🍭 Why AI Is Taking the Heat 🥵

Good morning. Today’s theme is “move fast,” and the thing being broken is oversight.

Let’s dive in 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• The Pentagon fast-tracks military AI by cutting safety checks

• AI layoffs are blamed on bots… but economists aren’t buying it

• A mindset prompt for when your brain won’t shut up

• Plus: Gmail goes full Gemini, Dell dials back AI hype, and deepfake abuse keeps scaling

Steal This Prompt
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A mindset-coach-in-your-pocket prompt that reframes problems, challenges your excuses (gently), and turns “I can’t” into “okay but what if I did.” Therapy-adjacent. Productivity-coded.

Perfect for:

• people spiraling over one bad meeting

• founders stuck in comparison hell

• anyone who needs perspective without LinkedIn cringe

Workflow:

1. Click this link (Prompt).

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The Pentagon
🪖 Is Speedrunning AI and Skipping the Seatbelt

The Bite:
The U.S. War Department just stood up a special “SWAT team” to fast-track AI inside the military.

Its job: to remove “barriers” slowing AI deployment.
That includes data-sharing rules, authorization requirements, and testing processes.

Officials say this is about keeping up with global rivals.
Critics hear something else: safeguards getting tossed so models can ship faster.

Progress, apparently, waits for no review board.

Snacks:

• The task force targets delays around data access, authority to operate, and testing approvals

• Leaders argue red tape is now a national security risk

• The push applies to AI systems used in real military operations, not just research

• Safety checks are being reframed as “friction”

Why it Bites:
In civilian AI, we’re arguing over consent, bias, and harm.
In military AI, the answer seems to be: we’ll fix it later.

As the world urges companies not to rush unsafe AI, the U.S. federal government is running the other way. Even clashing with some state leaders.

When safeguards become optional, mistakes don’t stay theoretical.
They scale.

And unlike a buggy chatbot, military AI doesn’t just hallucinate.
It acts.

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Job Market
📉 AI Layoffs Might Be a Convenient Corporate Story

The Bite:
Companies keep blaming layoffs on AI.
Oxford Economics says that story doesn’t hold up.

Their analysis finds little evidence that AI is meaningfully replacing workers at scale, or boosting productivity enough to justify mass cuts.

Instead, AI has become a clean, future-facing explanation for decisions companies were already planning to make.

“Automation” sounds better than “cost cutting.”

Snacks:

• Oxford Economics found no broad productivity surge tied to AI adoption

• Most firms using AI are seeing incremental gains, not workforce-replacing breakthroughs

• Layoffs linked to AI often mirror pre-existing slowdowns and restructuring

• Companies benefit from framing cuts as technological inevitability

• Investors tend to reward “AI efficiency” narratives, regardless of reality

Why it bites:
Blaming AI turns layoffs into something impersonal and unavoidable.
No executives to question. No strategy to debate. Just “the future.”

But if AI isn’t actually driving these cuts yet, that framing matters.

Beyond shifting responsibility away from leadership, it trains workers to accept job loss as progress.

When companies use AI as cover, bad decisions don’t disappear.
They just get harder to challenge…

Wrapped in a story that sounds inevitable, modern, and untouchable.

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🧠 You Need to Know

🖥️ Dell Quietly Walked Back the AI Hype at CES
→ Dell focused its CES 2026 briefing on real hardware gains, signaling fatigue with AI-first marketing that customers aren’t responding to.

🪖 Pentagon Forms a “SWAT Team” for AI Red Tape
→ The U.S. War Department launched a task force to remove internal barriers slowing AI deployment, framing bureaucracy as a national security risk.

🚨 AI Can Generate Deepfake Abuse Faster Than Laws Can Stop It
→ Researchers warn bans and filters mainly reduce visibility, while AI tools make non-consensual sexual images cheap, fast, and scalable.

📉 AI Layoffs May Be a Convenient Corporate Story
→ Oxford Economics says many companies blame AI for layoffs that would’ve happened anyway, with real productivity gains still modest.

📧 Gmail Is Officially Entering the Gemini Era
→ Google is rolling Gemini-powered summaries, writing help, and inbox prioritization directly into Gmail’s core experience.