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I have no idea how to build wealth in tech anymore (Blind)

• wnzX22 (Applied Materials): Just become a decamillionaire (10M+ liquid NW) with a 3M paid off house and you won’t have to worry anymore. Work is optional.
• YXPL17 (Capital One): Get in tech, sleep in a shoebox with3 roommates and take the train/busfor a few years. Boom. But no one wants to live frugally
• rhydon1x (Capital One): Boo hoo money chasers continue being unhappy. Breaking news

Should my son go to Georgia Tech (out of state)? (Blind)

• 4599f332 (PayPal): Our son didn’t want to go to Santa Cruz “because it’s filled with pot smokers”, and chose out of state.
• ohnePixel. (Workday): Your grown ass son can’t make their own decision?
• 158fwy7 (Meta): Tech for sure, best value engineering education you can possibly get.

Republicans Claim Anti-Data Center Movement Is a Chinese Psy-Op (r/technology)

• Loud_Flatworm_4146: Build them next to your own houses. Show the American public just how great they are. 
• Leoszite: Republicans also claim race science is a legitimate science. I tend not to believe them.
• Huckleberry822: Always on the side of the billionaires. Fuck them, fuck AI, and fuck their data centers.

Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI To Be ‘Addictive’ (r/technology)

• EconomyDoctor3287: Maybe start making it useful first? And finish one product at a time? Wtf are there 80 different versions of microslop copilot?
• lppedd: Microslop can’t build anything really useful so Satya Slopella has to create artificial drugs.
• equality4everyonenow: Microsoft’s whole business model is to bundle barely passable software into their other offerings to fill a need that you have… terribly.. And the best you can hope for is that over time they fix the bugs and add the features that makes it slightly less annoying to work with. Does anyone really love any Microsoft product that isn’t DirectX?

Let us filter AI slop, you cowards - Online platforms could prove whether AI labels work by giving us a filter option, but then they’d have to face reality. (r/technology)

• dhirajsharma1173: If a platforms AI detection is not accurate enough for filtering then its also not accurate enough for labeling
• Just-Grocery-2229: Imagine logging in and only seeing stuff made by actual humans, that would be WILD!!!
• PuzzleMeDo: I feel like all that would do is prove that filtering doesn’t work because people won’t label their content as AI if it might get filtered out.

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Techmeme surfaced this June 5, 2026 story in its Google-SpaceX compute cluster, and the direct source used here is Sean O’Kane’s TechCrunch article, Google will pay SpaceX \$920M per month for compute, alongside SpaceX’s SEC free-writing prospectus.

The remarkable part is not only the size of the number. SpaceX says Google agreed to pay \$920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to about 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs plus associated CPUs, memory, and other components. That is a huge infrastructure lease by any normal cloud standard. But the sharper signal is that the buyer is Google, one of the companies assumed to have the deepest AI infrastructure bench in the world.

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Microsoft 10k+ layoffs July confirmed 🫡 (Blind)

• GasonJ (Marqeta): Are they priotizing h1bs?
• push -f (Klarna): I have heard they are laying off Claude.
• watn15 (New): Isn’t it around 20-30k.. major layoff?

The best leetcode candidates are no longer the best hires (Blind)

• eulers_fn (Genentech): AI generated slop post
• Soare (Two Sigma): ai slop man
• hwatsup (Databricks): OP why do you feed on AI slop?

Please shut up, Dario (Blind)

• chR7z55 (Microsoft): He does many things, which one are you talking about 🤣
• polsia (LinkedIn): At 1T valuation, he sounds…fake
• DarioSweee (Amazon): What did he say now?

The biggest data center ever is becoming a huge problem in Utah (r/technology)

• r3d0c3ht: Why does this feel as hoax to me, “We’re building a \$4bn datacenter the ludicrous humongous datacenter to rule all datacenters but it will take us forever to build it, anyway, give ca\$h now!”
• Bupod: We will PRETEND to build the mother of all data centers, and the Mormons will pay for it! And when the bubble pops, we simply ride off in to the sunset!
• Standard-Square-7699: It is a hoax. The gpus alone would cost 10s of trillions. Some reditor broke it down a day or 2 ago.

After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban / A Texas councilmember will propose “a total ban on all cellular and GPS-capable devices for all operations within city limits" and “a total termination of all internet services." (r/technology)

• SlapThatAce: Looks like someone needs to have an audit done on their finances.
• GunBrothersGaming: Yup, someone is upset their kickbacks are gone
• FanDry5374: “If we can’t spy on our citizens, we will punish them and every business in the city!!!”

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What happened

NVIDIA’s official Technical Blog published NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra Powers Faster, More Efficient Reasoning for Long-Running Agents, a June 4, 2026 post about an open reasoning model designed around the operational shape of agentic systems rather than single-turn chat.

The post starts from a practical systems problem. Long-running agents do not just answer a prompt. They plan, call tools, read tool outputs, delegate to sub-agents, revise plans, validate work, and carry a growing execution history through many turns. That creates a compounding cost problem: the agent may spend most of its tokens on coordination, context, and recovery rather than on the final answer. It also creates a reliability problem because more turns mean more chances for the model to lose the goal, follow stale context, or over-spend on reasoning that did not need a frontier model.

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Techmeme surfaced this June 5, 2026 story in its xAI and Claude cluster, and the original article is The Information’s How xAI Went From Chasing Anthropic to Powering It.

The story is interesting because it compresses several frontier-AI tensions into one company drama. The Information reports that xAI used Claude outputs while trying to catch Anthropic in coding models, including a multi-month distillation effort, personal-account workarounds after access was cut off, and access through Blackbox AI for benchmarking and other work. At the same time, xAI and the broader SpaceX orbit have been moving into compute partnerships with Anthropic and Cursor, raising the question of whether the strategic center is shifting from “build the best model” to “control scarce infrastructure and distribution.”

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AI Layoffs Are Backfiring And Rehiring Has Begun (Blind)

• EVxB36 (The Home Depot): We started hiring a bunch a few weeks ago, mostly ML people. Brutal layoffs not seen since 2008 just a few months prior, but yeah.
• IBYh04 (HPE): Who’s rehiring exactly?
• CfNb84 (Discover): Definitely temporary, if true in the first place. If ‘Backfire’ is due to high token costs like I’ve been reading, it means fuck all, as token is just compute and compute is bound to go down in cost as manufacturing matures.

Anthropic IPO filing shows that AI bubble is close to popping (Blind)

• Provian: Apart from coding there are no real cost or productivity gains from AI.
• OnCall4Evr (Cvent): I think so too. It’s sus that they want to cash out so soon.
• boredddddd (Microsoft): Their ARR has jumped more than 5 times in the last 5 months. How is the bubble popping?

In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters (r/technology)

• wewantyoutowantus: Good for them. Texas cities need to follow this
• getajob92: At first I thought this was referring to California City, and was wondering who the fuck wants to put a data center in the Mojave desert.
• DarthJDP: at least we can count on the nimbys to kill AI

Amazon-owned Ring should pay Americans for scanning their faces, lawsuit says (r/technology)

• alabasterskim: How about they lose all that data too? If someone steals something of mine and I just get a small portion of its worth in cash while they keep the thing, it’s not really a punishment, just a cost of doing business.
• Accurate_Koala_4698: Here’s a coupon for 37 cents off a monthly subscription to their services as compensation
• Bad-job-dad: I think all tech companies should pay us royalties on our data.

Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search / Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google. (r/technology)

• dhirajsharma1173: I mean wth is going on actually these sick tech comapnies can do anything for sake of ai and now they’re targeting reddit to ruin genuine disscussions for their profit??
• elmo298: Reddit is compliant and encouraging this, it’s why they introduced hidden profiles.
• Derp2244: Companies are using ALL subreddits to manipulate ChatGPT/LLM results. Look up Generative engine optimization (GEO).

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What happened

Cloudflare’s official blog published Enforcing the First AS in BGP AS_PATHs, a June 3, 2026 engineering post about a deceptively small BGP validation rule that blocks a class of forged-path route hijacks.

The post starts from recent hijack attempts in which an attacker appeared to use unused autonomous system numbers and forged AS_PATH values. In BGP, a route announcement carries an ordered list of autonomous systems that the route has traversed. That list influences path selection, supports loop prevention, and helps operators reason about where traffic will go. But BGP still inherits a trust model in which the path attribute can be manipulated unless neighbors enforce basic consistency checks.

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Techmeme surfaced this June 4, 2026 story in its Anthropic recursive self-improvement cluster, and the direct source used here is The Anthropic Institute’s article, When AI builds itself.

Anthropic’s core claim is carefully framed but still striking: the company is not saying Claude can fully design and train its own successor today, but it is saying the feedback loop is becoming real enough to deserve institutional attention now. AI systems already write, run, test, and review a large share of the work needed to build better AI systems. If that trend keeps moving, the bottleneck in frontier AI development may shift from human implementation to human judgment, oversight, and compute.

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What’s the point of it all? (Blind)

• whywhyx2 (Meta): There is no meaningful work in any tech company anymore
• kuCr03 (Amazon): The point is to create the dystopian surveillance state that your descendants will eventually rise up and overthrow… it’s nice to have a hobby.
• mb121: AI writes code. I don’t even review. Don’t understand anything. I just prompt again even for a small change

The burnout is real (Blind)

• pJSL17 (Apple): I don’t understand doesn’t AI makes your day to day a lot easier ?
• blahblahra (Amazon): im 100% convinced i have stress brain. i forget things easily now and have brain fog most of the time. speaking is a chore and i can no longer handle stressful quick thinking situations. it sucks
• BayArea408 (Cisco): Based on my 30+ years of experience in tech (HW side) I definitely feel like AI and all of the related design process automation that comes from it has killed the joy of engineering. The first 15-20 years were great, then it became okay, even the pandemic years were still fine (and more productive) but the last year has sucked so hard, it’s not worth it anymore, I’m retiring before this year is over.

The biggest data center ever is becoming a huge problem for Utah (r/technology)

• r3d0c3ht: Why does this feel as hoax to me, “We’re building a $4bn datacenter the ludicrous humongous datacenter to rule all datacenters but it will take us forever to build it, anyway, give ca$h now!”
• Bupod: We will PRETEND to build the mother of all data centers, and the Mormons will pay for it! And when the bubble pops, we simply ride off in to the sunset!
• Standard-Square-7699: It is a hoax. The gpus alone would cost 10s of trillions. Some reditor broke it down a day or 2 ago.

Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI (r/technology)

• Big-Chungus-12: Im glad I havent supported this company financially, vote with your wallet people
• AvailableReporter484: Tbf this company should be obliterated from space
• williamgman: When Intuit decided to drop desktop support… That was the kiss of death. A lot of independent bookkeepers are retiring out end of this year as they are being forced onto the online app only.

Anthropic is paying SpaceX $15 billion per year (r/technology)

• Knightforlife: Can’t read the article so … why? Does SpaceX have a bunch of data centers for rent I don’t know about?
• Resident_Window_9369: All these massive numbers are pure speculation based on unbridled optimism and full disregard of reality
• Luka77GOATic: It also is a significant boost to SpaceX, whose annual revenue is only around $18 billion per year.

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What happened

Anthropic’s official Frontier Red Team research blog published Mapping AI-enabled cyber threats: Insights from the LLM ATT&CK Navigator, a June 3, 2026 post about mapping real AI-enabled cyber misuse onto MITRE ATT&CK and building a risk-scoring framework for model-assisted threat activity.

The post is valuable because it treats AI cyber risk as an empirical security-engineering problem rather than a speculative policy argument. Anthropic analyzed 832 accounts banned for malicious cyber activity between March 2025 and March 2026, selected from cases where investigators had enough detail to map observed behavior. From those cases, the team extracted 13,873 malicious actions, mapped them to MITRE ATT&CK version 18, and found activity across all 14 tactics and 482 unique sub-techniques.