The devs copy-pasted last week's Iran crisis, raised the dinosaur asset price, and let AI fire people.
Meta outsourced layoff decisions to the same AI that can't reliably caption photos, which tracks.
▸ Ars Technica — Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humansA $50 million T. rex means paleontology is now a luxury good accessible only to hedge funds and petrostates.
▸ Ars Technica — Sotheby's big T. rex auction raises concerns hype and wealth are upending scienceExecutives discover that replacing workers with AI costs money, express confusion about how capitalism works.
▸ Futurism — Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for FreeMeta's AI picked layoff targets while Anthropic launched free teacher subscriptions; knowledge work now has its own QA department.