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A majority in Europe believe that digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, have a positive impact on their jobs, the economy, society, and on quality of life. 62% of Europeans view robots and AI positively at work and 70% believe it improves productivity. But 66% believe the use of robots and AI means that more jobs will disappear than new jobs will be created, according to a new Eurobarometer published by the EU Commission.
Video podcast consumption is growing, and YouTube – celebrating 20 years this month – has emerged as the most popular platform: viewers watched over 400 million hours of podcasts per month on YouTube’s TV app in 2024. Global podcast ad spend will exceed $5 billion in 2025 and $5.5 billion in 2026. However, year-on-year growth is set to slow from 13.2% in 2024 to 7.9% in 2025, and only 6.5% in 2026, marketing firm WARC says in a trend report.
There were more social media posts from news influencers about Donald Trump than about Kamala Harris prior to the recent US presidential election. And their posts about Trump were less critical of him than posts about Harris were of her. This is in part because right-leaning news influencers tended to post more often than left-leaning influencers, a new study by Pew Research Centre shows. The majority (79%) of posts mentioning one of the presidential candidates were posted on X that is owned by Trump supporter Elon Musk.
Women could get left behind in an AI-driven economy as they are underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), according to two researchers at London School of Economics. They write that governments, businesses and educational institutions must pool their resources to invest in STEM education for girls, bridging the digital divide and ensuring that AI is developed with a gender lens. Their arguments come at a time when big companies, one after the other, follow President Donald Trump’s declaration to scrap programs for DEI.
“Europe’s innovation potential is at risk. While women outnumber men in university education, they remain strikingly underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) careers and leadership”, according to a statement from the EU Commission’s directorate for research and science releasing an annual report called She Figures. The report shows a widening gender gap in sectors like information and communication technology (ICT), where only 22% of doctoral graduates are women. The report was published on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11.
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