The workers focused on Gemini, AI Overviews, and other products, and the news came amid conflicts about pay, working conditions, and the workers’ concern that they’re training AI to replace their own jobs, Wired reported. And at Elon Musk’s xAI, more than 500 data annotation staffers were let go on Friday, per Business Insider.
Yao Shunyu left OpenAI for the Chinese gaming and messaging company, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. It’s yet another sign of how the AI talent wars are intensifying — both stateside and between the U.S. and China.
xAI’s track record with safety is concerning, Senator Elizabeth Warren says in letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The company said it’s building neural accelerators into each GPU core to prime users’ iPhones for intense AI workloads. It’s part of Apple’s bid to stay competitive in the AI race.
It can create and edit files in Excel and PowerPoint, plus create documents and PDFs, the company announced Tuesday. “Claude creates actual files from your instructions—whether working from
uploaded data, researching information, or building from scratch,” according to the blog post.
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The California bill would require leading AI companies to publish safety frameworks with details about how they manage “catastrophic risks,” as well as provide certain whistleblower protections. Anthropic’s support comes after weeks of negotiations with the AI industry on the bill’s specifics. We’ll keep an eye on the upcoming floor vote.
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They’ll be joining OpenAI’s Codex team, which is working on the company’s AI coding assistant. “Building a ‘Cursor for Xcode’ sounded crazy, but we managed to do it anyway,” Alex founder Daniel Edrisian wrote in a post on X, adding, “And, over time, we built the best coding agent for iOS & MacOS apps ... It is an honor to continue that work at a much bigger scale at OpenAI.”
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