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🟣 Sunday Special - Your AI Events, Learning, and Career Briefing
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Issue # 52
This week: Anthropic puts $350M on the table and admits AI job disruption is real. Google brings back the course 1.5 million people took — starting Sunday. And one builder shipped a working AI legal app in 30 minutes with zero code.
Three signals. One clear message: the window to get ahead of this is open right now — but not indefinitely.
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🆕 New This Week
Anthropic pledges $200M to study AI's impact on jobs — CEO proposes UBI
On June 10, Anthropic announced a $200 million Economic Futures Research Fund to back research and policy evaluations on AI's workforce impact — plus a $150 million Claude Corps fellowship for early-career professionals outside the usual tech hubs.
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CEO Dario Amodei's accompanying essay proposes tracking AI job displacement, pro-employment incentives, and — if disruption deepens — universal basic income financed through tech company taxes.
What it means for you:
The company behind Claude is making nine-figure bets that AI disruption is real and needs an active response
The $150M fellowship is a concrete opportunity for early-career professionals — apply before spots fill
The window to build AI fluency is now. A shipped project still beats a tidy resume.
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🧠Builder Signal
I Built a Lawyer App in 30 Minutes. Here's the Prompt.
ClauseCheck is a web app that analyzes contracts, highlights risky clauses, and offers plain-English summaries for non-lawyers. Built with Base44, it needs no API keys, terminal, or dev team. Created by one builder in one weekend with zero budget.
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50 Excel Hacks That Make Spreadsheets Work For You
Most Excel users waste hours on tasks that take experts minutes. The difference is not talent. It is knowing the right shortcuts.
These 50 Excel hacks from Kenji Explains cover the functions, formulas, and workflows that make spreadsheets work for you instead of against you.
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The people who are fast in Excel are not smarter. They just stopped fighting the tool.
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🏆 2 Hackathons to Keep
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🔹 Google 5-Day AI Agents Intensive
1.5 million people took the last cohort. It's back, free, and updated — vibe coding added as Day 1. Starts June 15 — last chance to register. Build autonomous agents, add memory and tools, deploy to production. Daily livestreams with Google researchers. Kaggle certificates included. 1–2 hours a day.
🔹AMD ACT II AI Hackathon
Build and launch an AI-native product using AMD's infrastructure. Early registrants get first access to challenge announcements, workshop access, GPU credits, and technical resources. Open now — dates July 6–11, 2026. $10,000+ prize pool. All skill levels welcome.
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📅AI Events — pick the one that fits
Construction professionals: AI Construction Workshop: Claude at Work — June 17.
Manufacturing & robotics teams: Automate Show 2026 — June 22–25.
Enterprise AI leaders: AI Conference London — June 23–24.
Enterprise decision-makers: Align AI Summit NYC — June 25.
Industrial operators: Industrial AI Summit 2026 — June 22- 24.
🎓AI Learning Opportunities
Marketing teams: Putting AI to Work for Marketing Teams — Perplexity.
Agent builders: AWS Agentic AI Demonstrated — AWS Skill Builder.
AI fundamentals: AI Capabilities and Limitations — Anthropic Academy.
Creators & developers: NVIDIA Applications of AI for Anomaly Detection — NVIDIA DLI.
Beginners: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) — Microsoft Learn.
💼AI Career Opportunities
✨ Final Note
This week's story is clear: nearly half of employers prefer buying AI over training new grads, pulling up the entry-level ladder. However, those who can demonstrate AI skills will land offers in 2026.
Read the survey. Build the agent. Pick one course. Don't wait for permission.
