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The debate over AI in the workplace is sharpening from two directions at once. A top Deloitte executive is calling out universities for conditioning graduates to see AI as cheating, warning that this mindset leaves new hires flat-footed in a consulting environment where AI fluency is now a core competency, not a bonus skill.
That tension between education and industry runs parallel to what Stanford lecturer and chief product officer Jiaona Zhang is preaching in hiring rooms. Zhang, a veteran of Airbnb and Dropbox, says computer science credentials matter far less than curiosity and a bias toward building. In the age of AI, she argues, drive is the differentiator.
Shifting to the diamond, Yankees ace Gerrit Cole is wading into baseball's labor conversation, saying publicly he is rooting for ownership in ongoing salary cap discussions. That's a notable stance from a player sitting on a three hundred twenty four million dollar contract, and it signals the fault lines inside the players' union may be wider than the league's public posture suggests.
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