Overview

• Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and Amazon are offering elite AI engineers multiyear compensation packages of up to $250 million to secure scarce talent.
• Generative AI tools are boosting productivity by 25 percent or more in marketing, coding, image editing, medical transcription and legal document review.
• Thousands of tech positions are being cut or reshaped as AI handles 25–30 percent of programming tasks, intensifying calls for reskilling initiatives.
• Universities remain in early stages of AI adoption, with Europe trailing behind the US in research output and integration of adaptive learning and administrative tools.
• Latin American municipalities face infrastructure and policy shortfalls—only 9 percent have open-data frameworks and over 7 percent of Argentines lack internet access—as the region weighs the EU’s risk-based AI Act against a flexible US model.