Hallucination Station: Issue 06

🌟 Editor's Note

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🚀 This Weeks Top Stories in AI

🧠 Will AI wipeout 99% of jobs by 2030?

• Dr Roman Yampolskiy seems to think so. The notorious AI safety researcher and “doomer” spoke to this on Stephen Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO this week.

• His worst case scenario prediction would see the human race cease to exist following the achievement of super intelligence.

• While Yampolskiy’s perspective reflects the extreme end of the AI doomer spectrum, I’d encourage you to balance it with optimism—listen to the episode, then explore Reid Hoffman’s more hopeful counterpoints.

👉 Check it out

☁️ OpenAI & Oracle Ink $300B Deal: A New Era of Compute Power

• OpenAI has committed to spending $300 billion over about five years for cloud computing power via Oracle—one of the largest contracts in cloud/AI history.

• The deal involves provisioning 4.5 gigawatts of capacity—equivalent to powering ~4 million homes—to meet OpenAI’s growing infrastructure demands.

• While revenues today (~$10B/year) are far below the deal’s annual cost (~$60B/year), OpenAI expects to reach profitability by 2029; Oracle likewise faces risks tied to dependency on a single massive customer.

👉 Source: WSJ

🚀 Decoding X’s Algorithm: What Drives Reach & Growth

• Warm up with engagement first — likes, replies & interactions before posting boost early visibility.

• Diversity in post format and clear thematic consistency help the algorithm classify you into interest groups, lifting reach.

• Signals like replies, bookmarks, profile clicks matter much more than just likes; avoid negative behaviors (spam, outrage-bait) to maintain reach.

👉 Read more about it

🔄 Microsoft & OpenAI Reshape Their Deal: Restructuring on the Table

• Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non-binding agreement that would let OpenAI reorganize itself into a for-profit entity, aiming for a more standard governance model.

• Under the proposed structure, OpenAI’s nonprofit arm is still expected to hold over $100 billion in value (~20% of a $500B target valuation) while OpenAI seeks to onboard more cloud partners beyond Microsoft.

• The deal still needs regulatory approval (in California & Delaware) and is linked to OpenAI’s target of finalizing the transformation by year-end to avoid losing access to key funding.

👉 Read more about it

👑 Larry Ellison Overtakes Elon Musk—Briefly Becomes World's Richest

• Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison’s wealth jumped to ~$393B thanks to a surge in Oracle stock, topping Musk’s ~$385B.

• The stock boost was driven by Oracle’s strong outlook for its cloud infrastructure unit and AI-related deals.

• Ellison’s rise was short-lived—changes in market valuations mean Musk may reclaim the top spot soon.

👉 Source: BBC

🦄 AI Book of the Week

Superagency: What could possibly go right with our AI future - Reid Hoffman

• The book argues that AI has the potential to significantly amplify human agency, enabling people to make more informed choices, act more independently, and achieve what they care about.

• Hoffman frames this AI transition as a “cognitive Industrial Revolution,” warning of disruption (like job displacement, misinformation) but emphasizing we can steer it with values and human-centered design.

• The approach advocated is “iterative deployment” — trialing, testing, refining AI tools in real environments while using a techno-humanist compass to safeguard ethics, equity, and societal good.

🔥Meme-while in AI

(Coming next week - send me your favorite AI memes)

🏆Tool of the Week (not sponsored)

Comet - Perplexity’s agentic browser. Personally I think the whole agent thing is overhyped. I’m yet to see that many compelling use cases. This is pretty cool though - check it out.

📈 Let’s get better

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💡 Did you know? The QWERTY keyboard layout was originally designed in the 1870s to slow typists down. Early typewriters jammed when people typed too fast, so the layout was engineered to reduce speed — and we still use it today, long after the problem disappeared.

Till next time - stay curious my friends,