This was the week the AI-and-work conflict broke into the open simultaneously across four jurisdictions. Wikipedia editors are organizing a strike over Wikimedia layoffs. Amazon employees gamed its internal AI ranking into uselessness. Chinese courts began enforcing a framework that bars AI-justified layoffs. A UK thinktank, with TUC backing, called for employees to get a…
This was the week the frontier labs stopped being vendors. OpenAI now runs inside US biodefense and Japan’s three biggest banks, and it just mapped its own safety rules to EU and California AI law. Meanwhile China unveiled an LLM that automates satellite targeting. Workforce policy is splintering: China bars AI layoffs by court order,…
Anthropic released Mythos to the public, collapsing the wall between cleared-contractor frontier AI and developer-grade frontier AI in a single press release. DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis moved his AGI timeline from “five to ten years” to “a real possibility by 2029” and tied it explicitly to AlphaProof Nexus solving nine open Erdős problems for the cost…
Over the weekend: Musk, Zuckerberg, and Sacks killed Trump’s draft AI safety executive order in three Wednesday-night phone calls. CISA logged 15,000 attacks on a Drupal SQL flaw patched 48 hours earlier. The first cross-registry supply chain attack — TrapDoor — hit npm, PyPI, and Crates.io at once, using .cursorrules and CLAUDE.md config files as…
For nine years the AI boom has been a private bet, priced by a small circle of venture funds and sovereign wealth in rounds most people could never touch. This week it started going public. SpaceX filed an $80 billion IPO prospectus on Wednesday, the largest in history, with a chatbot company and $6.4 billion…
Six days after we called $725B a bet on what no one wanted, the receipts started landing. Meta committed $145B to AI infrastructure the same week it began firing 8,000 people. Standard Chartered described its own cuts as replacing “lower-value human capital.” Pope Leo XIV announced he’d co-launch his first AI encyclical with Anthropic’s Christopher…
Hyperscalers will spend $725 billion on AI infrastructure this year. The users they are spending it on are now actively rejecting the output. Gartner finds 50% of US consumers prefer brands that don’t use generative AI. Wikipedia just banned AI-generated content 44-2. Stack Overflow’s new-question volume has fallen 78% year over year. Google AI Overviews…
This is 100 Years From Now. Once a week we skip a century and try to picture what life actually looks like when the stuff we’re building now has had time to settle in. This week: the last vote.
This is 100 Years From Now. Once a week we skip a century and try to picture what life actually looks like when the stuff we’re building now has had time to settle in. This week: the last vote.
In five days Anthropic’s Q1 revenue grew 80-fold to a reported $44B annual run rate, the company committed $200B to Google Cloud, signed a SpaceX compute deal, shipped Claude Code Auto Mode, and launched ten financial-services agents with Jamie Dimon. In the same week the EU finally struck an AI Act compliance deal, the first…
