2026-05-01 15:34:21
It seems every day the chances that AI transforms work trends towards certain. The less certain part is the how. Some jobs could go away but new ones might appear. Employment needs could rise, even for jobs with high AI exposure. For Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch looks at jobs over the past few decades to see how new technologies changed work in unexpected ways.
Tags: Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch, technology, work
2026-04-30 21:06:20
The cost of an electrical vehicle used to increase quickly as you shopped for more range, but EVs that go farther have been getting less expensive in recent years. For NYT’s the Upshot, Francesca Paris shows the current trends.
I like the side-by-side trend line comparison between the steeper slow for 2016 to 2019 models versus the 2024 to 2026 models. The shift is clear and obvious.
Once the trend line flattens and Toyota makes a fully electric Corolla, I’m in.
Tags: cost, electric vehicle, Francesca Paris, Upshot
2026-04-30 20:05:47
Hi everyone. This is issue No. 386 of the Process, where we aim for data graphics beyond defaults. I’m Nathan Yau. Every month I collect tools, datasets, and resources to help you make more useful data things. Here is what happened in April 2026.
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2026-04-30 02:32:45
Hank Green dissects a video that argues against climate change. The video in question cherrypicks, makes up data, and lies about many things, all wrapped up with a calm narrator to make it seem reasonable. Green less calmly explains the manipulation.
It’s always a good time to strengthen your defenses against dishonest charts.
Tags: climate change, Hank Green, misleading
2026-04-29 15:11:50
Apparently, the words we use and how we structure our sentences in writing is nearly as unique as our fingerprints. Kelsey Piper has been using this to benchmark new LLMs by entering text and asking who wrote it. Anthropic’s Opus 4.7 model was the first to return all the correct answers.
For WaPo opinion, Megan McArdle tested the search with her own unpublished text.
Would Claude do better or worse with something more modern? I fed Claude a different opening chapter from an unpublished science fiction novel I started right before the pandemic — I contain multitudes — and this time Claude needed only 1,132 words. The eulogy I gave for my mother, lightly edited to remove some too-specific biographical details, was even faster: Depending on the passage, Claude was able to peg me as the author in as few as 124 words.
I’m too scared to try this on myself, but I’ll assume it works. Lucky for me, I’ve always written and made things with the assumption that my mother would see it.
However, if you publish words or share thoughts on social media, I hope you don’t value online anonymity too much.
Tags: chatbot, Megan McArdle, privacy, Washington Post
2026-04-28 17:18:10
For Rest of World, Rina Chandran reports on the big difference in excitement:
As AI adoption increases globally, anxiety about AI is rising — but so is optimism about its benefits, according to a recent study from Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence center. Not in the U.S. To the prompt, “products and services using AI make me excited,” only 38% of respondents in the U.S. said yes, in comparison to 84% in China. Southeast Asians are among the most optimistic about AI, with 80% of Indonesians, 77% of Malaysians, and 79% of Thais agreeing.
The difference in sentiment appears to be related to each country’s trust in government regulation. From the Stanford study, here are the percentages for those who said they trust their government:
Singapore is over 80 percent trusting. Meanwhile, the United States is the lowest at 31 percent.
This isn’t all that surprising, but I wonder why there is such a big difference. Is there an overall distrust in government and AI companies in the United States? With the largest companies in the United States, do we get a closer look and therefore more skepticism?
Tags: country, excitement, Rest of World
