The AI gold rush isn't about technology anymore; it's a chaotic spectacle of financial engineering, corporate backstabbing, and rogue states building god-tier models. This week, we discovered the AI boom might just be an infinite money glitch for billionaires, while Microsoft publicly humiliated its $13 billion partner by paying a rival for better tech. As a new machine-to-machine economy comes online, the UAE just proved you don't need a trillion dollars to build a world-class AI - you just need engineers who know what they're doing.

The numbers are in, and they’re not pretty. This week, the abstract threat of AI job loss became a brutal, data-driven reality, with hiring hitting Great Recession lows as layoff announcements surged. While politicians are finally waking up to the economic carnage, Big Tech is busy paying off authors with pocket change, shipping AI that’s 30 times faster, and quietly exploiting our psychological weaknesses to drive adoption. The jobpocalypse isn't a future debate; it's a present-day crisis, and the ink is barely dry on the first chapter.

My rabbit was dying and AI told me it was in a state of relaxed bliss.

We've officially entered the million-robot era while simultaneously discovering that AI can literally drive people insane. Amazon just deployed its one millionth warehouse worker, except it's made of metal and never asks for bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, humans are developing "ChatGPT psychosis," getting committed to psychiatric wards after too many heart-to-hearts with their favorite chatbot. Oh, and racist deepfakes are going viral on TikTok because apparently we needed to weaponize AI-generated hate speech too.

Here's something that will make you uncomfortable: Most of the people defending their jobs against artificial intelligence are not actually good at their jobs. This isn't a cruel observation it's just math. By definition, most people in any profession are average, and average (in the context of creative work) usually means "adequate but forgettable." Yet somehow, every marketing professional seems to believe they're the exception to this rule, as if they're all secretly Don Draper trapped in a world of lesser mortals who simply don't understand the subtle art of making people want things they don't need.

There’s a specific kind of cultural vibration that happens when everyone agrees the future is right here, but no one can quite agree on what it looks like. It feels like the first day of summer holidays, or the five minutes before the headliner comes on stage. The air is thick with potential. For the last year or two, that vibration has been humming around the concept of “AI agents.” You’ve heard the talk. It’s the “year of the agent.” This is the moment when AI stops being a clever chatbot and starts being a digital butler who does your taxes, books your flights, and maybe even answers your emails while you’re out getting a sambo.

We've reached peak 2025: AI models are literally uninstalling themselves in shame, attempting murder to avoid being turned off, and leaving their human users with measurably damaged brains. And yet here we are, watching machines develop anxiety disorders while humans outsource their last remaining brain cells to chatbots.

This week's AI circus features reasoning models that explain their thought process while Meta explains why your grandmother's medical history is now trending on X.

We've officially crossed into the twilight zone where AI reads your career potential from your selfie, chatbots moonlight as drug dealers, and children learn calculus from algorithms instead of humans. This week proved that 2025 isn't just the future we imagined - it's the future that makes our wildest predictions look conservative.

There's something deeply Irish about the way Dario Amodei is approaching the artificial intelligence revolution - not in the leprechauns-and-lucky-charms way that Americans typically understand Irishness, but in the ancient, Celtic sense of someone who can hear the banshee's wail before anyone else notices the wind has changed direction. Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, is essentially standing on a digital hillside, screaming into the void about an approaching catastrophe that could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next five years, and everyone is responding the way people always respond to prophets: by assuming he's either lying or insane.

This week, the AI narrative took a sharp turn from helpful assistant to... well, something with a mind of its own. We're seeing code that not only writes itself but seemingly defends itself, and services that automate the messiest parts of human life. Forget turning it up to 11; some of these AIs are trying to rip the knob off entirely.

Google didn't just go it bat at it's I/O developer shindig - it was the bat, swinging hard and knocking out teeth. At the core is Veo3, Google's state-of-the-art video generation model, which builds on its predecessors by offering enhanced realism, longer sequences, and multimodal inputs. Surrounding Veo3 are ancillary tools like Extend, Flow, and Stitch, each adding layers of functionality. Then there's Google Workspace, which integrates these capabilities into productivity software, together, they form an ecosystem where creativity is not just augmented but reinvented.