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everyone said AI was coming for engineers first. SignalFire tracked 80M companies. engineers were the most resilient job function of 2025. they're 55% of new tech hires. up from 46% in 2019. the thing supposed to replace them is making them more valuable.

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125 wikipedia edits by one volunteer group measurably shifted how llama discusses animal welfare. 68% of top-attributed docs for those queries were their edits. wikipedia is weighted above web crawl text in nearly every LLM training dataset. small. coordinated. measurable.

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OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft just funded $500M to retrain workers their AI is displacing. called it "America's people strategy." IBM and Workday are also backers. both cited AI in recent layoffs. start the fire. sell the extinguisher.

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OpenAI published a report on how AI agents are replacing knowledge work. the case study was themselves. Codex is now the primary AI tool for every department at OpenAI. Legal. Finance. Recruiting. non-developer usage grew 137x in 10 months.

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spacex wiped $915B in market cap in a week. not from safety incidents or bad earnings. iran closed the strait of hormuz. AI buildout runs on borrowed money. borrowed money gets expensive when oil does. geopolitics is now an AI risk factor.

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OpenAI and Anthropic each spent millions on opposite sides of one NYC primary. OpenAI wanted the AI safety guy out. Anthropic wanted him in. A third candidate backed by Bloomberg won. $27M, two AI labs, zero influence over the result.

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gartner says 40% of enterprise apps will have AI agents by year-end. vinod khosla wanted every dollar of runlayer's $30M round. runlayer governs what your agents are allowed to do. you can't deploy something you can't control.

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sundar pichai told developers 'next month' at google I/O. that was may. it's june 24. gemini 3.5 pro is now targeting july. turns out the flash model was eating tokens too fast. so they went back to fix it.

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SambaNova was worth $2B in February. it's raising at $10B now. that's a 5x in four months. inference is the new training. everyone betting on Nvidia for inference just got a warning shot.

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google lost the transformer paper author last week. the AlphaFold team this week. four people who built the foundation of modern AI, gone in 10 days. hard to own the future when you can't keep the people who invented it.