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AI burnout, billion-dollar bets, and Silicon Valley’s Epstein problem

AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who opposed its “adult mode” feature.

Why top talent is walking away from OpenAI and xAI
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AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who opposed its “adult mode” feature.

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Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide
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Hi HN! I'm currently a Master's student at USTC (University of Science and Technology of China). I've been diving deep into Data Engineering, especially in the context of Large Language Models (LLMs).

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Owning the AI Pareto Frontier — Jeff Dean

From rewriting Google’s search stack in the early 2000s to reviving sparse trillion-parameter models and co-designing TPUs with frontier ML research, Jeff Dean has quietly shaped nearly every layer of the modern AI stack.

Anthropic Found Out Why AIs Go Insane

[AINews] Z.ai GLM-5: New SOTA Open Weights LLM

We have Opus 4.

OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips

OpenAI's new GPT‑5. 3‑Codex‑Spark is 15 times faster at coding than its predecessor.

Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says

Distillation technique lets copycats mimic Gemini at a fraction of the development cost.

What Happens When The AI Bubble Bursts

In What Happens When the AI Bubble Bursts? , Leon Furze argues the current GenAI bubble will inevitably burst, much like the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.

[AINews] new Gemini 3 Deep Think, Anthropic $30B @ $380B, GPT-5.3-Codex Spark, MiniMax M2.5

There's too much going on!

AI burnout, billion-dollar bets, and Silicon Valley’s Epstein problem
Anthony Ha, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O'Kane, Theresa Loconsolo, TechCrunch AI
Why top talent is walking away from OpenAI and xAI
Theresa Loconsolo, TechCrunch AI
OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone GPT-4o model
Amanda Silberling, TechCrunch AI
The document is from last May and reportedly describes the new
Emma Roth, The Verge AI