METR's landmark developer productivity study is broken: developers are refusing to participate if it means working without AI. That self-selection is itself the data. Their raw numbers now hint at speedups (vs. the 2025 paper finding 19% slowdown), but methodology is compromised.

Dorsey cut 4,000 Block jobs (40%) while Q4 gross profit grew 24% to $2.87B and stock surged 20%. He named AI directly, not headwinds. Every CEO in America just saw the incentive structure laid bare — Wall Street prices humans as liabilities.

Anthropic is scrapping its 2023 commitment to pause AI development unless safety measures were guaranteed, replacing it with transparency-focused policies instead. Experts warn it signals safety evaluation isn't keeping pace with capability advancement.