Knowledge workers now make up roughly one-fifth of OpenAI's Codex users and are growing more than three times as fast as developers, according to a new OpenAI report shared first with Axios. Why it matters: AI has made it easier to crank out documents, emails, decks and dashboards, and OpenAI is now betting agents can help workers make sense of them. The big picture: Previous waves of workplace software encouraged workers to produce huge volumes of files and messages, but those "workplace artifacts" largely remain siloed inside different software programs. - The report argues that Codex can round up the important context from all of those artifacts no matter where they are. By the numbers: Codex now has more than 4 million weekly active…
Andrej Karpathy, one of the best-known AI researchers in the world and a founding member of OpenAI , announced Tuesday that he's joining rival AI lab Anthropic . Why it matters: The hire is a major coup for Anthropic in the high-stakes competition for elite AI talent — and another sign the company is emerging as a magnet for some of the industry's most respected technical minds. Driving the news: Karpathy will start this week on Anthropic's pre-training team, which is responsible for the massive training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, according to Anthropic. - Karpathy will help launch a new team focused on using Claude itself to accelerate pretraining research — an increasingly important frontier as AI…
Three distinct camps are forming around AI: power users, doubters and resisters. Why it matters: AI isn't just advancing — it's fragmenting how people see the world. The big picture: The disconnect is showing up everywhere — from job-loss fears to data center protests to actual violence. - Doubters still see AI as glitchy chatbots and viral fails. They aren't using its full capabilities. - Power users run AI agents around the clock, trading tips on how to automate work and decision-making. - Resisters understand AI, think they know where it's headed and want no part of it. What they're saying: "There is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability," former OpenAI and Tesla AI leader, Andrej Karpathy posted on X. He added that…