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Americans would get ‘universal high income’ via steady federal checks under Elon Musk’s new proposal. Will it happen?

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  • Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI

    60% confidence

  • AI was linked to nearly 55,000 job cuts in the U.S. in 2025

    60% confidence

  • Advances in automation and productivity could dramatically increase the supply of goods and services, potentially offsetting inflationary pressure from increased money circulation

    60% confidence

  • AI and robotics will produce goods and services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation

    60% confidence

  • Roughly 30,000 additional jobs have already been lost to AI in early 2026

    60% confidence

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Elon Musk · social media post comments46000 comments
Elon Musk · social media post likes195000 likes
Elon Musk · social media post views68000000 views
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Vertical AI Agents Attract a Funding Wave Across Fintech-Adjacent Industries
A cluster of AI-native startups applying autonomous agents to narrow, operational problems — hotel front-desk staffing (Dextr AI), identity/fraud risk for financial institutions (Baselayer), insurance distribution (Napo, Connie Health, MGT Insurance) — closed seed-to-Series A rounds within days of each other in September 2026, with CB Insights running a coordinated CEO interview series to spotlight them. The pattern points to agentic AI maturing from generic chat tools into vertical, revenue-generating products, with identity verification for AI agents themselves (Baselayer) emerging as a new fintech infrastructure category responding directly to AI-driven fraud risk.
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ING Group
Both facts record the same metric (shares_outstanding) for ING Group at the identical observation date (2025-12-31). FACT A states 2,902,437,688 shares; FACT B states 2,902 million shares (2,902,000,000). The difference is 437,688 shares (~0.015%). This is a genuine value conflict, though the discrepancy appears to result from FACT B rounding to the nearest million while FACT A provides the precise count.
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