Tech Choas and Wild Stories from June 2025

While documenting these billion-dollar breakthroughs, I celebrated getting my first LinkedIn organic comment that wasn’t trying to sell me crypto or questionable pharmaceuticals.

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The Money Moves That Make No Sense

1. Zuck is apparently throwing $100M at anyone willing to jump ship from OpenAI to Meta. That’s more than my entire blog will make in several lifetimes, but who’s counting?
2. Jeff Bezos had a $50B wedding because, well, he can. Meanwhile, I’m here calculating whether upgrading my hosting plan is worth the extra $5 a month.
3. Palantir justified its entire valuation in 12 days, which is roughly how long it takes me to decide on a blog post title.

The AI Content Creation Reality Check

4. Elementary school kids are apparently building $50k MRR apps from their phones during recess while I’m here struggling to write a coherent blog post. Either I’m getting old or these kids discovered some cheat codes I missed.
5. A16z keeps publishing “RIP SEO” articles like that friend who keeps threatening to quit social media but never does. Sure, SEO might die tomorrow—or maybe it’ll outlive us all like cockroaches and Nokia phones.
6. Everyone’s suddenly an “AI Builder” now. Airtable just joined the party, which is like your dad showing up to TikTok dances—technically participating but missing the point entirely.

The Great Vibe Coding Debate

7. Real programmers think vibe coding is beneath them, so someone wrapped it in CLI tools to make it respectable. It’s like putting a tuxedo on a hot dog—still a hot dog, just fancier packaging.
8. That complete ChatGPT clone prompt got leaked and scrubbed from the internet faster than my search rankings after a Google algorithm update. (Don’t ask me for it, I’m trying to do this the hard way, remember?)
9. We were promised vibe coding would take over 1,021 days ago, but maybe those apps are so good that founders are keeping them as secret weapons. Like having a sourdough starter that actually works consistently.

The Content Creator Arms Race

10. Marketing videos now need to be Tarantino-level productions thanks to viral creators setting impossible standards. I can barely get my phone camera to focus, let alone create cinematic masterpieces.
11. Roy from Cluely needs his own social media platform because half of Twitter is somehow about him now. This guy cracked the code on going viral while I’m here hoping three people read my posts.
12. Some VC got canceled for bragging about a “3-figure founder” which sounds exactly like something I would accidentally say trying to sound impressive.

The Youth Are Coming for Our Jobs

13. A 16-year-old is running a $10M company while a 10-year-old is going viral, and here I am proud that I remembered to update my meta descriptions. Time to pivot to farming, apparently.
14. Text-to-video is getting so realistic that AI models are taking over Instagram feeds. Even the robots are better at content creation than me now.
15. Education got revolutionized by mixing math with… let’s call it “engaging visual content.” Honestly learned more from those videos than my entire college curriculum, which says something about both.

The Search and Discovery Chaos

16. AI companies are building their own browsers now—Perplexity, The Browser Company, and probably everyone else soon. Because apparently we needed more ways to not find my blog.
17. Apple might buy Perplexity (is anyone still using Perplexity?) because they need an Indian CEO. The acquisition logic makes about as much sense as my keyword strategy.
18. Our passwords got leaked to the dark web for the 134,234th time. Good thing nobody’s trying to hack my blog analytics—they’d just find disappointment.

The Startup Reality Show

19. Two bootstrapped companies got acquired with 49-year earnout periods. That’s not freedom, that’s just employment with extra steps and false hope.
20. Jack Friks won everyone’s hearts with authenticity, then someone cloned his idea immediately. It’s like watching someone steal your lunch money, except the lunch money was validation and dopamine hits.
21. Mr. Beast shut down his AI thumbnail startup because people said he was stealing from human artists. Pieter Levels launched the same thing over breakfast because he doesn’t care about the controversy.

The Automation Apocalypse Begins

22. Dyson is growing strawberries with robots now, officially kicking off the era where every job gets automated. Even farming isn’t safe—my backup plan needs a backup plan.
23. Anthropic tested Claude running a virtual business and it failed just like most of us. At least I’m not alone in my entrepreneurial struggles—even AI can’t make it work sometimes.
24. University of Osaka researchers achieved some quantum computing breakthrough that none of us understand, which means VCs are about to throw money at it. If I could just explain SEO in quantum terms, maybe I’d get funding too.

The Bigger Picture Madness

25. Sam Altman allegedly heard a smart earbud pitch in 2018, passed on it, then maybe copied it for $6.5B. Either that’s the longest con in tech history or just really bad timing for the original founders.
26. GPT-5 is launching this summer and everyone will go crazy until they realize LLMs might have hit their peak. Kind of like how I thought better keywords would solve all my traffic problems.
27. AI startups raised over a billion in 30 days so those of us who missed the dot-com bubble can enjoy the AI bubble burst in a couple years. At least this time I have a front-row seat to the chaos.
28. Elon’s rocket blew up, making half the country happy and half upset. I’m just impressed anything I write generates that much emotion in my mom.
29. Peter Thiel might be the Antichrist he warned about, building Palantir with a guy who looks like every evil CEO from corporate thriller movies. But hey, at least their SEO is probably better than mine.
30. Karpathy gave the best keynote of the decade at YC Startup School, then someone commented “this dude probably never built anything with AI.” The internet’s ability to humble people knows no bounds.
31. A socialist who wants to jail billionaires became mayor of New York, finally creating a place where being poor is celebrated. My blog traffic suddenly feels like a feature, not a bug.
32. The Pope declared that replacing humans with AI is the biggest sin you can commit. Guess I’m safe since my blog barely qualifies as human-created content most days.

The June Tech Stories That Made Me Question My Life Choices

33. The FDA launched its first in-house AI system called “Elsa” to help with drug safety reports Latest AI Breakthroughs News, because apparently even government agencies need robot assistants now. Meanwhile, I’m still trying to get my blog’s contact form to work without breaking.
34. Microsoft’s AI is now helping save endangered giraffes in Africa by analyzing drone footage, which is both heartwarming and a reminder that AI can apparently spot wildlife better than I can spot typos in my own posts.
35. Thinking Machines Lab (founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati) raised a jaw-dropping $2 billion seed round. That’s not a Series A or B—that’s a SEED round. I can barely get someone to seed my sourdough starter, let alone my startup dreams.
36. Meta is reportedly planning to raise $29 billion to build AI-focused data centers, which is roughly equivalent to the GDP of several small countries. My hosting costs are $12 a month and I still question whether it’s worth it.
37. Anduril Industries raised $2.5 billion in defense tech funding, bringing their valuation to $30.5 billion. They’re building autonomous drones while I’m still figuring out how to get a good night’s sleep without nightmares of AI coming for everyone’s job.
38. Australian scientists created a “mind-reading” AI that converts brainwaves to text with 70% accuracy. Finally, technology that could help me write blog posts just by thinking about them—though knowing my luck, it would just output “I should really write that blog post” on repeat.
39. Neuralink secured $650 million in Series E funding to advance brain-computer interfaces. Elon’s company is literally connecting brains to computers while I’m still trying to connect my thoughts to coherent sentences.
40. Harvey, the legal AI startup, raised $300 million at a $5 billion valuation to automate legal work. They’re replacing lawyers with AI while I can’t even automate my blog’s social media posts (mainly because I don’t have social media).
41. A robot learned to play ping-pong by practicing against itself, showcasing surprising dexterity and strategy. It’s basically the AI equivalent of that friend who gets really good at video games by playing alone—-except this one could probably beat you at actual sports too. Google: China hosts first fully autonomous AI robot soccer match for some real fun.
42. The Pope urged AI developers to embed human dignity in their designs during a Vatican AI ethics summit, because when the Pope has to weigh in on your technology, you know things are getting serious. At least my blog’s biggest ethical dilemma is whether to use cookies for analytics.

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