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OPENAI CO-FOUNDER JOHN SCHULMAN SAYS HE WILL LEAVE AND JOIN RIVAL ANTHROPIC

OpenAI co-founder John Schulman recently announced that he will leave OpenAI to join Anthropic to deepen his focus on AI alignment. The move comes less than three months after OpenAI disbanded a superalignment team that focused on ensuring that AI systems can be controlled. Schulman has worked at OpenAI since receiving a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2016. Greg Brockman, another co-founder of OpenAI and its president, announced on Monday that he was taking a sabbatical for the rest of the year.

SEC CLAIMS COINBASE'S SUBPOENA FOR MILLIONS OF DOCUMENTS IS A WASTE OF TIME

The SEC has criticized Coinbase for excessively subpoenaing documents, including emails from Gary Gensler, labeling the demand as unnecessary and irrelevant to the case. It claims that it has already provided over 240,000 documents and that meeting Coinbase's request for millions more would involve an impractical review of potentially privileged communications, far exceeding the actual case requirements.

FIGURE REDESIGNS ITS HUMANOID ROBOT FROM THE GROUND UP FOR SLICK NEW F.02

Figure's second-generation humanoid robot is aimed at production lines in commercial settings. Its engineers took a ground-up hardware and software redesign approach to developing the robot that included upgrades to the AI systems, computer vision, battery pack, electronics, sensors, and actuators. The robot now has microphones and speakers that allow it to have one-on-one conversations with humans. A video trailer from Figure showing off the robot is available.

CHINA BEGINS LAUNCHING A MEGACONSTELLATION, AND IT SOUNDS A LOT LIKE STARLINK

There are two serious efforts underway in China to develop a rival to SpaceX's Starlink project. The first batch of 18 satellites for one of those projects launched into low-Earth orbit on Tuesday on a Long March 4A rocket. Besides providing civilians with internet, the network could be used for military applications and as a diplomatic tool. The full deployment of these networks will require a significant increase in China's launch capacity.

PREDICTIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Software engineering will likely look radically different in a few years. The introduction of coding agents that complete tasks end-to-end will change how engineers work, making them more like engineering managers who spend more time on the higher level parts of coding. This will have many effects, like creating more software, more engineers, and productivity gains for companies. Marketing may even start being directed to AI agents as companies try to get them to choose their products over a rival's.

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