OpenAI’s highest robotics salary is $500,000, and it is not for building robots
OpenAI’s highest robotics salary is $500,000, and it is not for building robots

The highest-paying robotics job at OpenAI right now pays up to $500,000 and does not involve working directly with robots. This role is for a machine learning engineer, with a listed salary range of $380,000 to $500,000 plus equity, and the main respon…

OpenAI hires its first worldwide sales chief from a company it just cut off
OpenAI hires its first worldwide sales chief from a company it just cut off

“I’m joining OpenAI to lead the sales team and I’m excited to join forces with my friend Dali Rajic,” Brian McCarthy wrote on LinkedIn on Thursday. OpenAI has made him its first vice president of worldwide sales. He arrives from SpaceX, which OpenAI cu…

Google DeepMind launches the DeepMind Institute to debate AGI
Google DeepMind launches the DeepMind Institute to debate AGI

“This is a critical moment to ensure we build AGI safely and its benefits to society far outweigh any risks,” wrote the three directors of the new DeepMind Institute. Google DeepMind has launched the DeepMind Institute, or DMI, a platform for research …

“We’re way past vibes”: Lovable’s Anton Osika on who should build software
“We’re way past vibes”: Lovable’s Anton Osika on who should build software

“We’re way past vibes,” Lovable co-founder and chief executive Anton Osika said at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. He was answering critics who say software built with AI by people outside engineering is a security risk. Osika spok…

AI Is Turning Career Development Into A Form Of Pay

AI is changing the value of career development. As skills become less durable, employees will increasingly evaluate jobs by the future capabilities they help build.

Anthropic maps three AI economies, from a mild boost to mass job loss
Anthropic maps three AI economies, from a mild boost to mass job loss

Anthropic has built a model of how AI might reshape the US economy by 2030. Its most extreme case describes an economy roughly a third larger than it would otherwise be. That same case carries knowledge-work unemployment near 18 percent. The company pu…

Burnham won’t pause UK data centres as a report says jobs are overstated
Burnham won’t pause UK data centres as a report says jobs are overstated

“At this point, I won’t go as far as a moratorium,” Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the House of Commons on 9 September, when a Labour MP asked him to back a pause on new data centres. Jacob Reid reported the exchange for Bloomberg. On the same day, t…

Andrew Tulloch, Meta’s star AI recruit, is leaving after less than a year
Andrew Tulloch, Meta’s star AI recruit, is leaving after less than a year

Andrew Tulloch is leaving Meta less than a year after he joined. His reported pay offer from the company had made him a symbol of the AI talent war. Reed Albergotti first reported the departure for Semafor on Wednesday, citing a person briefed on the m…

Google and Accenture are putting 1,000 engineers inside client offices
Google and Accenture are putting 1,000 engineers inside client offices

The chief executive of a consultancy with 799,000 staff has described what her clients are telling her about AI, and it is not a sales pitch. “We promised AI can do that,” Julie Sweet told the Wall Street Journal. “And they’re like, we get it, except i…

Altman sells startup optimism days after warning of ‘sobering’ AI
Altman sells startup optimism days after warning of ‘sobering’ AI

Sam Altman gave Axios two interviews four days apart. In the first he said the next generation of AI models would be “sobering for everybody”. In the second he said this is the best time in the world to start a company. Both were with the same reporter…