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AI gains show up in firm productivity data
Jul 23, 2026SOURCE: stripeeconomics.com
SO WHAT
The window is still open: AI is moving from promise to measurable capability before the old system finishes pricing it in.
Recent academic work is converging on real productivity gains at the worker and firm level. The signal is early, but it marks the first measurable shift in the inversion from speculation to output.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.