by Raphael Dudler | Jun 5, 2026 | gafam watch
Demis Hassabis — CEO of Google DeepMind, the most important AI research organisation in the world — broke publicly with the industry consensus this week. In a rare direct statement, Hassabis said AI productivity gains should benefit workers rather than simply being captured by shareholders through headcount reduction. From inside Google — the company that just announced Gemini Spark and AI Mode at 1 billion users — this is the most consequential internal dissent in the AI era.
by Raphael Dudler | May 30, 2026 | gafam watch
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff delivered the most contradictory and most honest portrait of AI’s job impact this week. He is hiring 1,000 new graduates — but not one software engineer, lawyer or service agent. AI coding agents have made his engineering team “mostly flat” for two years. But sales is growing because demand is growing. The one skill AI cannot replicate: the human ability to close a deal. gafam.ai examines what the Salesforce data reveals about the real shape of AI’s employment impact — and what it means for Europe’s workforce.
by Raphael Dudler | May 28, 2026 | gafam watch
In June 2025, Sam Altman warned that entire job categories would vanish. Dario Amodei predicted AI would eliminate 50% of white-collar jobs. This week, both walked it back. Altman says he is “delighted to be wrong.” Amodei now says automation expands work rather than destroying it. OpenAI is preparing an IPO at $852 billion. Anthropic just closed a $30 billion round at a $900 billion valuation. The timing of the reversal is not a coincidence. gafam.ai examines what changed — and what did not.
