{
  "id": 12144865,
  "title": "What the AI boom is actually doing for Americans",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/what-the-ai-boom-is-actually-doing-for-americans",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-05T12:07:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Asia Times",
    "slug": "asia-times",
    "url": "https://asiatimes.com/2026/10/what-the-ai-boom-is-actually-doing-for-americans/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Paul Krugman is the greatest econ writer in the world, and also a legendary economist. But I sometimes feel that he has a blind spot when it comes to the value of new technologies. In 1998 he famously wrote: The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in ‘Metcalfe’s law’—which states that […] The post What the AI boom is actually doing for Americans appeared first on Asia Times .",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Noahpinion",
        "title": "What the AI boom is doing for Americans",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/what-the-ai-boom-is-doing-for-americans",
        "published": "2026-10-05T08:12:53.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}