A guest on "Bloomberg Surveillance," professor of the practice Gary Gensler said AI leaders and hyperscalers need to generate meaningful revenue and productivity gains to meet current market conditions.

According to professor Sinan Aral, even companies on the cutting edge of AI agent deployment are just starting to understand how to work with AI agents to maximize productivity and performance.

Lecturer Tim Valicenti and Stephanie Woerner, executive director of MIT CISR, joined a panel about "AI on Main Street" at the 617 Day small business summit. "We're missing a real opportunity if we don't think about how we can use AI to do things that we don't know how to do," said Woerner.

Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu has a number for everything. The MIT economist estimates that roughly 0.55% in total factor productivity gains is what AI will actually deliver over the next decade, a fraction of Wall Street's euphoric projections. He estimates only about 5% of tasks will be profitably automated in the near term, equivalent to a 1% or 1.5% increase in GDP.

Professor Eric So said: "For so much of human history, human-level intelligence was our most scarce resource, our most defensible advantage. Now, AI is increasingly commoditizing that. It's being mass-produced in a way that really causes us to question what's going to make us valuable in the future."

Research shows that consumers tend to spend more when using credit cards vs. cash. A 2021 study by professor Drazen Prelec and co-authors found that credit cards activate the brain's reward center and create an "anticipation of pleasure in the form of a purchase," comparing it to the smell of baked cookies triggering your appetite.

Senior lecturer Robert Pozen wrote: "Investing in stocks is always a risk. But the historical data show the risk might not be exactly what advisors have ingrained in retail investors for decades. For those with a long-term investing mind-set and the stomach for riding out the market, 90-10 may be your best play."

Senior lecturer Robert Pozen and co-author wrote: "What's new here is the deliberate stripping of powers that the SEC long held. Yes, Congress can and does occasionally do this, but not the agency's own leaders, especially without advance notice or an opportunity for comment. The current SEC commissioners are consciously weakening the agency's leverage in negotiations with large corporate defendants."