June 16, 2026

Satya Nadella warns that AI could hollow out entire industries, echoing the damage done by globalization

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a sweeping essay on Sunday laying out what he describes as the defining economic challenge of the AI era: the risk that a handful of frontier models will absorb the expertise of entire industries and commoditize...