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California Governor Gavin Newsom is stepping into the growing conversation around tech layoffs, as the state faces what observers are calling a historic wave of job cuts tied to AI adoption. Newsom's intervention signals that the human cost of automation is becoming too visible for politicians to ignore.
On the infrastructure side, MinIO co-founders Garima Kapoor and Anand Babu Periasamy are making the case that GPU underutilization isn't a compute problem — it's a storage problem. Speaking at HumanX, they outlined their partnership with NVIDIA on the new STX reference architecture and argued that S3-compatible object storage is fast becoming the backbone of serious AI deployments.
And Anthropic's Claude Opus four point seven hit a rough patch early Thursday morning, with an elevated error rate flagged just after four in the morning UTC. The incident was brief and publicly acknowledged on Anthropic's status page, but it's a reminder that even the most capable AI systems carry the same operational fragility as any cloud service.
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