The Economist. Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

There's a whole graduating class coming in 2026 that will have had generative AI at its fingertips

for the whole of its college education.

We ask how those grads will fare in the workplace and how the workplace is likely to change to accommodate them.

And pensions in Europe are a fiscal time bomb as demographics change.

Ensuring them up by changing retirement ages or benefits is politically dangerous.

We look at what must and what might happen to fend off crises across the continent.

But first...

In Iran, the authorities are using an ever heavier hand to suppress the protests we were talking about on Friday.

Across the country, cities and towns, demonstrators are being mowed down.

490, according to a Washington-based human rights group.

That's almost certainly an undercount.

We've said this before, I know, but what's going on inside Iran really is different this time,

which makes for a different dynamic outside it,

in particular for its principal rival in the region.

People ask me during the war, is your goal regime change? And I said, no, it's not. But it could be

the consequence of the war if we were successful, and we were successful.

On Thursday, we interviewed Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel.

When I say we, my boss is editor-in-chief, Zani Minton Beddoes, and Deputy Editor Ed Carr,

I was there as well in the Prime Minister's office studio in Jerusalem.

Antiole Feffer is the economist's Israel correspondent.

Naturally, we wanted to ask Netanyahu about the protests, which were already then gripping Iran,

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