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Today's topics:

Anthropic nears $1T valuation - Anthropic’s massive Series H round reportedly drives its valuation close to $1 trillion, fueled by Claude demand and new enterprise security offerings—raising the stakes against OpenAI and IPO chatter.

Runaway enterprise AI spending - A report claims a company spent roughly $500 million in one month on Claude after missing usage caps, spotlighting AI cost governance, token burn, and the ROI pressure hitting CIOs.

AI job-loss grief in tech - An essay argues AI displacement is triggering grief-like reactions among knowledge workers, with identity loss and “disenfranchised grief” becoming a mental-health and workplace stability issue.

Backlash and anti-AI sentiment - A strongly anti-AI personal essay lists harms like labor exploitation, creator theft, web degradation, and disinformation—illustrating the widening cultural split inside tech communities.

AI scams and digital blackface - The Verge reports AI-generated influencers posing as Black women to sell low-cost dropship goods using ‘empathy bait,’ raising concerns about fraud, stereotyping, and platform accountability.

Wearable AI and privacy doubts - Meta is reportedly testing an AI conversation-recording pendant and expanding AI glasses, reviving the question of whether always-on wearables can win users without violating trust.

Developer tooling, trust, and AI - A hidden prompt-injection message in the jqwik testing library and new research on AI coding dependence both underline a core risk: developer workflows are becoming easier to exploit and harder to maintain.

-Anthropic Overtakes OpenAI in Valuation After $65B Funding Round
-Essay Says AI Job Displacement Is Triggering a New Kind of Grief in Tech Workers
-Blogger Says Taking an Anti-AI Moral Stance Has Made Them a Social Outcast
-AI-Generated ‘Black’ Influencers Use Empathy Bait to Sell Dropshipped Goods on TikTok
-Report: Meta Plans to Test an AI Pendant After Limitless Acquisition
-Starbucks Drops NomadGo AI Inventory Tool After Frequent Miscounts
-Report: Unnamed firm reportedly spent $500 million on Claude