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Hayden Field

Hayden Field

Senior AI Reporter

Senior AI Reporter

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    Anthropic hired back two of its employees — just two weeks after they left for a competitor.

    Boris Cherny and Cat Wu, two leaders of Anthropic’s coding product, Claude Code, are reportedly back at the company after news broke earlier this month that they had departed for Anysphere, the developer of Cursor.

    Anthropic Hires Back Two Coding AI Leaders From Cursor Developer Anysphere

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    Scale AI lays off 200 employees: ‘We ramped up our GenAI capacity too quickly’Scale AI lays off 200 employees: ‘We ramped up our GenAI capacity too quickly’
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    Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab raised $2 billion.

    OpenAI’s ex-CTO, who also briefly stepped into the CEO role during Sam Altman’s high-profile ouster, said Tuesday that a16z led the round, with participation from NVIDIA, Accel, ServiceNow, CISCO, AMD, and Jane Street. She added that the company would share its first product “in the next couple months.”

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    One of Google’s AI agents flagged a “critical security flaw” in SQLite, an open-source database.

    Big Sleep, an AI agent Google introduced last year for searching out security vulnerabilities in both Google products and open-source projects, used information from Google Threat Intelligence to discover the issue before it could be used by threat actors, according to the company.

    A summer of security: empowering cyber defenders with AI

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