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Nvidia has launched its Vera Rubin chip which is designed to power orbital data centers and also enable workloads in space. The chip is part of a larger Pod Seven system, which consists of seven Vera Rubin GPUs across five rack-scale systems to create one AI supercomputer. The company also mentioned that this architecture is…
Atlassian has laid off approximately 1,600 employees, about 10% of its global workforce, to invest more in AI and enterprise sales. The cuts primarily affected R&D roles. CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes highlighted the difficult decision, emphasizing the need for competitiveness. The company is offering generous severance packages, with redundancy and office exit costs estimated at over…
Amazon is reportedly introducing new rules for how its engineers write, review and deploy code. These changes are reported to be a direct response to recent outages that have affected the company’s e-commerce operations in recent months, some of them linked to its own AI coding tools. Citing internal documents, Business Insider claims that the…
Dario Amodei, founder, Anthropic Hundreds of employees working in technology companies across America have signed an open letter requesting the Department of War (DoW) and Congress to withdraw its designation of Anthropic as a “supply chain risk.” Late last week, Anthropic and the Defense Department failed to reach agreement on a long-term deal for the…
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan expressed shock at Huawei’s 100+ top CPU architects, developing alternatives to advanced tools and lithography. He warned China is rapidly closing the semiconductor gap through engineering and infrastructure optimization, even excelling in older tech. Tan also highlighted China’s regulatory speed and the US trailing in open-source AI development, urging immediate action…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman earlier this year pledged to ‘dramatically slow down’ hiring. Despite the pledge, OpenAI continues to expand its workforce, including recruiting talent from abroad. As reported by Business Insider, the newly released H-1B visa filings offer a rare glimpse into the base salaries the AI lab pays to its researchers, engineers, data…
Deepinder Goyal, Zomato founder, is hiring engineers and scientists for his health-tech startup Temple, but with an unusual condition—applicants must have body fat under 16% (men) or 26% (women). Those who don’t meet the threshold can apply on a three-month probation. The post went viral, with social media split between admiration and amusement over the…
Microsoft President Brad Smith has said that artificial intelligence will not replace software engineers. Instead, it will support them by enhancing their skills and creativity. Speaking in an interview with news agency PTI, Smith addressed concerns about job losses in the technology sector. He said Microsoft’s focus is to build tools that help people improve…
Borsi Cherny, a leading engineer at Anthropic has now issued a stark warning about the future of internet-based work. According to a report by Benzinga, speaking on Lenny’s Podcast, Cherny predicted that advanced AI agents will soon expand into nearly every type of computer-based job, from software engineering to product management and design. “It’s going…
Software engineers can heave a sigh of relief. Your job may get changed/altered a bit, but it is not going anywhere according to the CEO of India’s second-biggest IT company Infosys. In an interview to Economic Times, Infosys CEO Salil Parekh spoke about a range of issues including the impact of AI tools on the…
