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Alex Rowland

By Alex Rowland

Category: Industry

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• OpenAI
• AI industry

OpenAI, together with Handshake AI—a company specializing in data preparation for artificial intelligence—has reportedly approached external contractors with a request to submit examples of real-world tasks from their past and current jobs. This was reported by Wired.

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Alex Rowland

By Alex Rowland

Category: Industry

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• AI industry

Leading figures in China’s AI industry are tempering expectations, saying China is unlikely to overtake the United States in the AI race in the near term. Justin Lin, head of Alibaba’s Qwen model family, estimates the probability that a Chinese company will surpass OpenAI or Anthropic within the next three to five years at less than 20 percent. Tang Jie of Zhipu AI warned at the AGI-Next Summit in Beijing that the gap with the U.S. may even be widening, despite recent open-source releases that might suggest otherwise.

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Alex Rowland

By Alex Rowland

Category: Industry

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• OpenAI
• AI industry
• Big Tech
• AI talent

OpenAI’s stock-based compensation reached an average of $1.5 million per employee in 2025, according to The Wall Street Journal. Based on financial data presented to investors, OpenAI is paying its workforce more generously than any technology startup in modern history.

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Alex Rowland

By Alex Rowland

Category: Industry

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• OpenAI
• AI startups
• AI talent

OpenAI set up an employee equity pool last fall equal to 10% of the company. At a valuation of $500 billion in October 2025, this pool would be worth around $50 billion, according to The Information, citing two people familiar with the plans.

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Alex Rowland

By Alex Rowland

Category: Industry

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• Crypto Market
• IPO
• MiniMax
• AI startups
• Stock market

Shares of Shanghai-based artificial intelligence company MiniMax doubled on their first day of trading, driven by strong investor demand. The share price jumped 103% during the session to 335 Hong Kong dollars ($42.97), according to data from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange cited by AIWireMedia.

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Daniel Mercer

By Daniel Mercer

Category: Industry

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• AI Infrastructure
• Meta
• Nuclear Energy
• Data Centers
• Energy Policy

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has signed agreements with three energy firms to extend the life of existing nuclear power plants and support the development of new reactor technologies.

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Alex Rowland

By Alex Rowland

Category: Industry

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• Automation
• Banking
• Morgan Stanley

Analysts at Morgan Stanley believe that support and mid-level office roles will be hit the hardest. By 2030, European banking institutions could cut around 10% of their workforce—roughly 212,000 jobs—due to the adoption of artificial intelligence and continued digitalization. This is according to an analysis by U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley, cited by the Financial Times.

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Daniel Mercer

By Daniel Mercer

Category: Industry

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• AI Regulation
• ChatGPT
• Healthcare AI

The AI company is introducing a healthcare-focused version of its chatbot and promises HIPAA-compliant data processing. Several major U.S. hospital systems are already on board.

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Alex Rowland

By Alex Rowland

Category: Industry

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• OpenAI
• AI industry

At the beginning of 2026, OpenAI completed another acqui-hire deal, bringing on the team behind the startup Convogo without acquiring its product. Convogo had been developing an AI-based tool designed to automate reporting and assess leadership qualities for use in HR, consulting, and executive coaching.