Who is Varun Mohan, Windsurf CEO who triggered a talent war between Google and OpenAI?

[ad_1] The AI talent raid seems to be intensifying. Google has now onboarded several key members from Windsurf, a startup that works on AI code generation. Varun Mohan, co-founder and CEO of Windsurf, has been brought in along with co-founder Douglas Chen and other senior research and development staff from the company.  Talking about the […]

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Anthropic hits $3 billion in annualized revenue on business demand for AI

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence developer Anthropic is making about $3 billion in annualized revenue, according to two sources familiar with the matter, in an early validation of generative AI use in the business world. The milestone, which projects the company’s current sales over the course of a year, is a significant jump from December 2024 when […]

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At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work

[ad_1] Since at least the industrial revolution, workers have worried that machines would replace them. But when technology transformed automaking, meatpacking and even secretarial work, the response typically wasn’t to slash jobs and reduce the number of workers. It was to “degrade” the jobs, breaking them into simpler tasks to be performed over and over […]

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What is Codex, OpenAI’s latest AI coding agent capable of multitasking?

[ad_1] OpenAI on Friday, May 16, introduced a new AI tool called Codex that is designed to handle multiple software engineering-related tasks at the same time, from generating code for new features to answering questions about a user’s codebase, fixing bugs, and suggesting pull requests for code review The cloud-based, AI agent-driven coding tool runs […]

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