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Jack Dorsey’s Predictions, Block and Layoffs
Earlier this week, Block, makers of Square, Cash App, Afterpay, etc., announced layoffs of 40% of their staff while leaning into AI programming. This isn’t a small company, mind you,…
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Sunday (AI) Links: Mar. 1, 2026
WSJ: Anthropic Pushes Claude Deeper Into Knowledge Work (Feb. 24, 2026) Anthropic updated Claude Cowork with Google apps, Gmail, DocuSign, LegalZoom, and new plug-ins for finance, legal, and other workflows,…
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AI’s Economic Boom and Social Costs
AI is rapidly reshaping economies and society—from massive memory fabrication and firms rebranding to changed workplaces, relationships, and politics. Simultaneously it creates risks: income and power imbalances, cognitive/semantic erosion, authoritarian…
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AI Job Disruption Meets Enterprise Infrastructure Race
AI is rapidly automating cognitive work, threatening SaaS business models, white‑collar jobs, and software valuations. Noah Smith: The Fall of the Nerds - by Noah Smith (Feb. 5, 2026) Software…
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Powerful AI Agents, Centralization, and Societal Risk
Qwen: Qwen (Feb. 13, 2026) Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, an open-weight vision-language model with 397 billion parameters. It scores well on reasoning, coding, and multimodal benchmarks, and supports 201 languages. Ars Technica: OpenAI…
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Proliferating AI agents
AI’s rapid capability and deployment—seen in developer tools (Codex), agent networks (Moltbook) and emergent multi‑agent societies—offers productivity gains but creates unpredictable and manipulable (and surprising) behaviors! Simon Willison: Introducing the…
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AI acceleration: Moltbot and why AI matters (Links) – Feb. 1
Skynet isn't yet here, but perhaps we're seeing the first glimpses of what AIs talking to AIs will mean. Yes, I'm mentioning Clawdbot/Molbot. Alex Tabarrok: The Bots are Awakening (Jan.…
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NY Times: Your Job Interviewer Is Not a Person. It’s A.I.
NY Times: Your Job Interviewer Is Not a Person. It’s A.I. (July 6, 2025) If you thought the interview process couldn't get any worse, you were wrong. HR organizations looking…
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WSJ: ‘Vibe Coding’ Has Arrived for Businesses
WSJ: ‘Vibe Coding’ Has Arrived for Businesses (July 8, 2025) Vibe coding (using AI tools to create code) has exploded in popularity this year, speeding prototyping and development considerably. But…
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WSJ: Your Prize for Saving Time at Work With AI: More Work
WSJ: Your Prize for Saving Time at Work With AI: More Work (July 8, 2025) It's the age-old tension between employee satisfaction and employer-demanded productivity. I (optimistically) believe it's possible…