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AI & Jobs 404 Media reported on September 14 that OpenAI has hundreds of contractors reading real ChatGPT conversations and rating the model's answers. One says the rate clears $50 an hour, the highest price yet disclosed for evaluation work.
AI & Jobs Specific Labs published Real-SWE on September 13: ten tasks lifted from private production codebases it licensed from real companies, eight model-and-harness pairs, 640 scored rollouts. Fable 5.1 topped it at 38.8%. The floor was 16.2%.
AI & Jobs State broadcaster CCTV carried a China Telecom Research Institute report on September 12: the country's AI industry is moving from competing on models to selling agents. The load-bearing figure is 80% — inference's share of China's compute market by 2029.
AI & Jobs Kroger reported Q2 before the bell on September 11, cut its full-year sales outlook and left profit guidance untouched. Across a 47-minute call, nobody said AI, automation or self-checkout once.
AI & Jobs On September 11 Business Insider reported that Meta has begun asking engineers inside Applied AI whether they want to lead teams again. Four months after the 4 a.m. email that took the layer out.
AI & Jobs On September 11 Oracle raised this year's restructuring cost by $700M, most of it severance, for cuts it has not announced. About 92,000 of its staff sit outside the United States, where a planned redundancy runs on a clock the employer does not control.
AI & Jobs Adobe posted a record $6.76B after the close on September 10 and put a user count above the revenue line. Creative freemium monthly actives crossed 100 million, up more than 70% in a year.
AI & Jobs OpenAI shipped ChatGPT for Financial Services on September 10. The model is not the story. The story is which data vendors it plugged in and whose daily workflow it was copied from.
AI & Jobs Oracle's Q1 landed after the close on September 10: $19.35B, up 30%. Almost all of the growth came from renting racks and GPU hours. The software business that employs people grew 10%.
AI & Jobs Cognition closed more than $2B at a $48B valuation on September 9. Buried under the headline: run-rate revenue nearly doubled in four months, and the roadmap moves the engineer from doing the work to assigning it.
AI & Jobs Harvey closed $550M at a $15.5B valuation on September 9. The valuation is not the news. The penetration figure it published alongside is: 80% of the Am Law 100 already runs it.
AI & Jobs Zscaler says the agents were trained on more than 10 years of front-line SOC and MDR work, running on 750 billion zero-trust transactions a day. The customer quote in the release names the job: top analysts stuck in triage instead of hunting.