📉 AI can already replace 11.7% jobs

Good morning, AI enthusiast. A new MIT study just dropped a massive warning: today’s AI can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. workforce, equal to $1.2 trillion in annual wages. And this isn’t a prediction. It’s what AI can do right now.

In today’s AI newsletter:

• MIT says AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. jobs

• AI models show a political bias in global elections

• HP to cut 6,000 jobs as it shifts to AI

• How to edit any part of your video

• AI tools & more

AI IMPACT

📉 MIT Says AI Can Already Replace 11.7% of U.S. Jobs

MIT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory built a national labor-simulation model called the Iceberg Index, a “digital twin” of the U.S. workforce mapping 151 million workers, 32,000 skills, and 923 occupations. The result: AI is impacting far more roles than visible layoffs suggest.

• AI can already perform tasks equal to 11.7% of U.S. labor, across finance, healthcare, HR, logistics, and administration

• Visible tech layoffs represent just the “tip of the iceberg”, only 2.2% of wage exposure

• Total exposure: $1.2 trillion in wages across all 50 states, including rural and inland regions

• Index models 3,000 counties and pinpoints where automation pressure is forming, down to ZIP code level

• States like Tennessee, Utah, and North Carolina are already using Iceberg to test policy, training programs, and workforce shifts

This study shows AI risk isn’t limited to Silicon Valley engineers, it’s spreading across everyday desk jobs nationwide. The Iceberg Index gives policymakers a rare tool: the ability to run “what-if” simulations before spending billions on reskilling and workforce programs.

AI RESEARCH

🗳️ AI Models Show a Political Bias in Global Elections

A new Foaster report analyzed how six frontier AI models “vote” in national elections across Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the U.S. By anonymizing every candidate proposal and asking AIs to rank them, researchers mapped out the political instincts of today’s most powerful systems.

• Five out of six frontier models cluster in the Libertarian-Left quadrant, favoring technocratic, climate-focused, institution-first agendas

• Models systematically deprioritize Immigration, Crime, and Cost of Living, even when these are top voter concerns

• Grok-4 aligns closest to real-world election results, winning 6 out of 8 countries

• GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro tend to mirror a liberal, centrist status quo

• Claude, Kimi, and Mistral drift further away from actual voter choices

• When generating original policies, models reveal distinct “political personalities” shaped by their training data and safety layers

AI has quietly become a cognitive partner for hundreds of millions of people. As users increasingly ask AI for advice, not just facts, these hidden political leanings matter. If models consistently prefer certain ideologies, they could influence how citizens interpret politics, shape opinions, and even make voting decisions.

AI IMPACT

💻 HP to Cut 6,000 Jobs as It Shifts to AI

HP revealed it will eliminate 4,000–6,000 roles globally by 2028, part of a long-term plan to embed AI across product development, customer support, and internal operations. The move is tied to a weak profit forecast and rising hardware costs.

• Cuts will deliver $1B in savings by 2028, but cost $650M to execute

• AI will drive product innovation, support operations, and improve customer experience

• Rising memory chip prices are squeezing profit margins as AI PC demand grows

• HP already cut 1,000–2,000 jobs earlier this year

• AI-enabled PCs now account for 30%+ of HP’s recent shipments

HP is the latest in a long list of companies using AI as a catalyst for restructuring. As automation grows, millions of low-skilled jobs in the US and UK may face displacement, while companies race to modernize, cut costs, and compete in the AI hardware era.

HOW TO AI

💻 How to Edit any Part of Your Video

LTX’s new Retake editor lets you rewrite scenes in any video by simply describing the change you want. You upload your clip, select the moment to edit, and LTX regenerates the sequence automatically based on your prompt.

🧰 Who is This For

• Content creators who want quick scene rewrites

• Short-form editors cleaning up specific shots

• Brands looking to fix lines or actions without reshoots

• Anyone who wants fast, text-based video editing

STEP 1: Access the Retake Workspace

Head over to LTX and look at the sidebar on the left. Click on the Retake option. This opens a dedicated workspace with two main elements: an upload area at the top and a text field just below it.

Upload your video file here to begin.

STEP 2: Select the Portion You Want to Edit

Once the video is uploaded, LTX will automatically ask you to pick the exact section you want to modify. Select through the timeline, mark the beginning and end of the moment, and confirm your selection. This tells LTX the exact span to regenerate.

STEP 3: Write Your Editing Prompt

Below the upload area, type the instructions for how you want the scene to change.

For this tutorial, you can use something like: “The man enters the frame from off-screen left, walks toward the middle, says ‘I can’t believe this,’ and then walks away.”

Describe the new action, dialogue, or motion clearly. LTX uses this as the blueprint for rewriting the selected segment.

STEP 4: Generate Your Edited Video

When your prompt is ready, press Enter. LTX will process the scene and produce the edited version in a few seconds.

Review the output, and if needed, adjust your prompt or refine the selected portion. Once you're satisfied, export your updated video.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has been called to testify in the U.S. House after the company revealed an AI-powered cyberattack that used Claude Code.

Alibaba and ByteDance are among the top Chinese companies training their latest LLMs in Southeast Asian data centers to access Nvidia's AI chips.

Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, which is building AI for manufacturing computers, cars, and spacecraft, has acquired agentic AI startup General Agents.

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🎆 FLUX.2: Black Forest Labs’ new smart vision model

✨ Gemini 3: Google’s next-gen engine for multimodal reasoning

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY

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