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Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI founding member and the man credited with coining the term vibe coding, has joined Anthropic. The move is a significant symbolic blow to OpenAI and a major talent win for Anthropic, which is already in talks for a funding round that would value the company near one trillion dollars. Momentum in the AI race is visibly shifting.
Speaking of AI momentum, Google CEO Sundar Pichai used the company's annual I/O developer conference to tout a seven times increase in usage across Google's AI products. The announcement drew audible gasps from the audience. Pichai acknowledged the so-called tokenmaxxing debate but argued the scale of that growth still tells a fundamentally important story about adoption.
Meanwhile, on the labor front, a new survey is pushing back on fears that AI is simply eliminating entry-level positions. Employers still report growing demand for certain roles, but the expectations attached to those jobs are rising sharply. Workers entering the market now will be asked to operate alongside AI tools from day one, raising the floor on what baseline competency actually means.
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