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Gen Z's AI backlash is getting louder. Community angle: discussion is centered on labor impact and safety and policy

Billionaires are trying to lull us into AI complacency. Don’t let them. Community angle: discussion is focused on practical implications and community skepticism

The AI bots are coming and the young are booing, not applauding. Community angle: discussion is centered on labor impact and reliability

Anthropic officially launched 13+ FREE AI courses with certificates (Including Agentic AI and Claude Code!). Just found out about this and had to share because almost nobody is talking about it yet. If you are tired of paying for AI courses or getting hit with paywalls just to get a certificate, Anthropic (the creators of Claude) quietly dropped a massive library of completely free, official training modules. Yes, they actually give you an official certificate of completion directly from Anthropic once you finish. Here is the breakdown of what is available and exactly how to get it without spending a dime. What is in the course catalog? They have split the training into a few different paths depending on what you wan. Community angle: discussion is centered on skepticism about hype

Wont be renewing codex at this point. It's degraded so much, that I'm unable to continue the project it helped me start, it causes way more problems than it solves... I wouldn't care too much if it was only costing me 20-30$ a month, but it's not, I'm paying $300 AUD/month which is a FUCK ton for me.... Edit: The bootlickers (OpenAI employees) have arrived!. Community angle: discussion is centered on reliability

$300M on Anthropic tokens, zero new engineers hired - Salesforce is the clearest case study of where this is going. Been watching this Salesforce situation develop for a while. Benioff confirmed on the All-In podcast that the company will spend around $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, mostly for internal coding work. What's interesting isn't just the number - it's the whole picture: * Hired zero software engineers since January 2025 * AI now handles 30 to 50% of overall company workload * Cut support staff from 9,000 to 5,000 using agents * Agentforce just hit $800M ARR, up 169% year on year The money that used to go into payroll expansions is now going into token spend. That's a structural shift, not a cost-cutti. Community angle: discussion is centered on developer workflow...

Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion a month. Community angle: discussion is focused on practical implications and community skepticism

Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice. Community angle: discussion is focused on practical implications and community skepticism

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta kicks off major bloodbath with 8,000 layoffs (about 10% of its workforce) as AI roils tech giant. The companywide purge is taking place in three massive waves, as employees across the world are notified in emails at 4 a.m. local time in their respective regions. Singapore staffers were the first to receive the doomsday emails. Community angle: discussion is centered on labor impact

RAM makers are drowning in debt to keep up with AI's chip appetite. Community angle: discussion is centered on cost and pricing and reliability