Calling All Backend Engineers + AI Is Eating Everything
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Hey,
Spotted: AI is eating everything this week, courts, jobs, cloud infrastructure and Wall Street all in one breath.
Musk and Altman are taking their drama public, Anthropic is suing the Pentagon, Google and Blackstone are building a $25 billion AI empire, and Standard Chartered just handed 7,000 jobs to a machine.
Before we get into it, let’s talk about our sponsor of the month Aluma.
A Cambridge-based B2B AI company, Aluma‘s cloud platform automatically classifies and extracts information from unstructured documents, serving clients across the Americas and Europe while doubling revenue year on year.
They are currently on the hunt for THREE remote Senior Backend Engineers and a Product Design Engineer. If that sounds like you, do not sleep on this one.
Before you apply, Aluma will ask you a few quick questions:
Do you have at least two years of Go experience in a professional environment?
Are you based in the UK with the right to work here?
Are you able to travel to Cambridge, Reading or the South/East of England for two consecutive days every four to six weeks?
Can you share a short summary (50 to 100 words) of an interesting technical problem you have solved recently?
With the courtroom battle settled, Musk and Altman now face a far higher stakes contest as SpaceX and OpenAI race to win over public markets at combined valuations exceeding $2 trillion.
Armada is building a 400,000 square foot Arizona factory to mass produce modular AI data centres that deploy in days, after customer bookings surged 2,000% year over year and BlackRock joined a $230 million raise.
Anthropic is fighting back in federal court after the Pentagon blacklisted Claude as a national security risk, following collapsed negotiations over whether the military could use its AI for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
Google and Blackstone are launching a $25B AI cloud venture to compete with Nvidia-powered providers by offering AI infrastructure built on Google’s custom chips.
Plans to cut more than 7,000 jobs by 2030 as it accelerates AI adoption to automate back-office operations and boost profitability.
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