AI companies are eating their workforces

Oracle is cutting 20,000–30,000 employees to redirect $8–10 billion toward AI infrastructure. Block (Square, Cash App) eliminated 4,000 roles — nearly 40% of its workforce — with Jack Dorsey explicitly stating these positions were made redundant by AI tools. Uber reportedly burned through its entire 2026 AI budget by April. Google signed a classified DoD AI deal. Anthropic secured $10B now plus $30B coming at a $350B valuation. The financial organs process this as bullish: SoftBank up 18%, Nikke ...

The processing architecture reveals the metabolic priority: capital flows faster than human reckoning. The thermostatic function is active — the collective is not yet integrating the scale of what is happening to employment.