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For years, a job at Google was the ultimate status symbol in tech. Now, a new pair of employers is attracting the industry’s most ambitious workers.OpenAI and Anthropic have become the hottest career destinations in Silicon Valley, drawing a flood of applicants eager to work at the epicenter of the AI boom. The workers are chasing prestige and the chance to help shape a technological revolution — plus to potentially cash in on the most anticipated IPOs in tech history.Across Reddit, Blind and X, job seekers are swapping interview tips and hiring rumors for both companies, hoping to break in.…

According to Bloomberg, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has, in a series of recent meetings, told senior ASML executives he’s concerned that one of the Dutch chipmaker’s extreme ultraviolet lithography machines — the EUV systems that are the only tools on Earth capable of printing the most advanced semiconductor patterns — may have ended up in China. That would be a major breach of export controls that have barred ASML from selling EUV to China since the first Trump administration. It’s a serious claim. Senior administration officials told Bloomberg they have evidence that ASML shipped EUV-related components and transport equipment…

DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, has agreed to be sold to enterprise software company Elastic for up to $85 million, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. Deductive, which was founded in 2023, came out stealth last November when it announced a $7.5 million seed round led by CRV with participation from Databricks Ventures, Thomvest Ventures, and PrimeSet.  The investment valued the startup at $33 million, according to PitchBook. Elastic and Deductive did not respond to multiple requests for comment. TechCrunch will update this article if either company responds. The…

The White House and Anthropic are working on a framework that would assess the severity of security flaws in new AI models and guide potential government intervention, according to a senior White House official and an administration official familiar with the matter granted anonymity to discuss it with POLITICO.The effort comes after the White House imposed export controls on Anthropic, which forced the company to suspend access for all users to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, its latest powerful AI models, over a perceived security flaw, known in the industry as a jailbreak.Administration officials and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei disagreed…

AI inference company Baseten is close to finalizing a stunning $1.5 billion funding round at a $13 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reports. Just five months ago, the startup announced that it had raised a $300 million Series E at a $5 billion valuation. And that round was just nine months after raising a $150 million Series D. If finalized, this latest round would represent a 160% increase in valuation in less than half a year. However, the WSJ reports that this is a split-priced round, a tactic startups are using to boost their headline valuation and make lead…

Midjourney, the AI lab best known for image generation, has announced an unexpected healthcare project: an underwater, full-body scanner.Medical experts are expressing caution about what the scans could reliably show — and how consumers might use them.”Today we’re gonna announce something a little weird and a little crazy, but also spectacular and filled with hope,” the company wrote in a Wednesday blog post.It’s called “Midjourney Medical.” The plan is centered on an ultrasound scanner that the lab says could eventually make internal body imaging fast, routine, and more consumer-friendly.According to Midjourney’s blog post, the scanner would lower users — via…

Accenture CEO Julie Sweet is telling onlookers to hold their judgment.Shares at the global professional services firm fell nearly 20% on Thursday and have dropped about 50% since this time last year.In its third-quarter earnings call on Thursday, it reported a 2% drop in new bookings compared to the third quarter of 2026. It also reported revenues of $18.7 billion, up $1.0 billion from the same quarter in 2025, though that was below expectations.Sweet’s message to the investors betting on the company was simple: Be patient. As companies seek Accenture’s help to integrate AI, she said, the numbers will improve.”The…

Snap will be spinning off an internal generative AI video team into a separate company. The new company — dubbed Dotmo — will focus on developing AI models that can create interactive gaming experiences, Snap told TechCrunch. Snap cited the high costs of conducting such work internally as one of the reasons for the spinoff. While technically a separate company, Dotmo will retain its close ties to the Snapchat creator. For one thing, Snap will provide Dotmo with a license to adapt its technology for gaming and interactive entertainment platforms. At the same time, the initial Dotmo team will consist…

OpenAI is bringing on some big names to the team in the lead-up to its public debut: Google DeepMind AI legend Noam Shazeer and former Trump White House AI policy official Dean Ball.  Shazeer, a co-lead at Gemini and the founder of AI role-playing startup Character AI, announced his departure from Google on Wednesday. He had been at the company since 2000, leaving only for a three-year period when he left to co-found Character AI. Two years ago, Google rehired Shazeer in a $2.7 billion deal that gave the tech giant access to the startup’s technology.  The move is the…

Two of AI’s biggest names have reignited their feud.Former Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has long had a rocky relationship with Elon Musk. LeCun has bashed Musk’s leadership strategies and his AI predictions. Musk has questioned LeCun’s science.On Thursday, LeCun told CNBC that Musk’s AI lab, xAI, was “kind of a failure.””Elon is now in a position where it’s very, very difficult for him to hire top people in AI, because he’s not behaved in very good ways toward the previous team,” the AMI Labs founder said.LeCun was referring to xAI’s founding team. All of the non-Musk cofounders have…