Artificial Power: 2025 Landscape Report
Jun 3, 2025
Our latest annual report maps the current state of play with the AI market, interrogates the industry’s key sources of power, and provides an actionable strategy to reclaim public agency over the future of AI.
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See AllBig Tech is spending trillions on AI. Investors now want proof it will pay off.
“The current push for AI adoption that we’re seeing is directly coming from the financial incentives of AI firms,” she added. Because of the massive capital expenditures, the hyperscalers and other AI firms are making a “deliberate push for AI everywhere — no matter whether the demand is there or if customers want it or not.”
Jun 26, 2026
Gig workers are endlessly exploited. AI could make more of us share their fate
Over the past few years, some hospital networks have outsourced parts of their core workforces to AI-powered labor platforms like ShiftMed, CareRev and Clipboard Health. These platforms have been described as “Uber for nursing”, with a sales pitch that mirrors the early days of the platform economy.
Jun 18, 2026
Here’s How Long It Will Take for AI to Reach Its Potential
“What is being sold is this idea of productivity and efficiency,” says Kate Brennan, associate director of the AI Now Institute, an AI-policy research center, “and what that means for the people doing the actual work is rarely part of the conversation.”
Jun 7, 2026
Your boss’s AI may already be reading your Slack messages
Amba Kak, executive director of the AI Now Institute at New York University, previously told CNBC that the rise in message monitoring is concerning—not just because of what employees might say, but because of how doing so infringes on their rights.
May 19, 2026