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AXIOS (Zachary Basu) - "The pitchforks are here": Billionaires work to contain AI's populist revolt

America's billionaires are developing their own prescriptions for AI-fueled inequality, anxious to defuse a populist revolt aimed at their ballooning fortunes. Why it matters: The AI boom has dramatically raised the stakes of the wealth-tax debate, unleashing a technology that could wipe out millions of jobs while minting the world's first trillionaires. - Populist politicians, particularly on the left, have cast this as capitalism's next great reckoning : an even deeper concentration of wealth and power in an economy already rigged for the elite. Zoom in: Some of the richest men in tech have warned for years AI could destabilize the economy. Many suggest the answer is not deceleration or wealth taxes, but shared abundance. - Jeff…

NYTIMES (Patricia Cohen and Alexis Pazoumian) - A.I. Doesn’t Have to Mean Layoffs

A French multinational, Schneider Electric, decided to use artificial intelligence in manufacturing to make workers more productive, rather than to replace them. Here’s how that’s going.

NYTIMES (Heather Knight, Soumya Karlamangla and Jill Cowan) - Why Hasn’t California Elected a Woman Governor?

Most states have had a woman serve as governor, but California is in the minority despite its progressive-minded electorate. Women who have reached the top elsewhere saw familiar roadblocks.