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The biggest names in AI are expanding their search for workers abroad as the talent war gets tougher.Federal data shows Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia filed more H-1B visa applications for new hires and renewals in the second quarter of fiscal 2026 than they did a year earlier, as other tech giants pulled back from the program.The split points to a new reality in tech hiring. Companies are cutting jobs while concentrating talent in smaller, more specialized teams — or “pods,” as Meta calls them. They depend on a small pool of highly trained researchers, engineers, and infrastructure talent.That can make…
Do you live near a data center? If not, you might live near one soon.Business Insider’s new map shows 1,416 data centers built or approved for construction in 45 states and Washington, DC by the end of 2025.Virginia is the historical epicenter of data center development in the US. Now developers are hungry for new sites. Hot spots have emerged in West Texas; outside Cheyenne, Wyoming; and in rural Wisconsin.Our map shows every data center we found with an air permit issued through December 2025. The data table is searchable by county, state, zip code, or corporate parent, and sortable…
Earlier this year, I had a noble idea.For my job, I have to remember a lot of AI companies, so I thought I’d draw up a competition map for my desk. I’d divvy a sheet of paper into columns and list major companies based on which part of the AI supply chain they’re in.There were the labs — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, etc. — that are making models and chatbots. There were the AI coding platforms — Cursor, Cognition, and Replit among them — that build coding assistants powered by those models. Then, there were startups building hyper-specific applications: agents…
Over the past few days, some Silicon Valley tech founders have taken to the internet to publicly roast the venture capitalists they once pitched.The kefuffle began last week when Greg Isenberg, the host of “The Startup Ideas Podcast,” posted to X about his experience raising a $15 million Series A.”12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going,” Isenberg wrote, referring to an unnamed general partner.Isenberg said he continued his presentation, sharing slides with an investor he called an “unconscious man in a Herman Miller…
TV tech can feel bewildering, weighed down by confusing terminology and tons of acronyms, like HDR, QLED, and OLED. All that jargon can start to seem like marketing speak, but one term you’ll see often — Mini LED — is genuinely worth paying attention to.This small but mighty technology plays a major role in picture quality for some of the best TVs, enabling improved contrast and searing brightness. But just when we thought Mini LED had reached its peak, in comes a new display tech, RGB LED, which offers a few cool advancements. Though the technology has some quirks to…
Notion’s integration with Anthropic apparently had a hiccup this weekend. Early Sunday morning, the company posted, “Anthropic’s Opus 4.7 and 4.8 models are experiencing degraded performance, which is causing a higher rate of failures for users selecting these models in Notion AI.” As a result, Notion said it was disabling use of “all Anthropic models” in its automated productivity tool. Twelve hours later, Notion’s head of product Max Schoening wrote that he was “astonished” at “the amount of people RT-ing this because they want a story around model quality to be the reason.” (According to the public stats on X,…
OpenAI plans to roll out a revamped version of ChatGPT in the coming weeks — one that will serve as a “super app” with coding tools and AI agents, according to the Financial Times. The company’s goal is reportedly to become more competitive with Anthropic, particularly among business customers, and to get closer to profitability before an IPO. That means turning ChatGPT into a gateway leading free users to products they might actually pay for, such as coding product Codex. In fact, the FT quotes one senior OpenAI employee as declaring, “Chat is dead.” Thibault Sottiaux, who leads OpenAI’s core…
I knew visiting Intel’s chip factory would be different when they told me I couldn’t wear my regular deodorant.Or lotion. Or hairspray. Or makeup.Before I’d even boarded the plane to Oregon, Intel sent my videographer and me a long list of things we couldn’t wear or bring into its factory in Hillsboro. No Velcro. No Bluetooth. No phones unless they were on airplane mode. The list kept going.That was my first clue I was about to step into a place governed by a very different set of rules.In March, after months of planning with Intel, I got rare access to…
The next battle in AI will have less to do with model quality and more to do with customer lock-in.For the past few years, OpenAI and Anthropic have competed relentlessly on model performance. But according to Samuel Colvin, CEO of AI startup Pydantic, the economics are changing.”A year ago, what they cared about was revenue,” Colvin told me recently. “Now, when one assumes they’re both trying to IPO, their profit margin becomes really important.”The problem is that competing solely on model quality is expensive. Frontier labs must spend billions training ever-better models that are soon emulated. That’s not a great…
It’s 4 a.m., and Whitney Stefko Dover’s family “chief of staff” has already sent her the daily briefing.It’s called the “Daily Dover.”The early morning operations briefing helps Stefko Dover and her husband, Chris, coordinate their complicated lives with two young sons. An AI assistant scans their emails and calendar apps to map out the day ahead — school schedules, au pair or babysitter coverage, camp drop-offs, travel plans, family birthdays, recycling-bin reminders, and anything else that might otherwise rattle around in Stefko Dover’s brain until it is either handled or forgotten.At the bottom of the email, the AI drafts two…