Bloomberg looks at the emerging “don’t ask” AI economy, in which workers quietly use the technology while employers often prefer not to know. The Wall Street Journal traces the spectacular rise and fall of 24-year-old AI wunderkind Leopold Aschenbrenner, whose multibillion-dollar hedge fund unraveled after he was hailed as the field’s “Nostradamus.” Forbes warns that companies replacing workers with AI may be falling into a layoff trap, with cuts often hurting productivity instead of delivering the expected transformation. Wired finds particularly fierce resistance among insurance claims adjusters, 98% of whose Glassdoor reviews mentioning AI were negative. And MIT Sloan Management Review examines why customers resist AI and what businesses need to understand before replacing human interactions with automated ones.