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🤖 IS YOUR JOB SAFE FROM AI? A major new study from OpenAI + Microsoft just dropped. They analyzed millions of real Copilot chats to figure out where AI is already helping — and where it’s headed next.
—> 🧠 WRITING JOBS ARE CHANGING — NOT DISAPPEARING. Yes, AI can write emails, reports, even jokes. But the humans are still deciding what matters. You need emotional intelligence. Cultural context. A gut check. The winners? Writers who use AI to move faster — not get replaced.
—> 🎨 CREATIVES ARE SAFE — IF THEY STAY HUMAN. AI can generate outlines and images. But the stories that hit hardest — the real ones, the weird ones, the human ones — still come from people. Memoirs, screenplays, branding? That's soul work. AI speeds it up, but you’re the engine.
—> 📋 WHO’S MOST AFFECTED: CLERKS, TEACHERS, ADMIN. Editing documents. Summarizing info. Customer support. These tasks are already getting AI help. Clerks, sales reps, managers, teachers — Copilot is pitching in. But even then, a person hits send.
—> 🙅 WHO’S LESS AFFECTED: COOKS, MECHANICS, CARE WORKERS.
Jobs that require hands-on skill or real care — like food service, construction, or therapy — are still out of reach. Physical work isn’t being replaced by a chatbot anytime soon.
🚀 CONSIDER THIS:
“ATMs automated bank tellers. But banks hired more tellers — to open more branches and build relationships. Not just process deposits.”
🧠 Three more of my takeaways:
“Jobs that involve coaching, counseling, and caring show much lower AI applicability.” Translation: Empathy and connection can’t be automated.
“The biggest impacts are on communication, research, and writing — not decision making or physical labor.” Translation: AI drafts. You decide.
“AI works best when the stakes are low. Human judgment still rules.” Translation: The higher the stakes, the more we need you.
Source: arXiv (Microsoft + OpenAI study) | coverage in TechRadar
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SPACE
🚀 NASA WANTS TO BUILD INTERNET FOR THE MOON AND MARS: NASA just put out a call for help — asking tech companies to pitch plans for building a communications + GPS-style network across Earth, the Moon, and Mars. It’s the first step in creating a solar system internet that could support future missions, moon bases, and maybe even cities on Mars. The system would help astronauts (and robots!) stay connected as they explore.
—> 💡 HOW IT WORKS: SPACE LASERS: This comes just days after NASA and the European Space Agency pulled off something wild: they used lasers to talk to a spaceship 165 million miles away. A ground station in Greece shot a beam at NASA’s Psyche spacecraft — and it sent a signal back using just a few photons of light. Last year, the same system was used to beam a cat video from space. Yes, really. The orange tabby’s name was Taters.
—> 📶 WHY YOU CARE: Space missions send back huge amounts of data — video, maps, science findings — but radio signals are slow. Laser internet could be 100x faster, helping NASA explore farther, faster. Now, with this new call for proposals, NASA is moving toward building the full system: space Wi-Fi that covers the Moon and Mars.
Sources: Aviation Week, Gizmodo
QUANTUM // ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
🤖 AMERICA’S AI ARSENAL GETS AN UPGRADE: The Pentagon just signed deals with Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI — up to $200 million each — to bring more artificial intelligence into government systems. These tools won’t just help with defense. They'll also power smarter decision-making, improve how agencies run, and speed up national security work.
—> 🚀 WHY THIS MATTERS: The U.S. is in a global race to lead in AI. While China, the UAE, and others are rolling out their own tech, this move shows the U.S. is staying ahead — and doing it with homegrown innovation. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic started in American labs. Now they’re helping the government build next-gen tools.
—> 📊 BIG TECH GOES FEDERAL: Google Cloud just got approved for top-secret use. xAI launched a new tool called Grok for Government. OpenAI and Anthropic are opening up special teams just for government work. The goal? Use the best tools out there — safely and responsibly — to help agencies do their jobs better and faster.
Source: Defense One
THINGAMABOBS
📱 FOLDABLE iPHONE COMING 2026? Apple’s first-ever foldable iPhone is officially in the pipeline — and it might cost just $1,800. The company is aiming for a 2026 release, with supply chain sources confirming the “iPhone Fold” will feature a crease-free screen (unlike Samsung’s) and a book-style design with a titanium case and next-gen hinge tech.
—> 🔍 WHAT’S NEW: Apple is working with Samsung Display and Fine M-Tec to build a custom “invisible crease” screen using metal plates to control the fold. It’s expected to have a 7.8-inch screen when open, 5.5-inch outer screen, dual rear cameras, and a Touch ID power button — not Face ID.
—> 📉 WHY IT MATTERS: The foldable phone market has been stuck in neutral. But Apple’s entry could be the spark the category needs. Experts say it could reignite interest in foldables across phones, tablets, and even laptops. Early production targets are 10–15M units. UBS thinks Apple’s discipline will allow it to keep margins high — and prices (relatively) low.
—>💡 THE BIG PICTURE: Foldables use a ton of advanced components — from bendable glass to precision hinges. That means Apple’s move lifts up its whole supply chain, including companies like Amphenol, Foxconn, LG Display, and Hon Hai. It’s not just a new product… it’s a new tech wave.
I still want an OG RAZR…
REAL ESTATE
🌕 THE MOON IS THE NEXT REAL ESTATE BOOM: Move over Miami. The new hot market? The Moon. Investors are betting big on space. They’re building data centers in orbit and even on the Moon to power the next wave of space internet, AI tools, and deep space exploration.
—> 🏗️ WHY NOW? As NASA and companies like SpaceX push toward the Moon and Mars, they’ll need more than rockets. They’ll need buildings. That’s where real estate firms like Hines and Ethos come in. They’re snapping up warehouses near launch sites on Earth — and planning how to build roads, landing pads, and data centers up there too. Some are even making cement from moon dust.
—> 💵 WHERE THE MONEY’S GOING: This isn’t sci-fi. Investors see it like the railroad boom: new infrastructure means new profits. Venture capital, family offices, and global real estate firms are already spending big on “space-support” properties. Hines just bought a 250,000 sq. ft. warehouse fully leased to aerospace companies in Florida’s Space Coast. And that’s just the start.
—> 💡 WHY YOU CARE: NASA is planning an internet for the Moon and Mars. And to power that? Data centers. Earth’s already running out of space — and power. But in space, you get free solar energy, natural cooling from the vacuum, and no land limits. The space economy is opening a brand-new market… and the land rush has already begun.
ONE MORE THING
🧠 CHATGPT IS CHANGING HOW WE TALK: Not a metaphor. A new study finds that humans are starting to speak more like ChatGPT — literally. Researchers ran a linguistic scan across 360,000 YouTube videos and 770,000 podcast episodes and found a weird pattern: words like delve, underscore, boast, and meticulous are suddenly everywhere. They call them “GPT words.”
—> 🌀 THE AI FEEDBACK LOOP IS REAL: Researchers took millions of emails, essays, and articles — ran them through ChatGPT for "polishing" — and tracked which words showed up most. Then they watched as those words leaked back into everyday speech. It’s a cultural loop: we treat AI like it’s smart, so we start copying its voice.
—> 🤖 WHY THIS MATTERS: This isn’t about just writing better emails. It’s about machine-shaped language shaping us back. The study’s authors say ChatGPT isn’t just reflecting human culture — it’s starting to rewrite it. As one put it: “Delve is only the tip of the iceberg.” What happens when the dominant tone of human speech becomes... machine-generated?
With gratitude,
Kev
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