$2.5B Chip Heist, The Future of American AI, and Purpose-Built Robots | This Week in AI Ep 6

Hey, it's Oliver from This Week in AI, the brand new podcast from the team at Twist. We're dropping a sneak peek right here in your feed to show you what we've been building. If you enjoy it, join the community at thisweekinai.ai or find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube. AI, I think, will transform and will continue to push the world forward and it will affect a lot of jobs and people will upskill. The question is, what are they upskilling into?

Being a CPA, an accountant, or a lawyer was considered professional services, not commodity. And here we are in 2026 and we're like, the bottom 50% of those jobs are chores that machines can do easily. When you see technology companies saying they're taking on manufacturing uh in the kind of ways that you see, you have to understand, these sectors have not changed for the most part in the past 40, 50, 60 years. Get robots everywhere.

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