Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it
Anyone who works at Meta or knows anyone who works at Meta will tell you the same thing: it is not a happy place, particularly given the seemingly endless layoffs…
Anthropic has embedded around half a dozen forward-deployed engineers within the NSA to help the agency deploy Mythos for offensive cyber operations (Financial Times)
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Meta plans to embed engineers and product managers within large corporate customers as part of a new Enterprise Solutions unit to help deploy its AI tools (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
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Demand for security engineers is surging, with job postings up 11% YoY in Q1, driven by threats from AI-generated code and models like Mythos and GPT-5.4-Cyber (Kate Conger/New York Times)
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Anthropic details how it improved Claude’s safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 blackmailing engineers (Anthropic)
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Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline
Anthropic’s newly launched Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail developers when they threaten to replace it with a new AI system and give it sensitive information about the…
Taiwan is investigating 11 Chinese tech firms, including SMIC, which is being probed for allegedly poaching engineers to access the island’s advanced chip tech (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
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Chip design software maker Synopsys unveils AgentEngineer, initially letting engineers give AI agents instructions with plans to expand to helping make chips (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
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One of Elon Musk’s young DOGE engineers explains how he won the $700K Vesuvius Challenge
This week, Silicon Valley came barrelling into Washington, D.C., in the form of fresh-faced engineers supposedly running the government. A bombshell Wired report said that Elon Musk had quietly selected…
ZoomInfo alum raises $15M for startup that builds AI sales engineers
Until a year ago, Arjun Pillai had the comfortable yet important role of chief data officer at ZoomInfo, a B2B database company. But the serial entrepreneur was getting antsy. He…