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Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old startup developing self-learning AI and founded by former DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised more than $500 million (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 17, 2026

Financial Times: Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old startup developing self-learning AI founded by former DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised…

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Median base salary offers for U.S. software engineers at venture-backed startups have increased 25% to $200,000 since 2022; total compensation increased only 18% (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 30, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “You’re Going to Have Trouble”, with Christina Warren The director’s commentary track…

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Several AWS developers say they are being asked to take on new roles with the help of AI tools, and engineers are now required to perform technical writing tasks (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 1, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “Bad Date”, with Jason Snell The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball.…

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Anthropic details how NASA engineers used Claude to plot the route of the Perseverance rover to travel a roughly 400-meter path on the Martian surface (Anthropic)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 30, 2026

Anthropic: Anthropic details how NASA engineers used Claude to plot the route for the Perseverance rover to travel a roughly…

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Anthropic details how it had to rethink its take-home test for hiring performance engineers as Claude continued to defeat it, and releases the original test (Anthropic)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 23, 2026

Anthropic: Anthropic details how it had to rethink its take-home test for hiring performance engineers as Claude continued to defeat…

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Google DeepMind signs licensing deal with Hume AI, which creates emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, to hire CEO Alan Cowen and about 7 top engineers (Will Knight/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 22, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Nick, Dick and Paul Show: An Introduction to Data Centers Nick Bilton, Dick Costolo and Paul Kedrosky…

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Sunday Robotics, which launched its Memo home robot on November 19, has hired at least 10 former Tesla employees, including engineers who worked on Autopilot and Optimus (Grace Kay/Business Insider)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 29, 2025

Grace Kay / Business Insider: Sunday Robotics, which launched its Memo home robot on November 19, has hired at least…

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Microchip companies in South Korea, Taiwan and China have raised salaries and bonuses as global competition intensifies for a limited pool of chip engineers (June Yoon/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 23, 2025

June Yoon / Financial Times: Chip companies in South Korea, Taiwan and China have raised salaries and bonuses as global…

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Job postings show AI groups like OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere have ramped up recruiting for pre-deployed engineers to help companies adopt their AI models (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 2, 2025

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A deep dive on the state of the technological labor market in 2025, including an increase in the demand for IA engineers and an average mandate upwards of large technological companies (Gergely Orosz / The Pragmatic Engineer)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 3, 2025

Featured podcasts Invest as the best: Justin Ishbia – Lessons for the acquisition of 586 companies [Invest Like the Best,…

Award-winning Burmese journalist Shin Daewe released from prison – Radio Free Asia

RFA welcomes release of Shin Daewe, RFA contributor in Myanmar – Radio Free Asia

Soft power ‘wins’ Beijing as Chinese medical ship treats 5,400 people in PNG for free – Radio Free Asia

US to establish fuel depot in Philippines to support operations in South China Sea – Radio Free Asia

Japan’s combat role in Philippine war drills signals shift in regional strategy – Radio Free Asia

Local car dealerships grow, die amid rise of auto mega-retailers

Netflix has long been “a builder, not a buyer.” Are those times over?

Some grocers are using AI to reduce food waste and increase profit margins

Trump names Erica Schwartz director of CDC

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Jared Kushner under investigation for potential violations of federal bribery and foreign agent laws

Trump’s Broken Brain Tries to Fool America With Iran War Hallucinations

Donald Trump has lost his power to America

RFK Jr. collapses in front of the country during a hearing at home

Democrats decide to impeach Pete Hegseth for recklessly endangering US troops

Global DRAM supply is expected to meet only 60% of demand through 2027; memory will reach around 40% of low-end smartphone manufacturing costs by mid-2026, up from 20% currently (Nikkei Asia)

Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record $21.4 billion through 34 deals through April 15, compared to $5.9 billion raised through 99 investments globally in all of 2025 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Chinese lidar maker Hesai, a key supplier of Nvidia’s ADAS, announces EXT lidar, calling it the first in the industry to integrate spatial and color sensing (Reuters)

Some Mac Mini and Mac Studio models are unavailable or facing wait times of up to 12 weeks in the United States, with analysts citing strong demand from power users of AI agents (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)

What some executives think about using universal basic income to mitigate AI-related layoffs: Musk calls it the "best way"OpenAI policy document mentions a public wealth fund (Siladitya Ray/Forbes)

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Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old startup developing self-learning AI and founded by former DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised more than $500 million (Financial Times)

Median base salary offers for U.S. software engineers at venture-backed startups have increased 25% to $200,000 since 2022; total compensation increased only 18% (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)

Several AWS developers say they are being asked to take on new roles with the help of AI tools, and engineers are now required to perform technical writing tasks (Financial Times)

Anthropic details how NASA engineers used Claude to plot the route of the Perseverance rover to travel a roughly 400-meter path on the Martian surface (Anthropic)

Anthropic details how it had to rethink its take-home test for hiring performance engineers as Claude continued to defeat it, and releases the original test (Anthropic)

Google DeepMind signs licensing deal with Hume AI, which creates emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, to hire CEO Alan Cowen and about 7 top engineers (Will Knight/Wired)

Sunday Robotics, which launched its Memo home robot on November 19, has hired at least 10 former Tesla employees, including engineers who worked on Autopilot and Optimus (Grace Kay/Business Insider)

Microchip companies in South Korea, Taiwan and China have raised salaries and bonuses as global competition intensifies for a limited pool of chip engineers (June Yoon/Financial Times)

Job postings show AI groups like OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere have ramped up recruiting for pre-deployed engineers to help companies adopt their AI models (Financial Times)

A deep dive on the state of the technological labor market in 2025, including an increase in the demand for IA engineers and an average mandate upwards of large technological companies (Gergely Orosz / The Pragmatic Engineer)