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AI Reading for Saturday June 14

AI Reading for Saturday June 14

Hiring sprees for AI geniuses, early retirement for everyone else?

Druce Vertes
June 14, 2025

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s AI hiring spree “Is that really Zuck?” "Then, Wang held his last all-hands meeting to say goodbye and cried." - The Verge

Meta offering $10m a year-plus for scarce AI talent: Source - The Register

Chinese AI Companies Dodge U.S. Chip Curbs by Flying Suitcases of Hard Drives Abroad - The Wall Street Journal

The scariest thing about AI might be the way your boss is talking about it - Business Insider

Management talks even scarier about it non-publicly, they got AI fever and the only cure is large scale AI-driven headcount reductions.

'Ava Cado' HR bot cuts Chipotle hiring time by 75% - CNBC

McKinsey / Quantum Black: Seizing the agentic AI advantage - McKinsey & Company

The 10 most exciting AI agent startups at Y Combinator's Demo Day for its first-ever spring cohort - Business Insider Africa

AI agent startups make up 50% of YC’s latest batch - PitchBook

Enterprises integrate continuous AI red teaming with automated tests, human expertise, and outside audits - VentureBeat

Ahead of Protests, Waymo Scales Back Robotaxi Service Nationwide - WIRED

A lot of robotic systems will fail spectacularly in a truly adversarial environment. A smart adaptive attacker can generally get inside its (nonexistent) OODA loop and figure out an adversarial way to make it defeat itself. Success kind of depends on society using laws and enforcement to provide very orderly environments.

Robotaxis gonna have a tough time in New Delhi, might work in NYC with well protected infrastructure and enforcement. People will just walk in front of them if they know they will always stop, or otherwise screw with them, unless it can e.g. take their picture and call the cops.