AI makes tech jobs easier. Right? Not always, Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke said during an interview on “The Knowledge Project” podcast, released on Tuesday. His take: AI helps employees produce more material, more quickly — without taking responsibility for whether it is useful or correct. “We call those ‘slop grenades’ that people toss at each
Peter Oppenheimer, Goldman Sachs’ chief global equity strategist, told clients in early August that technology stocks might not have a valuation problem. Instead, they might have an earnings problem. In a note published Thursday, he came back with the receipts. The new report, titled “Competition for Capital,” doesn’t back off the August thesis. It hardens
Citrini Research says that AI-enabled robotics are a budding mega-trend for investors to pay attention to. The firm, which went viral for a hypothetical AI doomsday scenario, laid out its bullish thesis on robotics as the next growth phase of the AI trade, noting the progress being made in China. It highlighted the World Humanoid
OpenAI released a framework for disclosing when its agents act in unexpected, problematic ways, and is reporting six incidents of such behavior. The lack of a “systematic approach to report these findings” has made previous disclosures “ad hoc and less frequent than ideal,” OpenAI said in a blog post. It’s also led to safety researchers
Welcome to the AI era, where job postings are getting more niche — and more interdisciplinary. Anthropic recently posted a remote-friendly “Staff Software Engineer” role for its GTM AI Engineering, or “Claudification” team. The pay range is from $320,000 to $405,000, which the post said includes both the sales commission target and annual base salary
The entrepreneur behind TikTok and Douyin is now the richest person in Asia—and AI is helping fuel his rise to the top. Zhang Yiming, the founder of TikTok parent company ByteDance, has just overtaken Indian tycoon Gautam Adani as the richest person in Asia, according to Bloomberg, who currently boasts a net worth of $104.8
