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Live From SaaStr: Kickoff (Day 1) nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1qKVmQePg…

People talk, listen, watch, think, and collaborate at the same time, in real time. We've designed an AI that works with people the same way. We share our approach, early results, and a quick look at our model in action. thinkingmachines.ai/blog/int… Video

Closed Q1 last week. Revenue is accelerating for the 7th straight quarter. AI now counts for 60% of our business. Cash flow positive. The transition from software to AI is not easy, but can be done! I am proud of our teams!

Update 5:05 PT: The attack has now expanded well beyond @TanStack and @Mistral. 373 malicious package-version entries across 169 npm package names, including @uipath, @squawk, @tallyui, @beproduct, and more. The malware propagates by stealing your CI credentials and using them to publish new compromised versions. Full IOCs, affected package list, and detection steps: aikido.dev/blog/mini-shai-hu…

Fast mode for Claude Opus 4.7 is now available in Cursor! It's 2.5x the speed at 6x the cost. For most tasks, we recommend using the standard speed.

We gave people tiny computers at Code with Claude. Here are some of the small, delightful things they built: Video

Gemini Intelligence features will roll out in waves starting with the latest Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones this summer, and across Android devices including your watch, car, glasses & laptops later this year! blog.google/products-and-pla…

We're excited to announce our partnership with @MiniMax_AI! Read more at getlilac.com/blog/minimax-m2…

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There will be no AI jobpocalypse. The story that AI will lead to massive unemployment is stoking unnecessary fear. AI — like any other technology — does affect jobs, but telling overblown stories of large-scale unemployment is irresponsible and damaging. Let’s put a stop to it. I’ve expressed skepticism about the jobpocalypse in previous posts. I’m glad to see that the popular press is now pushing back on this narrative. The image below features some recent headlines. Software engineering is the sector most affected by AI tools, as coding agents race ahead. Yet hiring of software engineers remains strong! So while there are examples of AI taking away jobs, the trends strongly suggest the net job creation is vastly greater than the job destruction — just like earlier waves of technology. Further, despite all the exciting progress in AI, the U.S. unemployment rate remains a healthy 4.3%. Why is the AI jobpocalypse narrative so popular? For one thing, frontier AI labs have a strong incentive to tell stories that make AI technology sound more powerful. At their most extreme, they promote science-fiction scenarios of AI “taking over” and causing human extinction. If a technology can replace many employees, surely that technology must be very valuable! Also, a lot of SaaS software companies charge around $100-$1000 per user/year. But if an AI company can replace an employee who makes $100,000 — or make them 50% more productive — then charging even $10,000 starts to look reasonable. By anchoring not to typical SaaS prices but to salaries of employees, AI companies can charge a lot more. Additionally, businesses have a strong incentive to talk about layoffs as if they were caused by AI. After all, talking about how they’re using AI to be far more productive with fewer staff makes them look smart. This is a better message than admitting they overhired during the pandemic when capital was abundant due to low interest rates and a massive government financial stimulus. To be clear, I recognize that AI is causing a lot of people’s work to change. This is hard. This is stressful. (And to some, it can be fun.) I empathize with everyone affected. At the same time, this is very different from predicting a collapse of the job market. Societies are capable of telling themselves stories for years that have little basis in reality and lead to poor society-wide decision making. For example, fears over nuclear plant safety led to under-investment in nuclear power. Fears of the “population bomb” in the 1960s led countries to implement harsh policies to reduce their populations. And worries about dietary fat led governments to promote unhealthy high-sugar diets for decades. Now that mainstream media is openly skeptical about the jobpocalypse, I hope these stories will start to lose their teeth (much like fears of AI-driven human extinction have). Contrary to the predictions of an AI jobpocalypse, I predict the opposite: There will be an AI jobapalooza! AI will lead to a lot more good AI engineering jobs, and I’m also optimistic about the future of the overall job market. What AI engineers do will be different from traditional software engineering, and many of these jobs will be in businesses other than traditional large employers of developers. In non-AI roles, too, the skills needed will change because of AI. That makes this a good time to encourage more people to become proficient in AI, and make sure they’re ready for the different but plentiful jobs of the future! [Original text in The Batch newsletter.]

SF builders — last call. May 16–17: join the Notion team to build on our new Developer Platform. Sync data into Notion, tool-enabled agents, triggers anywhere. No servers. Just a CLI + your ideas. With support from @OpenAI @AnthropicAI @vercel @MiniMax_AI @PlanetScale Grab your spot: luma.com/fyuf7?utm_source=af…

📣 What if every open issue had a Codex agent? That’s the idea behind Symphony, an open-source agent orchestrator for Codex that turns task trackers into always-on systems for agentic work, letting humans focus on review and direction. Video

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NOW LIVE: The 2026 State of Main Street report We had so much fun making this for the SMB community. Inside: >Analysis of SBA financing data from the @SBAgov >Survey data from hundreds of business buyers @Contrarian >Data on America's ownership succession gap >An inside look at Main Street tech and AI with @Replit >The future of the trades and small biz with @trycents @HaulerHero @ResiBrands and Drillbit Read it here while available: info.contrarianthinking.co/m…