Welcome to Eye on AI. Emily Forlini here, filling in for Jeremy one last time as his vacation comes to a close. In today’s issue: Juicy details OpenAI doesn’t want you to see in its new report Anthropic reportedly plans a $2 trillion IPO in October—the largest ever OpenAI replaces its chief revenue officer after
Bosses everywhere are scrambling to figure out if and how to grade their employees’ AI use. At Gusto, a platform for human resources, managers slot workers into one of five AI archetypes during quarterly reviews. They may begin as “observers,” those who aren’t yet using AI on their own. “Integrators” have made AI part of
OpenAI has bought back $7 billion worth of shares from employees at the privately held frontier AI lab as part of an effort to provide liquidity to its workforce. The deal, reported by Bloomberg, valued OpenAI at $852 billion, the same as its most recent fundraising round in March, which added $122 billion to the
HR software provider Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, an anti-tokenmaxxing product that helps a company track and contain its AI spending. One of the most interesting features is that it maps how much individual employees, teams, and roles are spending and if they are genuinely more productive, or generally producing more AI slop.
Microsoft is retiring a peer-feedback tool as it overhauls employee reviews, according to an internal message viewed by Business Insider. The tool, called Perspectives, allowed employees to request input on their performance from peers that would be visible to the employee and their managers. Microsoft has been using this tool since 2018. “The Perspectives tool
Palantir CEO Alex Karp took a victory lap over the company’s explosive growth, saying it managed to boost its commercial business using a “miniscule and shrinking” sales team. In the shareholder letter accompanying Monday’s second-quarter results, Karp said it was another case of Palantir ignoring the norms of growing a business. “On a quarter-by-quarter basis,