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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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• Japan's biggest inference platform ai& hopes to host SakanaAI's Namazu and Fugu — DavidBennett__ · 2026-10-26
• Scale AI Alumni Network Spans AI Product and Safety Leadership — FinanceYF5 · 2026-10-26(2 related)
• OpenAI faces backlash over plan to take GPT-4o and o1 series fully offline — RileyRalmuto · 2026-10-26
• Cursor contributed $608M revenue in ~1.5 months post-SpaceX acquisition, ~$4.6B ARR — DanielLockyer · 2026-10-26
• AI consultancies split: $200-subscription agencies at the bottom, model labs becoming services firms at the top — alex_verem · 2026-10-26
• Weekly AI roundup: DeepSeek funding, China model export controls, Anthropic's $45B compute deal — persist_en · 2026-10-26
• New hire uses company agent to onboard: three prompts from Every — every · 2026-10-26
• Judea Pearl boosts Oregon State PhD opening at causal inference × AI intersection — yudapearl · 2026-10-26
• Sakana AI hosts Tokyo RSI symposium: AI Scientist in Nature, Schmidhuber keynotes — RobertTLange · 2026-10-26
• OpenAI employee: the only constant in 4 years is the 'so back / so over' cycle — athyuttamre · 2026-10-26
• Marissa Mayer used her AI assistant to describe her own daughter, fueling 'AI parenting' debate — ShakeelHashim · 2026-10-26
• TrustMRR hits 200 acquisitions in a year: 250K monthly visitors, 90%+ margins — marclou · 2026-10-26
• Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch: Europe abandoning frontier AI models would be a fundamental mistake — 2C_ornot2C · 2026-10-26
• Gatsby Unit UCL Opens Fully-Funded PhD Applications with New Jump Trading AI Studentships — LucaAmb · 2026-10-26
• Seoul's first Grok Bot Meetup lands as AI builder meetups worldwide see surging demand — arrakis_ai · 2026-10-26
• Satya Nadella on open vs closed models, trusting chain of thought, and why firms must own their intelligence — 20VC · 2026-10-26
• Schmidhuber takes the stage as Sakana AI's Chief Scientific Advisor — kaixhin · 2026-10-26
• RocksDB and Neptune talent head to OpenAI, adding to a flurry of database M&A — HanchungLee · 2026-10-26
• AI startup founder scraps launch ad after research, pivots to niche markets — Scobleizer · 2026-10-26
• 1,300+ sign up as marclou hosts Cognition/Devin community meetup in Dubai — marclou · 2026-10-26
• AI digest: task length AI can handle grew from 4 minutes to 17 hours in two years — emmanuelvivier · 2026-10-26
• Leak: Kimi K3.1 Flash reportedly in training, DeepSeek 4.1 Pro still 'grinding' — teortaxesTex · 2026-10-26
• Tuebingen AI ecosystem lists 65 open roles across 14 AI startups — HildeKuehne · 2026-10-26
• 17 Former Officials Ask Rehearing in Anthropic-Pentagon Case, Author Teases Apart Reporting — BuddyWeary653 · 2026-10-26
• First OpenAI hackathon held in Ethiopia, with Codex-themed DevDay in Bahir Dar — filiksyos · 2026-10-26
• Gartner chart: 12 enterprise tech roles collapsing into Product Engineers and AI platform teams — luisdans · 2026-10-26
• Neal Stephenson to appear on Core Memory podcast this week, covering AI, BCIs and new book — kyliebytes · 2026-10-26
• Manycore publishes handbook for 2026 Aholo Global 3D AI Hackathon — Scobleizer · 2026-10-26
• YC partner: founders' No.1 regret is waiting too long to launch — ycombinator · 2026-10-26
• AI Founder Aiden Bai Opens Up About Depression, Starts Medication — aidenybai · 2026-10-26(2 related)
• Call for universities to drop paper-chasing and build joint AI safety + cybersecurity curricula — himanshustwts · 2026-10-26
• "I'm Dario pilled": Anthropic points nearly all compute at models making models — iruletheworldmo · 2026-10-26
• Base44 fine-tuned Qwen 2B in half a day for prompt autocomplete serving millions — tristanbob · 2026-10-26
• Ex-frontier-lab contractor launches free AI engineering curriculum: 208 handbooks, 130 interactive builds — iamsausi · 2026-10-26
• AI Lab Interview Question: Don't Jump to Conclusions from Loss Curves — _aidan_clark_ · 2026-10-26(6 related)
• Stanford publishes 96-photo archive of daily life inside the NeXT Computer office — Austin_Conlon · 2026-10-26
• Marc Lou's biggest meetup yet draws ~300 entrepreneurs, over half have earned money — marclou · 2026-10-26
• Microsoft Decision-1: what a 9B Qwen3.5-based model launch would mean — gmays · 2026-10-26
• VC warns AI-accelerated security risks may make the next 60 days tumultuous — AccBalanced · 2026-10-26
• Steve Hsu relays insider claim: smartest AI researcher in the West is Dario Amodei — sahilypatel · 2026-10-26
• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Called a 'National Treasure' by Professor; Musk Once Recruited Him for SpaceX — sahilypatel · 2026-10-26(3 related)
• A decade-old coder search engine idea he never shipped — and what Fenng's team built instead — gefei55 · 2026-10-26
• A 16,000 sqft Robot-Native Lab in South Park Opens for Early Robotics Startups — jia_seed · 2026-10-26
• Google DeepMind's Jin Li signs copy of 'Messy Jobs' book on AI-era organizations — soumitrashukla9 · 2026-10-26
• Podcast AI Caramba 008 tracks Pivot's plan to launch a neocloud — latkins · 2026-10-26
• IBM CEO says open weight models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-prem — Betelbuddy · 2026-10-26
• 2010 Caltech oral history reveals physicist Tom Tombrello called young Dario Amodei sellable to any government — ResultBackground2450 · 2026-10-26
• Debate Erupts Over Reliability of AI Text Detectors in Academia — paulnovosad · 2026-10-26(3 related)
• DeepSeek's 'unfathomable reputation' praised as fans wait for its next model — teortaxesTex · 2026-10-26
• Anthropic reportedly building its own custom chip, aiming for half OpenAI's timeline — ai · 2026-10-26