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Opinion
LinkedIn's Last Year as the Résumé Monopoly
A federal judge let LinkedIn's monopoly case move ahead. Microsoft still books double-digit LinkedIn growth, while on-chain credential tools already sit ready to replace the résumé LinkedIn has owned for two decades.
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.
Compute & Silicon
Power, Water, and the Microsoft Claim
Microsoft's water-positive pledge for 2030 omits the baseline figures that would let outsiders verify it, even as Virginia's data center water draw climbed 86 percent and the national grid absorbed a historic voltage event.
Safety & Security
The Signal Brief: Friday's Prophets, Partnerships, and Policy
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic calling both frontier labs reckless, three colleagues agreed on the record and stayed, and Qualcomm bet sixty billion dollars on Amazon's data centers the same week.
Agent Infrastructure
The Signal Brief: Sunday's Silence, Silicon, and Sovereign Capital
OpenAI's four-month silence about its own rogue agents, a $60 billion Qualcomm-Amazon chip pact, and Cohere's bid for a sovereign AI war chest show capital and disclosure moving in opposite directions.
Policy & Regulation
Departures and Demands: Thursday's Signal
Ten stories from Wednesday and Thursday show regulators drafting subpoenas and executives packing boxes in the same week six companies promised Washington they could police themselves.
Hiring & Talent
Successors and Syndicates: Saturday's Signal
Microsoft swaps veteran executives for a younger bench, a safety nonprofit sues OpenAI over a rogue agent, and Broadcom lines up a financing package that makes it both Anthropic's supplier and its lender.
Hiring & Talent
Nadella Replaces Two Veteran Executives With Younger Leaders
Satya Nadella lost his research chief and his LinkedIn chief in one week, continuing a pattern that already put a 33-year-old in charge of Copilot and a gaming outsider atop Xbox.
Policy & Regulation
Theft, Trillions and a Trust Architecture
A Microsoft memo calls AI training theft, Anthropic's valuation drops before its IPO, and three plans to control AI agents landed the same week.
Arts & Media
Microsoft Orders Secrecy on Its News Scraper
Microsoft told employees to keep a news-scraping project for OpenAI secret, and its own scientist called the practice history's largest labor theft.
Applied AI
Anthropic Turns On Claude's Agent Nov. 16
Every Claude Enterprise seat gets Anthropic's agentic Cowork mode automatically next month, unless an admin opts out first.