📈 Data to start your week

The fossil era ↓ The American dream ↓ Work-life balance ↑

Hi all,

Here’s your Monday round-up of data driving conversations this week in less than 250 words.

Let’s go!

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1. Diplomacy is linear; technology is exponential. Despite the gridlock at COP30, clean-tech adoption is shattering historical forecasts – rendering the fossil fuel era economically obsolete faster than regulators can phase it out.¹

2. Intelligence deflation ↓ The cost-per-task for frontier AI models has dropped 300-fold year-on-year.²

3. Author anxiety ↑ Over half of fiction authors agree that AI is likely to replace them. ³

4. Parental FOMO ↑ Parents are 60% more willing to pay for AI education tools if they are told their peers’ children are using them. Social pressure is a stronger driver than utility.