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AI · August 1, 2026

Wage Against the Machine – MacWages Index for AI Tasks

Compare how many AI tasks an hour of work buys across countries, models, reasoning efforts, and benchmark costs per task.

Wage Against the Machine – MacWages Index for AI Tasks launched on August 1, 2026 with 8 votes, #1,241 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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