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• China Just Put Robots at the Center of Its Future

• Half of College Students Are Rethinking Their Major Because of AI

• AI and Startups

Half of College Students Are Rethinking Their Major Because of AI

A new Lumina-Gallup survey came out this week, and the numbers are striking: 47% of current US college students have seriously considered switching majors because of AI. About 16% have already done it.

The most common reason: students looking at fields like graphic design, marketing, journalism, software engineering, and translation, and asking the obvious question — will this job exist in five years?

Universities are scrambling. Some are rebranding programs ("digital communications" instead of "journalism"). Others are adding required AI courses across every major. A few are doing nothing — and watching enrollments drop.

The picture isn't all gloom. Demand is up for nursing, trades, biology, and anything hands-on that AI can't easily touch. Computer science applications are still high, but students are more interested in AI safety, infrastructure, and security — less in classic software engineering.

Tufts University researchers separately predict that 6% of US jobs will be at meaningful risk from AI in the next two to five years. That sounds small until you realize it's roughly 9 million workers. 😬

As a Mom, it’s hard to watch 18-year-olds stressed and trying to make 40-year career bets in a market nobody can predict. Maybe the best advice isn't a major. It's permission to change their mind — twice, three times, however many it takes.

AI and Startups

1. AI Beats ER Doctors at Diagnosis A new Harvard study found AI gave more accurate emergency-room diagnoses than the doctors themselves. Cue every medical school curriculum committee scrambling.

2. The Oscars Just Banned AI The Academy ruled AI-generated actors and scripts are officially ineligible for Oscars. Real humans only — at least until the 2027 rules debate.

3. Uber Wants Its Drivers to Train Self-Driving Cars Uber's new plan: turn its millions of drivers into a rolling sensor network feeding data to self-driving companies. Your next ride may be mapping the streets for the robot taking your driver's job.

4. Stripe Built a Wallet for AI Shoppers Stripe rolled out Link, a digital wallet designed for AI agents to make purchases on your behalf. The future of online shopping: your AI checks out before you finish thinking about it.

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