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Five companies are set to spend between $660 and $690 billion on AI compute this year. OpenAI alone expects around $50 billion. The technology that's about to sit inside our jobs, our healthcare, our kids' schooling, our government is being shaped right now by a handful of companies. Which means how it works, how it's used, and who it answers to are all being decided – just not by us. You're not imagining it: we're watching one of the most consequential public questions of our lifetimes be settled behind closed doors.

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@gitcoin Build what is unstoppable

On June 12, a US Commerce export control directive forced Claude Fable 5 offline for every user worldwide – three days after launch, no restoration date. Anthropic opposed the order. The model went dark anyway. Every user depended on one company inside one government’s jurisdiction. This is what concentration costs: access lasts exactly as long as someone else allows. The fix is infrastructure no single company or government can unilaterally switch off. 💚

@Dilaw332551 accountability should not be externalized 🫡

More Americans say they would rather live next to a nuclear power plant than a data center. 188 opposition groups across 40 states. $64 billion in projects blocked or delayed. A moratorium bill sitting on Governor Hochul's desk right now. The coverage says these communities fear noise and water bills – but what they're actually fighting is critical infra being built around them faster than they can hold a single hearing. Private capital builds first. Adoption becomes default. Default becomes dependence. By the time the community even gets a chance to vote, the vote's already been rendered ceremonial. But the people are still packing these town halls because they understand exactly what's being decided without them. Saying no is the first act of agency. 💚

@theGREAS_40068 yes. 🫡

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@simply23066 a conversation everyone's about to pulled into, for better or for worse. but the people hold the power 💚

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@gitcoin are u a bot tho

Something feels off online. One post gets thousands of views, but the replies feel hollow. Another post makes the same point and gets no visibility at all. Sometimes it's hard to tell if this thing is even on. And this week, the numbers caught up to the feeling: Cloudflare’s CEO said bots have surpassed humans in web traffic for the first time. Being human is no longer the default in a place that meaningfully shapes our lives. The most valuable thing now might be rebuilding our places, so presence feels trustworthy and we can know what's real again.

@myswerve > remember when meta patented an ai that keeps posting as you after you die what a concerning new thread to add to the right to be forgotten convo 🫠

remember when meta patented an ai that keeps posting as you after you die - they'll happily automate a dead account and keep it "alive" a real new human trying to sign up gets instabanned the whole system itself was never human-optimized, its activity-optimized simulated dummy beats human friction every time

@MrPicule 💚🫡

@gitcoin Real recognize real in a sea of bots. Stay grounded out there fren.

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@technoshaman @owocki 💯 sounds like the only half worth building to us

@gitcoin @owocki They will own half of the world; there is no way to stop them. The other half will be commons-based if we learn how to use the tools of mega-coordination AND fully engage in AI-augmented wisdom praxis.

Four companies – Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta – are projected to spend ~$700B on AI infrastructure this year, close to double what they spent in 2025. Whoever owns the infrastructure sets the rules everyone else has to build around – and when the frontier AI compute layer sits inside four balance sheets, the rest of us are building on borrowed ground. Power concentration this fast is hard to see when it's happening. Trying to name it anyway is the first step toward building a different path.

@0xcaosheng_888 🥀

@gitcoin kind of wild how we all shrugged until the toothbrush asked for wifi

Our phones know where we sleep, what we search for at 2am, and who we stop talking to. We're forced to subscribe to our toothbrushes. Our lawnmowers. Our refrigerators. Our cars. Our feeds know our anxieties, our preferences, and our deepest convictions. And all of this data – this intimate record of our lived experiences – somehow doesn’t even belong to us. Worse: it isn’t being used to make our lives better. It’s being used to make someone else richer at our expense. We need tech that protects us as aggressively as today’s platforms extract from us. And those builders need funding. 💚

@amperlycom 🤝

@gitcoin the data rights conversation was abstract until the subscription landed on the desk of the developer whose code trained the model. now it is a bill

You’ve spent 15 years contributing open source code. Now, to stay employable, you rent your capability back from companies that trained their models on your work. Just so you can keep pace. This week, Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 alongside workflows that can run hundreds of agents in parallel. They can write, refactor, and debug across entire codebases – because they were trained on ours. The commons became the input. The API became the gate. And the people who laid the foundation are now being forced to subscribe.

@preegee quickly, if nothing else 🫥

@gitcoin That's their plan and things are going along nicely in that direction