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🗣Peter Thiel just told Silicon Valley it’s automating away its own cognitive moat. Nobody there is paying attention. Thiel: “It is striking to me how bad Silicon Valley is at talking about these sorts of things.” The industry is either arguing over 20% improvements in the next transformer model or jumping straight to simulation theory. They’re missing the massive real-world shift happening right in the middle. Thiel: “My intuition would be it’s going to be quite the opposite, where it seems much worse for the math people than the word people.” For decades, Silicon Valley worshipped quantitative intelligence. Math and coding were the ultimate safety nets. Thiel: “Within three to five years, the AI models will be able to solve all the US Math Olympiad problems.” Once a machine instantly solves the hardest math problems on earth, the economic value of being a human calculator doesn’t just decline. It disappears. And the historical irony is brutal. The societal bias toward math over verbal ability started during the French Revolution. Not because math was more valuable. Because verbal ability ran in aristocratic families, and math was elevated as the great equalizer to break nepotism. A 200-year-old political accident became the foundation of Silicon Valley’s entire hiring philosophy. AI is about to snap it back. The people who built the models that can now outperform them mathematically spent their careers optimizing for the wrong skill. The future belongs to the word people. The engineers didn’t see it coming because they were too busy calculating. @aipost🏴

❗️We just saw the first major layoff directly because of AI. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey laid off 4,000 people, 40% of the company’s headcount to go all in on AI and agentic workflows. After the announcement, Block stock $XYZ surged 23% in 60 minutes, adding…

❗️We just saw the first major layoff directly because of AI. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey laid off 4,000 people, 40% of the company’s headcount to go all in on AI and agentic workflows. After the announcement, Block stock $XYZ surged 23% in 60 minutes, adding nearly $6 billion to its market cap. Jack said what every CEO knows but won’t admit: “AI paired with smaller teams is enabling a new way of working. And that’s accelerating rapidly.” The new math after AI is brutal: 100 people + AI = 1,000 people Source. @aipost🏴

❗️Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge! Reality is now hitting Anthropic hard too. Anthropic has scrapped its 2023 pledge to halt AI training unless safety protections were guaranteed in advance, marking a major shift in its Responsible Scaling Policy. Executives say fierce competition, a lack of global regulation, and murky risk science made the original “red line” approach unrealistic, especially as the company’s valuation surged to $380 billion and revenue grew 10x annually. Anthropic will now publish Frontier Safety Roadmaps and Risk Reports every 3–6 months, promising transparency and safety parity (or better) versus rivals. Source. @aipost🏴

🍌 Google’s Nano Banana 2 makes pro-level image creation instant Google has unveiled Nano Banana 2, its most advanced image generation and editing model to date now rolling out across the Gemini app, Search, and developer creativity tools. This isn’t just…

🍌 Google’s Nano Banana 2 makes pro-level image creation instant Google has unveiled Nano Banana 2, its most advanced image generation and editing model to date now rolling out across the Gemini app, Search, and developer creativity tools. This isn’t just…

🍌Google’s Nano Banana 2 makes pro-level image creation instant Google has unveiled Nano Banana 2, its most advanced image generation and editing model to date now rolling out across the Gemini app, Search, and developer creativity tools. This isn’t just an upgrade. It’s Google compressing studio-grade visuals into “Flash-speed” generation. What’s new under the hood • Pro-level quality, instantly: richer textures, sharper details, more realistic lighting • Advanced world knowledge: better contextual understanding of scenes • Precision text rendering & translation: cleaner typography inside images • 512px → 4K upscaling: generate small, scale massive • Aspect ratio control: cinematic, social, or print-ready • Subject consistency: maintain up to 5 characters & 14 objects across edits The subject-consistency feature is especially notable, one of the hardest challenges in image generation. Nano Banana 2 signals Google’s strategy clearly: AI-native creativity at internet scale. Source. @aipost🏴

Hackers used Anthropic's Claude AI to steal 150GB of sensitive data from Mexican government, including taxpayer info, voter records, and official credentials. Source. @aipost🏴

Someone asked both Grok 4.20 and Anthropic’s Claude, “Why are you so retarded?” Grok’s answer was very funny. 🤣 Grok has a sense of humor. Claude doesn’t. @aipost🏴

In 2019, Microsoft invested $1B in OpenAI. Bill Gates wasn’t excited about this investment, and warned Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: “You’re going to burn this billion dollars.” Fast forward, and OpenAI is valued at $830B and is projected to IPO at a $1T+ valuation. Source. @aipost🏴

Google has launched task automation on Android with Gemini, which can take over the user's screen and control a set of selected apps. Ride-sharing and food delivery are among the first use cases. Available on Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10 series. Source. @aipost🏴

🗣Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark says AI could write 99% of code by the end of the year This drastically reduces the need for junior roles, while senior engineers with taste and calibration become more valuable. With AI handling the basics, "I see some issues for the future economy". @aipost🏴