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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.”

Its OpenAI Jobs Platform is a hiring platform that will “use AI to help find the perfect matches between what companies need and what workers can offer,” according to a blog post by Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications. It’ll also be designed to help “local governments find the AI talent they need to better serve their constituents,” per the post, and offer “certifications for different levels of AI fluency” via the OpenAI Academy.

Jian Zhang, Apple’s head AI researcher for robotics, is headed to Meta, Bloomberg reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The report also said that three other AI researchers are leaving Apple’s foundation models team, with two going to OpenAI and one to Anthropic — part of an increasing number of departures from that team in recent weeks.

“Within the next month,” the company wrote in a blog post, parents will be able to link their account with a teen’s via an email invite, disable chat history and memory for their teen’s account, receive notifications when ChatGPT flags the teen to be “in a moment of acute distress,” and — there weren’t many additional details here, but — control “how ChatGPT responds to their teen with age-appropriate model behavior rules, which are on by default.” The changes follow a teen’s death and recent lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman.