--- title: Highlights | daily.dev description: daily.dev is the easiest way to stay updated on the latest programming news. Get the best content from the top tech publications on any topic you want. canonical: https://daily.dev/highlights/career twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/highlights/career og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Highlights | daily.dev og:description: Curated highlights from across the developer ecosystem. Stay on top of the most important stories, releases, and discussions. og:type: website og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- Fed Reserve Dallas finds GenAI exposure linked to 8-9% fewer job postings in Texas4h ago OpenAI pauses Astra model training over cybersecurity risks as leaked outputs circulate3d ago Meta's Project OT plan to replace 60% of staff with AI collapses after backlash4d ago OpenAI hires Meta's Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia5d ago Iñigo Quílez and peers push back on Zuckerberg's 'everyone codes' AI claim6d ago Barret Zoph joins Google DeepMind as VP of research after co-founding Thinking Machines6d ago Meta's AI agents took disruptive actions as Project OT aimed to cut headcount by 60%6d ago JetBrains survey finds 47% of developer code now fully generated by AI agents6d ago Linear hits $100M ARR and completes $99M tender offer at $2.5B valuation7d ago OpenAI loses second sales leader in a week as CRO and VP of Americas both exit to SalesforceAug 24 NBER study finds LinkedIn AI skills overstated by 30% due to retroactive profile editsAug 24 Chinese chip and AI firms grant equity to over 85% of staff to retain engineersAug 22 Apple cuts over 200 jobs across Siri and Vision Pro teamsAug 21 New York surpasses San Francisco in total tech workers for the first timeAug 21 Meta offers engineers up to $1M retention grants after AI reassignments trigger resignationsAug 20 Majority of Americans under 30 now more worried than excited about AI, Pew findsAug 19 EA employees describe fear and self-censorship following $55B Saudi PIF buyoutAug 19 North Korean group PurpleDelta uses AI personas to infiltrate companies via fake remote jobsAug 18 Meta, Amazon, and Uber shut down AI token productivity leaderboards after outages and budget blowoutsAug 17 OpenAI loses 16 senior leaders in a year including its only dedicated ethicistAug 17 Cognition reportedly in talks to raise at $40 billion valuationAug 12 Upwork cuts full-year revenue forecast citing AI-driven automation pressureAug 12 Oracle plans more layoffs as AI cloud expansion pushes free cash flow to negative $23.7BAug 11 OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap departs to start a new ventureAug 11 OpenAI completes $7B employee tender offer at $852B valuation as IPO appears delayedAug 11 OpenAI hires power trader as electricity becomes a material financial exposureAug 10 Lambda raises $917M leveraged loan to buy Nvidia chips while Nvidia holds equity stakeAug 10 YouTube doubles watch hour requirement for new creators to join Partner ProgramAug 10 Anthropic investors pressure Dario Amodei to soften AI risk warnings before IPOAug 08 Airbnb says AI now writes 60% of its code and cut time-to-launch by 60%Aug 08 AI automation displaces jobs in Philippines $40B outsourcing industryAug 07 2,100 UC IT workers vote to join UPTE-CWA in largest US tech worker unionizationAug 06 TikTok lays off 250 employees and closes Nashville content moderation officeAug 06 Figma stock drops 16% as R&D spending doubles despite 48% revenue growthAug 06 Etsy cuts 12% of staff in product and engineering while beating Q2 forecastsAug 06 UK government considers requiring employer consent before installing workplace monitoring softwareAug 06 Microsoft caps AI tool usage for engineers as tokenmaxxing costs mountAug 06 Google files WARN notice for 52 Washington layoffs as four senior AI researchers departAug 05 King rejects collective bargaining agreement with Swedish unions after year of negotiationsAug 05 Demis Hassabis steps back from DeepMind operations as Jeff Dean departs to found new research companyAug 05 Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in US enterprise AI spending with 34.4% market shareAug 05 Deel acquires deepfake detection startup Clarity for up to $50M to combat fake hiresAug 04 Zillow cuts 500 jobs while calling itself an AI-native companyAug 04 OpenAI pays $3.2m to settle DOJ claim it favored visa workers over AmericansAug 04 Refactor Games shut down by Delphi Interactive after Netflix FIFA title launchAug 03 ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} ```