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Hiring & Talent
The Biggest AI Hires of 2025
Meta's $14.3 billion Scale AI deal, OpenAI's C-suite rebuild, and Google's Windsurf license turned 2024 and 2025 into a two-year auction for AI's rarest asset: the researchers themselves.
Hiring & Talent
OpenAI's Org Chart in Motion
Fidji Simo's July 2026 exit, Kevin Weil's departure from OpenAI for Science, and Noam Shazeer's arrival from Google trace a company shedding experiments to concentrate on enterprise AI and frontier research.
Policy & Regulation
Washington's Preemption Fight
A White House pushing federal preemption of state AI laws, a Senate that rejected a blanket moratorium 99 to 1, and rival super PACs from Anthropic and OpenAI-adjacent investors turned 2026 into the year AI policy split labs into camps.
Safety & Security
The Signal Brief: Friday's Prophets, Partnerships, and Policy
Jacob Coxon's resignation from Anthropic, Qualcomm's sixty-billion-dollar wager on Amazon's data centers, and OpenAI's push for binding safety law show capital and conscience moving at matched speed this week.
Safety & Security
Anthropic's Alignment Reckoning
Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic warning of a reckless race to superintelligence, and four colleagues, including Alignment Science Lead Evan Hubinger, chose to stay and say he is right.