Rachel Gray

@endaze.bsky.social

Fiction author ❤️⛵🧟 ⏸️ AI Educational consultant Meme aficionado 🪑🐕🔥

Microsoft’s move reflects a wider trend among major technology companies as they double down on artificial intelligence. The company has invested billions in #AI infrastructure. Up to 30% of Microsoft’s code is now written by AI tools. #econsky #jobs fortune.com/2025/07/02/m...

Microsoft lays off 9,000 in AI drive, bringing total job cuts to 15,000 this year

“I think that AI and generative AI specifically is the most transformative technology of our lifetime, which is saying a lot, given that we have had the internet,” he told CNBC.

fortune.com

Google has a new button. It might destroy the web as you know it. Experts say the new “AI Mode” is an asteroid aimed at the heart of the internet, one that could decimate millions of websites. It seems this chapter of online history is over. Here’s what comes next: www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Is Google about to destroy the web?

Google says adding more AI to its search engine will rejuvenate the internet. Others predict an apocalypse for websites. One thing is clear: this era of online history is closing.

bbc.com

A company called "Frontier Valley" has declared it will build a new Network State zone on federal land in Alameda, California. Below: A "draft" presidential executive order that would have Trump declare a "national security emergency" to permit the project. PR stunt, or aggressive new phase?

From Frontier Valley Website: Establishing a National Security Innovation Zone on Federal Property in Alameda, California
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States - including 10 U.S.C. § 113; 10 U.S.C. § 2667; 40 U.S.C. § 521; 42 U.S.C. § 4332; 50 U.S.C. § 4531 et seq.; and 16 U.S.C. § 1536 - I hereby order as follows:

Section 1. Policy and Findings
(a) National Security Urgency. Intelligence assessments confirm that adversary advances in artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, emerging energy technologies, and advanced manufacturing capabilities threaten United States technological and military superiority.

(b) Need for Rapid Capability Build-Out. Unless operational development space is activated within 24 months, the Nation will lack capacity to field countervailing systems on required deterrence timelines.

(c) Site Suitability. The 512-acre former Naval Air Station Alameda ("Alameda Point Parcel") is the only available federal property that offers the unique combination of contiguous paved surfaces, deep-water frontage, secure-perimeter potential, existing infrastructure, and immediate availability in proximity to the world's densest concentration of AI, technical, and entrepreneurial talent.

Sec. 2. Declaration of National Security Emergency
A national emergency exists with respect to domestic capacity for next-generation compute paradigms, autonomous humanoid and swarm robotics, next-generation energy paradigms, quantum computing, AI-driven advanced manufacturing, strategic advanced materials, and other critical technologies essential to maintaining technological superiority. All executive departments and agencies shall act consistent with this order to remove delay.

Can’t believe we’ve lost Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. She was a consummate Speaker who led her caucus brilliantly and achieved so much for Minnesota. I’ve campaigned with Melissa throughout the state and was forever impressed by her levelheaded, yet passionate, leadership. (1/2)

Tech billionaires like Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk are making a risky bet on a human future of superintelligent AI, space colonization, and transcending human biological limits, which journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker describes as the "ideology of technological salvation."

Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity’s future

Altman, Bezos, and Musk say they want to save humanity by creating superintelligent AI. Journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker reveals how these fantastical visions conceal a darker agenda.

technologyreview.com

"AI isn't coming for your job. It already came, said "nice resume," and then built your replacement. While you're waiting for ChatGPT to finish loading, it's automating another slice of your workflow in the background." #econsky hackernoon.com/what-to-do-w...

What to Do While I Wait for ChatGPT | HackerNoon

Laid-off teams, AI ops, and slow GPT replies—one exec vents about replacing staff with ChatGPT while waiting painfully for it to load.

hackernoon.com