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Displacement or Disruption? Manila’s Outsourcing Sector Faces Its AI Reckoning
In the Philippines, 12.7 million Filipino workers, more than one in four, hold jobs with some exposure to generative AI, the highest share in Southeast Asia. The same category of routine, entry-level digital work that labor researchers warn is disappearing is also the exact work a booming virtual-assistant industry claims to be moving past.
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The Great Hedge: Drugs, Debt, & the Direction AI is Going Everybody’s Waiting on
In Zurich, Washington, and Seoul, the people who set the price of money are making the same admission a Chinese biotech CEO just made about the price of a new drug: nobody knows yet whether artificial intelligence is the thing that saves the timeline or the thing that blows up the budget.