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AI’s Impact on Labor and Hiring

Welcome to Street Level , my new series on Liberty Street Economics . As research director, I try to keep track of the wide range of work that the economists at the New York Fed produce. My goal for this series is to periodically offer some thematic discussion of that work, highlighting recent analysis by Research staff and adding my own…

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No One Can Afford to Make ‘Myst’ Games Anymore

“Myst” sold over 6 million copies in the ’90s. Its latest sequel couldn’t shore up any funding, pointing to an existential crisis among double-A games.

  • Cyan Worlds cancels Anglerfish development.
  • Mid-market game funding declines.
  • $2M-$15M funding gap difficult to secure.

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Health, wealth, and legacy planning converge as new wave of SEA insurtechs emerges

Southeast Asia’s insurance industry has quietly turned into one of the region’s most crowded battlegrounds for digital disruption. Behind traditional insurers’ glossy premiums and paperwork-heavy claims lies a swarm of insurtechs rewriting the rules, some genuinely solving access gaps, others simply repackaging old products with an app…

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The Devil In The Agent

Imagine an AI agent at an Indian bank tasked with reconciling a failed transaction. In trying to complete the job,…

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Mining patient feedback and complaints for themes

Most health services in Australia are sitting on several years of patient comments that nobody has read from start to finish. The Likert scores get tabulated and put in the quarterly pack. The free text gets skimmed by whoever is assembling that pack, and the rest is archived.

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