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A new industry is being built to check on AI

Anthropic researcher quit and says AI could kill us all. Four days later his own CEO agreed, and then somebody raised $40 million around this topic.

San (Ex-Deloitte, Accenture & Oracle)

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Sep 17, 2026

A new AI job that sits between consulting and engineering

Accenture is hiring 1,000 FDEs with Google. Palantir starts the same role at $135,000 with one year of experience. Here's what it takes to become one.

San (Ex-Deloitte, Accenture & Oracle)

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Sep 10, 2026

Turns out AI still needs you to think

AfterQuery just hit a valuation of $3.2B by recording how human experts reason and problem solve.

San (Ex-Deloitte, Accenture & Oracle)

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Sep 2, 2026

Companies that fired workers for AI are quietly hiring them back

Ford, IBM, and a big Australian bank all reversed AI layoffs this year. Here's the pattern nobody's talking about yet.

San (Ex-Deloitte, Accenture & Oracle)

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Aug 24, 2026

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A new industry is being built to check on AI

San (Ex-Deloitte, Accenture & Oracle)

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