Tech Leaders Disagree Over AI's Effect On Jobs As AMD And DeepSeek Make Moves

You know the feeling when you open the family group chat after a day—only to be hit with 67 unread texts, 14 voice messages, and a couple of deleted messages?

One uncle has been forwarding conspiracy theories leading to a feud, a cousin announces a surprise engagement, your mom is asking if anyone remembers grandma’s secret cake ingredient— while everyone belongs to the same family, no one’s talking about the same thing.

It’s chaotic, dramatic, and kind of impossible to ignore.

Well, we brought this up to say this is exactly what a week in AI space feels like. What happens when powerful businesses and industry leaders in and around the AI landscape make headlines and controversial statements?

You get a whirlwind of disruption, debate, and innovation!

So, here’s everything you need to know about the latest in the world of AI. Dive in!
 

Is AI Coming for Entry-Level Jobs? Anthropic’s CEO Thinks So!

Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei has issued a stern warning: artificial intelligence could eliminate up to 50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs within the next five years!


Speaking to Axios, Amodei said the shift could spike unemployment to 10–20%, hitting sectors like law, finance, and consulting the hardest.

“It sounds crazy, and people just don’t believe it,” Amodei remarked, noting that most policymakers and citizens are unaware of the pace of change coming. However, the CEO emphasized that the goal isn’t to stop the AI train—but to “steer it 10 degrees” by preparing policies and public education right now.

Despite sounding the alarm, Amodei says he isn’t anti-AI, and remains bullish on tech’s potential, especially with Anthropic’s recently launch of the Claude 4 chatbot.

The AI leader urged businesses and governments to stop “sugarcoating” the risks and equip workers with the tools to adapt before it’s too late. However, not everyone is as concerned–and some experts have even disagreed with Amodei.
 

Mark Cuban Says AI Will Create Jobs, Not Cut Them

Another influential voice has stepped in on the issue with a different take—Mark Cuban.


The entrepreneur and investor disagreed with Amodei’s predictions, stating that AI will create new industries and increase total employment.

Cuban pointed out that technological transitions aren’t new, saying, "There were once 2 million secretaries and dictation staff. Jobs evolved then, and they’ll evolve now."

He added that AI won’t replace creativity or human insight, calling it “just one more creative tool,” not a full-on replacement for decision-makers.

According to Cuban, the real challenge is how well a company implements AI, not whether the technology exists. He summed up his core message as, “New companies with new jobs will come from AI.”

While experts and industry leaders debate about AI’s influence on jobs, AI businesses are paying no heed and powering ahead at full speed.
 

China's DeepSeek Quietly Ups The Ante With R1 Update

While leaders spar over AI’s economic impact, China’s DeepSeek is taking on its competitors by updating its flagship reasoning model, R1.

The company released R1-0528, an upgraded version of its R1 model, to the open-source platform Hugging Face—what was strange was the move came without a public announcement.


Despite the low-key rollout, benchmarks from LiveCodeBench (developed by researchers from UC Berkeley, MIT, and Cornell) placed the new model just behind OpenAI’s o4 mini and o3 models, and ahead of xAI’s Grok 3 mini and Alibaba’s Qwen 3.

This move shows how Chinese AI firms are rapidly narrowing the performance gap, even amid export restrictions and infrastructural challenges. In fact, DeepSeek shocked the world earlier this year when its original R1 model challenged assumptions about the need for massive compute power to achieve cutting-edge performance.

Analysts are now waiting for DeepSeek’s R2 model, expecting it to be a major leap forward for China’s AI ambitions.

However, it’s not just the Chinese leader making moves. American giant AMD has recently made a strategic acquisition to fuel its AI ambitions–read on!
 

AMD Doubles Down on AI Hardware With Enosemi

American multinational AMD has acquired Enosemi, a Silicon Valley photonics startup that designs optical interconnects—technology that uses light instead of electricity to move data faster between chips.


Photonics technology is seen as critical pillar for AI systems, especially as models become more complex and require more efficient and high-speed data movement. This acquisition positions AMD at the forefront of this cutting-edge optical technology.

Enosemi has been an external partner to AMD before, but the acquisition brings its silicon photonics talent in-house, allowing AMD to accelerate development of co-packaged optics.

According to AMD’s SVP Brian Amick, this buy-out will “scale our ability to support next-gen AI systems” and help it compete more aggressively with rivals such as Nvidia. This move closely follows AMD’s recent acquisition of ZT Systems and reaffirms its $5 billion AI revenue goal for 2024, as stated by CEO Lisa Su.
 

So, What’s Next For The AI Industry?

From considerable yet unclear impact on the job market to new AI models and high-stakes acquisitions, the message is clear: AI isn’t coming—it’s already here.

As AI technologies keep shaking up the world around us, staying up to date can feel overwhelming – but we’re here to deliver the latest and freshest AI news!

Will AI spell disaster for the entry-level workforce, or open the doors for new roles? Can will DeepSeek and AMD’s latest moves position them as leaders in the AI industry?

Let us know what you think in the comments below!