💼 OpenAI takes on LinkedIn?

Friday’s AI Report

• 1. 💼 OpenAI takes on LinkedIn?
• 2. ✔️ Get compliant in under 15 hours with Delve
• 3. 🌍 How Starbucks uses AI to improve inventory accuracy
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• 5. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 6. 🚫 Anthropic blocks China from Claude
• 7. 🔧 OpenAI building AI Chips now?
• 8. 📑 Recommended resources

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OpenAI takes on LinkedIn?

🚨 Our Report

OpenAI has announced it’s developing an AI-powered hiring platform—The OpenAI Jobs Platform—which will launch sometime in 2026, and will connect businesses with top AI talent.

🔓 Key Points

CEO of Applications—Fidji Simo—said the platform will “use AI to find the perfect matches between what companies need and what workers can offer,” giving small businesses and local governments access to “top AI talent.”
OpenAI will also start awarding “certifications for different levels of AI fluency” via the OpenAI Academy, aiming to certify 10M people by 2030, starting with Walmart, which will roll out AI training to its workforce.
This comes after CEO Sam Altman hosted a PR dinner for journalists last month and revealed plans to develop other applications beyond ChatGPT. It’s already working on a browser and a social app (reportedly).

🔐 Relevance

The new hiring platform will put OpenAI in direct competition with LinkedIn, which has been launching a slew of new AI features over the last few months. Interestingly, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman was one of OpenAI’s earliest investors, and the platform is owned by Microsoft, one of OpenAI’s biggest partners.

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Makers of Claude, Anthropic, have announced that it has stopped Chinese-owned companies and groups from accessing its AI products and services, as the trade war between the US and China intensifies.
They’re concerned that China could use its AI to bolster military capabilities and want to “close a loophole that allows access to frontier AI,” which will also apply to other US adversaries—Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
Although this is likely to impact Anthropic’s global revenue (it's predicted that it could cost them “hundreds-of-millions”), they want to move forward with the directive to highlight that the issue is a “significant problem.”

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According to insider reports, OpenAI will finish development on its first AI chip next year, which it designed and built (in partnership with US semiconductor firm, Broadcom) for internal use to power its AI systems.
This aligns with plans that were revealed earlier this year, that OpenAI was looking to reduce its reliance on AI chip giant, NVIDIA, and was looking at a range of options to diversify chip supply and lower costs.
The move to develop AI chips, in-house, follows Google, Amazon, and Meta, which have all built custom AI chips to handle AI workloads as demand for compute power to train and operate AI models surges.

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