⚡ Tech Technology & People — April 30, 2026
The human cost of AI: Meta cuts 8,000 jobs; OpenAI lawsuit raises duty-of-care questions; NZ regulatory gap widens
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⚡ Tech ChatGPT Is Now Serving Ads — Here's How the Tracking Actually Works
ChatGPT's ads aren't just showing up — they come with a sophisticated tracking system that monitors what you do after you click.
⚡ Tech ChatGPT Just Solved a 42-Year-Old Math Puzzle in 12 Hours — And It's Not What You Think
A 42-year-old math problem fell in 12 hours with AI help. But the researcher says it's a tool, not a co-author — and that distinction matters more than you'd think.
⚡ Tech Technology & People: April 29, 2026
Anthropic study shows hiring drops for young workers in AI-exposed fields, the PocketOS database deletion goes viral, Manifest AI challenges the billable hour, and Taylor Swift trademarks her voice.
⚡ Tech Altman Says the Economy Will Collapse — But He's Too Busy Sleeping Four Hours a Night to Worry About It
AGI will end work as we know it, says Altman. Also, he can't stop working because GPT-5.5 is too good. The cognitive whiplash is the whole point.
⚡ Tech Claude Code Just Got an App Store: 600+ Pre-Made Agents, One Command, Free
Claude Code now has app-store-style marketplace with 600+ pre-built agents you can install in one command. Open source, free, and it works with Cursor and Codex too.
⚡ Tech SpaceX Reveals In-House GPU Manufacturing Plans in IPO Filing — Musk's Terafab Vision Takes Shape
SpaceX is building its own chips. The company's IPO filing reveals a bold plan to escape NVIDIA dependency — but the risks are enormous.
⚡ Tech Your AI Is Watching You: Why Local Inference Is the Only Safe Option
Cloud AI apps are reading your browser, training on your data, and changing your system settings without asking. Here's how to run frontier AI locally — with zero data leaving your machine.
⚡ Tech AI Will Widen Inequality Gap, Nobel Laureate Warns — 'Setting Us Up for a Shitshow'
The rhetoric says AI democratises opportunity. The economics say otherwise. Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu doesn't mince words about what's coming.
⚡ Tech Google Open-Sources DESIGN.md — The File That Teaches AI Agents Your Brand's Design Rules
5.6M views and 24K bookmarks. Google just gave AI agents a shared design language — and it's free.
⚡ Tech Google Just Scaled to 960,000 GPUs — And It Changes Who Can Compete in AI
960,000 GPUs in a single cluster. Google and NVIDIA just raised the bar for who gets to play in AI infrastructure.
⚡ Tech Microsoft Open-Sources VibeVoice — The Voice AI That Transcribes 60 Minutes in a Single Pass
60-minute single-pass transcription, speaker diarisation, 90-minute TTS, and 300ms streaming — all open source, all free.