AI

A technical reading, grounded in the 2025 MIT Media Lab and Microsoft Research studies, of how passive AI use is quietly eroding critical thinking — and the concrete rituals that keep it from happening.

Approximately 78,557 tech workers have been laid off in 2026, with nearly 48% directly linked to AI-driven automation. Companies report record profits while eliminating thousands of positions.

Anthropic completed an employee tender offer at a $350B valuation, but employees held on to more shares than investors expected. The company also launched Claude Managed Agents for deploying autonomous AI in production.

OpenAI plans to reserve a portion of its IPO for retail investors, breaking from the traditional model where institutional funds dominate allocations. We analyze what this means for the future of AI investment.

Anthropic built Mythos, an AI model capable of finding thousands of software vulnerabilities in hours. They deemed it too dangerous for public release. Here is the full story.

We compare Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.4, Gemini 3.1 Pro, DeepSeek V4, Grok 4, Llama 4, and Qwen 3.5: verified benchmarks, pricing, and recommendations by use case.