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Workers adopted AI tools that intensified their work rather than reducing it, with email and messaging time doubling and business software use rising 94 percent. Research from MIT Media Lab found that brain connectivity declined by 55 percent when using ChatGPT compared to performing similar tasks without it, and cognitive effort dropped roughly 40 percent. This shift creates three groups: those with low cognition needs who become less capable, those with medium needs who get seduced into overreliance despite good intentions, and those with high needs who use AI to expand their capacities rather than reduce effort.
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Tech workers surveyed in 2026 split into two groups: those amplified by AI who feel more capable and confident, and those destabilized by it who question their value and job security. Burnout jumped 11 percentage points to 55.7% of respondents in a single year, while career optimism fell from 54.8% to 48.7%, with 41% worried about losing their jobs. How workers perceive AI's impact on their professional identity now predicts career satisfaction more strongly than their role, seniority, or company size combined.
The Neuron
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TeraWulf signed a 20-year lease with Anthropic to operate an AI data center campus in Kentucky and sold its stake in a Texas data center joint venture to Fluidstack. The Anthropic lease will generate $19 billion in contracted revenue over its initial term, with initial capacity coming online in the second half of 2027 at 401 megawatts. TeraWulf will redeploy the $450 million it receives from the Abernathy sale into wholly owned infrastructure projects where it maintains direct operational control.
