Daily Tech & AI News Digest

**🎉 Today’s Tech & AI News Digest 🎉**

🤖 Inside OpenAI: Employee Reflections and Company Culture
Former OpenAI employees share first-hand insights about the company’s work culture, motivations, and experiences beyond public speculation.
https://calv.info/openai-reflections

🚀 Anthropic Launches Finance-Focused Claude AI
Anthropic introduces a specialized Claude AI platform for financial services, offering unified data access and tailored tools for market analysis.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-financial-services

📊 Tech Layoffs Continue to Impact Innovation in 2025
The tech industry faces ongoing mass layoffs in 2025, significantly affecting workforce and innovation across major companies.

🔍 AI Researchers Push for Monitoring AI Model Reasoning
A coalition of AI leaders urges the industry to study and monitor AI models’ reasoning processes to ensure transparency and safety.

🧑‍🎓 Perplexity Offers Free AI Tools to Global Students
Perplexity partners with SheerID to provide free premium AI-powered search tools to over 264 million students worldwide for up to two years.
https://venturebeat.com/ai/perplexity-offers-free-ai-tools-to-students-worldwide-in-partnership-with-sheerid/

💰 Thinking Machines Lab Achieves $12B Valuation in Seed Round
OpenAI’s former CTO Mira Murati’s new AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, closes a massive $2B seed round at a $12B valuation.

📰 Google Discover Adds AI Summaries, Worrying Publishers
Google’s rollout of AI-generated news summaries in Discover raises concerns among publishers about further declines in website traffic.

🌐 Global AI Conference GDAI 2025 Announced
DataGlobal Hub unveils GDAI 2025, set to be the world’s largest AI and data conference focusing on innovation and global industry trends.

🦾 AiMOGA Scales Humanoid Robot Solutions Globally
AiMOGA partners with Chery Auto Group to expand its humanoid robot retail solutions, highlighting a global shift in robotics and automotive tech.

💼 ML Engineer Interview Prep and Salaries in 2025
Interview Kickstart spotlights advanced ML interview prep and rising salaries, with a focus on AI’s growing role in cybersecurity.

🏪 Storesight Unveils Real-Time AI Retail Intelligence Platform
Storesight introduces an AI-driven platform offering real-time retail analytics and insights to CPG and retail professionals.

🕵️‍♂️ Huawei’s Pangu Model Accused of Plagiarism and Burnout
A whistleblower report alleges Huawei’s flagship AI model, Pangu, was developed amid burnout and potential open-source code theft.
https://the-open-source-ward.ghost.io/the-pangu-illusion-how-huaweis-star-ai-model-was-built-on-burnout-betrayal-and-open-source-theft/

👔 BluSky AI Expands Leadership for Infrastructure Growth
BluSky AI appoints tech veteran Dan Gay to its board, bolstering leadership for scaling its modular AI data center infrastructure.

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