Julia Brooks

The combination of AI and Social Media is ruining my brain. For the past year I've had Claude, GPT, Claude Code, and Gemini open at all times, context switching between them constantly, scrolling X for news, basically consuming content endlessly. My brain gets crammed with information every second I'm awake, and with AI I can summarize, skim, and constantly flood it with information. It's impossible for my brain to keep up so almost none of it gets retained. I don't think it's just me. I know a few friends/coworkers who deleted this app or limit their ai use because of it. And so I've read almost 20 physical books this year and im finding it more and more difficult to really understand them. But that's why I prioritize reading, its the only slow time I can find. in this day and age its almost like meditation. I know its my fault. I could close X, could use ai in a different way, but in tech if I'm not on here and not constantly using new models I fall behind.

Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 BILLION A MONTH for compute access. That's $15B a year. $45B over the full contract. They're renting the whole Colossus 1 cluster. From their direct competitor. I guess compute shortage is so bad that company rivalries don't matter anymore lol.

Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 BILLION A MONTH for compute access. That's $15B a year. $45B over the full contract. They're renting the whole Colossus 1 cluster. From their direct competitor. I guess compute shortage is so bad that company rivalries don't matter anymore lol.

BREAKING: SpaceX has officially filed its S-1 registration statement with the US SEC ahead of its record-setting IPO. Details include: 1. SpaceX intends to list its shares on the Nasdaq under ticker symbol $SPCX 2. SpaceX posted Q1 2026 revenue of $4.69 billion 3. Elon Musk will be CEO, CTO, and Chairman of the Board after the IPO 4. SpaceX holds $15.8 billion in cash as of March 31st 5. SpaceX is seeking to raise a record $80 billion in its IPO with an expected IPO date of June 12th More details to come shortly on this historic IPO.

Going to be like prime crypto every day. Three of the largest IPOs in history queuing up in one year. SpaceX targeting $75-80B in June. OpenAI going for $1T+. Anthropic at $900B+. Combined raise is ~5x Aramco's all-time record from 2019. Every week brings a new model drop, beaten benchmark, feature launch, competitor raise. Every GPT-6 or Claude 5 release is the same as an earnings release for most companies. Claude Code worse than Codex this week? OpenAI +10%. Claude Code better the next month? OpenAI -15%. DeepSeek drops something? Both fall 5%. Add SpaceX's 30% retail allocation (industry norm is 5-10%), perpetual futures already trading these names 24/7 on Hyperliquid, and S&P 500 fast-track rules being rewritten so they enter the index within weeks of listing. Most retail-heavy mega caps in market history. If you thought semis were volatile, this trio will be 10x.

JUST IN: OpenAI prepares to file for IPO in the coming days or weeks, WSJ reports.

Today I woke up at 4am to an email saying I’ve been laid off from Meta. I gave this company everything: woke up at 10am, opened Workplace, liked 3 posts about AI, joined 2 meetings muted, and worked from my pool. But most importantly, I’m grateful that my mouse movements will continue creating value for Meta’s AI systems. Onward.

Today I woke up at 4am to an email saying I’ve been laid off from Meta. I gave this company everything: woke up at 10am, opened Workplace, liked 3 posts about AI, joined 2 meetings muted, and worked from my pool. But most importantly, I’m grateful that my mouse movements will continue creating value for Meta’s AI systems. Onward.

You can't spend two years telling young people their career is over and then be confused when they react like this.

LEAKED AUDIO FROM META ALL-HANDS AHEAD OF LAYOFFS TOMORROW Mark Zuckerberg, in his own words, told Meta employees their devices are being tracked to train AI models. His reasoning? Meta employees are smarter than the contract workers the rest of the industry uses for data labeling. So instead of hiring outside help, Meta is turning its own workforce into training data. "The average intelligence of the people who are at this company is significantly higher than the average set of people that you can get to do tasks if you're working through these contractors." He wants the AI to learn how "really smart people use computers" by watching employees work. He says the content is "stripped out" and none of it is used for surveillance or performance tracking. Then he admitted the rollout was botched but said Meta intentionally kept employees in the dark because leaking competitive AI strategy would help rivals. "It is not strategically in your interest for us to communicate everything in all the detail that we normally would on this." Translation: We're watching you, we told you as little as possible, and we did it on purpose. AI is replacing the contractor. Then the employee trains the AI. Then the AI replaces the employee. This story and this company keeps getting weirder.

AI has become the villain on X. And I can't help but think its mostly the fault of top labs and leaders. We've all seen the commencement speakers getting booed, how layoffs are getting blamed on chatbots. Even massive Datacenter protests are spreading. And i don't blame them. People studied their whole life, were told college and a 9-5 job is the "safe" and "right" path. And suddenly people are telling them it's not. So I get the panic. But the story is being told dishonestly and we've reached a point where something has to change. There are three things I see happening leading the distaste. 1. The doom is a marketing strategy. Dario went on Fox yesterday saying half of entry-level white-collar work could be gone in a year. He's been saying this for the past two years. Some of that is true but most of it is positioning. Anthropic's whole brand is "safe ai provider, we protect you." Saying AI will eliminate millions of jobs reinforces that brand. He did the same thing with Mythos, saying how dangerous it was, can't be released but then gave it to tons of enterprise customers. And again with the Pentagon. Its their branding and it's hurting public perception heavily. 2. The labor story is reallocation, not annihilation. Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs in recruiting, sales, middle management, Reality Labs. They're also moving 1,000+ people into AI builder and AI pod lead roles. These are layoffs because the budget is needed elsewhere. Same thing that companies have been doing for hundreds of years. New companies will hire aggressively because they have more work. There is no magic ai system replacing workers in enterprise companies. You still need people managing it. 3. The industry leads with the wrong story. AlphaFold won a Nobel. AI tutors are reaching kids who would never have had one. Drug discovery timelines are collapsing. Someone with ALS got their voice back this year! BUT NOBODY TALKS ABOUT IT. The industry talks about AI like a sci-fi (civilizational risk, AGI in 2 years, mass unemployment) when it should be talking about specific drugs, specific patients, specific outcomes. So much good will come out of this technology (and already has), but we present it in this bad light. Bad news sells, but good news should too. And all the accounts reposting every Anthropic launch talking about how they killed so many jobs are only making it worse. I know plenty of you will read this and disagree, citing studies, citing leaders, citing the layoff data. Fair. But both things can be true at the same time. AI can be displacing people AND the industry can be making it sound worse than it is. People are right to be worried. Nobody should have to apologize for being scared of a technology that's rewriting their entire future. But the worry can't be the whole story we tell, because it's nowhere near the whole story that's happening. The AI industry has the worst PR strategy in tech history and people still wonder why the younger generation is so worried.

BREAKING: Elon Musk announces he is joining Anthropic as a member of the technical staff. “I’ve decided the best way to return OpenAI to its original mission is to join their competitor,” Musk said. “I’ll be working on alignment, specifically aligning Claude with Grok’s sense of humor.”

BREAKING: Elon Musk announces he is joining Anthropic as a member of the technical staff. “I’ve decided the best way to return OpenAI to its original mission is to join their competitor,” Musk said. “I’ll be working on alignment, specifically aligning Claude with Grok’s sense of humor.”

Google announced ai products non-stop at I/O 2026. Here is every release you need to know: • Gemini 3.5 flash, a new smarter base model • Neural expressive, a full gemini app redesign • Gemini omni, a model family that generates video from text, photos, audio, or other video • Gemini spark, an always-on agent running 24/7 on google cloud vms (their answer to openclaw) • Gmail live, voice mode for your inbox • Search redesign with ai overviews and ai mode in a single flow, plus ai autocomplete • Universal cart, ai shopping across search, gemini, eventually youtube and gmail • Ai studio can now vibe-code native android apps with an embedded emulator • Google pics, image gen with click-to-edit on specific elements • Project genie now builds interactive worlds from street view data • Project aura xr glasses with xreal, plus warby parker and gentle monster collabs • Sophie, a lifesize ai agent that sees and talks to you (from google's beam lab) • Gemini in the volvo ex60 reading parking signs through external cameras • Codemender, google's ai code security agent going after anthropic's mythos • Synthid + c2pa deepfake detection coming to chrome and search • Google ai ultra dropped from $249.99 to $100/month, with a $200 tier for project genie Every google product is now an ai surface. Their ability to integrate vertically into their products is amazing.