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"Companies & People" is a topic channel on AGI Hunt, an AI news site updated around the clock in real time. Coverage: Company strategy and statements, talent moves, education and industry events.

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• Pichai Confirms RSI Is Key to Gemini 4 Development — haider1 · 2026-10-25(2 related)
• Musk digs up 10 failed Starlink doomer predictions from 2021-2023 via Grok — elonmusk · 2026-10-25
• Remote engineer earns US startup salary from hometown, paying zero rent vs ₹45,000 in Bangalore — _jaydeepkarale · 2026-10-25
• Rambus signs multi-year deal to deploy ChipAgents across chip design workflows — WilliamWangNLP · 2026-10-25
• DeepSeek insider: infra is the big brother and can veto research decisions — teortaxesTex · 2026-10-25
• Claude pegs Chinese API distillation spending at $50–100M a year, ~0.01% of US GDP growth — JasonBotterill · 2026-10-25
• DeepInfer is deeply tailored to DeepSeek 4.1F: KV cache of just 890 bytes per token — teortaxesTex · 2026-10-25
• Iranian user asks why Google alone blocks Gemini while ChatGPT, Claude and Grok work — Adorable_Tank_7727 · 2026-10-25
• Microsoft Comms Chief Frank Shaw to Exit at Year-End, Reflects on PR Under Three CEOs — Scobleizer · 2026-10-25
• Silicon Valley notes: insiders already flipping Anthropic stakes while outsiders debate the bubble — dotey · 2026-10-25
• Independent AI Safety Experts Clash With Anthropic Backers Over Safety Value — EigenGender · 2026-10-25(3 related)
• Pune Metro carriage turns into a rolling AI hackathon with laptops out — paw_lean · 2026-10-25
• Agents Mirror Your Org Chart Just Like Microservices Did, Engineer Argues — arpit_bhayani · 2026-10-25
• C++26 ballot fails; committee heavyweight calls for exit from ISO process — blelbach · 2026-10-25
• Musk says X's ultimate vision is to become 'maybe half of the global financial system' — XFreeze · 2026-10-25
• Meta's Muse tops App Store productivity chart, beating ChatGPT and Claude — LerrelPinto · 2026-10-25
• Engineer mocks corporate IT: tokens are a cost center, but a 10TB nightly no-query sync job is critical infra — cto_junior · 2026-10-25
• Palantir CEO Alex Karp: Europe barely matters in the AI race between China and the US — 2C_ornot2C · 2026-10-25
• "Stop pretending Jensen believes in anything but stock price": open-source drama erupts — zetalyrae · 2026-10-25
• Peter Thiel backs founders who speak in definite future tense, skips the probability talkers — 2C_ornot2C · 2026-10-25
• Daily brief: Unitree-rival 110-robot dance record, AWS compute sold out through 2028 — 创业邦 · 2026-10-25
• Do Chinese AI Labs Offer OSS Maintainer Programs Like OpenAI and Anthropic? — DueHearing1315 · 2026-10-25
• Data broker procurement postings are a public roadmap for frontier labs — sytelus · 2026-10-25
• Audi bets $4B on first US plant in Georgia days after unveiling robotics initiative with NVIDIA — NinaDSchick · 2026-10-25
• 7 Freshly Funded YC S26 Startups Open GTM Roles, From Founding GTM to Growth — RishabJainK · 2026-10-25
• Musk says long-pressing like on X will tip $1 via X Money — elonmusk · 2026-10-25(2 related)
• Musk says Tesla demand exceeds production significantly, driven by FSD interest — Polymarket · 2026-10-25
• Sentry CEO shares PR cutting peak build memory from 8.4GB to 5.2GB — zeeg · 2026-10-25
• Engineer joins LangChain pro services team, betting on agent observability via LangSmith — Hacubu · 2026-10-25
• Meta AI Chief Alexandr Wang Jabs Founder: 'You Misspelled Muse' — ns123abc · 2026-10-25(5 related)
• X injects NBA promo cards into For You feed, users cry foul over 'app-ing' — generativist · 2026-10-25
• Photo of Zuckerberg Skeet Shooting Goes Viral: "Zuck Don't Miss" — generativist · 2026-10-25
• $45K-prize Gemma build day at AGI House as Google opens Android AI integration — salgar · 2026-10-25
• "Thariq left Anthropic" meme jokes about waking up back in summer 2016 — kyliebytes · 2026-10-25
• Arcee AI shuttles compute clusters on planes, trains, and automobiles in firefighting op — sloppenheimer · 2026-10-25
• Musk Softens Stance, Hopes AI Will Be Kind to Humanity — marigo · 2026-10-25(2 related)
• Workday's returning CEO slashes AI agents in development from 50 to 20 — Scobleizer · 2026-10-25
• Anthropic Opens Feedback Channel for Claude Managed Agents, Onboards Noted Developers — alexalbert__ · 2026-10-25(2 related)
• "Nvidia's H20 was traitorous" remark kills campfire chat — the stranger beside works at Nvidia — NathanpmYoung · 2026-10-25
• Microsoft's 24-lesson Web Dev for Beginners course notes land on ChapterPal — burkov · 2026-10-25
• Burkov: Chrome ruled the human web, but Google has no answer to the agentic harness — burkov · 2026-10-25
• JHU CLSP recruiting PhD students for Fall 2027 at EMNLP: speech foundation models and interpretability — mdredze · 2026-10-25
• Google officially turns Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats by dropping support — gnabgib · 2026-10-25
• UofT CS and Jinesis Lab Recruit AI Talent Year-Round — ZhijingJin · 2026-10-25(2 related)
• Canva Craft Post Drew 41% of 35,600 Weekly Visits: Enterprise Readers Favor Specialist AI Models — shashib · 2026-10-25
• Box co-founder now at Anthropic, built Claude Tag — matt_slotnick · 2026-10-25
• Hiring engineers is trivially easy now — just not the ones you want — matt_slotnick · 2026-10-25
• Anthropic founders pledge 80% of their equity to new Public Benefit Fund — thursdai_pod · 2026-10-25
• OpenClaw creator burned $10 million on AI tokens in a single month — Scobleizer · 2026-10-25
• Pichai: Google stopped tracking AI-written code share, now cites +30% code changes and fewer rollbacks — gaganghotra_ · 2026-10-25