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Which Jobs AI Will Replace First 😬, AWS Hits Snooze and World Wakes Up Offline, Generative AI Traffic(AEO) Trends and more...

When AWS Hits Snooze, the World Wakes Up Offline

In a plot twist straight out of a bad sci-fi flick, Amazon Web Services (AWS) took a 15-hour nap on October 20, 2025, thanks to a pesky DNS hiccup in its DynamoDB API, turning the internet’s busiest highway into a ghost town.

Banks froze, flights glitched, and Netflix bingers everywhere pondered life’s deeper questions like “Is my router haunted?”

This single-point-of-failure fiasco exposed our creepy over-reliance on a handful of cloud overlords, costing billions and reminding us that one bad update can domino the digital economy.

Experts are now preaching the multi-cloud gospel: spread your bets like a paranoid gambler at Vegas. Because if AWS is the cool kid everyone copies homework from, imagine the chaos when it forgets its lines, spoiler: it’s basically every Monday morning for global tech.

Generative AI Traffic Trends 2025

According to Similarweb’s latest data, OpenAI continues to dominate the generative AI landscape, maintaining the largest traffic share even as new players emerge. Over the past year, platforms like DeepSeek, Gemini, and Perplexity have shown steady growth, with DeepSeek notably surpassing Claude in traffic — likely due to its free and accessible model. The overall traffic to generative AI tools has surged massively, with ChatGPT’s user base alone jumping from 250 million to over 800 million weekly users by October 2025, reflecting the explosive adoption of AI tools worldwide

Which Jobs AI Will Replace First 😬

Apparently, office workers and lawyers are doomed first - because scheduling meetings and writing reports was clearly humanity’s peak achievement. Meanwhile, the tradespeople fixing your Wi-Fi, the farmers growing your food, and the janitors cleaning up after your “AI revolution” are chilling in the 4%–1% zone like, “Good luck with your data input apocalypse.” 🤖 Guess the real winners here are plumbers and electricians - AI can’t unclog a toilet... yet.

Claude Just Released “Skills” — A New Step Toward Smarter AI Workflows
Anthropic has introduced Claude Skills, a feature that lets users create specialized contexts or “mini brains” within Claude. Think of them as custom agents or project setups — you can give each Skill unique instructions, reference materials, or tone preferences, and switch between them effortlessly. Unlike single-task prompts, multiple Skills can run simultaneously, making Claude more adaptable for developers, writers, and teams handling diverse workflows. This update positions Claude closer to agent-style AI systems like OpenAI’s GPTs — but with Anthropic’s signature focus on safety and context control.

OpenAI just dropped the top 30 customers who’ve used 1T+ of their tokens.

So many great discussions are going on here Reddit: 1T toKen Mystery

UpComing Tech innovation and product to look on:

Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions.

Teenage engineering PC Case

A new research paper called SEAL, Self-Adapting Language Models (arXiv:2506.10943) describes how an AI can continuously learn after deployment, evolving its own internal representations without retraining (Direct Paper link)

Product Hunt Trends:
1. OneRemoteJobs: Discover thousands of remote jobs from companies worldwide | Product Hunt
2. Caesr AI: AI that controls real apps across web, desktop, and mobile | Product Hunt
3. Crustdata: Real-time people and company data via APIs and webhooks | Product Hunt