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AI talent is heating up.
Here are the 7 things you missed today:
1. 🧹 iRobot Has Filed For Bankruptcy
Roomba’s parent company is cleaning up. The robot company filed for bankruptcy protection due to growing competition from lower-priced rivals and rising costs from tariffs. The Massachusetts-based company is handing over control to its main Chinese supplier Shenzhen Picea Robotics. (Quartz)
2. 🧠 What 7-Figure CEOs Stopped Doing to Scale
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3. 💼 OpenAI Poached a Google Exec to Lead Corporate Development
It’s not just tech advancements that the big companies are competing for, it’s talent too. OpenAI has hired Google’s Albert Lee to lead corporate development. Lee previously led corporate development for Google Cloud and Google DeepMind and worked on several of Google’s high-profile acquisitions. (CNBC)
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5. 🇺🇸 U.S. Govt is Launching a ‘Tech Force’ to Hire AI Talent
AI talent really is heating up. The U.S. government is launching an early career hiring and talent development program to bring more technology and artificial intelligence employees to the public sector. The initial cohort will include 1,000 early career software engineers, data scientists, project managers and AI experts to be placed across government agencies for the two-year program. (CNN)
6. 🚕 Tesla is Testing Robotaxis in Austin With No Safety Driver
Look ma, no hands! About six months after Tesla started testing its robotaxi service in Austin, TX, the company is now letting those cars drive around the city with no safety monitor onboard. The removal of the human safety monitors brings the company a step closer to its main goal of launching a real commercial robotaxi service. (TechCrunch)
7. 💰 Creative Commons is Supporting AI ‘Pay-to-Crawl’ Systems
Well, it’s okay to change your mind. After announcing a framework for an open AI ecosystem earlier this year, the nonprofit Creative Commons has come out in favor of “pay-to-crawl” technology, aka a system to automate compensation of website content when accessed by machines like AI webcrawlers. (TechCrunch)
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