{"slug": "who-s-making-money-from-using-exploiting-ai", "title": "Who's making money from using/exploiting AI?", "summary": "A Hacker News user asks for concrete examples of companies that have become more profitable due to AI advancements, noting that most cases only show marginal productivity gains. The post has 4 points and no comments as of publication.", "body_md": "# Who's making money from using/exploiting AI?\n\nBy jonthepirateSource:\n\n[Hacker News AI](https://news.ycombinator.com)I'm looking for some concrete examples of any AI advancements actually causing someone to financially prosper where they didn't before. Most of the examples I can think of make someone or something slightly more streamlined or productive, and so I'm looking for cases where company X is now Y% more profitable because of AI advancements.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047714](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047714)\n\nPoints: 4\n\n# Comments: 0\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/who-s-making-money-from-using-exploiting-ai", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/whos-making-money-from-usingexploiting-ai-kd3z", "published_at": "2026-07-25 14:11:57+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-25 15:29:02.084313+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/who-s-making-money-from-using-exploiting-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/who-s-making-money-from-using-exploiting-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/who-s-making-money-from-using-exploiting-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/who-s-making-money-from-using-exploiting-ai.jsonld"}}