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AI Is Breaking Up Workers

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A major PwC survey found that corporate AI education and adoption are splitting workers into four distinct categories.

The Big Picture: Companies are embedding AI into their organizations at different speeds, making it staggering how quickly some employees are becoming accustomed to the tech. The category you find yourself in may help shine a light on your ability to avoid layoffs, angle for a promotion, or score a raise where you work.

Behind The Cubicles: PwC’s “2026 Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey” studied roughly 50,000 workers across 48 countries and 29 sectors earlier this summer.

Here are the four categories they slotted workers into:

  • The Front-Runners: Making up 14% of the workforce, these employees “have in-demand skills and reported getting strong benefits from AI in their work.” Additionally, 80% have access to “learning and development resources.”

  • Engine-Room Workers: Making up 56% of the workforce, these are a company’s largest share of employees, and most don’t use AI. Only 40% say they have the opportunity to access resources to learn it if they want to.

  • AI Insurgents: Making up roughly 20% of the workforce, these employees have “skills that are less in demand than those of front-runners, but they’re ambitious in how they use AI.” In other words, these are the AI hustlers.

  • Indispensables: This final 10% of the workforce is described as those “who have scarce skills that are highly valued by employers.”

Closing Thoughts: No matter what category workers ultimately fall into, 64% said they’ve used AI at their jobs over the past year — 10% more than the year prior, according to Insider. Even more astounding, 22% report using generative AI every day.

The Future: With nearly every job being disrupted by AI in some way, expect an increase in interest in specialized roles that put people into the “indispensable” category.

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The Senate Tackles College Sports

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The Senate passed a sweeping bipartisan bill that addresses many of the unique issues facing modern college sports.

Why It Hits: The business around college sports has evolved quickly over the past decade, especially when it comes to the monetization of players and the skyrocketing price of rights packages. If the bill passes the House, it’ll bring some much-needed uniformity to an industry that has once again become a bit of a Wild West.

Behind The Bill: The Protect College Sports Act passed with 77 of 99 votes in favor.

The highlight reel:

  • It puts the NCAA in charge of standardizing rules around transfers, recruits, and pay-for-play NIL arrangements.

  • It caps how much schools can pay athletes, either directly or through revenue-sharing agreements — roughly a $50 million budget per school.

  • It gives student-athletes five years of eligibility to play once they enroll or turn 19 years old.

  • It prohibits the creation of a super league, so that key schools can’t conspire to keep smaller ones out of lucrative deals.

Final Play: While this passed pretty overwhelmingly in the Senate, Axios notes that the House may be a stiffer gauntlet. One hurdle is that a group of House Republicans wants to add restrictions on colleges being able to recruit foreign athletes, which would apparently “jeopardize the bipartisan coalition behind the bill in the Senate.”

Still, the fact that college sports has become such a pressing issue in Congress proves that it’s nearly as big an industry as the professional leagues. No wonder some colleges are even recruiting pro rookies.

Next Season: Despite the pushback in the House, expect this bill to draw enough support across college conferences to get across the finish line.

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DEEP DIVES

61.4% of you voted No, and I’m not interested in yesterday’s poll: Have you ever been to a hologram concert?

“This is weird. Part of the live concert experience is that the artist is alive and present right in front of you. There’s a level of connection with them when they perform for fans. And that once-in-a-lifetime experience is what makes it special and worth paying for.”

“I’m not sure what the thrill is. I get the novelty of it, but it just feels like going to see a fancy movie. I saw a big-screen outdoor broadcast of a Tony Bennett/Lady Gaga concert, and it was entertaining. But if they had been avatars, I would have lost interest after the novelty wore off. Avatar tribute bands? I mean, huh? Did the last two generations get groomed by video games to the point where flesh and blood no longer matter?”

“I used to work for one of these hologram companies. It was cool, but it’s not really a hologram. The technology is old and no different from projections at Disneyland. It’s definitely not worth paying for. It’s cool to see up close — that’s it.”

“I took my son and his then-girlfriend to an IA concert at Anime Expo in LA a few years ago. I also licensed and used Hatsune Miku’s voice in a song I wrote many years ago.”

“Definitely want to see the ABBA Voyage show in London!”

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QUICK HITS

→ Entertainment / Media

📺 HBO head Casey Bloys will officially be running the combined streaming operations of HBO Max and Paramount+ once the companies merge.

🎥 Curry Barker’s follow-up to Obsession, Focus Features’ Anything But Ghosts, has landed a May 7, 2027, release date.

🏆 The VMAs scored 8.4 million viewers across CBS and MTV — making it the show’s biggest audience since 2015.

→ Technology

🤖 Just weeks after Meta released its Muse agent, OpenAI has launched “Dots.”

🌐 AMD has agreed to acquire Fei-Fei Li’s AI startup, World Labs, for $8.2 billion.

💰 Oura announced that it’s postponing its IPO due to “market uncertainty.”

→ Fashion / E-commerce

📦 TikTok Shop has struck a deal with UPS to offer box-free, label-free returns.

📱 You can now slide into someone’s DMs on Linktree.

🛒 Walmart doesn’t want “AI slop” on its store signs.

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Today’s email was written by David Vendrell.
Edited by Nick Comney. Polled and Copy-edited by Kait Cunniff.
Published by Darline Salazar.

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