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Jim Russell

@producercities
20 posts
2026-02-17
“For over a decade, economists have grappled with a modern iteration of the Solow Paradox: we have seen AI everywhere except in the productivity statistics ...Data released this week offers a striking corrective to the narrative” https://www.ft.com/... [image]
2026-02-17 View on X
Financial Times

Analysis: US productivity rose by ~2.7% in 2025, nearly doubling the 1.4% annual average over a decade, as AI-exposed sectors cooled their entry-level hiring

2026-02-16
“For over a decade, economists have grappled with a modern iteration of the Solow Paradox: we have seen AI everywhere except in the productivity statistics ...Data released this week offers a striking corrective to the narrative” https://www.ft.com/... [image]
2026-02-16 View on X
Financial Times

Analysis: US productivity rose by ~2.7% in 2025, nearly doubling the 1.4% annual average over a decade, as AI-exposed sectors cooled their entry-level hiring

New economic data suggests the US is transitioning to a phase of measurable gains from the technology

2026-02-11
AnnaLee Saxenian, who is renowned for her research on why Silicon Valley succeeded: “I expected our latest study to show that returnees dwarf the domestic entrepreneurs — even 10 years ago that might have been the case, but it's clearly no longer true” https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
2026-02-11 View on X
Bloomberg

A study of 596 Indian high-tech startups suggests that homegrown entrepreneurs fare better over the long run than returning diaspora with overseas experience

India's fiercely competitive startup field has provided evidence to suggest that homegrown entrepreneurs fare better over the long run …

2025-06-22
Chinese Tech Giants Have Big Ambitions in Brazil: Confronted with tariffs & scrutiny in the US & Europe, Chinese consumer brands are betting that they can become household names in Latin America's biggest economy https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
2025-06-22 View on X
New York Times

A look at Temu, Shein, Meituan, and other Chinese companies' expansion plans in Brazil, as they face slowing domestic demand and hurdles in the US and Europe

Confronted with tariffs and scrutiny in the United States and Europe, Chinese consumer brands are betting that they can become household names …

2024-12-15
Peter Thiel, a tech investor who was involved in Mr. Trump's 2016 transition but has been less involved this time ...Even so, Mr. Thiel said, it was an epochal moment: “[The] ancien régime that is liberalism is really exhausted” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-12-15 View on X
New York Times

While businesses frequently try to get on an incoming president's good side, the past week's frenzy of tech leaders to woo Trump stood out from other industries

It was a week of frenzied activity, as Silicon Valley billionaires and their companies brandished checks and compliments for the President-elect.

2024-07-31
“If artificial intelligence systems transform the global economy, then the data centres that train them are the factories of the future. Governments around the world see AI-capable data centres as a strategic resource — one they are racing to control” https://www.ft.com/...
2024-07-31 View on X
Financial Times

How US safeguards on the Microsoft-G42 deal, aiming to protect critical data center and AI infrastructure, could shape future international data center projects

one they are racing to control” https://www.ft.com/...

2024-02-19
“Investment in Bay Area startups dropped 12% to $63.4 billion last year. By contrast, funding volumes for Austin & LA, 2 smaller tech hubs, dropped 27% & 42%, respectively. In Miami, venture investment plunged 70% to just $2 billion last year” https://www.wsj.com/...
2024-02-19 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Tech investors and founders are flocking back to San Francisco, which is undergoing an AI boom, after leaving during the pandemic for Miami and other US cities

In 2020, venture capitalist Keith Rabois urged startup founders to join him in ditching San Francisco for Miami … Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @thesafestspace , @pitdesi , @...

2023-08-29
Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in digital sweatshops: “People in the Philippines started working for [Scale AI's platform] Remotasks as early as 2017 ...when the pandemic sent droves of workers home, Remotasks exploded in popularity” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-08-29 View on X
Washington Post

Interviews with 36 Remotasks workers in the Philippines, who annotate data for Scale AI customers in the US, reveal delayed, reduced, or canceled payments

CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines — In a coastal city in the southern Philippines, thousands of young workers log online every day to support …

2023-08-07
Hotel Odesa: “In late May 2002, the 400 guests ...had come for one of the most remarkable if little-known events in post-cold war history: the first &, to my knowledge, the last publicly organised conference of avowed criminals” https://www.ft.com/...
2023-08-07 View on X
Financial Times

A profile of Clop, a Russian-speaking hacking group specializing in ransomware, responsible for the MOVEit hack, and likely operating out of Russia and Ukraine

2023-06-02
“Tech remains the industry with the most layoffs ...Companies have announced about 136,800 cuts in the year through May. That's more than any full year since 2001, when the total eventually reached almost 168,400 in December” https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
2023-06-02 View on X
Bloomberg

Challenger report: US tech companies have announced 136,831 layoffs in 2023 so far, more than in any full year since 2001, when job cuts reached 168,395

US companies have announced more job cuts this year than during all of 2022, according to executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.

2023-05-01
How Mark Zuckerberg broke Meta: “It's like they went from ‘move fast & break things’ to ‘slow down, break things,’ then ‘maybe fix it later on a case-by-case’” basis, one of the employees said https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-05-01 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: Meta managers built up “kingdoms” as headcount surged, before layoffs led to an unprecedented morale crisis and lower confidence in Mark Zuckerberg

Roiled by waves of layoffs and a costly investment in the metaverse, many insiders say the Facebook founder has lost his vision — and the trust of his workforce Mastodon: @atomicpo...

2023-04-30
The Tech Startup Funding Rout Hasn't Stopped the Miami Party: “Last year there were gatherings every night for NFT art galleries & everyone stood around looking at holograms of apes. It was horrible. This year, crypto isn't even being mentioned” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2023-04-30 View on X
Bloomberg

Inside Miami Tech Week 2023, where more attention was devoted to AI than crypto and NFTs; tech's downturn was hardly noticeable in Miami despite low VC funding

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg : Tweets: @volvoshine , @technology , and @producercities Tweets: Ryan RC Rea / @volvoshine : We're still here 😌😌😌😌 https://www.bloomberg.com/... https...

2023-04-29
The Tech Startup Funding Rout Hasn't Stopped the Miami Party: “Last year there were gatherings every night for NFT art galleries & everyone stood around looking at holograms of apes. It was horrible. This year, crypto isn't even being mentioned” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2023-04-29 View on X
Bloomberg

Inside Miami Tech Week, where more attention was devoted to AI than crypto this year and the tech downturn was hardly noticeable despite a plunge in VC funding

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg : Tweets: @technology and @producercities Tweets: @technology : Police, bikinis, AI and Keith Rabois: Scenes from Miami Tech Week https://www.bloomberg...

2023-03-22
The Age of AI has begun: “In my lifetime, I've seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary. The first time was in 1980, when I was introduced to a graphical user interface ...The second big surprise came just last year” https://www.gatesnotes.com/...
2023-03-22 View on X
GatesNotes

The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the PC, the internet, and the mobile phone, and can reduce global inequities if risks are mitigated

In my lifetime, I've seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary.  —  The first time was in 1980 …

2023-03-16
“It's sort of become the new crypto,” said Moritz Wallawitsch, a 24-year-old German start-up founder who moved to the Bay Area in November. Unlike crypto, he quickly added, AI is generating a lot of value because it's “automating jobs” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-16 View on X
Washington Post

How San Francisco's Hayes Valley, or “Cerebral Valley”, became a hotbed for “hacker houses” and AI events, as the AI gold rush revives the Bay Area's tech scene

The money and power flooding into AI are warping and intensifying the typical Silicon Valley gold rush, now set to explode with the launch of GPT-4

2022-06-16
Why Rural Internet Is Still Terrible, Despite Billions in Federal Spending: “In retrospect it's not surprising that companies made a business decision to do the bare minimum,” said Carol Mattey, an industry consultant & former senior FCC official https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-06-16 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Analysis: 50%+ of the areas covered by the FCC's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund had been fully or partially covered by at least one prior US broadband program

Flaws in government programs have left some residents behind  —  The U.S. government has spent billions of dollars on several rounds … Tweets: @karlbode , @dannydougherty , @ryanjt...

2022-01-03
Desktop PC Sales Rebound as Pandemic Work Evolves: “I'm mostly at my desk at home. There's a bunch of use cases where the desktop is just a better device” https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-01-03 View on X
Wall Street Journal

IDC estimates global desktop shipments rose 7% YoY in 2021 after dropping sharply in 2020, as some remote workers who started on laptops switched to desktops

2021-06-02
Austin Is Biggest Winner From Tech Migration: “By contrast, the San Francisco Bay area, Boston, [Pittsburgh,] & Chicago all saw significant outflows” https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-02 View on X
Bloomberg

LinkedIn data shows Austin is the top beneficiary of tech-related migration in the past 12 months, followed by Nashville; Miami was #11 by net migration rate

2020-12-07
When the majority of homes are outfitted with drone-delivery mailboxes & landing pads, they could form the cornerstone of “smart cities” https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-07 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How drone deliveries may impact the design of homes, apartment complexes, and neighborhoods, with possibilities like drone landing pads on mailboxes or rooftops

Beth DeCarbo / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @chupchap , @wsakaren , @producercities , and @chrismattmann Tweets: NTB / @chupchap : Reality: People do not want to modify their hom...

2020-01-16
“The days of VC's hiding in a bunker in Silicon Valley are coming to an end...If we want to realize the full potential of technology, we need people everywhere making it” https://www.axios.com/...
2020-01-16 View on X
Axios

PitchBook: West Coast's share of total US VC deal value dropped to 50.2% in 2019 vs. 62.3% in 2018; 78% of funding went to CA, NY, and MA, up from 75% in 2018

Venture capital investment is seeping out from Silicon Valley to the rest of the country, but the West Coast still dominates the market by a wide margin.