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JUST IN: Starbucks to close several corporate offices and cut jobs to save $2 billion by 2028

Americans are leaving the U.S. in record numbers, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the US’s enviable salaries, per WSJ

'Everyone is unhappy': Meta employees describe a grim environment as the company reportedly prepares to axe roughly 8,000 workers aol.com/finance/everyo…

I’ve always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human health. That work started with AlphaFold, and now at @IsomorphicLabs with the mission to reimagine drug discovery and one day solve all disease! We are turbocharging that goal with $2.1B in new funding.

JUST IN: Anthropic launches $200 million AI partnership with the Gates foundation focused on health & education.

Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports ‘record quarterly revenue’ techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/cis…

JUST IN: OpenAI announces support for the creation of a "global governance body" for artificial intelligence led by the U.S. & China.

ChatGPT allegedly shares your chat query topics, user IDs, and email addresses with Google and Meta, according to a new class action lawsuit filed today.

⚡️The real signal is credential deflation. MBA demand is falling because the market is finally separating elite network access from generic credential theater. The top MBA still has value because it buys access: elite peers, recruiting funnels, status compression, VC/startup networks, private equity pipelines, consulting/IB placement, alumni power, and social sorting. That part survives because the product is not just education. It is access to a protected human network. Everything below that is getting exposed. A huge amount of MBA value was built on the idea that business knowledge was scarce. It is not scarce anymore. Basic finance, strategy, marketing, ops, accounting, management frameworks, case studies, memo writing, market analysis, valuation, and presentation structure can now be learned or generated faster, cheaper, and more directly through AI, YouTube, work experience, online courses, and actual operating reps. The credential moat is cracking. This connects directly to the broader white-collar quake. AI is attacking the value of generalized cognitive packaging. A mid-tier MBA used to signal polish, ambition, managerial readiness, and business literacy. Now the market is asking a colder question: What can this person actually do? Can they sell? Can they build? Can they operate? Can they allocate capital? Can they lead? Can they use AI to produce leverage? Can they own a result? The paper matters less when the work product becomes visible. Business schools are being hit by the same force hitting software agencies and white-collar labor: the collapse of artificial scarcity. When knowledge, frameworks, decks, models, and analysis become abundant, the value shifts to judgment, network, trust, execution, taste, distribution, and real-world outcomes. That is why tuition cuts matter. Price is truth. When schools slash tuition, they are admitting the old willingness-to-pay broke. The deeper cultural signal is brutal: the professional-class bargain is weakening. For decades, the advice was: get the degree, buy the credential, enter the managerial class, rise safely. That path worked when credentials controlled access to information, employers, and status. AI and labor-market saturation are breaking that bargain. The winners will be elite institutions with network power and operators with proof of work. The losers will be expensive middle credentials selling generic knowledge. The real truth: The MBA is splitting into two products. At the top, it remains a status-and-network asset. Everywhere else, it is becoming overpriced business school cosplay in a world where AI can teach the frameworks and the market wants proof you can actually move reality.

65% of U.S. workers in AI-adopting organizations say the technology has improved their personal productivity, per Gallup

🦔LinkedIn is laying off roughly 5% of its workforce, or about 875 employees, as the Microsoft-owned platform reorganizes teams and refocuses on growth areas. The cuts come despite revenue growing 12% year over year in the just-ended quarter, an acceleration from 2026. Management explicitly told Reuters the layoffs are not about AI replacing jobs. Tech layoffs have hit 103,000 so far in 2026 according to Layoffs.fyi, already approaching the 124,000 total for all of 2025. Block cut nearly half its workforce in February, Cloudflare cut 20% last week, and Meta is targeting a May 20 layoff round. My Take A growing company with accelerating revenue cutting 5% of staff is not the standard "we need to survive" story. Microsoft, which owns LinkedIn, is reallocating headcount toward AI initiatives across its portfolio, and the social network is being asked to absorb a share of that reallocation. The company can say this is not about AI replacing jobs and still be participating in the AI restructuring of the broader Microsoft footprint, because the two statements are not mutually exclusive. The harder issue is what 103,000 tech layoffs in less than half a year is doing to the entry-level pipeline. The roles being cut are disproportionately in marketing, recruiting, product, and operations, which are exactly the on-ramps that 22-year-olds with non-technical degrees used to climb into stable careers. The Canadian youth unemployment story from last week was the international version of this, and the Coinbase memo a few weeks back was a CEO openly admitting non-technical employees were now shipping production code. The pipeline that built the current tech workforce is being dismantled faster than anyone is building a replacement, and the cohort coming out of college right now is going to feel that for the next decade. Hedgie🤗

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@bigaiguy Correct. ✅

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Amazon employees are using the company’s internal AI agent platform, MeshClaw, to run unnecessary tasks. They are doing this to inflate their AI token usage, climb internal leaderboards, and signal strong adoption to managers. Amazon set targets requiring more than 80% of devs to use AI tools each week and began tracking token consumption on company-wide leaderboards. In response, some staff have started what is being called “tokenmaxxing” deliberately maximizing AI usage on low-value or pointless activities to improve their standing. MeshClaw allows employees to create AI agents that can handle emails, Slack messages, code deployments, and other workflows. While the tool was built to reduce repetitive work it is now also being used to generate artificial activity. Amazon has told staff that these usage statistics will not be used in performance reviews. However, employees report feeling significant pressure, with managers reportedly monitoring the data despite official guidance.

AMAZON CONTINUES AI-DRIVEN COST CUTTING AAMAZON HAS ANNOUNCED FRESH LAYOFFS IN ITS SELLING PARTNER SERVICES DIVISION AFTER ALREADY CUTTING NEARLY 30,000 JOBS IN RECENT MONTHS

@Mericamemed so, so funny 😂

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JUST IN: U.S. sells 30-year Treasuries at 5% for the first time since 2007.

🚨WE ARE DOOMED: The US government just sold 30-year bonds at a 5% yield for the first time since 2007. That means investors are demanding more return to lend America money long-term. Because they’re less confident America will be able to pay it back. The national debt just surpassed GDP for the first time since World War II. Gas is up 66% since December. The war has cost $25 billion. Investors are pricing in the risk.

@alphafox X Creator Payout Facts 💯

Today I was laid off from the IT field after 30 years at the same job. I started part time in 96' when I was a junior in high school, just doing basic troubleshooting and fixing computers. I worked through college and then full time after. What did I get for my 30 years of service? Almost nothing. I got 3 weeks vacation, which was supposed to be accrued only (which would have been 1.5 weeks) but after I complained it was changed to the full 3 weeks and paid medical for a few months. No severance. No cushion. Nothing. 😒 Why was I laid off? - Dwindling client base - The number was cut in half in recent years; several closed and some found other IT vendors. Splitting time between a smaller number of clients obviously is not sustainable. - AI automation - gone are the days of needing to run around to every computer to apply updates, basic things can be fixed remotely, and AI makes reporting that took days take hours. Instead of asking IT for help, clients just ask AI which walks them through fixing many things - Instead of needing an expert, AI can do it all for you. - Less need for IT support - back in the day, late 90's - 2010's, people had no idea how to do basic computing, hooking up computer, printers, ect. The modern workforce is able to do most of this stuff themselves and are much more computer savvy. What will I do now? Not sure. Since I have done this for 30 years, I'm unsure of the direction I want to go. I could get into another IT job probably, but we will see where the wind takes me. Without X, I would be sunk - the cost of living is so high in MA, all of my regular income went to cover the essentials. Most of the money that I have earned on X has been saved so I have that to fall back on but I never intended for it to be my full time thing. The direction X is going I sadly dont know if its viable to do full time and that's pretty sad for an account this size. At one point it seemed like a possibility, but the way things are looking now, it seems like they dont want to pay anyone for anything any more. In the meantime, I will be trying to improve my X game and possibly doing more spaces, articles, research, ect - but at the end of the day, even if I do those things, I have no idea if it will be worth it or viable the way things are looking. 'Make your living on X' Elon once said - it seems like a pipe dream at this point but here's to hoping for the future. 🥂

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So the payout structure on X is roughly about $1000 for 50m impressions with obvious variation for type, interactions, etc. In march it was $1000 for 10m impression. So about an 80% drop for treating X like X. If you treat it like tiktok showing your titties and face talking, it sounds like it might be better.