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A fascinating experiment is making the rounds online today. Someone posted a genuine Monet painting and told people it was AI-generated. The responses were telling — critics lined up to call it soulless and mechanical, proving how much our labels shape our perception before our eyes even get a chance.
Meanwhile, the New York Federal Reserve has published research examining whether AI is already showing up in the job market through hiring data. The findings suggest early signals are visible in posting patterns, though economists are careful to note correlation is not causation. It is still early days, but the labor market may be quietly telling us something.
And in infrastructure news, the European Union is moving forward with plans to route undersea internet cables beneath the Arctic Ocean, deliberately avoiding regions it considers geopolitically unstable. It is a significant engineering and diplomatic bet — trading the technical challenges of extreme cold for what Brussels hopes will be greater long-term reliability and independence.
Three very different stories, but each one really about the same thing — how much of what we believe depends on the frame around it. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
