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Brain²: The Coming Wave

Announcement of Brain², a new AI product from ClickUp, authored by Jay Hack.

AI 'Psychosis' and Accelerating AI-Driven Layoffs

Box founder Aaron Levie warned of “AI psychosis,” a management blind spot where executives overconfident in AI push to replace human roles without understanding the work. The article cites ClickUp’s announcement to cut 22% of its workforce and replace roles with AI agents, and notes 2026 tech layoffs have nearly matched all of 2025 before midyear. JudyAI Lab frames this as a requirements-analysis failure: teams skip deep interviews with role incumbents, automating visible steps while missing implicit human judgment, exception handling, and edge-case work. The piece urges AI implementers to involve the people doing the work when designing agent/workflow automation to avoid efficiency losses from over-automation.

ClickUp Launches Brain2: Company-Aware AI

ClickUp announced Brain 2, a reimagined core AI platform that the company says has full awareness of a customer’s company knowledge—tasks, docs, decisions, relationships and conversations—to power answers, execution and collaboration across teams. ClickUp describes Brain 2 as ‘multiplayer’ by default, with persistent, organization-wide memory, the ability to spin up AI agents, and integrations with tools such as Gmail, GitHub, Figma and Slack. The product routes between frontier models (Claude, GPT, Gemini) or lets users choose a model, injecting company context into each request. ClickUp reported that, in blind head-to-head evaluations on real work tasks, users preferred Brain 2 100% of the time over standalone ChatGPT and Claude. The announcement emphasizes enterprise security and compliance (SOC 2, ISO 42001, HIPAA, GDPR).