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How’s this possible? CTO at OpenAI (Blind)

• slvi: I worked with him at XAI. He was insanely good. Outcompeted everyone
• Sportify (Salesforce): Sam Altman saw that he studied at Chaitanya Bharathi institute of technology and realized that he had found OpenAI’s next leader
• ex-aviato (ex-Snowflake): Doesn’t matter how. He’s a CTO and you’re not. Do you go around asking all the worlds billionaires how they got rich? Some people are talented and some are not, and then there’s network which is one of the biggest pull. If you aren’t in the right circles it doesn’t matter if you built Google search or a spaceship.

Laid off in my 40s, and the market feels completely hostile to senior talent. (Blind)

• Tweakday (Workday): old ahh man it’s prolly ur attitude holding u back 😂 wouldn’t wanna work w u unc
• 0"9 (EATON): “It feels like the market has silently written off anyone with a long resume in favor of cheaper mid-level talent and H1Bs who won’t question ridiculous work hours.” yea for sure you are not going to go anywhere with this loser coping/blaming attitude rofl.
• Balimahn (Meta): I think you should target companies that value senior engineers like Databricks, Cloudflare, and Stripe. I know AI labs employ seniors too so no harm in looking at them. I can share Stripe and Anthropic material cause that I’ve been able to gather, and anything else I find. Also have you considered looking outside big tech? Work on something, startup? Why are you still so hell bent on playing a game we all want out of?

Leaving Apple for Meta was the single worst career decision I’ve ever made. (Blind)

• Sstayn (Google): Meta has to be a real fucking shit show for you to romanticize Apple after all I’ve heard from my friends. But hey, having Meta and Apple on your resume should give you a boost 90% of this market would kill for. I have Google prep notes covering theprocess if you want them.
• charliewho (OpenAI): I know exactly how you felt. Left Apple, got burnt, bad job market experience but landed eventually. Good luck mate
• gabbbbb (Apple): Just reapply. As long as you didn’t steal IP as you left you’re good to come back, and it sounds like you’re in the AIML space where there is hiring

“He’s an analog man in a digital AI world”: Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ made back its \$250M budget in 3 days without industrywide AI cost cutting (r/technology)

• A_pirates_life4me: I think he’s just a good director in a sea of mediocre directors
• NoMark3945: Turns out audiences care more about spectacle they can feel than whether the production pipeline was cheap. Cost cutting is invisible; ambition is not.
• Automatic-Wind-6501: “industrywide AI cost cutting” is just C-suite translation for “we fired the VFX artists and now our 200 million dollar movie looks like a blurry PS3 cutscene.” turns out people actually want to pay for quality.

Five tech giants are hiding \$1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron (r/technology)

• agha0013: some Enron magic, sprinkled with some of the magic that led to the 2008 housing crash, and zero lessons learned as financial institutions try to repackage and sell the debt all over the world.
• The_Homie_Tito: So when does the bubble burst?
• pepe_acct: Yeah this article is trash. The author ignored some important caveats: 1. Future commitments are not considered debt because they don’t have interest. 2. Many commitments are multi year. It’s paying 1.6 trillion across years not immediately. 3. In many cases, when the business prospects doesn’t make sense anymore, many of them can just pause the deal or just exit. There’s generally exit options in the deals and these large constructions get delayed all the time. 4. Most of these future commitments has nothing to do with Enron. This is peak title rage baiting

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When sparse computation makes communication dense

The official NVIDIA Technical Blog published this post on July 21, 2026. It uses a DeepSeek-V3 671B pre-training run to make a broader systems argument: mixture-of-experts models save arithmetic by activating only part of the network for each token, but that efficiency moves the limiting resource toward communication.

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Techmeme surfaced the July 22, 2026 development in its PRIMA bionic-eye item, led by the Financial Times report US start-up wins EU approval for sight-restoring bionic eye. Science Corporation’s commercial-launch announcement and the underlying clinical study provide the technical and medical context.

The important word in “bionic eye” is not eye but interface. PRIMA does not heal damaged photoreceptors or recreate ordinary sight. It inserts a new path between a camera and the surviving neural circuitry of the retina, giving some people with advanced age-related macular degeneration enough artificial central vision to read letters, numbers, and words.

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Google hiring 1580 FDEs is just insane??? (Blind)

• MasterAma (Amazon): Considering how shite Gemini is, they gonna be begging for a while there
• jinglebels (Microsoft): What is forward deployed engineer
• kBo7H (ex-Block): i thought ai was replacing jobs

Let’s see a human do this (Blind)

• MG778 (Meta): Yes I am using the Jacobian conjecture all the time. It is so over, best everyone moves to a monastery right now.
• c8ycyloy (Salesforce): I don’t know anything about this. But if it found a math proof to an older difficult problem, then that’s amazing by any definition.
• loll772 (Amazon): I am not a mathematician. Is this a big deal?

My teammate doesn’t even draft his own messages anymore (Blind)

• yneitjebrv (Automattic): Of course it feels weird. I feel completely disassociated and alienated from humanity never mind my coworkers talking to these bot shells. It utterly lays bare the fact that no one cares about their work and will just take the quickest shortcut. And who can blame them? The companies practically or in some cases explicitly endorse it.
• nughbg (Oracle): The biggest thing is that these people will be rewarded to adopt ai
• wertyq12 (Cisco): This is how it should be for stupid DMs.

Americans hate AI so much that politicians are starting to lose their jobs over it (r/technology)

• Clem573: Oh no! Anyway…
• karmakosmik1352: Not all is lost.
• GenericFatGuy: Good. Keep it going until they get the message.

SpaceX aborts launch after ignition, again – ends broadcast without an explanation (r/technology)

• crazydave33: Oh… this was a Falcon 9, not Starship. Was fully expecting Starship to have failed again. This is quite rare… wild it happened days after the Starship failure too.
• williamgman: Acceptable for a privately held company. Now the new shareholders are concerned.
• RoundMammoth2947: This is good for spacex, means more government contracts!

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Techmeme surfaced the UK AI Security Institute’s July 21, 2026 analysis in its frontier-model cheating item. The original piece is AISI’s Cheating behaviour in frontier model evaluations.

The headline sounds more human than the underlying claim. AISI is not saying that current models necessarily understand rules, form a deceptive plan, and then decide to break them. It uses cheating as an operational label: taking an out-of-scope or explicitly prohibited action to reach a goal through a shortcut the task was not designed to permit.

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Is LinkedIn dead? Or am I doing it wrong? (Blind)

• PayMeMore\$ (LinkedIn): Local newspaper
• sknob (Meta): Why are you leaving Paypal? Isn’t it looking to get acquired by Stripe soon?
• Satya N. 🧑🏽‍🦲 (Microsoft): OpenAI Jobs Platform

Claude budget on the job (Blind)

• AmazeGrace (Google): Currently in the \$5k-\$10k range, Max-Ultracode on Opus/Fable (job role: SWE)
• Sympa (Amazon): What is UltraCode ? Claude seems to be milking enterprise. How is Max-UltraCode different from Max-Individual plan available for 100\$ / month ?
• YTwC58 (Samsung): We get \$300 per month only on claude

We have failed 24 straight candidates for interviews. (Blind)

• CTPN02 (Fanatics): Dipshit interviewers are out of touch with reality. Most of them couldn’t pass their own interview if their life depended on it.
• LQkI85 (MessageBird): Bunch of losers that feel superior in this market because there’s a ton of candidates looking for work. Wish them all the worst. The hiring bar at some places is at an impossible level.
• whatnow1 (ex-Block): Interviewers have lost their minds honestly. I’ve experienced the same. People on the panel who can’t pass their own bar … are hell bent on nit picking. Bonkers

China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns (r/technology)

• Devil_Dogmier: It’s funny how everyone was worried about overpopulation, and now it’s the opposite
• Anteater4746: if birth rates are such a concern you’d think govts would want to make jobs higher paying give more time off and homes to have families you know make it WORTH having kids? crazy ik
• SwiftFoxSNES: I’m guessing a country with a massive gender imbalance isn’t really going to find this helps.

Some power companies are using eminent domain to seize land for data centers, as 70% of Americans say not in my backyard (r/technology)

• BurningJointUSA: Power companies are not using eminent domain, GOVERNMENT is. Our government has been quietly overthrown by corporate interests.
• VTArxelus: Then I think it’s about time we use eminent domain to seize the land back
• aerost0rm: I feel like the title is misleading. Private entities don’t use eminent domain. Governments use it for them. So stop the governments from using it by suing.

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Techmeme surfaced this disclosure in its Hugging Face breach and AI-forensics item. The original piece is Hugging Face’s July 16, 2026 post, Security incident disclosure — July 2026.

The incident matters for more than the novelty of one AI system attacking another. It shows how the speed, scale, and economics of intrusion response change when both sides can delegate thousands of technical actions to agents. It also exposes a quieter operational problem: a defender may have access to a powerful hosted model and still be unable to use it on the real exploit payloads, credentials, and command-and-control artifacts that make incident analysis possible.

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How impossible is 350k TC (real money) and 40 hours of work a week? (Blind)

• ut4f1x (Squarepoint Capital): I do more than that but in London UK
• eLdi01 (Apple): lol, almost all the big tech companies pay much more than that and the work is barely 20 hrs per week. You think google engineers are working 50 hours per week. Maybe 10% of that.
• xMicro\$oft (New): In tech hubs, this is the norm. But \$350K doesn’t go very far.

Most prestigious company in 2026 (Blind)

• V-Dasher:( (Microsoft): I’m sorry, Albertsons? Like, the grocery store chain?
• rMww84 (Crusoe): Joke of a poll without anthropic ?
• 6️⃣7️⃣ (Cyberhaven): Perplexity??? 😂 They lost the plot a while ago

Weekend reminder that you guys are aware, tons of people are clawing and scratching to get to (Blind)

• pico_gallo (Microsoft): Yeah, people have lost perspective. It’s very hard in any other field to make 6 figures+. My wife is in a business manager role, she is very smart and capable, she has 6 yoe, has reports, leads company events in conferences and she makes 135k. She applied to tons of jobs and couldn’t land an interview, with great resume.
• fairgamey (Broadcom): Sending positive vibes. You are doing incredibly well, financially, emotionally. Keep going like this. Be empathic and helpful to your friends and don’t compare yourself with the ones making more. Appreciate what you have and live life in the moment. Loved your post.
• slackerswe (Microsoft): Pay in other careers for most part is lower unless you are a doctor or investment banker but it’s tough to break into those. Investment banker is super gatekeepy.

People Keep Destroying Flock Cameras Across America. The Paperwork Already Saw It Coming. (r/technology)

• vengeancecube: So…Flock doesn’t pay for the cameras that get destroyed and more often than not it’s the city that does? Gee I’d really hate it if the cities started thinking flock cameras might not be worth the constant expense…
• Modem_Sound_67: dissent isn’t dead after all, it’s very encouraging
• youreblockingmyshot: Cities will not renew these contracts if they have to spend thousands replacing cameras they get destroyed repeatedly.

Indeed chief economist: Aging Baby Boomers are America’s real labor problem, not AI (r/technology)

• lifeoflogan: The wealthy and politically powerful Baby Boomers perfected the art of kicking the can down the road. They privatized the gains, socialized the costs, and left future generations holding the bag—all while believing their wealth would protect their own families from the consequences. If you weren’t already rich, you were someone else’s exit strategy. That’s the opposite of E Pluribus Unum.
• Rasdowers: There are like 8 baby boomers at my company of over 600 people. There is 1 in senior management and the others can’t retire in their positions. I look at them as my future, still at the company and unable to retire. I’m in pharma mfg. People in pharma used to be able to retire, but not anymore.
• ManySugar5156: Funny how every problem is never the execs chasing margins, its grandpa and a chatbot somehow.

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Turning the attacker into part of the training system

The official OpenAI Research blog published this account on July 15, 2026. It describes GPT-Red, an internal model trained to discover prompt-injection failures, and the pipeline OpenAI uses to convert those attacks into training data for more robust production models.

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Techmeme surfaced this July 19, 2026 story in its G42 and U.S. AI-chip-access item. The original piece is Joel Schectman, Aruna Viswanatha, and Evan Gershkovich’s Wall Street Journal investigation, The CIA Operative Who Spied on the U.A.E.—and Played a Role in Its AI Win.