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AI, Jobs & Productivity

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Bear 2026-07-02
June jobs: household employment “down roughly 500,000”, payrolls “up maybe 57,000, roughly half of what economists expected”; “companies are not hiring as rapidly as they once did, and they are relying more on AI”
Cathie Wood · ARK Invest · In The Know
Bear 2026-07-02
Per Reuters (CNBC): told internal town hall AI agent development “has not accelerated in the way we expected”; 2026 reorg “wasn't as clean as it could have been”
Mark Zuckerberg · Meta · CNBC
Bull 2026-07-02
“Productivity is about 2.9% on a year-over-year basis right now. We think it's going to accelerate into the 5% to 6% range”
Cathie Wood · ARK Invest · ARK In The Know

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