Eagle Hill Consulting found 51% of 200 senior US leaders say recent technology investments fell short of their intended outcomes. The reason they gave most often was underestimating how the new tools would change day-to-day work.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives55
- Confidence45
An OECD survey of 6,047 employers found this software in most workplaces on both continents. The countries split over what firms are allowed to do with it, and most of these tools are not AI at all.
Reality
- Evidence68
- Adoption82
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives30
- Confidence62
Noahpinion sets the prime-age employment rate near all-time highs against Ipsos and Pew findings that the public expects AI to compete with workers, which leaves headcount plans resting on a premise the aggregate data has not tested.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives40
- Confidence48
Abbott's halt on new grid-connection approvals has stalled roughly 1,800 data center projects. The gap between 474 GW requested and 100 GW planned suggests what the audit will find.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption72
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives66
- Confidence60
Jinguyuan's owner made his menu and wait times readable by other people's AI agents. He says it draws more press than customers, which is the interesting part.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives58
- Confidence47
Regulation Crypto Assets pairs two offering exemptions with a way out of the investment-contract test. The White House lunch the next day was the political weather, not the rule.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives84
- Confidence46
The 60-day cease-fire window closed on the 16th. Washington is weighing secondary sanctions on Chinese buyers of Iranian crude while US pump prices run 29% above last year, three months from the midterms.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption46
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives62
- Confidence40
A CNBC and Generation Lab survey of 1,088 Americans aged 18 to 34 puts distrust of Palantir's Alex Karp at 81% and Anthropic's Dario Amodei at 76%. The best-liked AI chief executive still loses 65-35.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives34
- Confidence42
An ECB survey of 8,205 firms found crypto acceptance flat since 2024 while mobile payments nearly doubled. The money in payments is in settlement, not the checkout button.
Reality
- Evidence78
- Adoption6
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives55
- Confidence74