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AI leaders such as Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Marc Andreessen previously predicted that powerful AI would push the cost of labor and goods toward zero and cause widespread job losses. Instead, employment remains high and prices are climbing, with the Conference Board's consumer confidence index recently hitting its lowest level since 2014.
Leakers Moore's Law is Dead and IT Home discovered a new AMD chip codenamed Gainsborough in recent driver files, built on TSMC's N3P process as a semi-custom design. Import records reviewed by IT Home show AMD has already shipped test equipment for the chip, which measures 25mm by 25mm, the same package size reportedly planned for AMD's upcoming Ryzen Z3 and Z3 Extreme handheld chips.
AI research firm Epoch AI has published a report finding that the cost of running AI models has dropped by thousands of times over the past several years, at a pace it calculates as nearly 50% cheaper per quarter and 13 times cheaper annually. The firm says this rate of decline outpaces historical cost drops in lithium batteries, DNA sequencing, and computing power under Moore's Law.
A veteran developer describes how coding assistance has evolved from tab-completion to agentic coding to full harness-managed workflows over the past eighteen months. He argues that with a shared skills file and unified tooling across Cursor, Claude, and Pi, the choice of underlying AI model has become largely commoditized, and he now relies heavily on the cheaper Deepseek-v4-flash model for routine work.