







Turns out people would rather talk to other people.
Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back
Years after outsourcing marketing and customer service gigs to AI, the Swedish company Klarna is looking to hire its humans back.

Prompt Engineering Is Dead. Context Engineering Is Dying. What Comes Next Changes Everything.
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MMitchell on Twitter / X
If you haven't read this piece on language use in around AI, you definitely should. Great work from @emilymbender , @NannaInie and @peter_zukerman with solutions for what to call things we backoff to just anthropomorphising. pic.twitter.com/HxdA7Im57h— MMitchell (@mmitchell_ai) July 6, 2026

Khoj - AI for Humans
Khoj is an applied artificial intelligence company building safe, useful AI software for humans.

‘It’s the most empathetic voice in my life’: How AI is transforming the lives of neurodivergent people
AI tools like ChatGPT are helping neurodivergent users communicate more clearly and confidently — though some experts warn that overreliance could come at a cost.

How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job
Clara Shih on how AI will soon displace the first few rungs on the career ladder — and why she left Big Tech to do something about it

The AI Industry Has a Major Problem: Most People Aren’t Freaks Who Want an AI Agent Running Their Whole Life
There's a problem for AI agents like Meta's Muse: ordinary people don't seem very interested in what they're offering.

AI is teaching us to speak like bots, and it’s a problem - Fast Company
AI is creeping into our everyday conversations, making us less patient and teaching us to 'prompt' others instead of talking to them.

Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging
Introducing Confer, an end-to-end AI assistant that just works.

Marc Andreessen can’t explain AI’s benefits, either.
Joe Rogan accidentally asked a hard question! He noted that Andreessen has said that the people who are running AI haven’t done a good job explaining AI’s benefits. He asks Andreessen to do it. Andreessen’s pitch appears to be “thinking is too hard.” Well, increasingly, I do believe thinking is too hard… for Andreessen. The rest of us — you know, normal people — are thinking just fine. [Media: https://www.tiktok.com/@fanpowerfuljre13/video/7641675615833197854?_r=1&_t=ZT-96VfWh5XKYQ]

nxthompson on Twitter / X
AI is mucking up the job market. Everyone uses AI to write similar cover letters; resumes are all perfect. People apply for zillions of jobs and cheat in Zoom calls. Hiring is now basically AI talking to AI while humans wait to hear nothing back. https://t.co/kyqOotxeAl— nxthompson (@nxthompson) June 2, 2026
Millions of Volunteers Are Keeping the Internet Human. For Now.
We’re never going back to the human internet we had. But we can hope for a better internet than the AI-dominated one that is emerging, writes Sarah Gilbert.

For the love of God, stop calling your AI a co-worker | TechCrunch
A growing number of startups are anthropomorphizing AI to build trust fast -- and soften its threat to human jobs.

I think it’s telling that people very interested in AI (like Eugene and myself) still have no interest in using it as a proxy for human communication. “Being a good writer” is not the same thing as having social agency, and making the models even better at writing won’t change that.
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒
When you deploy heavily LLM text, you currently have no way to prove that you actually read it and therefore cannot convince me to read it