🎆 Today's AI News 🎆 ✔️ OpenAI's Head of Robotics, Caitlin Kalinowski, has resigned due to a Department of Defense contract dispute. "Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and autonomous lethal weapons without human consent were issues that needed more discussion," she said, adding that it was a matter of principle. While she remains respectful of SamA and the team, she maintains that safety guardrails were not adequately discussed. OpenAI's partnership with the Department of Defense has led to internal dissent. ✔️ Meanwhile, AnthropicAI has been designated as a supply chain risk by the Department of Defense! This came about after demanding guardrails to prevent the use of Claude in surveillance or autonomous weapons. Ironically, the Claude app exploded in popularity after this incident, reaching #1 on the US App Store and surpassing 1 million daily new users. Anthropic has announced that it will take legal action against this designation! They've also launched the Claude Marketplace, a marketplace where enterprise customers can directly purchase Claude-based tools from partners like GitLab, Replit, Harvey, and Snowflake at the cost of their existing Anthropic contracts! Since Anthropic doesn't charge commissions, it seems they're quite aggressive in expanding their enterprise ecosystem. ✔️ Karpathy revealed the next phase of autoresearch, envisioning a structure where agents collaborate asynchronously at scale, similar to SETI@home. The goal is to "emulate the entire research community, not just a single PhD student." Currently, the system automatically repeats 5-minute experiments on a single GPU, and plans to expand to distributed collaboration. The direction seems quite ambitious, lol. ✔️ Anthropic also published a study on the impact of AI on jobs. The key point is that the analysis is based on actual Claude work usage data. While 94% of computer/mathematics tasks can theoretically be handled by AI, the actual usage rate is only 33%. While no large-scale unemployment has yet been observed, signals have been detected that junior hiring for 22-25 year-olds in AI-exposed occupations is noticeably declining. Junior developers, customer service representatives, and data entry are said to be the most affected occupations. This week, I believe, was a week in which the OpenAI vs. Anthropic dynamic became particularly clear. OpenAI's collaboration with the Department of Defense resulted in the loss of key internal talent, while Anthropic's conflict with the Department of Defense resulted in the irony of gaining public trust and users. It seems we've entered an era where differences in stance on AI safety are directly linked to brand power! I have a feeling that Anthropic's approach will accelerate its penetration into the corporate market in the future!