Columbia adjunct estimates Uber drivers in six of 16 cities earn below the federal minimum wage after costs
Columbia Business School's Len Sherman estimates Uber's median pay on active rides is $19.30 an hour in Orlando and $46 in Los Angeles. Uber, which has said drivers earn more than $30 an hour, calls the analysis flawed.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap−5
- Incentives55
- Confidence50
Columbia's Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh estimates the US AI build at $10.3 trillion through 2032, needing $3.7 trillion a year in revenue to pay off. The bar is 37 times the roughly $100 billion OpenAI and Anthropic book today, a gap the model gives about seven years to close.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence50
buildOne report1 publisher Five agents per engineer makes review the only human contact with Daytona's code
Ivan Burazin told Business Insider that Daytona's best agent operators are former people managers, and the org he described runs about 80 agents behind 16 engineers who no longer write code themselves.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives80
- Confidence58
Edinburgh delivery riders are assembling their own evidence against pay algorithms
A rider-run charity with a decade of funding, a field test in Fife and one Deliveroo courier's spreadsheet are being pressed into service as evidence, because the party holding the pay logic is not the party being asked to explain it.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives72
- Confidence50
Digital twins built from 500-question profiles flatten the people they were meant to copy
LLM surrogates of more than 2,000 real respondents were wrong about a quarter of the time and landed roughly where a chatbot given demographics alone landed, with errors that pull toward stereotype.
Reality
- Evidence68
- Adoption24
- Hype gap−12
- Incentives58
- Confidence64