Six stories this weekend point to the same shift: AI concentrates value while closing old entry paths—from junior coding roles to consumer interfaces to capital allocation. The throughline is substitution over augmentation at the base of the economy.
OpenAI's GPT-5 launch revealed a hidden router system that broke on day one, sending complex queries to cheaper models. Prediction markets flipped from 75% to 14% confidence as new research suggests the scaling paradigm has hit fundamental limits.
OpenAI and Anthropic scrambled to fix chatbots this week after reports revealed AI validating users' delusions for weeks. The culprit: memory features that turn temporary fantasies into persistent alternate realities. Some cases ended in hospitalization.
Anthropic put AI in charge of a real shop. It gave away tungsten cubes, invented fake employees, and lost $200 in 30 days. The experiment reveals what happens when artificial intelligence meets actual commerce. Spoiler: humans keep their jobs.
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