The biggest bottleneck to A.I. adoption? 'The meatbags operating the magic machines.'

My return to FORTUNE's Data Sheet tech newsletter is all about, well, humans:
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Proud of the student journalists doing the work these last few weeks. Especially at my alma maters in NYC.

Incredibly excited for FORTUNE’s flagship Brainstorm Tech summit, set for July 15-17 in Park City. To speak: Roelof Botha, Mary C. Daly, Jeff Dean (@🏡), Dylan Jadeja, Peggy Johnson, Rohit Prasad, and more.

By invitation only, but you are welcome to apply:

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*sigh* thewrap.com/los-angeles-ti…

“Between mortgages, healthcare, elder care, and childcare, midlife has always been expensive, but for millennials it is proving especially crushing.“ nationalgeographic.com/culture/articl…

“We drastically underestimated the speed at which residential solar was going to come in.” washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

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“We need to report and write more rigorously, and prove every point we make, conscious that someone out there will definitely not be on the same page. We need to be curious. We need to keep searching for new voices, and new facts.” steveinskeep.substack.com/p/how-my-npr-c…

An incredible program for Fortune Brainstorm AI this week in London.

Check it 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

“Ochoa, for example, has not changed the strings on her bass since 2010, when the group first formed.” nytimes.com/2024/04/10/mag…

oh. apnews.com/article/336212…

Congratulations to Anastasia Nyrkovskaya, the new CEO of Fortune Media, and thanks to Alan Murray, the very first in its independent era. nytimes.com/2024/04/09/bus…

A moment of appreciation for schoolteachers, who will utter 'Don't look at the sun' at least 100X today