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This CNBC analysis of AI company valuations engages sophisticated business mechanics—pricing competition, Chinese open-source disruption, infrastructure economics—while remaining entirely blind to the structural labour demand question. The video meticulously examines whether OpenAI/Anthropic can maintain 'pricing power for decades' and how enterprises optimize AI spend, yet never once asks what happens to aggregate human employment when this technology works exactly as promised. Aidan Gomez's interview mentions 'automating work' and 'replacing software engineering teams' as product features rather than structural displacement. The segment treats AI competition purely as an inter-company and geopolitical rivalry, leaving workers entirely offstage—a perfectly executed piece of omission cope where the sophistication of the business analysis makes the labour-blind spot more dangerous, not less.