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Thank you to the hardworking crew who make the experience so special, and my boss for footing the bill...

Let's fly SQ as much as possible so that Temasek won't have to shoulder the losses... the pride of our country. Nothing else compares really, Emirates is tacky af in comparison.

btw 777 F is goated, why settle for a single suite when you can have the cabin to yourself?

Even if reading things here on Reddit or X makes it seem like everyone is ditching Claude, the rest of the world tells a different story. From the WSJ.

I have usage credits off so there should not be any additional payments. When my monthly usage is full - the work stops. Anyone else had these kind of issues?

I'm trying to contact a human support - AI chat was useless. Chat's response:

"Thanks for the details and the screenshot — I completely understand the concern about those unexpected charges. Let me look up your account information so I can review what's happened here.

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I'm really sorry for the disruption and frustration this has caused. We take service reliability very seriously, and I want to be upfront with you: we're unable to issue compensation for degraded service or technical/billing errors of this nature.

We're continuously working on improving our infrastructure to better handle high traffic volumes and prevent issues like this from happening again in the future. Thank you so much for your patience and understanding."

...

"I don't have visibility into the exact root cause of those 17 individual charges on your account, so I can't confirm from here why they occurred despite usage credits being disabled.

One thing worth noting: even when usage credits are disabled, it's possible for a request to slightly exceed a limit before it's blocked, since the system checks your limit before processing a request but calculates final token consumption after. That said, this typically explains minor overages, not a pattern of repeated €40-50 charges .

Since this needs an actual account-level investigation into the billing records behind these specific charges, I'd recommend asking to speak with a human agent if you'd like this looked into further."

"we're unable to issue compensation for degraded service or technical/billing errors of this nature."

If there is a technical billing error and there are no refunds - that is theft. If I don't get my stolen money back, my subscription is over. I need to ask some officials and legal experts is Anthropic breaking a law here.

EDIT: Most likely this is caused by malware or hacker type situation. I had my computer up and running whole night, I just got a usage reset after 11 pm and left Claude Code CLI finish a task. Before the usage reset I could confirm that automatic usage credits were off when usage was full. I had been logged in to claude.ai as well.

Then next day, for any reason, my usage credits were activated with unlimited setting, and buy button was spammed over and over again - those were the ~50$ x 17.

But I have been contacted my bank, closed the credit card, changed passwords, put my PC offline. I'm sure I can sort this out with my bank.

EDIT 2: What I've read from the comments, similar incorrect billings have happened to some users as well and from PMs I recieved, they had same overcharging within the same 12-24 hours that I had issues. So there is a possibility of some kind of bug. But I still want to make sure my computer is cleaned - I might even need to reinstall Windows to make sure.

The biggest mistake people make about AI is thinking it’s coming for artists, writers, musicians, or programmers.

They’re just first.

AI is coming for almost every profession that depends more on a brain than a body. Accountants. Lawyers. Teachers. Consultants. Analysts. Customer service. Marketing. Management. Software engineering. Research. Finance. Medicine. Eventually almost every job where the primary product is human thought.
Manual labor only looks safe because robotics hasn’t caught up yet.

AI doesn’t have to replace an entire profession to destroy it. It only has to let one person do the work of ten. Companies don’t need AI to be perfect. They need it to be cheaper than you. Once that happens, replacing people stops being a technological question and becomes an accounting decision.

For most workers, there is no safe career waiting on the other side.

People tell themselves we’ll adapt like we always have. We won’t.

The Industrial Revolution replaced muscle while making human intelligence more valuable. AI replaces the intelligence behind the work itself. Every previous technological revolution created new industries that still needed millions of people. AI is being built for the opposite purpose: producing more with fewer humans.
The next comforting myth is that people will simply buy human-made products instead.
No, they won’t.

There will always be a luxury market for handmade art, music, books, furniture, and clothing. There are still people who buy mechanical watches and vinyl records. That’s a niche—not an economy. Most people buy whatever is cheaper, faster, easier, and good enough. Businesses care even less. They exist to reduce costs, increase output, and beat competitors. Sentiment doesn’t survive quarterly earnings.

There is no hidden human economy large enough to rescue everyone AI makes unnecessary.
The consequences don’t stop with unemployment.

Workers are also consumers and taxpayers. If hundreds of millions of people lose well-paid jobs, they stop buying homes, cars, vacations, entertainment, and everything else that keeps economies alive. Businesses lose customers, lay off more workers, governments collect less tax revenue, public services deteriorate, debt grows, pensions become harder to fund, and political instability follows. Countries built around exporting knowledge work lose entire sectors of their economies. Migration accelerates. Extremism grows. Governments respond with more surveillance, more control, and fewer freedoms because instability always creates demand for stronger authority.

That is the point where this stops being a labor-market problem and becomes a global breakdown.

Meanwhile, the wealth doesn’t disappear. It concentrates.

The companies that own the models, data centers, chips, energy, and infrastructure become the gatekeepers of the global economy. AI doesn’t just replace workers. It transfers bargaining power from billions of people to a handful of institutions.

Most of humanity will have less income, less leverage, and less freedom while a tiny ownership class gains more power than any ruling class in history.

The people building AI are warning about this.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has warned that AI could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs within one to five years. Geoffrey Hinton, one of the pioneers of modern AI and a Nobel laureate, has warned that AI will replace jobs, increase inequality, strengthen authoritarian surveillance, enable more powerful cyberattacks, and create systems that may become more intelligent than humans without any proven way to keep them under control. Yoshua Bengio has repeatedly warned that AI can strengthen authoritarian governments, manipulate populations, and accelerate a global arms race in increasingly autonomous systems. A Science paper co-authored by Hinton, Bengio, Stuart Russell, Andrew Yao, Dawn Song, and many other leading researchers warns of the possibility of an “irreversible loss of human control” if AI capabilities keep advancing without comparable progress in safety.

What makes this different from every previous technology isn’t just its capability. It’s the incentives.

No government will voluntarily give up a military or intelligence advantage. No corporation will preserve expensive human jobs while competitors replace theirs. Every major player has a reason to move faster, and almost none have a reason to slow down. The race continues because everyone believes stopping first means losing.

There is no responsible adult coming to end this race. The institutions with the power to stop it are the same institutions that gain the most from continuing.

We’re not building another tool.

We’re building a replacement for the thing that made humans economically indispensable, then connecting it to finance, medicine, education, infrastructure, government, warfare, and eventually robotics.

Once those systems become essential to running civilization, there may be no practical way back—and no meaningful human authority left capable of taking control.

This won’t be remembered as another technological revolution.

It will be remembered as the moment humanity automated its own economic value and handed the resulting power to institutions it could no longer restrain.

Further reading
Geoffrey Hinton — Nobel Prize interview: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/hinton/1925103-interview-transcript/

Geoffrey Hinton — Nobel Prize lecture: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/hinton/speech/

Dario Amodei — Essays: https://darioamodei.com/

Anthropic — Labor-market research: https://www.anthropic.com/research/labor-market-impacts

Yoshua Bengio — AI-safety essays: https://yoshuabengio.org/

Science — “Managing Extreme AI Risks Amid Rapid Progress”: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn0117

TL;DR: AI isn’t coming for one industry. It’s coming for human cognition itself. When the world’s most valuable economic resource becomes abundant and nearly free, jobs disappear, economies fracture, governments become more authoritarian, and wealth and control concentrate among the institutions that own the technology. There is no safe place for most of humanity in that system.

OpenAI is shutting down its Atlas browser, but the company is not stepping away from AI-powered web browsing.

Instead, Atlas features are moving into ChatGPT’s desktop app and a new Chrome extension that can read pages, summarize content, and handle longer tasks.

The desktop app is also getting a stronger built-in browser that can open websites, log into accounts, download files, and let AI agents act on a user’s behalf.

The bigger shift is clear, OpenAI now appears more interested in bringing AI into the places people already browse and work rather than building a separate browser around it.

Saw this on Threads: https://www.threads.com/@remy\_notes/post/DaidVa3Cfma

Apparently a Korean user received a $16.6M payment failed email from Anthropic, but their dashboard still showed $0.00.

If it's a billing bug, that's a pretty terrifying one.

Has anyone else seen anything like this?

Coding on the train, judged by strangers, locked tf in. Nothing else like the feeling of public productivity.

Sometimes you just have to open your laptop anywhere and get things done. P.S Ignore the .env file on my screen this is for people that want to win.

And what am I working on? ha💸ha💸ha💸. you already saw me post here before- you know what I built alr

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Edited by GPT (free-tier, have no idea what model this gives)

Don't think too hard about the dates, okay? It's just a comic...

Most useful prompt for Fable 5?

I’ve noticed that a lot of humanoid robot demos, especially for home robots, use laundry folding as a showcase task.

I’m curious why this task is so common. Is folding clothes considered a particularly good benchmark because it involves deformable objects, perception, dexterity, and planning? Or is it mainly used because it is an easy-to-understand household chore for the general public?