OpenAI chief futurist Joshua Achiam told colleagues on July 7, 2026 that he will leave the company later this month after nearly nine years, according to WIRED. His departure raises governance questio…
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said on the Platformer podcast that half of white-collar jobs may change due to AI, but dismissed fears of widespread job elimination, citing new job creation and t…
Eugenia Kuyda, founder of Replika and current CEO of Wabi, warned that protests over AI-driven job losses are imminent, citing her own decision to stop hiring junior engineers as a sign of the trend. …
Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda predicts 'crazy protests' over AI-driven job losses, saying fears about AI eliminating jobs are 'justified' and that companies, including her own, are scaling back on hir…
Eugenia Kuyda, founder of Replika and Wabi, says AI has made hiring junior engineers too expensive for startups, predicting job losses and protests. She argues that AI tools like Wabi's vibe-coding ap…
Labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards dismissed fears that artificial intelligence will create a permanently unemployed class of Americans, arguing the U.S. workforce is too resilient to be written off…
OpenAI added voice interaction and image-upload capabilities to ChatGPT, and Meta previewed conversational AI characters for social feeds, according to a report by Casey Newton in Platformer. The upda…
Boris Cherny, creator of Anthropic's Claude Code, told 22-year-old computer science graduates on the "Platformer" podcast to "go start a startup," calling the current moment a "golden age" for new ven…
Anthropic's Boris Cherny, creator of the AI coding tool Claude Code, said the role of "software engineer" could begin to disappear by the end of this year as automation eliminates traditional coding j…
Anthropic engineer Boris Cherny told 22-year-old computer science graduates to start startups instead of taking entry-level jobs, calling the current era a "golden age" for entrepreneurship. Cherny sa…
Google senior vice president James Manyika is betting that predictions of mass job losses from artificial intelligence are overblown, arguing that automation will unfold more slowly than some tech lea…
Box CEO Aaron Levie argued on the Platformer podcast that AI will not eliminate jobs but will fundamentally transform them, making roles unrecognizable over time. Levie’s perspective counters widespre…
Platformer is restructuring its daily newsletter model to focus more on original reporting and less on link aggregation, as AI tools increasingly automate the curation of news summaries. The shift com…