OG Approved - No BS Tech News # 97

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Olivier Gomez (OG)
November 27, 2025

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💡What’s the Big Idea?

AI agents — not banner ads — are becoming the new storefronts; U.S. retailers are scrambling to make sure their products show up when bots, not humans, go shopping.

🔑 Key Takeaways for Readers:

1. Retailers are massively ramping up content output and building “bot-friendly” pages, deploying tactics like generative-engine optimization to get on the radar of AI scrapers.

2. So far, AI-driven traffic to major e-commerce sites remains tiny (less than 1 percent of total) — but those few referrals already show much stronger purchase intent than standard traffic.

3. Brands are using influencer posts, social video transcripts, and even “hidden” microsites solely for machine-reading, hoping that voice assistants and AI shoppers will surface their products — not because of humans googling them.

⚡ Why It Matters (OG lens):

Because the gatekeepers are shifting from human search to AI agents, what gets seen and sold will no longer depend on advertising spend but on who speaks the bots’ language first.

⭐OG Rating:

4/5 Strong because it exposes a seismic shift in retail discovery — but not a 5 because the volume from AI traffic remains tiny today; the bet is on future scale more than immediate impact.

💡What’s the Big Idea?

A new Massachusetts Institute of Technology study shows AI already has the technical capacity to substitute for about 11.7% of U.S. jobs — roughly $1.2 trillion in wages — across core sectors like finance, healthcare, and professional services.

🔑 Key Takeaways for Readers:

1. The study introduces a new metric — the Iceberg Index — which maps a detailed exposure of 151 million workers across 32,000 skills, showing that the visible AI disruption today (mainly in tech hubs) is just the tip of the iceberg.

2. AI’s reach is not limited to low-wage or repetitive tasks. Exposure is highest among information-processing, white-collar roles — meaning well-paid professional jobs are not immune.

3. The 11.7% figure describes technical capability (what AI can replace), not actual layoffs or adoption. Historical data shows that when companies deploy AI, gains in productivity often coincide with hiring growth — so displacement isn’t guaranteed.

⚡ Why It Matters (OG lens):

Because AI’s threat isn’t just about factory lines or low-skill clerks. Now it targets the backbone of the white-collar economy — meaning if you don’t learn to work with AI soon, you get written out of the ledger.

⭐OG Rating:4/5 This hits hard — the methodology is rigorous, and the reach is real. But 4, not 5, because exposure ≠ certainty — actual disruption depends on adoption rates, corporate strategy, regulation, and human adaptability.

💡What’s the Big Idea?

Sundar Pichai — CEO of Alphabet Inc. (parent of Google) warns that the current flood of capital into AI may carry “elements of irrationality,” and no company — not even Google — is safe if the bubble pops.

🔑 Key Takeaways for Readers:

1. The AI funding wave marks an “extraordinary moment,” but hype and speculative capital are building up risks similar to the late-1990s dot-com bubble.

2. Even leading firms like Alphabet accept they are vulnerable — Pichai explicitly said “no company is going to be immune, including us.”

3. The irrational rush could distort value: investments based more on expectation than real measurable return — meaning many bets may fail if AI doesn’t deliver as promised.

⚡ Why It Matters (OG lens):

Because when tech gets worshipped as a silver bullet — and money pours in by default — you no longer win for being smarter or better. You lose if you join the stampede without clarity.

⭐OG Rating:

4/5 It matters because Pichai admits even dominant incumbents are at risk — that’s a rare CEO-level truth check. I stop short of 5 because he doesn’t call it a crash — he flags risk. But flagging risk inside the boom is the red alert we all should catch.

💡What’s the Big Idea?

A leaked draft from the Trump administration shows an attempt to centralize AI policy in Washington — blocking states from passing their own AI laws and giving crushing enforcement power to a handful of federal agencies allied with Big Tech.

🔑 Key Takeaways for Readers:

1. The draft order would allow the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Commerce, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to challenge, penalize, or withhold funding from states that pass “onerous” or “deceptive” AI regulations.

2. The lever for compliance is federal dollars — states that want critical grants (e.g. broadband funding) would risk getting cut off if they enact their own AI laws.

3. Even if the executive order is legally shaky — executive orders can’t outright nullify state laws — its real power lies in deterrence: the threat alone could freeze state-level regulation and leave oversight to pro-industry federal agencies and advisors.

⚡ Why It Matters (OG lens):

Because whoever writes the rules for AI today controls who gets to build, deploy or sell tomorrow — and this draft shows elites trying to lock down control before the rest of society catches up.

⭐OG Rating:

5/5 This is full-on power play: it reveals a systemic attempt by Big Tech and aligned elites to shape AI regulation to their advantage — possibly killing state-level protections before they can even take root.

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