#fuck_ai

Anthropic's IPO Is Cratering Anthropic, which officially filed to go public at a rumored valuation of up to $2 trillion dollars just a week before the elections. As Bloomberg reports, those prospects are in free fall as the chaos takes hold. Some investors are now weighing bids that would value Anthropic as low as $1.1 trillion. While that’s still a huge valuation for a company that lost over $80 billion in the first half of 2026 alone, it’s a massive drop compared to the previously unbridled enthusiasm surrounding the firm’s IPO.

Protesters break into Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam - Europe is witnessing a wave of protests against data centers. Reuters reports that around 100 people made it into the construction site, with some scaling a crane to place a “fuck AI” banner. Protesters also unfurled a “Microsoft powers genocide” banner on the construction site, and chanted “Microsoft has got to go” and “free Palestine.”

South China Morning Post - The island where residents fight data centres for water Angry residents of Indonesia’s Batam island staged spontaneous protests in October 2026, outside a park where a new cluster of data centres is under construction. Taps at home had run dry for the residents for months, which they blamed on severe outages that hit the municipal water service after the arrival of the data centres.

AI backlash threatens trillion-dollar data centre boom, say tech leaders archive.ph/…/32fd4450-5880-437d-9bd9-df13289ada24 The US midterm elections — in which voters elected anti-data centre governors in Texas, Georgia and Ohio and passed 38 local votes in favour of restrictions on their development — have forced the tech industry to reflect on its failure to connect with the public. “The reason is not that people are Luddites . . . it’s much like the protests against the masks in Covid. It has become a political symbol,” said Vik Bajaj, co-chief executive of the Jeff Bezos-backed AI start-up Prometheus. . . . “As a profession, we have spent two years pretty dangerously telling people that AI will change the future of work for the worse — that they will be out of jobs, that their children will be out of jobs, their grandchildren will live in a world that’s unrecognisable. And then for the last year or so, we’ve also been flirting with the idea that it’s an existential crisis.” “I think this election was a big wake-up call . . . to take a pause and think about what’s happening and approach this in a way that’s maybe a little more thoughtful,” said John Hanke, founder of Niantic Spatial, the AI world model company and gaming group that made Pokémon Go. “It’s been go, go, go, build, build, build, and some of that has been . . . with head buried in sand.”

A Ban on AI LIVE NOV. 6, 2026 AT 6:30AM ET Stock Market Today: Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq set for mixed start after AI carnage led to worst day for techs since 2020; jobs report on tap: live updates marketwatch.com/…/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-500-…

Democrats just won control of Georgia Power’s regulator for the first time in 30 years — and its OpenAI data center contract was entirely redacted archive.ph

Kids Hooked on AI Chatbots Are Showing Dramatically Worse Mental Health: They're turning to AI chatbots for help, but their machine confidantes are doing more harm than good.

My friend works in an independent bookshop and... Some AI bro made a huge order (200+ €) of rare italian books at full price with the purpose of destroying them in order to train some model In the beginning he was puzzled why some american would want to spend hundreds of dollars to import discontinued books on mostly religious topics (a real human would never buy this stuff, it’s ultraniche and expensive), then we connected the dots.

A wipeout for AI stocks sends Wall Street reeling, and the S&P 500 tumbles more than 3% cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/54031373 NEW YORK (AP) — Another wipeout for stocks tied to the buildout of AI data centers is overwhelming Wall Street on Thursday and more than erasing all its gains from the day before, which was its best in three months. The S&P 500 fell 3.5% after opening with a loss that accelerated through the morning. It’s on track for its worst drop since President Donald Trump shook markets worldwide in April 2025 after announcing his “Liberation Day” tariffs.

Congresswoman calls for artificial superintelligence ban after Democrats' seismic midterm sweep — demands regulation of 'out of control' industry and pause on advanced AI

The October inflection point for vibe game development cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37640644

ThinkingWest: The Romans Warned Us About AI Mercenaries

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50-Series Scheduled for up to $500 Price Hike This Week

Apparently Unreal Engine 6 is to Remove C++ and Blueprints in Favor of Prompting AI Slop what a time to be alive www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0wZCIhqveQ

Students forced to use AI or lose Google Search

I will either starve or use AI There is no in between. For context I am a senior computer engineering student. I did some internships and talked with many people from big companies. And the thing I realized is I can’t avoid AI anymore. It’s physically impossible. I resisted for years but every single fucking place is forcing it nowadays. Internships, jobs, any competitions and even my damn professors at uni. I have yet to meet a single person in real life that does not use AI extensively. No one cares. No one thinks it might be wrong to fuck up so many things for so little (sometimes none) gain. So I’m at a loss nowadays. I have zero motivation to do anything. I applied for masters but who can guarantee it will be any different? I will either have to use AI like any slop-coder out there or just starve. Even though I’m a hardware guy. I dont even want to think about software devs. Fuck every single tech CEO. Fuck every single capitalist. So many people complained about the previous generation because of what they left us. But what are we doing now? Are we any better? Sorry for unorganized and sloppy writing. Just had to dump this somewhere. Have a nice day everyone.

It’s time to block reckless AI IPOs and tax billionaires: We cannot let the billionaire class take unprecedented risks with our future. cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/53899310

Google criticized by NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani following AI policy change: 'Google is trying to use its monopoly power to force AI into our public schools'

Anthropic confirms new Claude Code limits to prevent game cloning — users report Opus 5.5 is also actively blocking reverse engineering tasks

AI recruiter questions is one of the worst use cases of AI I've ever seen Indeed’s AI recruiter questions are effectively this: “Hey let us harvest your data bit more while giving you no guarantee of ever actually receiving a response back from a person at the company”. You should NEVER do AI recruiter questions.