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OpenAI is scaling up its global presence with a boots-on-the-ground strategy.OpenAI’s international managing director, Oliver Jay, said on Wednesday at the Fortune Brainstorm AI 2025 conference in Singapore that the company has rolled out a new engineering role — the forward-deployed engineer — to help clients with their AI projects.”This…
As Nike tries to mount a comeback and live up to its reputation as a dominant retail force, the sportswear giant appears to be investing in some tech and design jobs.Publicly available work visa data, which companies are required to disclose to the US Department of Labor, gives an idea…
Recent college graduates who are fluent in AI tools could become some of the most valuable hires at major companies, according to Box CEO Aaron Levie.”Hire a bunch of these people,” he said in a Monday interview on the a16z podcast, “because they’re going to flip your company on its…
AI coding tools are gaining traction across the tech industry. A recent survey sheds light on which services are most popular among engineers.In May, Jellyfish, which helps companies manage developer teams, surveyed 645 full-time professionals in various engineering roles, including individual contributors, managers, and executives. Respondents came from companies ranging…
The companies that best take advantage of AI won’t be using it to replace human labor, said GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke. Instead, they’ll be upping their hiring of increasingly efficient engineers.”The companies that are the smartest are going to hire more developers,” Dohmke said on an episode of “The Silicon…
Windsurf’s head of product engineering believes proficiency in three key areas makes a successful software engineer — coding, research, and “metalearning.”Technical fundamentals are first and foremost, Windsurf’s Kevin Hou said in a presentation at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco.”If we zoom out and think about what makes…
Five years ago, quant hedge fund Engineers Gate was reeling — from poor returns, investor redemptions, and the ignominious departure of its founder.Its fortunes look different these days. The fund is now firmly in growth mode, preoccupied with deploying $4 billion in assets to a growing roster of portfolio managers…
As AI gets better at writing code, it’s not just changing how engineers work — it’s also reshaping their career trajectory, the tech chief of a $205 billion software company told Business Insider.Pat Casey, the chief technology officer at ServiceNow, said that AI tools are rapidly automating the kind of…
For OpenAI, improving the programming capabilities of its AI is a self-reinforcing loop — as ChatGPT gets better at coding, its engineers get faster too.That’s according to Kevin Weil, the chief product officer of OpenAI, who was recently asked by podcaster Azeem Azhar why the company had focused so much…
