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[verit4s.eth @verit4s_eth]

Road Trips alone is enough to make this the worst take I've ever seen.

[Jon Denton @JonDenton]

Maid Of Honor is one of the worst albums I have ever heard.

[Thariq @trq212]

We just released Claude Code channels, which allows you to control your Claude Code session through select MCPs, starting with Telegram and Discord.

Use this to message Claude Code directly from your phone.

[verit4s.eth @verit4s_eth]

@avotoast Come again ?

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War.

https://t.co/rM77LJejuk

[verit4s.eth @verit4s_eth]

Beginning of the end for OpenAI. Anthropic forevermore

[Sam Altman @sama]

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.

In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.

AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.

We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only.

We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements.

We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

[verit4s.eth @verit4s_eth]

@GeoffreyHuntley Let's assume there is a point here.

Simply downsize the team to one core architect for oversight and let everyone build.

[jack @jack]

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

jack

[DCinvestor @DCinvestor]

so the gov things Claude is so smart it’s worth breaking the free market for

and thinks Grok is far too stupid to be used for mission critical purposes?

wow

WOW

[verit4s.eth @verit4s_eth]

Construction

Safest sector in the analysis.

3.0/10 job risk — lowest of all 14

Physical labor can't be automated by AI alone. Skilled trades are insulated and may see wage increases as other sectors shed workers.

Advising kids on careers? Trades just got more interesting.

[verit4s.eth @verit4s_eth]

$1.3 trillion in new output.
32 million jobs at risk.
1 in 5 workers.

AI is simultaneously about to be the best and worst thing to happen to the economy.

I mapped every sector:
https://t.co/bnvtyoiCS3

(Directional exercise, not peer-reviewed)

[verit4s.eth @verit4s_eth]

Arts, Entertainment & Media

The ONLY sector with negative GDP impact.

Marginal cost of content hits zero. 50-80% price drops in stock imagery, copywriting, mid-tier video.

Top talent may earn more. The middle class of creative work gets hollowed out.

Already happening.

[Newsy @NewsyJohnson]

Send bitcoin to zero

You think I care?

I've been taking ashwagandha for 2 weeks

Newsy Johnson

[verit4s.eth @verit4s_eth]

@netflix given the WB acquisition, it'd be a big brain move to bring back the show Westworld. It was SO early on AI direction, and the plot is deeply aligned with where things currently stand in the AI landscape. Would be a hit.

[signüll @signulll]

this is going to sound dramatic as hell but the world you knew is pretty much over.

very recently i think we crossed a one way bridge as a species & most people on earth haven’t realized that fact yet.

imho there are now non trivial odds the economy gets drastically disrupted in the next 24 - 36 months via a giant supply shock followed by a demand shock.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another.

There must also be things that make us super excited and inspired about the future. This is one of things. Bigtime.

[verit4s.eth @verit4s_eth]

@gmoneyNFT Claude didn't even know what year we were in during a chat the other day. I find it fascinating how (AI in general) can handle some incredibly complex scenarios but simultaneously botch the simplistic, common sense details