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AI Labor Forces, Booms, & Controversy
1/ Stanford Study – AI is officially reshaping Employment
A major new study from Stanford confirms what many suspected: early career workers are being hit the hardest in the post-AI labor market.

The biggest drops in employment are happening at the entry level, signaling a shift in how companies are hiring and what skills they value. We’re watching the beginning of a workforce realignment.
2/ AMD & IBM join forces on Quantum-Centric Computing
AMD and @IBM are partnering to build hybrid quantum-centric supercomputing, fusing quantum and AI with the best of high-performance hardware and software to solve the world’s toughest real-world challenges at unprecedented speed and scale. amd.com/en/newsroom/pr…
— AMD (@AMD)
10:11 AM • Aug 26, 2025
Two giants—AMD and IBM—are teaming up to push forward quantum-centric computing. This partnership isn’t just about faster chips, it’s about re-architecting the computing stack itself.
3/ AI = Biggest Boom in Decades?
The sheer scale of the AI wave might be understated. Think beyond the internet boom—this is a shift that rivals the invention of electricity itself.
.@jcal7 (Founder, @trueventures) on the scale of the AI boom:
“Our numbers are 2 to 4 trillion of CapEx going into the AI wave over the next five years. In every prior wave (Web2, mobile, cloud) the value created at the application layer on top of that CapEx was 5 to 10x.”
— TBPN (@tbpn)
10:02 PM • Aug 28, 2025
This is a seismic technological transformation touching every sector, reshaping productivity, and rewriting the rules of growth.
4/ Eightsleep + Devin Partnership
Sleep tech is colliding with AI. Eightsleep is now integrating Devin, opening the door to hyper-personalized sleep optimization powered by AI agents.
At @eightsleep, @DevinAI (@ScottWu46) is our AI analyst for anonymized product/ops/finance data.
We chat directly with data to ideate. It builds datasets/dashboards in 1hr (vs days).
Like a JR analyst you check—but it’s made our data sharper.
Hardcore AI in practice.
— Matteo Franceschetti (@m_franceschetti)
5:14 PM • Aug 29, 2025
This is a new frontier of preventative medicine- AI in healthcare is a use case that will only grow exponentially over the next few years.
We got vibe coding- now with this partnership, vibe sleeping may be in the cards?
5/ Scale’s Data Under Fire?
Rumors are spreading that Meta’s top brass see Scale AI’s data as low-quality—just weeks after forming a major partnership.
Zuck is done..
Meta $14.3B Scale AI bet looks like a flop, Meta researchers say its data is low quality and prefer Surge/Mercor.
> Meta poured $14.3B into Scale AI, bringing CEO Wang and execs to run MSL
> Ex-Scale SVP Ruben Mayer quit Meta after 2 months
> Mayer was left— AshutoshShrivastava (@ai_for_success)
2:36 AM • Aug 30, 2025
If true, this could be a huge credibility hit for one of the biggest names in AI infrastructure.
6/ Ex-xAI Engineer Uploads Codebase to OpenAI
The drama doesn’t stop—an ex-xAI engineer allegedly uploaded code to OpenAI after cashing out $7M in stock. Now, xAI is suing. Between trade secrets, lawsuits, and billion-dollar valuations, AI isn’t just about models—it’s a high-stakes battleground.
🚨BREAKING: Elon Musk confirms ex-xAI engineer joined OpenAI and “uploaded xAI’s entire codebase” 👀
The engineer had earlier sold $7M worth of his xAI stock before leaving now facing a lawsuit for stealing Grok trade secrets
— Muskonomy (@muskonomy)
10:03 AM • Aug 30, 2025
Wild times in the world of AI.