tyler Le/Insider

The trick America's biggest drug companies are using to screw over taxpayers

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
American Flag made out of pills and syringes
Americans are not only paying through the nose for their prescriptions but also receiving none of the benefits from having a robust "American" pharmaceutical industry.

Tyler Le/Insider

There's a mystery lurking in America's national medicine cabinet.

There are way too many real estate agents — and it's screwing over homebuyers

Tech Insider : Economy
Real estate agents run to get a deal on a house for sale.
A surplus of real-estate agents is bad for both the industry and regular home buyers and sellers.

Chelsea Jia Feng/Insider

A glut of mediocre Realtors is screwing over homebuyers

CheatGPT: the hidden wave of employees using AI on the sly

Tech Insider : Economy
A women sits at an office desk typing on the computer. At the focal point of the illustration is a vibrant textured square that shows here gleefully using AI on her desktop.

The death of hobbies

Tech Insider : Economy
Hands knitting a scarf made out of money
Hobbies have been killed off and milked for cash — but in the rush to turn a passion into a side hustle, the fire a person has for that activity can be snuffed out.

Robyn Phelps/Insider

How side hustles turned everyone's leisure activities into work

War with China would be an 'onslaught' like the US hasn't faced in decades

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
A boxing match between China and the US.
Military and experts agree: the US is nowhere near ready for a war with China.

Derek Zheng for Insider

The weird and disastrous rise of generational warfare

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
A collage of different generations, from left to right, millennials, boomers, gen-z.
Gen Z hates boomers, everyone hates millennials, and no one thinks about Gen X. Why are we so obsessed with talking about generations?

Chelsea Jia Feng/Insider

Subscribe to Discourse