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Fri, May 30 - Anthropic Warns of AI Job Losses, Telegram's $300M Deal

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Fri, May 30 - Anthropic Warns of AI Job Losses, Telegram's $300M Deal

It's Friday, May 30, 2025 and you're reading the Agentive Daily Report.

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Anthropic’s CEO warns AI could eliminate up to 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs in the next 5 years, putting unemployment rates at Depression-era levels.
Telegram will integrate Grok, xAI’s chatbot, by summer, impacting over a billion users and marking a $300M+ partnership with revenue sharing.
Google launches SignGemma, an open AI model capable of translating sign language into text, broadening accessibility and application range.
DeepSeek releases an updated version of its R1 reasoning model just ahead of Nvidia’s earnings, fueling speculation about the strategic timing.
Opera unveils Neon, an “agentic” AI browser designed to execute user tasks, potentially redefining web interaction norms.
Meta announces that its AI assistant has hit 1B monthly users, signaling widespread consumer adoption and ramp-up of monetization strategies.
AI-powered code review tools are making immediate impacts, shifting developer workflows and company policies on software quality.

Today's Top Stories

Anthropic CEO: “White Collar Bloodbath” Coming in 5 Years

Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, has sounded the alarm, predicting that AI could wipe out up to half of entry-level white-collar jobs within five years, driving unemployment as high as 20%. While some argue this is classic “AI hype,” there’s a growing consensus—especially among business leaders—that major layoffs could happen “gradually, then suddenly” as AI agents reach human-level performance in more roles. A rapid labor market realignment is plausible if recent layoffs are any indication. Amodei isn’t just fear-mongering: his call to educate both the public and policymakers, alongside proposals for job retraining and AI revenue taxes, reflects growing pressure on governments to plan for structural change—fast.

Telegram and xAI: Grok AI Goes Mainstream with $300M Deal

Telegram’s plan to integrate xAI’s Grok chatbot is a technically and commercially game-changer. With an estimated 1B user reach, Grok isn’t just another AI overlay: the $300M partnership is structured to give Telegram half of xAI’s subscription revenue on-platform. Grok will support features like chat summarization, smart editing, group management, and verified fact-checking. The real story? Large-scale AI chat integration in mainstream messaging—complete with cash compensation—that will push every major social platform to rethink its AI strategy, and could lock in Telegram’s place as a “smarter” app in a hyper-competitive field.

DeepSeek R1 Update: Strategic Release or Technical Leap?

DeepSeek’s update to its R1 “thinking model” dropped quietly, but right before Nvidia’s Q1 earnings. The lack of release notes leaves the community guessing about technical advances, but the timing points to the increasingly strategic use of model launches for competitive signaling. If past performance is any guide, even incremental improvements to reasoning or multi-task abilities could have real consequences for enterprise AI adoption and regional competition with US labs.

Fast Forward

  • Opera Neon Launches: Opera unveils an “agentic” browser that uses AI to research, code, shop, and fill forms autonomously. If it delivers, Neon could push the entire browser market toward action-driven AI, just as Copilot shaped productivity tools.
  • Meta AI Hits 1 Billion Users: Meta’s assistant, now reaching a billion people across its app ecosystem, is poised for wider monetization, likely with paid recommendations or subscriptions. At this scale, AI-powered personal assistants look inevitable.
  • Google’s SignGemma Debuts: SignGemma, a model that translates sign language to text, demonstrates a growing focus on AI accessibility tools and could spark similar moves from other major labs.
  • AI Code Reviews Redefine Standards: Code review AIs are now automating everything from test coverage to style checks, quietly outpacing flashier coding agents in terms of immediate developer productivity gains.
  • US-China AI Race Update: New analyses confirm China trails the US on AI funding and chips, but is making up ground via government backing and open-source collaboration; the policy battle is heating up, not winding down.

New Tools Discovered

  • Tapflow 2.0: Instantly transform your documents into interactive guides, playbooks, and workflows for rapid onboarding and monetization.
  • JoggAI 3.0: Automatically generate compelling ad creatives and videos for any product in seconds—no creative team needed.
  • Clado: Powerful people data tool providing deep research capabilities on over 200 million profiles, handy for recruiting and sales.
  • CodeRabbit VSCode Extension: AI-powered code reviews embedded in VSCode, catching bugs and styling problems early in development.
  • Coso.ai: Automates engaging social media posts generation from your branded content with minimal manual intervention.

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Hak from Agentive.Studio

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