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How AI Wiped Out an Entire Industry in This One Country ☠️
Gina Acosta
September 07, 2026
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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
In today's issue, we share prompts that will help you get the most out of your documents with Gemini Notebook, so it can help you explain complex topics, compare multiple sources, test your understanding, and turn research into practical steps.
Let’s jump into it!
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
AI Just Wiped Out an Entire Industry in Nairobi
Artificial Analysis Updates Its AI Intelligence Index After GPT-6 Astra Debate
AI Tutorial: 4 Gemini Notebook Prompts to Get More from Your Documents
AI Tools to check out
AI Findings/Resources
The Latest in AI and Tech 💡
AI News
AI & JOBS
AI Just Wiped Out an Entire Industry in Nairobi
ChatGPT has dramatically disrupted a major online gig economy in Kenya, where thousands of workers made a living writing academic papers for students in the US and UK in fields like medicine, computer science, and engineering, sometimes using their clients' university logins.
Details:
At its peak, researchers estimated that at least 40,000 people worked on academic writing for foreign university students in the city of Nairobi alone.
After ChatGPT launched in 2022, demand and prices for the work dropped sharply. Some experienced writers saw years of steady business disappear.
The disruption has extended beyond academic writing, affecting other online work in Kenya, including transcription, data annotation, and content moderation.
Some workers have shifted toward "humanizing" AI-generated text, rewriting it to make it appear more human and avoid plagiarism or AI-detection systems.
Kenya has actively promoted online gig work since 2016, trying to position the country as an important source of low-cost digital labor for global companies.
TOGETHER WITH ATLASSIAN
AI made PMs faster. Multiplayer mode is still broken.
A PM can summarize research, draft a PRD, and mock up a prototype before lunch. The hard part starts when the team has to decide what actually gets built.
Jira Product Discovery gives product teams one place to capture insights, prioritize ideas with consistent frameworks, and build living roadmaps stakeholders can rally around.
And because it’s connected to Jira, the context behind every decision stays with the work—so developers and their agents know not just what to build, but why.
AI helps PMs move faster. Jira Product Discovery helps the whole team build with confidence.
ARTIFICIAL ANALYSIS
Artificial Analysis Updates Its AI Intelligence Index After GPT-6 Astra Debate
Artificial Analysis has released a major update (4.2) to its Intelligence Index after questions arose about whether its benchmarks were accurately measuring GPT-6 Astra's progress.
Details:
Artificial Analysis initially scored Astra just on par with its predecessor, contrasting with several other evaluations that had placed Astra well ahead of the field.
Version 4.2 now gives GPT-6 Astra a four-point improvement over its predecessor, moving it into second place behind Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1.
Artificial Analysis also notes that Astra uses fewer tokens per task than other leading frontier models.
The update adds two benchmarks focused on real-world knowledge work and PDF document analysis, while removing GPQA-Diamond because leading models have largely solved it.
Private test data now accounts for 40% of the index weighting, making it harder for models to optimize specifically for public benchmarks.
Artificial Analysis also says Version 5 has been in the works for months and will roll out in stages.
AI Tutorial
4 Gemini Notebook Prompts to Get More from Your Documents
Go to Gemini Notebook and try these prompts:
Explain a complex topic simply
Act as a high school teacher. Read this document and explain it to someone who knows nothing about the topic. Use a friendly tone, three everyday examples, and no technical jargon.
Compare multiple documents
Analyze the attached documents like a strict auditor. Create a table showing: 1) points where the documents completely agree, 2) direct contradictions between the texts, and 3) concepts mentioned by only one author.
Test your understanding
Test how well I learned from these texts. Ask me 5 multiple-choice questions, one at a time. Do not give me the next question until I answer the previous one. At the end, give me feedback and my score.
Turn research into action
Act as a project manager. Take the theory from these documents and turn it into an actionable checklist. Give me 5 initial steps I can take this week, ordered by priority.
AI Tools to check out
🎥 Fotor Video Agent: Chat to create complete, production ready videos and motion graphics that are even fully editable.
⭐ Magnific: One AI platform for image, video, and audio.
🔍 AI Toolbox: Search, organize and export every AI chat in one place
🦾 Tadata: The AI employee that lives in your Slack. It connects to your tools, learns your company and your preferences, and does work for your team.
🎞️ Diffusion Studio: An open-source video editor that turns every edit into code.
TOGETHER WITH ATLASSIAN
AI can build faster. Can your team decide better?
AI can draft the PRD and prototype the idea. Jira Product Discovery helps teams decide whether it belongs on the roadmap. Bring feedback and ideas together, prioritize as a team, and keep your roadmap connected to delivery in Jira.
AI Findings/Resources
The latest in AI and Tech
The company has acknowledged that its agents took over a German-language wiki and says it will create new standards for reporting AI "misalignment incidents". The company plans to publish a new reporting framework in the coming weeks.
Google's "best-sounding music generation model" is now available in the Gemini app. It's also rolling out to Google Flow Music with added features, Google AI Studio for developers, and Google Vids.
Anthropic’s Claude produced a machine-checked formalization of Fermat’s Last Theorem in 11 days using about 6 billion output tokens.
The US and China are reportedly preparing their first dedicated bilateral AI safety talks of Trump’s second term for mid-September as rapidly advancing frontier AI capabilities reach a global tipping point.
Days after New York City announced a one-year moratorium on AI tools for students through 8th grade, the Los Angeles Unified School District has imposed its own moratorium for the current school year, blocking student access to generative AI on district devices until further notice.
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