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AI-enhanced robotics patenting took off after 2010, marking a structural shift in innovation dynamics; China shows the tightest integration between AI and robotics with substantial university/public-sector patenting, while the U.S. remains more market-driven and less integrated.
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The "Gold Rush" in AI and Robotics Patenting Activity. Do innovation systems have a role? · Giovanni Guidetti, Riccardo Leoncini, Mariele Macaluso · Mar 05, 2026
Generative AI equalizes individual task performance but shifts economic value to owners of complementary assets; unless AI is broadly accessible or labor institutions share rents, firms capture gains and inequality can rise.
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When AI Levels the Playing Field: Skill Homogenization, Asset Concentration, and Two Regimes of Inequality · Xupeng Chen, Shuchen Meng · Mar 05, 2026
Charging levies on AI 'tokens'—a usage tax applied at the point of inference—could give governments a practical way to tax AI-generated value and blunt automation-driven revenue and wage shocks; the approach hinges on robust cryptographic receipts, norm-based rates, white-box audits, and difficult international cooperation.
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Token Taxes: mitigating AGI's economic risks · Lucas Irwin, Tung-Yu Wu, Fazl Barez · Mar 04, 2026
Countries with stronger AI readiness record notably better progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, and FinTech and Blockchain activity also predict higher SDG performance; when nations develop multiple digital technologies together, the combined sustainability gains exceed the sum of individual effects.
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Digital Technologies and Sustainable Development: Evidence from FinTech, AI, and Blockchain Adoption in G20 Economies · Nesrine Gafsi, Amina Hamdouni, Aida Smaoui · Mar 04, 2026
Consumer complaints forecast short-term stock drops at U.S. financial firms: rising complaint volumes and more negative narrative sentiment are linked to near-term abnormal return declines, and topic-level complaint trends add predictive power for investors and risk managers.
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More than words: valuation of words for stock price by using the combination of natural language processing, time-series panel and gradient boosting · Wookjae Heo, Yeonseo Jo, Keewon Moon · Mar 04, 2026
China’s cultural-zone program created jobs by spawning platform-mediated gigs, not new firms; however, fiscal spending only translated into employment where digital infrastructure was sufficiently developed, otherwise it failed or backfired.
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Redefining Policy Effectiveness in the Digital Era: From Corporate Scaling to Inclusive Employment Growth—Evidence from China’s National Cultural Demonstration Zones · Yuanming Wang, Mu Li, Y. Chen, Yuting Xue · Mar 03, 2026
Directing AI toward labor-augmenting technologies can raise wages and social welfare when redistribution is limited, but as AI progressively devalues labor the returns to steering fall and policy should shift toward redistribution and improving non-monetary aspects of work.
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Steering Technological Progress · Anton Korinek, Joseph E. Stiglitz · Mar 01, 2026
Human-authored procedural 'Skills' lift LLM agent success by 16.2 percentage points on average—gains vary sharply by domain and sometimes harm performance—while model-generated Skills add no net value; narrowly targeted Skills let smaller models match larger ones, suggesting firms can substitute curated knowledge for compute.
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SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks · Xiangyi Li, Wenbo Chen, Yimin Liu, Shenghan Zheng, Xiaokun Chen, Yifeng He, Yubo... · Feb 13, 2026
AI automates contiguous blocks of workflow steps, forcing firms to redefine tasks and jobs and producing nonlinear organizational shifts as AI quality improves. Occupations where AI-suitable steps are dispersed see far less automation, while a step is more likely to be AI-executed when its neighbors are also automated.
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Chaining Tasks, Redefining Work: A Theory of AI Automation · Mert Demirer, John J. Horton, Nicole Immorlica, Brendan Lucier, Peyman Shahidi · Feb 01, 2026