Anthropic predicts job loss, recruits Reed Hastings & more (May 29, 2025)

Good morning!

Players are making big moves. Anthropic’s CEO is shouting about mass job loss, Telegram just doubled Grok’s reach, and Opera is betting the future of browsing belongs to AI agents. Oh, and Netflix’s co-founder just joined team Anthropic.

Let’s dive in.

👀 The AI Agent Era Is Here

🤖 Anthropic CEO’s Stark AI Job Warning

Dario Amodei is sounding the alarm: AI could wipe out 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs within five years. He predicts 90% of code will be AI-generated by the end of the year and unemployment could hit 20%. His solution? Policy intervention and major upskilling before it’s too late.

💬 xAI’s Grok Heads to Telegram

Elon Musk’s Grok is going beyond X. A new $300M deal brings the chatbot to Telegram’s billion-plus users with built-in features like doc summaries, chat pinning, and avatar generation. Telegram also gets half the subscription revenue. Data-sharing will be opt-in.

🌐 An Agentic Browser?

Meet Neon: the first browser built for AI agents. It books your hotels, fills your forms, and even codes your next app — all with natural language. Available soon via premium subscription and early access waitlist. Expect Google, Perplexity, and OpenAI to follow suit.

🧠 Power Players & Productivity

🎬 Netflix Co-Founder Joins Anthropic

Reed Hastings is back, but this time it’s not streaming. After 25 years as Netflix’s CEO, he’s now on Anthropic’s board, joining the likes of Dario and Daniela Amodei. He cited Anthropic’s commitment to safety and ethics as his reason for joining. With experience on the boards of Facebook and Microsoft, Hastings adds serious strategic firepower.

⚒️ Retool Claims Agents Already Saved 100M Hours

Retool says its AI agents have automated the equivalent of 5,000 workers' decade-long effort. Now you can build a team of agents that run your workflows, turning you into a manager of machines. It believes this model could automate 10% of US labor by 2030.

🛠️ Tools of the Day

• Clockwise – AI calendar that finds time for deep work
• ReelUp – AI for interactive shoppable videos
• Toolsmart – Makes AI text sound fully human

🎯 Prompt of the Day

Root Cause Analysis
"I want you to act as a process improvement expert and systems thinker..."
→ Great for debugging recurring issues in workflows or product feedback loops.

⚡ Quick Hits

• Google Photos turns 10 with a smart AI editor
• Mistral drops Codestral Embed for dev tasks
• Odyssey unveils interactive 3D video worlds

📬 TLDR

Anthropic’s CEO predicts a 50% job wipeout in five years, while Reed Hastings joins its board to guide the future. Grok expands to Telegram’s 1B+ users, and Opera’s new AI browser pushes the agentic web forward. Retool claims its agents have saved 100M hours of labor already.

See you in the future,
David