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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 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 OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3 and, in President Greg Brockman's words, declared 「the AGI era.」 The company's own charter defines AGI as a system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work, and Astra's headline skill is operating ordinary office software end to end, without a person clicking along.
AI & Jobs The Defense Department put OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI's Grok for Government live on GenAI.mil on August 31, alongside Google's Gemini. The portal has onboarded more than 1.7 million unique users out of 3 million personnel. The named use cases are job descriptions.
AI & Jobs IBM named an OpenAI partnership on August 13. The headline is GPT-5.6 inside IBM Consulting Advantage. The load-bearing sentence is that thousands of IBM consultants will sit for OpenAI Partner Network certifications.
AI & Jobs Sam Altman and Dario Amodei publicly walked back their AI jobs apocalypse predictions in the same week — and the same week both companies began circulating IPO materials at trillion-dollar valuations.
AI & Jobs OpenAI's Sam Altman told a Sydney conference on May 26 he was 'pretty wrong' about AI eliminating entry-level white-collar work. Anthropic's Dario Amodei walked back his '50% of white-collar jobs' line earlier this month. Both companies are reportedly chasing $1T IPOs.
AI & Jobs Intuit cut ~3,000 jobs (17% of 18,200) on the same day it reported Q3 earnings. CEO Goodarzi told Cramer 「None of it had to do with AI」 — while the internal memo, the Anthropic + OpenAI partnerships, and the Reno + Woodland Hills office closures say otherwise.
AI & Jobs Customers Bancorp CEO Sam Sidhu told analysts on his April 28 Q1 earnings call that the prepared remarks they'd just listened to had been delivered by his AI digital twin, not him. Same week the bank signed a multi-year OpenAI partnership and committed to taking workforce from 3,000 to fewer than 2,000 by 2030. The press treated the AI clone as a stunt. The 33% headcount target is the actual story.
AI & Jobs A Fortune 500 company deployed AI agents overnight. The human team woke up to a Slack message: 'Your roles have been transitioned.' At least the bot was polite about it.