The Signal · 2026-W43
AI hires this week, week 43 of 2026
Anthropic Pledges Equity as AI Agents Beat Minecraft Alone
Anthropic commits 5 percent of its shares to a public benefit fund, DeepMind agents clear Minecraft alone, and Nvidia wins Modal's processor business from Intel and AMD.
People Moves
Matt Thompson joins Transmit Security as chief executive officer
Thompson brings Socure and ID.me identity experience to lead Transmit Security's push into AI agent security.
Drops
Tesla expands FSD v14.3 Lite rollout to legacy HW3 cars
Legacy HW3 owners with Intel GPUs finally get FSD v14.3 Lite as the wider rollout reaches a third of Tesla's fleet.
Events
Google's Gemini agents beat Minecraft alone in 27 hours
DeepMind says four Gemini 4 Argon agents coordinated by chat and code alone, spending 1,620 dollars to beat the game.
Modal picks Nvidia Vera chips over Intel and AMD
Modal will run Nvidia's new Vera processor alongside Intel and AMD chips after tests showed it doubled agent throughput.
Tenstorrent raises 1.5 billion dollars at 6.2 billion valuation
Tether and Morgan Stanley back the Series E as Tenstorrent scales Galaxy servers instead of selling to Intel or Qualcomm.
Anthropic commits 5 percent of shares to benefit fund
The new public benefit fund could grow to 7 percent of Anthropic and may address AI driven job losses.