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Unknown Host hosts Moonshot Minute, a general show with 24 episodes published.
OpenAI just delayed its IPO. Anthropic pulled its most powerful models. Uber burned its entire AI budget in four months. Meta warned of billions in internal AI costs. The companies pushing AI hardest are now putting limi
Oracle just admitted AI cost them 21,000 jobs. Thirteen percent of its workforce. They also warned that the cuts "may lead to shortages of sufficiently skilled employees" and "damage to employee morale and retention." Th
Gallup just surveyed 23,000 American workers. When laid-off employees were asked why they lost their jobs, only one percent said AI. That sounds like good news. It isn't. Workers who don't use AI were three times more li
Happy Juneteenth, everyone. Thanks for tuning in. Normally on the Moonshot Minute, we talk about AI and work and the people the headlines leave behind. But today I'm taking a different path. Today we're going to talk abo
The May jobs report was a blowout. 172,000 jobs added. Unemployment at 4.3 percent. Here is what the headlines did not tell you. Half of all industry sectors have lost jobs over the past year. The share of long-term unem
Google quietly cut its cybersecurity team this week. The stated reason? Reinvest in AI. The irony? AI amplifies the attack surface. It does not eliminate the need for security. Broader 2026 numbers tell the same story. 9
blowout. Then the Nasdaq dropped 4.2 percent. Here is why. 60 percent of money in US stocks sits in passive funds. They don't evaluate risk. They just buy the top 10 tech names on autopilot. And those top 10 names now ma
The US economy added 172,000 jobs in May. The headlines are celebrating. Here is what the headlines did not tell you. Healthcare and government carried the load. Private sector growth remains soft. Employers announced ov
Apollo's chief economist says there is zero evidence AI is killing jobs. The layoffs are real. The AI narrative is not holding up. This is Episode 18 of Moonshot Minute. One story. No fluff. Just what's actually happenin
Last week Meta dropped the axe. 8,000 employees terminated, many getting the news at 4 AM Singapore time. Another 7,000 forcibly reassigned to AI pods. 6,000 open roles eliminated. All while Meta posts record revenue and
May 14. Cisco reports record revenue. $15.8 billion. Then cuts 4,000 people anyway. The money isn't lost. It's moving from payroll to GPUs.Two days ago, Coinbase announced the end of "pure managers." From now on, it's pl
April's jobs report told two completely different stories — depending on where you work.Healthcare, warehousing, and retail added 115,000 jobs. Headline unemployment held steady at 4.3%. The White House called it a roari
Episode 14. Tesla's former HR chief says 80% of U.S. workers are at companies that are NOT hyperscalers. The AI panic is real, but it is concentrated.
The unemployment rate you hear about is 4.3%. The number they are not printing is 4.6% — the U‑4 rate that includes discouraged workers who have stopped looking because they believe no jobs exist. That number jumped 33%
The March jobs report added 178,000 jobs. Unemployment ticked down to 4.3 percent. The headlines called it a rebound. But the Bureau of Labor Statistics buried a number. Discouraged workers spiked by 144,000 in a single
Oracle cut 30,000 people and filed 3,126 H-1B visas in the same breath. Marc Andreessen says AI layoffs are fake. Software jobs are at a three-year high, but the people who were fired can't get them. Episode 11 unpacks t
Oracle fired 30,000 people at 6 AM via email. Record profits. $50 billion for AI. No manager. No phone call. Just "Oracle Leadership." This is the new normal.
A developer wrote the code that trained the model. The model got good. The developer got laid off. Then Sam Altman posted: "Thank you for getting us to this point." Anthropic's study found a 61 point gap between what AI
OpenAI hired a manager to fix chaos. Alexey's agent wiped 1.9M rows. Scale AI: 2.5% success. Alibaba: 75% break old code. Gartner: half will rehire. The invisible infrastructure is the only thing holding it together. Epi
A 47-year-old business writer posted on Reddit two weeks ago. She's been laid off three times. She's asking strangers what trade she can learn that doesn't wreck her joints and pays at least $70,000. She's not in the une
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