Anthropic CEO issues stark warning about the future of society
Amazon announce plans for 16,000 layoffs
Meta is in hot water
Agentic browsing in Chrome, Claude in Excel & more fun stuff
🌍 Google Deepmind Launches Project Genie
Google DeepMind has launched Project Genie, an experimental research prototype that lets users create, explore, and remix interactive virtual worlds using text prompts and images — all in real time.
The experience is powered by the Genie 3 world model (plus Nano Banana Pro and Gemini), which generates dynamic environments that evolve as you walk, fly, or drive through them, rather than static 3D snapshots.
Users can design worlds, define characters, switch perspectives (first/third person), explore interactively, and even download videos of their creations — though there are current limitations like realism and character control.
🧑💻 Amazon Confirms 16,000 Job Cuts After Accidental Email Leak
Amazon has confirmed it will cut around 16,000 corporate jobs worldwide, following an internal email outlining the layoffs that was mistakenly sent to staff before the official announcement.
The company says the cuts are part of wider organisational restructuring aimed at reducing bureaucracy and simplifying operations, with many affected employees offered time to seek internal roles or severance support.
This latest round comes only months after Amazon cut 14,000 jobs in late 2025, part of broader shifts that have included shuttering physical stores like Amazon Fresh and Go and continued emphasis on efficiency and strategic investments.
⚠️ "The Adolescence of Technology": A Civilizational Wake-Up Call
In The Adolescence of Technology, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues that humanity is entering a risky transitional phase as powerful AI advances rapidly, testing whether our social, political, and technological systems are mature enough to wield unprecedented computational power responsibly.
Amodei defines “powerful AI” as systems surpassing human cognitive abilities across disciplines, capable of autonomous, long-term tasks—potentially arriving within 1–2 years—and warns this could create a “country of geniuses in a datacenter,” posing autonomy, governance, and economic risks.
The essay doesn’t dismiss AI’s benefits—such as breakthroughs in science and quality of life—but stresses the urgent need for thoughtful safeguards, global cooperation, and balanced regulation to navigate potential dangers like misuse, job displacement, deepfakes, and destabilizing power dynamics.
🌐 Chrome Gets Gemini 3-Powered “Auto Browse” for Hands-Free Web Tasks
Google is expanding Gemini in Chrome with a built-in AI assistant powered by Gemini 3. The major new capability — Auto Browse — lets the browser autonomously handle complex, multi-step web tasks like researching travel options, comparing products, filling forms, and completing workflows on your behalf.
Auto Browse uses Gemini’s multimodal intelligence to identify items from images, search for similar things online, add them to a cart within budget, apply discounts, and even use Google Password Manager to sign into sites when you give permission. The feature still pauses and asks for confirmation before sensitive actions like purchases or posting on social media.
This update also introduces a persistent Gemini side panel for multitasking and deeper integrations with Google apps like Gmail, Calendar, YouTube, Maps, Shopping, and Flights — effectively turning Chrome into an AI-augmented productivity environment. Auto Browse is initially available in preview for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the U.S., with broader rollout planned.
Anthropic threatens viral product ClawdBot with lawsuit
The long overdue calling out of Meta
Amazon to shut down all Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores
Anthropic launches Claude in Excel
Pencil. Could this be the Figma killer? Who Knows? But I like it!
Did you know 🤖👇
Did you know that in the 1990s, AI had already beaten a human world champion at a complex game—but it wasn’t chess at first?
In 1994, an AI program called Chinook became the world champion in checkers, effectively solving the game well enough that no human could consistently beat it. This happened three years before IBM’s IBM Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997.
Checkers was considered “less glamorous” than chess, but from an AI perspective it was a massive deal—it showed that brute-force computation + clever heuristics could outperform human intuition in a full competitive domain.
Until next week 🫡
