There you have it! Three stories this week. Same story.
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There you have it! Three stories this week. Same story.
Snap fires 1,000 people — 16% of the entire company — and tells the world it is because of AI. Stock JUMPS 8%. Wall Street literally cheers the replacement.
Anthropic drops Claude Opus 4.7. 87.6% on SWE-bench Verified. 94.2% on GPQA. Best model on the planet. The third frontier jump in ONE month.
Google is in talks to deploy Gemini on DoW sensitive networks — because Emil Michael banned Anthropic, the most deployed frontier model on government networks. Hopefully the meeting with Anthropic CEO and the White House fixes that, assuming #Incompetent Emil does not show to ruin it.
One man with ZERO AI expertise, ZERO software background, and a personal grudge just handed the Pentagon over to a single vendor. Picked by DC politics. Not by the warfighter. Not by capability. Not by security. By one guy's ego.
Meanwhile Snap's CEO replaced a thousand humans in a single quarter and got rewarded with an 8% bump.
Commercial America is running.
The Department of War is crawling.
China is sprinting.
Let me be crystal clear — this isn't about which model is better. This is about model-agnostic strategy, the thing I have been screaming about for 6 years. You lock into one vendor, you lose. You pick vendors by who somebody hates, you lose BIGGER. And the warfighter — my warfighter — pays the price every single time.
Opus 4.7 isn't a tool. It is a REPLACEMENT engine. If your job lives in a spreadsheet, a codebase, a deck, or a research doc — you've been put on notice.
If you have kids — this should terrify you. It terrifies me.
My book "Replacement" drops end of July. This is exactly what it is about.
Fire Emil Michael. Before he finishes the job.
Subscribe to my newsletter "In the Nic of Time" for the full breakdown weekly at www.inthenicoftime.us
Snap fires 1,000 people — 16% of the entire company — and tells the world it is because of AI. Stock JUMPS 8%. Wall Street literally cheers the replacement.
Anthropic drops Claude Opus 4.7. 87.6% on SWE-bench Verified. 94.2% on GPQA. Best model on the planet. The third frontier jump in ONE month.
Google is in talks to deploy Gemini on DoW sensitive networks — because Emil Michael banned Anthropic, the most deployed frontier model on government networks. Hopefully the meeting with Anthropic CEO and the White House fixes that, assuming #Incompetent Emil does not show to ruin it.
One man with ZERO AI expertise, ZERO software background, and a personal grudge just handed the Pentagon over to a single vendor. Picked by DC politics. Not by the warfighter. Not by capability. Not by security. By one guy's ego.
Meanwhile Snap's CEO replaced a thousand humans in a single quarter and got rewarded with an 8% bump.
Commercial America is running.
The Department of War is crawling.
China is sprinting.
Let me be crystal clear — this isn't about which model is better. This is about model-agnostic strategy, the thing I have been screaming about for 6 years. You lock into one vendor, you lose. You pick vendors by who somebody hates, you lose BIGGER. And the warfighter — my warfighter — pays the price every single time.
Opus 4.7 isn't a tool. It is a REPLACEMENT engine. If your job lives in a spreadsheet, a codebase, a deck, or a research doc — you've been put on notice.
If you have kids — this should terrify you. It terrifies me.
My book "Replacement" drops end of July. This is exactly what it is about.
Fire Emil Michael. Before he finishes the job.
Subscribe to my newsletter "In the Nic of Time" for the full breakdown weekly at www.inthenicoftime.us